Games News 23rd January

Exciting Releases

Nintendo 3DS Everyone was expecting this. Nintendo rules the handheld console market so utterly that portable phones are only beginning to make their way into the game. The 3DS has been confirmed for UK release on March 25th, with an American release date of March 27th, making it one of the few consoles to be released in UK ahead of our friends across the pond, which is a nice change. Games confirmed include two Zelda games, one of them being a reworking of the legendary Ocarina of Time. In addition Mario makes his way into the fray with Super Marioland and third party support is confirmed with franchises like Ridge Racer making their appearance as well. Prices will start at £173 and competition for one, as ever, will be fierce.

Duke Nukem: Forever This is a game that has become legendary by NOT being released. Since the late 1990s this game has languished in production hell. The games on the original Playstation were fun, where you wouldn't be killed by a single bullet (naming no one Call of Duty) and you could blithely run into the open slaughtering everyone with the biggest phallic death machine the world had ever seen. After financial troubles, a release date of May 3rd has been announced. Whether it comes and satisfies our expectation or if it becomes the gaming version of Guns N' Rose's Chinese Democracy remains to be seen.

Mortal Kombat FINISH HIM! FLAWLESS VICTORY! FATALITY! If any of these words mean anything to you, it's likely that you will have played Mortal Kombat, a game set apart from Tekken and Soul Caliber by virtue of being incredibly, incredibly violent. One of my favourite fatalities (a move you could perform to add insult to injury to a win) was pulling a person's whole skeleton out of their quivering body via their anus. Exciting news is that for the Playstation 3 version Kratos (of God of War fame) will be a playable character, giving me a proper excuse to dress up in war paint and a skirt and scream obscenities at the television instead of just doing it like I do now. Developers Capcom have hinted at a return to the bloody violence that made it so popular. It comes on release April 19th. However Tekken 3 will always be the best

In Other News.... Researchers are clashing other studies that show contrary claims on the link between childhood gaming and obesity. Previous reports had linked the two. As a person who feels it necessary to eat pizza, Doritos and 2 litre bottles of lemonade while playing games, I can only agree with this. However a new report from a University in Michigan has claimed there is no link, though children will get poorer grades.

Further reports can be seen here: [1]

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