Duty, Honor, Country....oh wait, that's the ROTC motto. Who dares, wins?
FPS fans, this one's for you: if you're not much of a fan of the Call of Duty games, Rainbow Six, or even Ghost Recon series, EA is giving us a more "realistic" scenario game. Yep, the rebooted Medal of Honor that was released last 2010 is getting a sequel, and is packing more firepower than ever.
Dubbed Medal of Honor: Warfighter, the campaign follows of the actual footsteps (I guess based from declassified information that can be freely accessed) of Tier 1, US SOCOM's most elite special forces operations group. The missions take place around the globe, and in the trailer below, a particular mission in Basilan, Philippines; supposedly 'hideout' for the Abu Sayyaf extremist group.
Also featured in Warfighter is the multiplayer mode, where you can choose from any special forces group of a country:
Sometimes the simplest games can be the most addicting. Be it Plants versus Zombies, Angry Birds, Words with Friends, Draw Something, or Bejeweled. But this game, I suppose, tops it off in the addiction meter.
Robot Unicorn Attack is a simple browser game developed by Adult Swim (which I don't know for sure if they are related to the Adult Swim of Cartoon Network then), which follows a side-scrollingplatform game genre. The object of the game is to reach the end of the stage in one piece, which means jumping over obstacles or dashing and destroying through them. And did I mention cliffs? Yeah, that too.
Rainbow Brite and her steed got an argument, so he went solo.
Basically, that's the whole story of Robot Unicorn. But what makes it into a catchy game? Well, getting high scores, the thrill of the leftmost edge chasing after you, and the background music. Yep, the song 'Always', which topped the charts for gods-know-how-many-weeks in the radio during the late 90s (not to mention it had remixes too), and the wtf-music video of it.
So what's left to make this game better? Well, they did release two more versions of it, and a sequel that makes it more....appealing. Yeah, I've played this game too. Not-too-long ago I almost wasted half a weekend's day just playing this.
I'm thinking of either a super sentai's robot team ready to merge, or Beast Wars.
Enter the DragonRobot Unicorn Attack Evolution (gee, what a catchy theme for an obvious name). The game mechanics are still the same, but this time, the unicorn changes into another animal form when destroying 4 crystal stars. From unicorn to panda, to wolf, to gorilla, tiger, and finally with a commanding shout of FUS RO DAAAAAAAH!!!! into a dragon. The only catch is you have to keep destroying crystal stars; miss too many stars and you'll revert back to the unicorn form.
Po of Kung Fu Panda and Nyan-cat's illegitimate child. Or what.
Well, I leave it up to you whether this tickles your funny bone, or you're already diving into this game. Robot Unicorn Attack Evolution is available in Adult Swim's website, as a Facebook app, and Android devices. iOS devices will have to wait for now.
As for me, the only robot unicorn that I be dreaming from now on is this:
Ever since the emergence and importance of the internet from the late 90s, most of us are now connected to the world one way or another. In my case, I have a desktop at home, a netbook for field excursions, an Android phone, and my trusty Nintendo 3DS as handheld console. At work, I have an HP workstation.
And with the internet, there are a lot of forms of entertainment to keep the user logged in and not get bored. There are forum sites to wage war against trolls and flamebaiting newbies to to talk to other users from different places/cultures, Youtube and other video-upload-and-share sites to watch, webcomics, blogs (mine included) and news sites to read, research, or laugh about (I don't know how to categorize 9gag), or play games.
It's not uncommon these days that casual people play games over the internet with their favorite browsers. (here's one classic example of them). But I suppose Facebook can take the blame for the rise of browser games, with all that Zynga-affliated addiction that is the -vile -ville games. From farm to city to I dunno what-else-did-they-attach-it-to-a-word (heck, maybe they did Spaceville already, I dunno), it's rampant. But I'm not here to demonize browser gaming.
When it comes to games on the browser, the norm is that you use the standard technologies of the internet in order to play web-based games. Like Flash, HTML, PHP, Java and such. In the case of the 3DS, where it lacks both Flash and Java technology, it's a real challenge to make a browser based game for Nintendo's current handheld console. But someone did. And he's got balls.
Code-named Project Triniate, the aim is to make a 3DS-browser-based MMORPG. Wow. They're taking it to RPG level at once. The project aim is a simple proof-of-concept, the leader said; that a web-based game on the 3DS is possible. It was also mentioned that it may not really see the light of day (ie, be released to the public), but yeah, it's a why-did-you-climb-Mount Everest-moment.
As seen on this kinda-fuzzy-screenshot, it's still in its somewhat-primitive stage. But hey, it all looks good.
And if 1 browser game for the 3DS ain't enough for ya, there's another game coming up as well; a platformer one this time. Now that's taking it to the edge.
The new Triforce in an unnamed, unreleased Legend of Zelda. If that happens, DO WANT.
Nintendo announced its first annual operating loss. So what's to blame? Well, supposedly because of the overhype of the 3DS during its initial launch. Not to mention that the Wii, which about six years old now (though its successor is scheduled to be released later this year).
The good news behind this? Well, price cuts during the months before March 2012. Good thing I bought mine around late January, for just around US$190.00. Hehehe. Well, not that much cut but if I was an early adopter, that would've been rad.
So what was to blame? Well, mobile gaming with phones is supposedly one of the culprits they're pointing out. There's this article the Apple's iDevices are to blame. Well, what can I say? Apple knows how to innovate and exploit areas, and casual gaming is one of their playgrounds now.
So what's in store for us 3DS owners for the rest of the year? The system update they just released resolves the issue for game patches, and we can anticipate new games like Super Mario Bros 2, Animal Crossing, etc.
Do we have to fear of less games for the 3DS because Nintendo's future in handheld gaming looks bleak because of the trend of cellphone/tablet gaming? In my opinion, hopefully it doesn't come to that. The 3DS is a wonderful console that I've come to love.
