With Alan Wake's launch fast approaching, Microsoft and Remedy thought it a good idea to put out a couple short prequel videos, titled Alan Wake "Bright Fall", leading up to the game's launch. The trailer above gives a peek at what's in store for the mini series when it premieres on Xbox Live on April 27... and is currently available on the New York TImes website. So you can either wait for the series to show up on Xbox Live or just go to New York Times and watch it now. Your call.
Bioware has come out with another video talking about the combat in Star Wars: The Old Republic, and their argument brings up a valid point. Do you really feel heroic in other MMORPGs? Consider World of Warcraft where 10 and 40 man raids have you going up against a single large enemy or groups of "mobs". If you attempted to fight without tanks, healers, and damage dealers you would be killed. Effortlessly. Not very heroic sounding is it?
It will be interesting to see where Bioware will take this concept of "feeling heroic" as you start to get higher in level though. If you loose that sense of progress, the feeling that your character is growing stronger the more you play (which is integral to MMORPGs), the game's long term appeal could potentially suffer for it.
Steam for Mac is moving right along if the embedded video above is any indication of its progress. Too bad we don't get to see actual gameplay footage or a list of supported games, but it's still nice to see what's in store for Mac users when Steam releases for OS X in the, hopefully, not too distant future.
Japan's Sunday morning kiddy show 'Pokémon Sunday' provided us with two things: further proof that Japan is bat-shit insane, and our first look at some Pokémon Black/White gameplay.
The map pack, which has you capture strategic town positions and secure M-COM stations in Laguna Presa and Arica Harbor, is available with the VIP code which is included in every new copy of Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Players that do not have a code can purchase one via the in-game store, PC players will get the content as a game update.
The original Super Mario Kart is heading to the Wii Virtual Console this Friday, featuring 20 tracks rendered in fluid Mode7 graphics. Consistently regarded by many as one of the best video games ever made, Super Mario Kart on SNES was originally released seventeen years ago and has spawned five hit sequels.
For 800 Wii Points you can relish in a wave of nostalgia, going head-to-head with your friends in split-screen, enjoy the multiplayer favorite Battle Mode, or go solo racing against an all-star line-up of Mushroom Kingdom characters.
