Evidence of me at E3!

I've been trying to get some pictures of me taken by a friend with no success. But here Unity has proven my existence! The video to audio synch is off a bit, but it still works!

Watch the interview.

E3 Day 1: 3DS

So I arrived last night around 10:30 pm, I headed straight to Capcoms Dead Rising event in LA. I'm not all that interested in Dead Rising 2, so not a big deal — but hey, open bar woot!

This morning I got up early to pick up my ticket and waited with everyone else to run in and see the 3DS! Doors opened, then I spent the next 2.5 hours waiting in line. I met some very cool cats in line, but lets get to it!

3DS:

Dinosaur Strike-- Yes that's right, 2.5 hours of waiting and Dinosaur Strike is the carrot at the end of my stick (yes Butcher, that's what she said). Actually they had a racing game there as well, but I didn't notice it until I was being dragged away kicking and screaming. They also had a few videos. They had a Resident Evil video, Metal Gear, and some other stuff.

Like I said kicking and screaming is how they had to get me out of there. This 3D tech looks really good. There is a slider on the top screen on the side that you can adjust the 3D effect. The higher you have it set, the bigger dept of field you'll see. This is probably going to help when you're on the train or some place where you aren't really going to be sitting still.

Whatever. The damn thing is amazing, the booth girls weren't spilling any details about the hardware's specs either... but then again, most of them had no clue what they had tied to their arms (yes the 3DS was secured to a model). It was actually kind of funny to hear them try to tell me how to play it.

What gets me excited about the 3DS is well the 3D. I won't have to wear any cumbersome 3D glasses in order to see it either. All I have to do is look at the screen. And finally because the 3D screen is the top one, it'll force developers to PICK A G'DAMN SCREEN! There is some untapped potential with 3D games now that it's easy. It seems that without the glasses, people actually enjoy 3D, who'd have thunk it!

Physically it looks just like a DS. Like almost exactly like a DS, except that top screen is a little bit wider, and the 3D slider adjustment. Graphically it seems a wee bit more polished than the iPhone and PSP.

I'm not going to lie I friggin' love the thing, and have will have to force myself to stay away from it so that I can actually check out some of the other things on the show floor.

Soooo...

What should I check out next? Please send comments or emails! I'll check them tomorrow morning before I head in.

Metal Gear Solid Peacewalker

Enjoying Metal Gear Peacewalker for PSP & anxious for E3! ~ Den

Get Portal For Free. Don't be stupid, go get it.

Ever wanted to play Portal, but didn't want to pay for it? Get it for free on Steam without the guilt of stealing it like you would from using a Bit Torrent. The offer is good only until May 24th, so hurry up.  It's available for Mac and PC in case you were wondering Mac owners.

http://store.steampowered.com/freeportal/

Is the DS down and out? Not quite yet.

So you might have noticed that the DS is in a bit of a drought in terms of new and awesome games. With the announcement of the 3DS it may seem that the were in a bit of a void until its future release.

But if your still in the mood to do some gaming on your way to work or on your summer vacation, I would recommend checking out Dementium II for the DS. It is the sequel to Renegade Kid's original Dementium  released back in 2007.

In my opinion Renegade Kid is the definitive FPS developer for the DS. I've tried other franchises, such as Call of Duty, but so far nothing has comes close to what Renegade Kid can do and does with the DS. It's very impressive for basically just a few guys running the show.

Dementium II is more of a FPS adventure than a shooter as you play as William Redmoor. Poor Will has awoken from a brain operation, conducted on him by a crazed Psychiatric ward doctor. In the first Dementium (spoiler) the whole game was a hallucination caused by this horrific operation. Now that you've escape the trap of your mind, you must figure out what really has happened to you, while fighting off flash backs induced by your hacked up brain. It may not be as suspenseful as a Stephen King novel, but it gets the job done.

With a fine tuned user interface and more mutated looking evil to fight, this should fill your daily gore and FPS gameplay needs. I would give it a look and support one of the best small developers the DS has.

www.dementium.com

PSP 2? no effing way!

Den here~

If anyone has heard any bit of this podcast you would know that I love my PSP. There are now rumors of a PSP 2! HERE it is written that: "MCV has been informed of a significant increase in marketing spend at two key publishers for Q4 2010". They also go on to say that a certain unnamed publisher is waiting for an announcement before it can reveal it's plans for the PSP.

666 The Beast!

See this? The beast has spoken. Our steady accession to the throne may commence!

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Monster Hunter Tri Love

Can you guess which one of us is which?

Ah yes finally being released is Monster Hunter Tri! We hunted down BASTION of www.capcom-unity.com. A moderator there to answer some of our questions, and well really just to annoy him.


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Email us at whoburnedmytoast@gmail.com or post comments, suggestions, or death threats right here on the blog. We enjoy hearty debate. Bring it!

When internet randomness attacks!

So this has nothing to do with games AT ALL, but I was working on this ol' blog here typing away happily and making a nice link to post of the blog url. Well I got around to checking the link in the post I was working on and clicked the link below.

http://www.whoburnedmytoast.blogpsot.com/

I thought we had been hacked by some crazies. I have no idea why this site exist or even why its named the url it is, but its just F'in weird. All it takes is one missplaced letter my friends and you find internet gold. Or maybe in this case some scary shit. I hope someone didn't go looking for our site and ended up there.

Mass Effect 2 The Review

Mass Effect 2 Review
Platform: 360, PC, PS3
Developer: Bioware
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Genre: Action RPG




Story: You are Commander Shepard, and your on the Normandy (your ship duh). Things happen, and you find yourself "Acquired" by a group of people called Cerberus. These people apparently were not your friends in part 1, but in this one, you work for them.

They have hired you to gather a group of people to find out why colonies of humans are disappearing. Humans, Aliens, Robots, dirty alien sex--it's all there.

Review: The Heavy Rain Experience (No Spoilers)

Platform: PS3

Developer:Quantic Dream
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment

As reviews go for games this is going to be a short one. It's not that I don't want to tell you everything that is amazing about Heavy Rain, it's that I don't want to ruin the story by revealing any clues to you. It's best played with a clean slate of mind. If you've gone ahead and read some other reviews or sneaked a peak, you're really only hurting yourself. I'm going to lay it out on the table for you all right now. I'm recommending everyone go out and play Heavy Rain. Even if you don't have a PS3, borrow one or steal one.

Origami. It will give you deadly paper cuts.

Lost Planet 2 looks... Good?

Boy am I sick of seeing shooters nowadays. It seems that everyone has noticed that the shooters sell like hotcakes over here, so they are making their own versions. I think though, some of these people are DOING IT RIGHT! Just take a look: