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Shadow Complex: Metroid meets Contra and HAS A BABY
Gallery: Shadow Complex
All three Metroid Prime games rolled up into Metroid Prime Trilogy for Wii

Metroid Prime 1 and 2 will be enhanced with a widescreen mode and the pointer-based Wii controls from the Japanese re-releases. Metroid Prime 3 won't be, because it was already a Wii game and already has them. The collection will feature a "new unlockables system" that allows access to bonus artwork and other rewards based on accomplishments in all three games -- Corruption's "token" system applied to the whole series.
Trilogy will be out in North America on August 24 for $50.
Watch your socks, this Samus cosplay will knock them off
Cosplay is a double-edged sword. There's the scary edge, of course, with some less than savvy design work and implementation (if you care to put it so kindly). Then there's the awesome side, the side where we see things like this. Add this blog post to the second category. Frankly, this Samus Aran costume is about as awesome as it gets. We mean that in the true sense of awesome too, as in "to inspire awe." Seriously, if you look at some of these pictures, you'd think they were screenshots from a new Metroid game.
The costume was made by Thaís Jussim, a Brazillian cosplayer who goes by the alias Yuki. She's created plenty of costumes -- which can be viewed at her website -- but this one takes the cake. It weighs about 23 pounds and contains 73 LEDs. Add a Nerf blaster into the arm cannon and it would be perfect.
[Via GoNintendo]
Source - Metroid Database interview with Thais Jussim
Source - YukiCosplay.com
The costume was made by Thaís Jussim, a Brazillian cosplayer who goes by the alias Yuki. She's created plenty of costumes -- which can be viewed at her website -- but this one takes the cake. It weighs about 23 pounds and contains 73 LEDs. Add a Nerf blaster into the arm cannon and it would be perfect.
[Via GoNintendo]
Source - Metroid Database interview with Thais Jussim
Source - YukiCosplay.com
New Play Control Metroid Prime games get Corruption's token system
If you played through any significant portion of Metroid Prime 3, then you likely encountered a colorful token or two during your progression through the game. These tokens were awarded for a variety of reasons and were a lot of fun to compare with your friends, so it's nice to see them being utilized in the New Play Control versions of Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime: Echoes. Anything adding replay value to these great games is just fine by us!
Japanese Metroid site probably isn't teasing a new Metroid game
We felt a brief jolt of excitement when we saw this graphic on the new Japanese Metroid series website. Right under the boxarts for the two New Play Control Metroid Prime remakes and Metroid Prime 3, this graphic teases "Another side story -- coming soon"! The Japanese text underneath says "Follow the history of Metroid Prime from the perspective of the Space Pirates", which would potentially be a pretty cool game.
However, we don't think it's going to be a new Metroid Prime spinoff at all. For one thing, Nintendo wouldn't really tease a new game like that, and certainly not in Japan, where nobody cares about Metroid. Given that the site provides quick synopses of each game's storyline, we're guessing this is going to be some story retrospective -- as in just a thing on the site. Most likely, it's some clever way of packaging the whole backstory of the series for new players. But for us, it'll be just more incomprehensible Japanese text.
It could be a new game, but it probably isn't. Whatever it is, we'll find out -soon-!
[Via NeoGAF]
However, we don't think it's going to be a new Metroid Prime spinoff at all. For one thing, Nintendo wouldn't really tease a new game like that, and certainly not in Japan, where nobody cares about Metroid. Given that the site provides quick synopses of each game's storyline, we're guessing this is going to be some story retrospective -- as in just a thing on the site. Most likely, it's some clever way of packaging the whole backstory of the series for new players. But for us, it'll be just more incomprehensible Japanese text.
It could be a new game, but it probably isn't. Whatever it is, we'll find out -soon-!
[Via NeoGAF]
Burger King offering free Wii toys in exchange for money, good health
It's that time again, everybody: time to sheepishly visit Burger King every day and buy a Kids' Meal for Nintendo freebies, all while trying to shut out thoughts of how disappointed your father would be to see you like this. Shame, shame.
The fast food chain is giving away a bunch of different toys based on the Wii and its games, and all it wants in return is cash and a willingness to clog up your own arteries. We like the "Chain Chomp Launcher" the best, though the "Float and Go Boo" and "Light-Up Luma" are also nice. Plus, we can always keep telling ourselves we'll sell all this on eBay in the future for a small fortune. Yes, that'll do: it's an investment in our future. Pictures and details of all ten follow the break.
