Lucky viewers in the Bay Area and Northern California will be able to experience the Video Games Live PBS Special almost two full months in advance. PBS station KQED Public Television 9 will be debuting the Video Games Live special in its entirety on Monday, June 7th, 2010 at 7:30pm and Tuesday, June 8th at 1:30am. More information can be found on the KQED website.
The Scott Pilgrim series delivers a witty mix of romance, action, and nerdyness not typically found in many graphic novels. One panel will depict a normal stroll down the street while the next will be an epic battle with a telekinetic vegan or super powered rock band with Scott receiving a 1-up or bus fare in coins or unlocking achievements. If your a gamer you’re gonna love all the video game references. For everyone else, there’s enough sillyness going around that you just can’t put the books down. You just have to turn the page to keep seeing what’s gonna happen next. I’ve had a blast reading through the series and can’t wait for the exciting final volume in July and I would highly recommend that everyone picks it up. Scott Pilgrim is a 6 Volume series and will be translated into a feature film from Universal Studios and video game from Ubisoft in mid August. For more info visit Oni Press, or The Scott Pilgrim Official Site
The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, the first movie in the Haruhi Suzumiya franchise, will be screened at the Laemmle’s Sunset theater in Hollywood on June 24. Stephanie Sheh, english voice actress for Mikuru will appear along with other surprise guests. She will be signing the theatrical poster for all attendees. Cristina Vee of Bandai’s ASOS Brigade will also appear and be performing on stage several of the series’ songs in English and Japanese before the screening. Attendees will be treated to a Haruhi manga and novel giveaway courtesy of Yen Press and Crunchyroll will raffle off 10 three month memberships and five one-year anime memberships to lucky attendees. Cosplayers that come to the theatre in a Haruhi costume will get an extra prize! Laemmle’s Sunset 5 is located at 8000 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA - (323) 848-3500. Tickets for the event are now on sale at http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=06242010&thid=2
One of Disneyland’s best rides, Star Tours will be shutting down soon and will be — for better or worse — getting a major overhaul. Rumors had been circulating that Lucasfilms was working on an update to the ride that would include being chased by Boba Fett and holographic communications with Admiral Ackbar. Now it seems that instead of a refresh we might be getting an completely new experience once the ride shuts down (July 27th at Disneyland and September 8th at DisneyWorld). Word has it that the new ride will open in May 2011 and feature 3-D Screens and Podracing while still maintaining the theme of the original Star Tours. Only time will tell if this new version of the ride will be any good…
Early this morning, in a press release posted at Nintendo’s Japanese site, the company officially announced the highly anticipated successor to the Nintendo DS. Temporarily named the “Nintendo 3DS”, the handheld will boast hardware with which “games can be enjoyed with 3D effects without the need for any special glasses.” It will also be compatible will all current DS and DSi software. The release reports that the handheld will be released before the end of the fiscal year ending March 2011. Engadget points out reports from Japan detailing known hardware for the 3DS. Ashai claims that the handheld’s 3D output will possible via “parallax barrier LCDs” from Sharp and is backed by reports from Nikkei which also adds that the displays will measure four inches diagonally (each). Nikkei also claims the device will feature a “3D control stick” (presumably to be an analog stick), support rumble, longer battery life and speedier WiFi. While speaking with a representative from Nintendo of America, The New York Times has confirmed that we will get our first hands-on with the new hardware at E3 2010, scheduled to be held from June 15 in Los Angeles. [via Joystiq]
To qualify for the giveaway, Interested parties can enter by becoming a fan of the Crunchyroll Facebook Page and be a Crunchyroll Premium Member on the day of March 31st. Crunchyroll will pick one (1) lucky winner on March 31st, 2010. The lucky winner will be announced on the front page and will be contacted by email and private message. For more infomation visit Crunchyroll for full details.
Unless you’ve been living in a cave on Mars for the last 4 years, you know that the long awaited 13th installment of the Final Fantasy franchise was released this week. I haven’t always been a big fan of the series but decided to give this one a chance - even to just give my software starved PS3 a chance to do what it was meant to do… plays games. From the very beginning, FF13 hits you like a ton of bricks with spectacular action and visuals and gameplay you don’t normally expect from a typical Square-Enix title. The character development is not what you’d expect from FF. In fact, there isn’t any — aside from some very minimal equipment upgrading — for the first 4 or 5 hours. It isn’t until an early plot twist when your party finally starts to “level up”. And then it’s not your typical auto leveling you might be expecting. The storyline on the other hand… Well, I haven’t spent a whole lot of time with it yet, but right from the beginning I was lost. I wasn’t sure why anything was happening or what the characters’ motives are or anything. You’re immediately thrown into the action with very little explanation. Again, it wasn’t until several hours into the game that you finally get an adequate explanation of what is happening and you start piecing things together. As many reviews have pointed out, the first third of the game (approx. 15 hours or so) are really slow and tedious… and I can see what they’re talking about. Only a handful of hours into the adventure and I’m still being greeted by tutorial dialogs and am still trying to get a firm hold of the battle system. But I wouldn’t say it’s tedious… to an extent. The story seems to finally picking up the pace and totally welcome some of the monotony now. Rather get through it now than later down the road. So far it’s been a pretty good experience and I’m looking forward to next many, many hours of enjoyment to be had.
With HeartGold and SoulSilver just around the corner — this weekend actually — you can’t just help but think about how it all started…
The iPad will be released in late April in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. Prices in those countries will be announced in April and iPad will ship in additional countries later this year.
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Scott Pilgrim is a 23-year-old that falls madly in love with Ramona Flowers, the new girl in town. Seems pretty typical so far… until it turns out that Scott must defeat her 7 evil ex-boyfriends if he want to win her heart. Again, still kinda typical… until you throw Sub-space travel, power-ups, experience points, 1-ups, and end battle spoils. Now this is what I’m talking about.
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