We're saying goodbye to our expensive cable internet and going with something like DSL. I just started looking at prices and realizing that I hate shopping. So I ask upon the minions of the City of Tendo to tell me what home service I can get that comes with internet.

I'm in Florida, in Winter Park (Orlando).

Guide my hand fellow Tendites! Guide it like you were masturbating a fragile infant! Help me find affordable, quality service in my area! *theme to Indiana Jones*

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/04/14/...93550.html

Seems Ubisoft is at the very least porting this game. Not sure if they are doing more though. I'll say this, if it's basically a port job it's a rather sucky thing... Gee, should I get the free version for the system it was originally designed for with a mouse and keyboard setup and free updates with many new features added every now and then, or the $50 version ported to a system it was not designed for with a potentially clunkier setup that likely will only have extra content via XBox Live which will likely be charged for? Hard decision...

Unless this is more than a port job, I hoenstly don't care about this.

Has anyone seen the commercials for this new Gamecube game (also on PC)? I mean, they might as well have written "We played shots of the game while the absolute worst actor we could find read stuff into a cheap microphone". I mean, it's about the most amateur thing I've seen.

http://www.gamespy.com/articles/505/5052...?fromint=1

5 pages, nice read. (read it!)


Nintendo HQ sure is a exciting building!

http://ps2.ign.com/articles/503/503128p1.html

Note how many publishers have no or little listed NGC titles... nothing on that list for Cube from Vivendi, Ubisoft, and Atari (the French have abandoned the Cube...) Konami (though they have GBA ones), and less from most of the rest...

But when I look at the list Nintendo has I know why I stick with Nintendo anyway.

Oh geez. This is just wondeful news. First SK leaves us, and now F5 states that they're no longer making GC games.

link

Quote:April 14, 2004 - In a conversation with IGNcube today, Factor 5 president Julian Eggebrecht said the company would not develop any more titles for Nintendo's GameCube console. The studio is currently creating software for other platforms.
Eggebrecht would not say what titles were in development at Factor 5 nor would he talk specifically about what platform they might appear on. However, at the Game Developers Conference 2004 Eggebrecht was spotlighted as one of the studio heads very keen on Sony PSP development.
The Factor 5 president told IGNcube that no software from the San Rafael-based software house would be previewed at the forthcoming Electronics Entertainment Expo 2004, which kicks off this May in Los Angeles.

Wow, what a terrific day. We get the first MP 2 shots, and now our first glimpse at Wind Waker 2 and Too Human! At least we know that TH will make it to the cube and be shown at E3, eh?



WW2 is of course using the same engine, but even though the screen is small and blurry the textures look noticably better. And damn, look at that MP2 screen. Simply gorgeous.

http://www.cube-europe.com/news.php?nid=6349

WOOOOOO!









Could the rumors be true that in this game they'll introduce a "Evil Samus" that will hunt you like in Metroid Fusion? Notice the black and white Samus in the shots. Hmm... She's also fighting a chozo! But the best part is; MULTIPLAYER!!!!!

My idea is that the Black and White Samus is Metroid Prime reincarnated, like at the end of Metroid Prime when you collect 100% it shows the Metroid taking your Phazon suit and then a hand comes out of the goo. I dont know why Samus is fighting the Chozo in that shot but maybe the phazon was the catalyst that created the X-Virus; a mutated virus that mimiced its prey in order to aid its spread. Maybe the Chozo is a reanimated phazon induced lifeform created similar in fashion to the X-Ridley! Maybe the X-Virus was simply air born sentient phazon! gah!

Also, looking at the multiplayer picture, it would seem that in one screen (top left) the Samus in a ball can see a Samus standing. On the screens top right and bottom right, you can clearly see that Samus is looking at a black and white Samus. But in the top left screen, you can only see the redish Samus. Could that mean that the Black and White Samus can become invisible until you're right next to it? Also, it would seem that the Bottom left picture in this multiplayer game is a floating camera that will follow different players around depending on their score most likely. So that screen shot is showing 3 people playing. And if you didn't notice it, there's a Chozo Artifact floating above the reddish Samus's head. They're probably playing 'Hold the flag' or 'capture the flag' which would mean having teams! If that's possible, maybe the multiplayer mode will allow you to have SIMS! I'm totally making theories but man i like it.

Well, it's time was bound to end anyway, considering dwindling sales...

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/04/13/...93447.html

And also the poor design of this PS2 remake. Unlike NOA, they didn't even TRY to sugar coat it. They flat out say that the design was bad.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/04/13/...93447.html

Well, most likely anyway. They dropped the price (if you are willing to sign some contract with them for phone service), and fixed most of the design flaws (taking out a few of those features it advertised so much to start with).

However, the biggest flaw doesn't seem to have been addressed at all. There's still not a single good exclusive game for the thing, or even an exclusive game period as far as I know. Unless they can fix THAT problem, there's still no reason whatsoever I would ever want this thing.