Top 5: Biggest Tear-Jerkers
The video games as art debate is a ridiculous sham. It seems that many who fall on the "games are not art" side have rarely or never played a video game, often a product of an older generation. If your only experience with video games is hearing news reports about 7 year olds beating up hookers in Grand Theft Auto, then of course your view will be ignorant and bigoted. But that doesn't give critical validity to start creating arguments against that with which you are very unfamiliar. I know surprisingly little about Somalian Islamic Literature, which is why I don't make inflammatory statements about it. To suggest that any video game is incapable of being art is remarkably narrow-minded.
Television and movies choreograph all characters' actions and responses, leaving the viewer as a mere canvas on which the creator's views and reactions are imprinted. Though it's often that a viewer connects with a character and draws individual interpretations, their failures and triumphs can always be placed on the choices of the individual. With gaming, however, the connection can be just as deep, and to some, deeper. When our character fails, we grumble. When our character succeeds, we rejoice. Don't like the outcome? Well, then, you should've done things differently, dummy. While I'm not suggesting that games are better than film, they are simply different and arguably just as valid as high art. At a primitive level, it's not uncommon to punch the sofa in anger after failing a gaming objective. Just the same, it's nearly expected to vocalize with triumph after conquering the same obstacle. Emotional response does not automatically equal art, but creating something which vents one's senses and emotions and appeals to those of others certainly is. Different than stubbing your toe or finding 20 bucks in the street, gaming situations were carefully orchestrated to provide an experience which is dependent on the gamer to interpret. Why should emotions such as fear, love, and sadness be excluded from gaming?
Making my way down from my soapbox, I'll say that perhaps the most intimate display of emotion is crying. Here's the Top 5 moments in gaming that seem to get me every time. SPOILER ALERT: I hate having something ruined just as much as you do, so I'm giving a fair warning right now. This list contains spoilers for several high profile Nintendo titles. None are from the Wii (excluding the Virtual Console), but I will say that the fifth item refers to the WiiWare-bound Cave Story. If you haven't played the game and plan on purchasing it (which you definitely should!), please skip to number four.
Toys R Us does 50% off select Wii games
Starting tomorrow and lasting until Saturday, Toys R Us will be offering select Wii games at 50% off. These games are actually some quality titles, too. None of that burning through their stock of Anubis II or anything, we're talking top-notch games. So what's on offer?- Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
- Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles
- BWii: Battalion Wars 2
- Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
[Thanks, TheResidentEvil!]
Dear Mario, please come to the castle, I have made some awesome cosplay
It's been a while since we last checked in on Swedish/Japanese student Jenni Källberg, a.k.a Queen of Nintendo cosplay, but here are her two most recent creations: Zero Suit Samus (actually revealed last month), and her take on Princess Peach. What is it that elevates Jenni's cosplay above others? Simple: the outfits are obviously beautifully made, the props are brilliant (we really need a giant Goomba now, though yes, we know it isn't actually that size), and there's a sense of humor about her work. Well, Raccoon Mario's sudden appearance made us laugh, anyway.
Oh, and who hasn't encountered this problem? Just looking at that picture frustrates us!
Gallery: Pixelninja's cosplay
Top 5: Where Do They Go Now?
As someone who's been following Nintendo for quite awhile, they've almost never failed to surprise me. Though their origins are classic, Nintendo-developed games are continuously refined, retooled, and revitalized. Some may buy into that old standard line used mostly for musical artists that makes you sound cool: "their older stuff is better." Such broad generalizations are silly: to ignore Super Mario Galaxy because of a fetish for Super Mario Bros. would be dogmatic.
But for those of us growing long in the gaming tooth, we're led to wonder where all of these classic IPs are headed. It's hard to imagine a gaming world without Nintendo's current A-listers, but does anyone have a solid idea of what future iterations of our favorite franchises will be like? Now that just about every gangbuster franchise has been successfully embedded in 3D, we're at a loss as to the next big step for gaming.
Some of us have really good ideas, but I'm positively stumped as to where these franchises are going.
