Bones3D

The heck with that... make "Bullrun" a video game.

It's the right formula, a switch of long distance driving with a couple contest breaks in between, which directly influence the places of each racer. And make it so players can race clean by focusing on the race, race strategically by going easy on the long distance stuff and throw their effort into challenges... or... play dirty pool... "wacky races" style (mess with other players cars, alter parts of the trackso racers lagging behind can't catch up, break the law with or without a cop in view, run other drivers off the road, speed racer style).... you know the routine.

Finally Death Race / Carmageddon within the city limits!

@ofmana

Shame that Katamari is being milked by Konami a bit these days.

Namco-Bandai... Konami is behind stuff like MGS and YuGiOh

And here I was hoping for a 3DS katamari game... guess I'll wait for the next iOS release of Katamari.

Although... iOS... Katamari On Macintosh, anyone? They could do a version specific to the Mac where the prince has to return the rainbow stripes to the Apple Logo after the King nearly destroys Apple on one of his galactic drunking benders without Steve Job's reality distortion field in place to protect everything at One Infinite Loop.

Everyone else is finally porting there stuff to the Mac either through virtualization of Windows drivers or porting up from the the iOS to the Mac OS (which will probably be called iOS Pro by the time 10.8 rolls around...)

You know, this kind of fits in with a bet I made regarding Spore and the uber-christian members of the right. When the game first came out, I had expected the religious nuts to come out in droves against EA, claiming they were a mouthpiece for secular liberals, trying to push the theory of evolution onto their kids through the kids' video games.

What actually ended up happening, was that the secular folks were the ones to start first, claiming Spore was actually some form of creationist propoganda targeting children, instead.

It's similarly interesting here... Fox criticizing games for pushing things like renewable resources in a video game, while they themselves have their own "Green it. Mean it." ad campaign plastered all over places like Hulu.

So... do they mean "green" as in trees, plants, farming, etc.... or "green" as in "money"? I often wonder what that campaign is driving at and for whom the message is intended... are they trying to get "everyone" to recycle or whatnot... or are they really poking fun at "poor" families, telling them to reuse stuff even more than they already do now...

you know... such as they might have multi-generational hand me down clothes, but rather than just clothes, what about making all of those other "luxury" items these "poor" families might have "hand me down"... like maybe hand me down toilet paper or food?

That way, even the poor families can still pay their taxes like the rest of us patriotic red-blooded americans.

Say... you guys remember some company from a few years ago who's business model was to buy unused gift certificates from people for a fraction of the face value and then would resell them later for a profit to someone else?

Anyone wanna try taking a stab at this by buying the online pass redemption codes from players who buy these games and play them offline only? I bet a lot of people would be more than happy to stuff their unused pass code sheets into a pre-paid envelope for $5 a pop.

Well, one thing I'd like to see, is some sort of 3D pico projector, that could display 3D (as in 3DS style 3D without glasses) images on any flat surface for an audience at any time from a mac or iDevice.

If noting else, it'd add some flare to those boring powerpoint presentations, if you had a monster burst through the pie chart about the frequency of lethal monster attacks at board meetings and have it be briefly convincing to the partially awake audience!

It might be worth noting that there are already three different minecraft clones on XBox Live under the indie developer section. Each is around $5, and at least two of them feature online multiplayer. One of the more recent versions uses certain blocks as a form of achievement awards, and already gives you an unlimited supply of several kinds of blocks for those who'd rather jump straight into building without having to mine for them. One of the older clones uses mining and purchasing (in game currency) to obtain new items/blocks types, and also has a series of item blueprints scattered throughout the world, allowing you to construct new tools using resources from items/blocks you collect while mining. It also has hazards like earthquake cave-ins.

All of the clones have features unique to them that makes each worth buying.

I feel sorry for players who's save game files get corrupted from some bug in the game or power issue with the 3ds.

That said, any game that has this feature should be boycotted. It's bad enough that they region lock game titles, so the industry can artificially control prices in different parts of the world, instead of letting the market decide on a game's value itself.

Actually, I think it's rather foolish for any console manufacturer to announce a new set top box this early on. The economy world-wide is not doing well and probably won't be for at least two years yet. What these companies need to be doing is focusing on how to add value to the hardware they currently have in people's homes already. This is one area Nintendo is especially suffering in.

Rather than bringing us pictures of wii-remote/tablet hybrid controllers, Nintendo should be giving us options, like bringing high-definition (even software upscaled HD) to the Wii and a true mass storage solution (ie. a USB HARD DRIVE) to enhance the Wii gaming experience and to add features like allowing games to cache large amounts of data like the 360 and PS3 can, if needed. A mere hard drive would literally add enough flexibility to the Wii to let it evolve for a couple years longer. Nintendo is the Wii's own worst enemy by leaving it so underspecced this late in the game.

No way... I was just looking at the guy's right hand... is that a freakin' stylus?!

So, Nintendo goes to the trouble of stuffing a tablet display into their next gen controller and not even capacitive touch? Hey Nintendo, the 90's called... they want their Palm Pilot back!