NEW RELEASES: April 27-May 3
- Scribbled on April 27th, 2008 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Game Genres, Microsoft Xbox 360, New Release(s), Nintendo Wii, PC, Platforms, Release Date(s), Retro, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3
This week, Iron Man makes its highly anticip– oh, wait, that’s right. This Tuesday, Grand Theft Auto IV makes its debut for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, promising to sell about a kajillion copies (well, over 10M, anyway) for the two consoles.
The Wii has its own major title release, Mario Kart Wii, though one wonders when Nintendo will actually create a non-Mario, non-Zelda, non-Metroid game. As Ben Croshaw warns, Nintendo is one Virtual Boy mistake from complete disaster.
The PC only has one release, Clay Dreslough’s latest entry into the venerable 10 year old baseball sim series, Baseball Mogul 2009. The PS2 has a nice bundleware game coming out, SNK Arcade Classics, which is stuffed full of great NEO*GEO games, including Art of Fighting, Baseball Stars 2, Burning Fight, Fatal Fury, KOF94, King of the Monsters, Last Resort, Magician Lord, Metal Slug, Neo Turf Masters, Samurai Shodown, Sengoku, Shock Troopers, Super SIdekicks3, Top Hunter, and World Heroes.
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Baseball Mogul 2009
Xbox 360
Grand Theft Auto IV
Iron Man
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SNK Arcade Classics
Iron Man
PlayStation 3
Grand Theft Auto IV
Iron Man
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Mario Kart Wii
Iron Man
April 27th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Nintendo released one Metroid game. Two Zelda games, and a couple Mario games, is it really reason enough to question them? The way I see it, the games sell, why stop it.
It’s like me asking when Microsoft is going to create a non-FPS game.
Or when Sony is actually going to make a good game.
April 27th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Let’s see, there’s party games (Scene It?), casual games, board games, racing games, a ton of RPGs (Mass Effect, Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon, etc), real-time-strategy games, regular strategy (Civ Rev), games like Overlord, and a ton of serious sports games. Oh, and don’t forget Xbox Live Arcade…
April 28th, 2008 at 2:02 am
According to Amazon my copy is already in the mail to me!
April 28th, 2008 at 2:26 am
I knew you’d pick up SNK Arcade Classics. Let us know how it is.
April 28th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
I was talking about GTA…
April 28th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Bull. You bought SNK Arcade Classics for the NEO-GEO Fatal Fury and Metal Slug. ADMIT IT!
April 28th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
grr…
April 29th, 2008 at 4:31 am
XBLA? Oh ok, so in that case, Nintendo hasn’t released a lot of mario/zelda/metroid games, no, they released a bunch of adventure/rpg/action/shooter/beat em up/ platforming games. Hmm, funny how that works out.
April 29th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Funny how none of them are original titles. XBLA at least has original content (ie. Geometry Wars, Assault Heroes, etc.)
May 1st, 2008 at 3:24 am
“Geometry Wars is a minigame created by Bizarre Creations as part of Project Gotham Racing 2 for the Xbox”
real original.
It’s funny because it’s not.
At least Nintendo is bringing out the good games for download that shaped gaming.
May 1st, 2008 at 11:48 am
Um, “What is Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Asteroids, etc.” And games like Marathon shaped gaming more than you can imagine.
Shaped gaming? Are you saying Donkey Kong shaped all of gaming, or created its own little niche.
Yeah, when I see Fallout 3, I see its origins in Donkey Kong. Ditto Fable 2.
Ever play, say, Ultima? I’m sorry, but the NES was for little kiddies. I played on the Commodore 64 where games like M.U.L.E., Adventure and Pinball Construction Set, Ultima IV, etc shaped gaming - followed by Wolfenstein and DOOM.
And you still haven’t proven that all Nintendo does is : Mario, Zelda, and Metroid. Actually, the only thing Nintendo does is Mario and Zelda. Metroid is when they want to do the occasional change of pace. Most Wii releases at this point are met with huge yawns by gamers. Honestly, Wii Fit?
http://www.gamestooge.com/2007/07/18/sarcastic-gamer-savages-the-wiifit/
Oh, and by the way, Nintendo did a lot of arcade ports back then. So it was Taito and Konami and Universal that “shaped” gaming. (smirk)