Show and Tell: Recipes for awesome
Good news -- we're expanding Show and Tell a little to include not only your personal creations (though these are, of course, our favorites), but all sorts of interesting fan-created things we find in the wide world of the internet. Each week, we'll show off a new set of Nintendo-inspired projects, and this week, we're starting with the basics: recipes and ingredients. Every creation has to begin somewhere, after all. Your journey can start right here.Gallery: Show and Tell: 'Recipe' Edition
Today in Joystiq: August 4, 2008
Labeling a Metroid warning as a Half-Life headcrab is a crime punishable by Metroid attack. Epic Fail. Check out the highlights for today:
Joystiquery
Joystiq hands-on: Skate 2
Joyswag: Samsung 22" widescreen LCD monitor
Law of the Game on Joystiq: Trademark infringement? Not like-wii
The Joystiq Free Game Club: Tap Tap Revenge
New games this month: August 2008
News
New games this week: Books edition
OFLC rates R-Type Dimensions for Xbox 360
Wild West Guns fire onto WiiWare
Virtual Console update adds speed and gore, lacks swords
Uncharted Trophies discovered in Europe, US
Dem-o-rama: Alone in the Dark, Wall•E samples on 360
Thailand's GTA IV distributor pulls game following murder
Iwata: Nintendo may slow down the new peripheral parade
Burnout Paradise 'Cagney' update rolls onto Xbox 360
This Wednesday: Braid makes timely arrival on XBLA
See what you're doing wrong with Geometry Wars' 3D camera
2K reveals some PS3 BioShock Trophies; Survivor mode still a mystery
Next TF2 update may feature 'new type of environment'
Saints Row 2 controversy concerns, graphics keeping it off Wii
Midway bleeds another $34.8 million in Q2
Obvious: Next Team Ico game will be 'really, really good'
Free Battlefield: Bad Company Conquest mode hits Thursday
See the Mirror's Edge demo recreated in Portal
Rumors & Speculation
Rumorang: 360 Arcade dropping to $199 on Sept. 7
Joystiquery
Joystiq hands-on: Skate 2
Joyswag: Samsung 22" widescreen LCD monitor
Law of the Game on Joystiq: Trademark infringement? Not like-wii
The Joystiq Free Game Club: Tap Tap Revenge
New games this month: August 2008
News
New games this week: Books edition
OFLC rates R-Type Dimensions for Xbox 360
Wild West Guns fire onto WiiWare
Virtual Console update adds speed and gore, lacks swords
Uncharted Trophies discovered in Europe, US
Dem-o-rama: Alone in the Dark, Wall•E samples on 360
Thailand's GTA IV distributor pulls game following murder
Iwata: Nintendo may slow down the new peripheral parade
Burnout Paradise 'Cagney' update rolls onto Xbox 360
This Wednesday: Braid makes timely arrival on XBLA
See what you're doing wrong with Geometry Wars' 3D camera
2K reveals some PS3 BioShock Trophies; Survivor mode still a mystery
Next TF2 update may feature 'new type of environment'
Saints Row 2 controversy concerns, graphics keeping it off Wii
Midway bleeds another $34.8 million in Q2
Obvious: Next Team Ico game will be 'really, really good'
Free Battlefield: Bad Company Conquest mode hits Thursday
See the Mirror's Edge demo recreated in Portal
Rumors & Speculation
Rumorang: 360 Arcade dropping to $199 on Sept. 7
Phazon Suit Samus statue is ridiculously nice
First 4 Figures has come back around full circle, after completing Sheik and Sonic and his pals, now they've got yet another Samus statue. This one, in our opinion, totally trumps all of their past efforts. Just look at the thing.
Of course, the catch is that this costs a bunch of money. $224.99 in money, to be exact. For those of you with a winning lottery ticket, this goes on sale Q1 of next year.
Of course, the catch is that this costs a bunch of money. $224.99 in money, to be exact. For those of you with a winning lottery ticket, this goes on sale Q1 of next year.
DS Daily: FPS
The latest footage of Renegade Kid's Moon convinced us (and IGN's Matt Casamassina) that the game could be something special, though a few of you evidently still need some encouragement. In the comments, reader John B. argued that no matter how much impressive technology Renegade Kid throws at Moon, it wouldn't be enough, because first-person shooters just don't work as well on the DS.We're of the opinion that the handheld currently lacks a great FPS, but do you think the DS will ever see a triple-A game in this genre, given its obvious technical limitations?
Gamefly sales continue to tempt us
Gamefly is having a sale on some of its used-but-in-great-condition games again, also offering free shipping to spice up the deal a bit. As always, we're passings these savings along to you, while picking out a few we think are worth highlighting for their respective prices:
- Dragon Blade: Wrath of Fire for $12.99
- Dewy's Adventure for $14.99
- NiGHTS for $14.99
- Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law for $14.99
- Manhunt 2 for $14.99
- Victorious Boxers: Revolution for $15.99
- Soulcalibur Legends for $15.99
- Bleach: Shattered Blade for $17.99
- Metroid Prime 3: Corruption for $27.99
- Super Mario Galaxy for $36.99




















