SuperVoodoo

Thought I’d drop a line with something other than my standard puff pieces.

As you may have noticed due to the “chaos and anarchy” this week, Scott, Mr. High and Mighty Editor in Chief is gone and Josh, Mr. Not so High and Mighty Associate Editor, and Sadie, Ms. Also Not so High and Mighty Contributing Editor have taken the reigns in hand. With the mighty reigns of justice, we direct the fearsome SuperVoodoo steed to amazing destinations.

So with all the high and mightiness-taking place, we forgot to lay down some site news for everyone.

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The new addition of trophies to our PS3 library has me both excited and leery.

Since I received my 360 all those…two years ago, I’ve found that playing the games for the sake of game-play has slowly declined.

The reason being are those nit-picky little things on everyone’s mind as they peruse through a dungeon to find a certain magic rock (that grants neither actual magic powers nor any addition to the game), shoot 27,345 people in the face from (specifically) 83 yards away using only a handgun, twice; or punch the wind in the face and destroy the night (35g, by the way).

Achievements; what makes them so addictive? What do they do exactly?

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Thailand officials have released a list of what the Thai Ministry of Health has deemed the most violent video games….in Thai.

Oh wait, guess who can read Thai?

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I have been trying out a whole variety of games on the iPhone platform since it was released last month, and I’ve found few games that are really worth playing.  One game has rise to the top of the pile and it is a game called Galcon.  Galcon has been around for other platforms for a while, but I feel like it really shines with the multi-touch interface.  Basically the way the game works is that you move around ships to take over the planets on the screen, and once you own a planet it produces more ships for you.  The bigger the planet the better the production rate so the battle typically revolves around a few strategic large planets.  How this ends up playing out is that you are constantly dragging fleets around in a near chaotic fashion trying to outpace your opponent, and it ends up being surprisingly fun.

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Things have happened lately.  Bad things.  Unhealthy things. Scary things.

Certainly, recent events in Canada are not something to be taken lightly or even worse, made fun of.  However, with the heaviness of the said events, sometimes you just have to step back a bit to avoid being suffocated by the seriousness of the matter, which of course (if you’re human) is hard to do. Though tragic and frightening, the recent Canadian Greyhound murder has given me a roundabout way to reflect on the violence we experience in videogames.

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I’ve been pretty disappointed with the state of gaming lately. I play these games and they don’t give me that same sense of enjoyment that I used to feel when I played games as a kid. I long for the days when games were “harder” and the competition between consoles was more cutthroat. It could just be a quarter life crisis but I had this strong urge to visit my gaming foundation and I’ve found that games from the past are more fulfilling than the ones we have now. Let’s get “retro”…

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The hype factor is definitely starting to build for this game and if you aren’t amped yet, you must have missed all the gameplay videos that EA has been shoveling out. If you missed the previous installments of the animated comics, check out the pre-hype article where you can also get a little more information on the game.

So in keeping you updated on Dead Space, here’s the fourth installment of the prequel animated comics after the jump.

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The new movie adaptation of Watchmen has people asking a lot of questions:  Will Snyder get it right?  Will people absorb the message?  Will it truly dismantle the superhero genre?  “What the hell is that?” as asked by some lady loudly at a 10PM showing of The Dark Knight last Friday (completely ruining my nerd-afterglow).

But, the most important question of all is answered after the jump:

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I’ve been hyped on Alone in the Dark since I heard about it months back. The tech demos completely amazed me with how much detail they paid attention to in order to get the fire realistic. The storyline, could have been more catchy, but it was better than the shit Uwe Boll came up with. Anyway, thanks to the new Gamefly subscription I checked out Alone in the Dark for the Wii to sooth my pain for the delay with the PS3 version. What I got was nothing like what I had been sold on…

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