Happy St Patricks Day everyone. Ok, I am a day early, but most of you will see his on 03/17 or later anyway so cut me some slack. And while I may not bring the gift of beer, I do have episode 65 of the Gameslave Podcast.
Hit the Podcast page for the show notes
So what do you get when you mix gaming and bored web programmers that want to mess with HTML 5? You get get an improv version of Katamari Damcacy. A certain Alex Leone, David Nufer and David Troung at Katamari Hack have created this little hack complete with how it actually works for those interested. The short of the story is you place the below text in the location bar of a site you are at:
javascript:var i,s,ss=['http://kathack.com/js/kh.js','http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.1/jquery.min.js'];for(i=0;i!=ss.length;i++){s=document.createElement('script');s.src=ss[i];document.body.appendChild(s);}void(0);
The turns all the text and images on the page into things that can be grabbed by your Katamari ball. Initially the ball will grab only text, but as it gets larger it will start getting images as well. The larger the ball the larget the image. Now this does need an HTML 5 browser to work and it works best in Chrome or Firefox 4. Enjoy you bored gamers you.
So today Sony took a large step to make sure you won't lose your save games should your console fail or you have decided to use someone else's PS3. Today they enabled PlayStation Plus members to upload their save games to an online storage system that will hold up to 1000 PS3 game saves, or about 150 MB of space. The nicest thing about this system is the ability to access your save games from anywhere you can sign into the PSN.
This does not mean however that you can play at home, upload your save game, head to Mike's house, download your save to play for a while then upload again and finish at home the same day (although that is nice dedication, I salute you sir). You can only download a save from the online storage once in a 24 hour period. If you cancel you PS Plus membership they will keep your saves for 6 months without deleting them, but while not a member you cannot access the saves, and after 6 months you may need to start Final Fantasy 13 over again. Starting your account back up with the same name will allow you to access your saves again.
So are you interested now and plan on getting that PS Plus membership for the storage options and want to know how to use it? Here you go:
To backup Save Game Data to Online Storage
To restore Save Game Data from Online Storage:
Just remember to update your PS3 to 3.60 first and happy gaming.
So according to the NPD group the Nintendo Wii™ sold more then 454,000 consoles in February. Why does this matter whatsoever? This caused Nintendo to cross the 35 million console mark here in the United States on these console sales. This is kinda impressive since they no longer have the distinction of being the only system with a motion controller gimick and so few good games coming out every year for it. Heck the press release stated that the two biggest selling games for them was Donkey Kong Country™ Returns and from November 2010 at 554,000 units and New Super Mario Bros™ Wii from November 2009 which just crossed the 8 million unit mark.
Maybe since they are about the launch the 3DS we will see more attention paid to the Wii as they don't have to split their focus as badly. We can only hope, but most likely The Legend of Zelda™: Skyward Sword will be enough to carry them into the next year.
So Kinect came out on what, November 4th? That was only 4 months ago, and in that time Microsoft has managed to go and sell not only 10 million Kinect units but 10 million stand alone games (assuming this does not count Kinect Adventures). Now this is world wide but that is still an impressive number, and Guinness agrees. Microsoft now holds the record for Kinect being the fastest-selling consumer electronics device. To get this they sold 8 Million units in the first 2 months. Gaz Deaves, Gaming Editor for Guinness World Records, had not seen any faster sales according to their independent researchers.
So 4 months down and sales look like they are going to stay strong, but now here is the question I have for Microsoft. We have seen the rumors that a new console is in the works over at Redmond, will Kinect work with this new console. Since I do plan to buy one soon I sure hope so.
Welcome back loyal listners. All three of of us are togehter this week and we have an actual show for you today. I am going to warn you now, we got really off topic towards the end.
For the show notes check out the Podcast Page.
Pikachu in line to get his copySo March 6th heralded the release of two new Pokemon titles; Pokémon Black and Pokémon White for the Nintendo DS game systems. With their release came a new Pokémon sales record. Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl games held the previous record with a one-day sale record 780,000 copies sold in April of 2007. Pokémon Black and Pokémon White broke this record with 1.08 million copies sold in 1 day.
Now why are so many people attracted to this? Lets check this convient quote from the press release shall we:
"Longtime Pokémon fans are attracted to the new Pokémon, new battle systems and a new region to explore, while newcomers enjoy the ability to jump in and have fun right away,” said Charlie Scibetta, Nintendo of America’s senior director of Corporate Communications. “These sales numbers illustrate the continued strength of the Nintendo DS family of systems. Already established as the nation’s best-selling video game platform of all time, the installed base of more than 47 million makes it the ideal hand-held for developers to reach a huge gaming-focused target audience."
So there you have it. More areas to explore, more Pokémon to collect (how the hell are you supposed to collect them all now?) and a new battle system are luring 47 million fans to the game. So grab your copies and try to collect all 649 Pokémon.
So yongzh has created yet another video game emulation app for the Android. This is a not big deal given the devloper's history doing Game Boy, NES, SNES, Gensis, etc apps for the Android. This N64 version though has a nice addition to it. You are not limited to your Android onscreen controls or using the keyboard. You can link up a wii-mote and nunchuck should you have one to your phone for game control. This means you are free to play your games without your thumbs in the way. Check out the video for a preview of this:
You can get the app on the android market for $5.99, and while the emulator is not perfect (creators words) it does have a nice gimick that would be nice to see ported to other emulators (use a PS3 controller maybe).
Have you every wanted to destroy IKEA furniture while having the simbalance of playing a video game? Well you are not alone in this as it is exactly what Conan did on 03/03/2011. And while he might have cheated by using the same bird twice, it is still looked like a a lot of fun.
Want to know where you can play Angry Birds? Grap your iPhone / Android and download it from their marketplaces.
Just in cast you missed it Nintendo released a new Legend of Zelda trailer at GDC 2011. And below you will be able to find it is all its glory.
