Wednesday Yahtzee Smash Brother’s Brawl Edition

Well, I've been gone for a week and didn't deliver on last week's cheap cop-out theft type blogs that are my wonderful way of cheaping out and not creating real legitimate content.  So please, feel free to send me tons of hateful comments.  I invert their virulence and turn them into cupcakes.  Anyhow, I totally disagree with Yahtzee's tone here kuz I found Smash Brother's Brawl fun as hell, it brought me back to the days of Mario 3 platforming and I loved it.  

So hey, enjoy some Yahtzee just for the sake of enjoying it, kuz for all it's misguided venom, it's still the best review out there.

Zero Punctuation – Smash Brother’s Brawl

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Wednesday Yahtzee! No More Heroes Edition

I've decided to start a regular tribute to my favorite regular web video.  I've been following Zero Punctuation almost since it's conception and I've loved every second of it.  So from this point on I will heartily endeavor to spread the foul-mouthed word of Yahtzee further across the interwebs.

Incidentally today he reviews a game I've had for a while now, the reason for this is that living in Australia video games seem to ignore the slow boat from China in getting there and rather opt to swim instead.  Perhaps because it seems that China is actually closer to Australia then America is…

So anyhow I've somewhat enjoyed no more heroes, and my opinion actually mirrors his.  Except that I believe I did attempt to define what it was, which is a video game parody/homage to hock house action films and old video games.

Anyhow, on with the movie.  Enjoy.

Zero Punctuation – No More Heroes

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Wii Fit

The last 2 day's I've been watching E3 presented by G4 like how beauty agents were watched in the 60's.  I've been impressed with what I've seen so far, but now they're on the presentation for the Wii Balance Board and I've got to express my amazement.  This is an absolutely phenomenal idea and I think it's going to revolutionize the way we see video games in our lives. 

With all the controversy surrounding the negative effects of video games Nintendo is rising above the din of negativity and bring out something that's going to please everyone and simultaneously raise the bar for video game designers all over the world. 

The Wii Balance Board looks like a cross between an aerobics board and a bathroom scale.  In fact it functions much like a scale, measuring the body mass index.  (Which was demonstrated to the embarassment to one of the Nintendo Presenters).  But it's more than that, much more.  Measuring movement, weight shifts and I believe disruptions in it's perimeter field, the Wii Balance Board offers gameplay by doing controlled full-body movements.  Fitness software was even demonstrated, which showed precise yoga-like and tai-chi movements, aerobics, push-ups, and soccer ball heading among other things. 

This looks like a revolution in interactive fitness, and it's going to take Nintendo beyond the association of video games.

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