Friday Link Dump – Games Edition
A new [tag]Unreal Tournament[/tag] 2007 trailer. It’s two minutes in HD.
The [tag]Nintendo[/tag] DS Lite is coming in pink and black colors next month.
Some more [tag]Guitar Hero[/tag] 2 details emerge.
New Nintendo [tag]Wii[/tag] game announced: Mario Strikers Charged. Yes, this is the sequel to the addicting multiplayer Super Mario Strikers soccer videogame. It will use the Wiimote, also.
If you haven’t seen this article about how little girls play SIMS 2 yet, go read it now. It’s a real treat for choice quotes like:
Indeed, most little girls do not treat their characters nearly as maternally as their parents might hope. ‘We like to put characters in the swimming-pool and then take the ladder away and see how long it takes before they drown,’ explains Ellie Priest. ‘Or you keep giving them drinks and won’t let them go to the loo until they wee on the floor.’
25. August 2006 at 13:50
Woo hoo, Guitar Hero 2. When I first heard about this game, I’ll admit, I was skeptical. But after playing it in Best Buy on the display until they kicked me off, I was convinced and had to buy it.
I even blogged that story a few months back http://cottonandsand.com/?p=63
I was just telling my friend this past weekend (while we played it of course) that surely they would be coming out with a part two soon. But shame on Best Buy…after making a trip to go get another guitar controller so we could “duel” we were informed that they no longer sell just the guitar. What a crock, considering they have it displayed like that.
25. August 2006 at 14:21
I finally got my own DS when the Lite came out. My wife got the old DS “Fat”. Now she has been wanting her own DS, but we didn’t want the same color. We were considering importing a pink from Japan, but with the pink one coming out here in a couple of weeks, problem solved. It is really sad that after playing the Lite for the past few months, I have such a hard time looking at the old screen on original DS. It looks so dark. Kind of like how hard it was to look at a standard GameBoy Advance after jumping to the lighted GameBoy Advance SP.
I can totally understand the fascination with cruelty in the Sims 2. I know when I last left my house in the game, that I had trapped the next door neighbor upstairs in a room with no exits or windows. The reactions of the characters is fun. But I am not always that twisted. :)
25. August 2006 at 15:49
I thought that was how everybody plays SIMS 2.
27. August 2006 at 14:35
I have a friend of mine who loves the SIMS. She is absolutely hooked on those games and I simply don’t get it.