GeekiN Extra #10 – E3 2010 Nintendo/Sony
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
The second GeekiN episode of the week wraps up our E3 coverage by discussing Nintendo and Sony’s conferences. Amongst other things, we talk about the Nintendo 3DS, Donkey Kong Country Returns, and Twisted Metal for the PS3. Enjoy!
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Y The Last Man Vol. 5In this final Deluxe Edition hardcover collecting Y #49-60, Yorick and Agent 355 prepare for their ultimate quest to reunite the last man with his lost love, while the person, people or thing behind the disaster that wiped out half of humanity is revealed. Then, Yorick Brown's long journey through an Earth populated only by women comes to its dramatic, unexpected conclusion.
Random interesting tidbit…I was looking up Kevin Butler to see the name of the actor, and I was reminded that the guy was in a GEICO ad before he started the Sony ad campaign.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuGo9NaaP5s
FYI, the guy’s real name is Jerry Lambert.
As soon as you said that, I remembered the commercial. Weird.
Apparently you will be able to use a regular PS3 controller instead of the nunchuk piece of the Move, but that seems like it would be rather awkward to me. A wand in one hand and a regular controller in the other sounds like a recipe for disaster to me.
The Dualshock controller is already a bit awkward to hold, IMO. I can’t imagine doing it with one hand.
The idea for kirby’s epic yarn came from this commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-0nHaksVcc
Concerning GoldenEye 007, looks like I was right on my hunches. This is not a pure port of the game. They would in fact need some sort of permission from Rare for that. Here is what Joystiq had to say about the issue:
“Let’s clear one thing up: This GoldenEye Wii game is not your GoldenEye N64 game all prettied up. This is an original game based on the same Bond … movie (though featuring the Daniel Craig Bond). That’s not to say that the new GoldenEye 007 doesn’t borrow — what it legally can — from Rare’s classic console FPS, but be careful about expecting a modern port of the 1997 game known simply and lovingly as “Bond.”"
That’s weird. Not only are they recreating a nostalgic game, but it’s a recreation of a nostalgic game. An iffy project to say the least.