Video Games

Cave Story WiiWare Bugs Fixed in New Update

Few games these days are born from a one-man operation. The PC game Cave Story is an exception to that rule. Over the course of five years, a Japanese man who calls himself Pixel single-handedly designed, programmed, wrote, composed, and then released Cave Story for free into the wilds of the Internet in 2004. Six years and tons of clamoring fans later, this cult classic game that mixes together the elements of Metroid, Castlevania, and Mega Man eventually found new exposure with its home console release on Nintendo’s WiiWare service. Many fans were excited to finally get the chance to pay Pixel back for the work he had done.

Promised a shiny, new coat of paint and a musical upgrade, fans eagerly downloaded their favorite indie game from the WiiWare online store. Sadly, once these gamers booted up their new version of Cave Story, they were greeted by unexpected musical and graphical glitches, typographical errors, and a glitch that brought the game to a screeching halt. Understandably, many early adopters were left scorned and resigned themselves to cautioning future adopters against purchasing the game.

NY Comic Con Gadget Round-Up

Sure they have comic books at a comic book convention, but nerds also like gizmos, gadgets and computer peripherals.  This year’s New York Comic Convention and Anime Festival had plenty of accessories for your gaming rig, and portable devices.  They ranged from the cutesy kawaii, to total nerdcore.

New Halo Reach Maps Announced

New Halo Reach Maps Announced

It was only a matter of time before Halo Reach received some new multiplayer maps. The Noble Map Pack is scheduled to hit the 30^th of November on Xbox Live. The pack contains three new maps: Anchor 9, Tempest, and Breakout. The map pack will cost you 800 Microsoft Points and will add an additional 250 achievement points for the achievement hunters out there. For those worried about 343 taking over, don’t worry just yet because Bungie made this map pack. Prepare for the real last hurrah.

This is the official word from Microsoft on the new maps:

New Release Date for Conduit 2

Sega has just revealed the new release date for Conduit 2 on their Conduit 2 blog site. This is the first concrete news involving the game’s release to make its way into the news since developer High Voltage Software announced the sequel’s delay this past September. Unfortunately, a specific day of release has not been nailed down quite yet, but fans of the original Conduit should be happy to know that they can continue exploring the series’ sci-fi universe come February 2011.

The Sega blog also reports that Conduit 2 experienced two very well received showings at E3 and PAX this year, which allowed High Voltage Software to come up with new ideas for the game and take in a lot of fan feedback. As it turns out, these new ideas and fan feedback were the direct cause of the Wii shooter’s delay. Hopefully, this extra development time will prove invaluable for Conduit 2’s development team, as the first Conduit was no more than an unoriginal, albeit highly competent, Wii take on the first-person shooter genre.

PSN And Store Releases For The Week of 10/12/10

The biggest store release for this week is probably Medal of Honor, which EA have been trying to suggest for a long time will be a Modern Warfare killer, although the early reviews so far have not been completely positive for it. 
There are 4 new releases for PSN, which includes a Sonic game Sega have finally committed themselves to calling Sonic The Hedgehog 4. They will be releasing it in episodes on PSN with the first part now available, and there also is a demo version available to test out

Famitsu Unveils Rune Factory Oceans

The Rune Factory series started on the Nintendo DS in 2007. Published by Natsume, Rune Factory took the farm work of Harvest Moon and introduced combat to the mix. A great feature about the game was the amount of variety. If you were not into farming, you could go mining and dungeon crawling or vice-versa.  In Rune Factory, you played as Raguna, a mysterious boy who has lost his memory. He collapses right in front of the house of a young girl named Mist. She offers you her old farm that she no longer uses; as long as you run the farm. You encounter a monster and defeat it with your hoe and Mist explains that monsters have been appearing everywhere lately.

News From NY Comic Con: Warhammer Movie and New Game

The Games Workshop is the company behind the tabletop games Warhammer, and Warhammer 40k.  This franchise is so popular that no table can hold it, and it has branched out into video games, novels, and a feature film.  It was also adapted into a series of comic books, but at this years New York Comic Con, the focus was on the upcoming Ultramarines movie and the latest video game adaptation, Warhammer 40k: Space Marine.