The world ends with you......

Wow, one of the greatest game i have ever seen popped in this week, even more shocking, ITS A HANDHELD!, i guess big things come in little packages. The game is called the world ends with you for the Nintendo DS. as expected game spot exclaims "The World Ends With You is a compelling and immaculately presented RPG from start to finish, and is a great way for Square Enix to kick off a new franchise." A big fat 9.0 was slapped on the game and that earned it the editors choice awards. once again square enix made my life a happy one. quotting gameinformer "never has a company been so tied in with a specific genre." Square has been making the best rpg games scince the NES era with their home hitting franchise final fantasy, which just happens to have some of my favorite games of all time included in it.

Now lets get down to the gameplay elements, not only is the story line highly unique, it offer up charachtes that we can all easily relate to, its amazing what kind of experience games can offer. The tight controls make the game at just the right difficulty. The added fact you can switch difficulty modes in the middle of the game make battles that are just to hard to complete, managable if you need a bit of a boost. Also the attack system with the touch screen is fairly simple how ever it makes stringing combo together just the rigt difficulty. Plus the pin system (pins are the main mode of attack in the game, each pin is unique) basically alows you to carry a certain number of pins around in battle that you use to attack with, how ever each pin has a reboot time so once you use it you cant use it again for a few seconds depending on the pins reboot time. aside from battle, moving is simple just touch where you want to go on the touch screen. Once you pick it up you cant put it down, One thing is for sure, The World Ends With You is a compelling adventure that all NDS owners should pick up now.

So go pick it up, what're you waiting for, :)

Theworldendswithyou.com check it out!

Sony slashes 16,000 jobs out of the company

Sony has officially confirmed that 8000 full time jobs and 8000 part time jobs in an effort to save 1 billion dollars. Along with the job cut sony is cutting back investments in non core departments. This is all due as a result of the xbox 360 out selling the ps3. In my opinion the xbox360 owns the ps3 anyway. So sony is also closing 10 percent of there factories around the world. Gamespot declared "the Xbox 360 outsold the PlayStation 3 three-to-one during Black Friday sales in the United States." If ken kutagari was still working for sony would all this happen?

On a more cheery note there is one question that all gamers are asking, are price cuts in the near future? i hope so, not owning a ps3 is bugging me and a lot of gamers, paying a lot for a game system is not an option in our economic crisis. job cuts are something the us cant deal with at the moment. Sony needs to cancel the cut backs NOW! the cut back on the ps3 is not worth the lives sony will ruin.

For more sony info go to sony.com

other blogs you may want to check out are gamingrover.com, theweeklyblend.com, scorcerers.net/forums

castelvania dawn of sorrow

Wow. I got a new game yesterday and already I'm shocked at how amazing it is. Castlevania is one of my favorite series and when they come out with a new game i hop right on it. I was how ever shocked to discover there was a sequel to era of sorrow that i had not played so i jumped out of my seat and went to my father so he could get it for me. i was browsing the gamespot review and blam it got an 8.0/10 that scored it a "great" on the gamespot title scale.

When i got the game i sat down and shoved it in my ds and i could immediately hear the familiar music. The new features like item synthesis sent me on a grand quest to upgrade weapons while unlocking more and more parts of my map. The fact that you from now on have a map constantly on the top screen of your ds is amazing. Its especially helpful for exploring. The only thing that agitates me is the price of items in the shop and the fact you constantly are in a cycle of drinking/buying health potions. Before i quest i always fill up my stock and you probably should just in case. Basically through out the game you track down a cult through the castle of Dracula and try to stop some nut jobs from becoming the prince of darkness. The control scheme is great, the story lines good and the over all gameplay is amazing. I love the game and gamespot declares " you can't go wrong with Dawn of Sorrow."

you can score it for yourself and experience castlevania at konami.com

G4 a games best friend

G4 is a gamers best friend, its a tv channel devoted entirely to the needs of gamers. Any devoted gamer or even people who like watching insane comedy while being fed news about the hottest gaming titles in the world should watch this. They have origianal programming such as Code monkeys or x-play. My personal favorite tv show is aired on G4, its called code monkeys, "its a comedy of 8 bit proportions says show creator Adam De lepena."

G4 also has shows devoted entirely to walk throughs and cheats for games. Its like having a team of little people that live in your TV that tell you how to kick but when playing games. They have content that cimes from "the land of the rsing sun." So the general point of this article is check out G4 and Code monkeys and i promise you wont be dissapointed.

Secret achievment on the xbox 360 and why they make me SO ANGRY!

OK this is going to sound more like a rant and less like a blog post but at least its about gaming. Recently i have been playing some of my older xbox 360 games and i dug up part of my past i had hoped to bury. I was looking through the achievements on beautiful katamari when i came upon an achievement, A SECRET ACHIEVEMENT! They make the achievements so exiting by calling them secrets and not telling you what they are, IT'S NOT CLEVER! they make me so angry i fiddle around with the games for ever trying to find them out but nooooooo the game has to be almighty and deny me the gamer score i deserve!

Not only do they bug me, they bug a lot of people. Lion head studios, the creators of fable 2 recently were debating weather or not to have secret achievements in fable 2 but thank god they decided against it. So the question i would like to pose to the entire gaming industry is, Why the hell do you still have secret achievements in games?! Do u have no common sense, we don't want them and you don't care so GET RID OF THEM! But to quote François-Marie Arouet "commmon sense is not so common."

Mortal Kombat V.s DC Universe

a game That has snagged my attention in the past few weeks, is a game that not only have i not played yet, but it contains two of my favorite games in a classic beat em up featuring characters like Batman, or scorpion from mortal kombat. According to gamespot in their review they state " In a way, it feels as if many fighting game characters have stepped right out of the pages of a comic book. They wear bizarre costumes, spend a lot of time punching and kicking other people, and possess inexplicable powers. Pitting fighting game characters against comic book heroes and villains has been done before, and in Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, the meshing of Raiden's crew and Superman's posse makes for some pretty exciting action--especially online." Gamespot has given it average ratings and is starting to pick up attention from fans and newcomers alike. Gamespot gave it a rating of a mere 7.5, although this sounds disappointing it also got awards for outstanding game play and awards for causing people to jump to conclusions but then it threw in a shocker at the last second.

Considering my background knowledge on Mortal Kombat, if the game has the classic controls like in the origional games (not armageddon or shaolin monks, even though those titles are great, lets face it, The gameplay sucks compared to the tight controls games like mortal kombat for the n64 offered) it should be pretty good with the exception of a few mods for the new age controller designs. Over all i think any fan of either of these 2 mashed up franchise's or new comers to fighting games, shoul pick this up with the recent sale prices of 49.99.

Prince Of Persia

You know if you played the ps2 classic Prince Of Persia, That the experience is ever lasting and you have long waited for a next gen clean up of the muddy textures, so-so graphics, and amazing gameplay. According to sites such as www.gamespot.com, And ign.com As well as gameinformer.com prince of persia is A refreshing remake of a great game. With the reviews coming in with high scores from all over prince of persia is quickly making a huge impact on the gaming community.


According to http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=202705 "Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot believes will be praised by critics". This statement is true an extent, by some critics the remake is well respected, and most gamers also agree with Guillemot, But there are nay sayers who think prince of persia should not have benn re made. To me even though i have not played the remake myself, the game looks amazing and most people are surprised with the new tight controls. So to all you nay sayers i say, Thank you ubisoft for re inventing an old classic.