So much vidya, not enough time…
As you have no doubt noticed by now by the sudden drop in activity on the blog… I’ve been very busy and have ended up neglecting this place. However, that’s not the main issue here… it’s the fact that I haven’t been able to find time to play video games lately!
Of course, not having the time to do a lot of the stuff you want to do occurs to everyone at some point in their life and there are times when people have sacrificed doing something they love to make way for other “more important” things… well that’s all well and good for other people, but video games are very important to me and the only way I’m going to give it up is when I’m dead… and even then I’ll claw back from the grave and haunt someone who has video games so they can run away in fear and I can then usurp their vidya…
Game Spotlight: AlphaBounce
When the Nintendo DSi was released, Nintendo was kind enough to offer 1000 DSi points for free… though at the time there wasn’t anything WORTH buying from the DSi store. Luckily for me, I chose to bide my time long enough to find at least one game worth spending those free points on.
People who are old enough to remember games from the early 90s all the way back to the 80s will know of these kinds of “brick breaking” games. For those who don’t know, the idea is to use a paddle and a ball to break bricks on the screen until there are none left. It’s a pretty simple concept which is why it was so popular back in the day, however AlphaBounce takes some inspiration from Puzzle Quest by adding an RPG element to the mix.
Nintendo 3DS
Unless you’ve poked out your own eyes and ruptured your eardrums somehow, then you’d be aware of the Nintendo 3DS which was officially revealed at E3 2010… though, maybe you’d only have to poke out one eye for the device to end up being just a more powerful DS in your eyes… eye… But is the 3DS just an evolution of the Nintendo DS or is it capable of providing much more than the DS ever could?
A lot of information about the Nintendo 3DS has been released over the past week including specs, pictures, hands-on impressions as well as a long list of games being developed for the system. There are a lot of people at E3 who absolutely love the 3DS and were amazed by its no-glasses 3D effect first-hand. People who weren’t lucky enough to attend E3 can only take their word for it… and that’s very unfortunate.
UPDATE: Eep, just a few minutes after publishing this entry I found out about this: Nintendo 3DS’s GPU: DMP’s PICA200.
E3 2010
E3 2010 has come and gone, as a result we’ve been buried in a tonne of awesome things to look forward to in the future. Be warned, this will be an epicly long post the likes of which have not been seen on Twilight Lynk before…
As you can probably tell from the above image… Nintendo continues to laugh at the measure of their own success and their ability to print more and more money. It’s an unstoppable force unlike any we’ve ever seen and will one day consume the entire universe. Who will stop them? How can they be stopped? This is madness!
Of course, there were a lot of other great things being shown at E3 and this entry will go through everything that I have absorbed for the past few days…