So this time, I’m going to get straight to it. Hideo Kojima (master mind of Metal Gear Solid, who created his own productions after it) has played Brawl with the director of the game, Masahiro Sakurai, at a recent Japanese gamer event. Kojima states specifically that the game feels complete, and if sold tomorrow, it could sell millions. He also states Sakurai was Mario, and Kojima was Snake (seriously), but had too much respect for Mario to lay an attack or punch on him.

Also, Satoru Iwata (president of Nintendo Co. Ltd.) was discussing news to the press about what’s forth coming for Nintendo. Among announcements of 45 Wii and 79 DS games being developed by Nintendo, he stated one key thing. Brawl and Super Mario Galaxy will be released this year, by the end of Summer into Fall. So that could tell us two big titles will be coming before the way end of the year, and sooner than we think.

After all I hear, I believe it, but doubt any huge hit titles are coming soon.

- Snid

Now that Sony has a good supply of Blu-Ray diodes but now those same diodes might cost less. All the way down to $8 each. Now that the part’s price has been cut can we expect a PS3 price cut?

Maybe, as Wedbush Morgan’s Michael Pachter says, Sony is “definitely in a position to cut prices.” He continued on to say, “God knows whether they will, but lower costs usually lead to lower prices. The right question to ask is whether the full bill of materials is below US$ 499, allowing them to cut price and still avoid losing money. I’m not competent to answer whether it is, but I am competent to say that when cost is below US$ 499, we should look for a cut to that level.”

I sure hope for a cut too

Do you believe in the Madden Curse? If you do and are a Tennessee Titans fan, you’d better be worried because the starting quarterback for your team is Vince Young (From Texas University). Maybe he’ll have the same fate as Michael Vick, Donovan McNabb and Shaun Alexander. Who knows?

No matter what you believe, everyone knows that Vince Young, who was a rookie last year and let the Titans to a not-so-bad record of 8-8, is on the cover of the next Madden game. I just want to know how long until a trily good player, like Steve Smith or Jake Delhomme, gets on the cover of Madden.

-Unstable

The list of backwords compatible games on the XBox 360 has reached 300. The update of 37 games includes Unreal Championship 2, Jet Set Radio Future and FIFA Soccer 07.

Here is the complete list:

Avatar: The Last Airbender
Breakdown
Call of Duty 2: Big Red One
Call of Duty 3
Cars
Crash Bandicoot 5: Wrath of Cortex
Daisenryaku VII
FIFA Soccer 2007
Full Spectrum Warrior
Guilty Gear Isuka
Innocent Tears (Japan only)
Jet Set Radio Future
King of Fighters 2002
King of Fighters: Neowave
Mad Dash Racing (Japan only)
Mech Assault 2
Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction
Nascar 2006: Total Team Control
NFL Fever 2004
Oddworld Munch’s Oddysee
Panzer Dragoon Orta
Petit Copter (Japan only)
Phantom Dust
Reservoir Dogs
Return To Castle Wolfenstein
Rugby League 2
Sengoku Warriors (Japan only)
Sonic Riders
Soul Calibur 2 (updated)
Spider-Man 2
Star Wars: Republic Commando
Street Fighter Anniversary Collection
Tenku (Japan only)
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07
Tony Hawk’s Underground
Ultra Bust a Move
Unreal Championship 2

(Credit: gamespot.com)

Hopefully your favorite XBox game is on that list if it wasn’t already backwords compatible.

-Unstable

33 innocent souls, including a professor, were killed in the United State’s worst school shoot out. After all the media attention, Florida attorney Jack Thompson decided to blame video games for the shoot out.

He revealed all this in an interview with CNN, the video can be found here:

First he blames video games for 9/11, and now this? It seems this man will do anything to finish his “crusade”.

Could this be true?! Japanese Gaming Magazine, Coro Coro, has stated that in their next issue (most likely next month) that NEW Super Smash Bros. Brawl characters will be revealed. I so hope this is true, it’s been a year since Brawl was announced.
Source: GoNintendo.com

- Snid

Oh, it looks like Spiderman is releasing a game along with another one of its movies! Hopefully this one will be different from all the other Spiderman games. The 3rd movie game will be released on May 4th, 2007.

I, personally, wasn’t convinced this game will be different from the other Spiderman games when I read other previews. However, the makers of the game have not released much information about this game, but so far it looks like it will take the same structure as the others.

Like past spidey games, the popular feature of a roaming freely environment is still available in similar concept. But unlike the others, a new feature, almost all the movie cast will be vocally included in this game, which really is amazing.

As well as this game including the minor villains (such as the mysterious dragon boss) it will also include the main villains of the movie (such as Sandman, Venom and the new Green Goblin) .

As i said, not much information on this game has been released, but undoubtedly more info. Will be available as the release date grows closer.

When I first set my eyes upon this game, I was pretty sure it was going to be another normal racing game. Watching my step brother drive around on a bike playing this game, I realize now that this game is anything from normal, it’s completely mad!

Like other games, there are many levels to unlock plus unlockable bikes and racers. I was amazed at the range of levels, from farms to supermarkets! During this game, you can complete many different challenges, but I prefer to drive about acting like a complete freak (called freestyle), as you probably will do if you purchase this game.

This game takes you to a whole new level. What I love about this game is that its freestyle, completey. It lets you go wherever and whenever you want to go, there are no limits. FreeStyle Metal X is a completely crazy game. It’s not one of those games with ridiculous restrictions, you can get killed by animals and you can even kill them too. I had a ton of fun endlessly killing the poor wolves included in this game.

However there is not just freestyle and challenges, you can race the area champions, do freakishly cool stunts (that really give you hydrenalyne) and race big air style.

Sound: 8.5/10

There is non stop hardcore rock music in the background, and of course the painful shrieks of your driver as he takes one step closer to his death.

Graphics: 8/10

Great graphics! Brilliant, but the only thing that annoys me is the low quality of trees, apart from that excellent.

Overall: 9/10

Awesome game, it has everything you would want in it, plus more. I strongly encourage you to buy this game, it will fulfill weeks of endless enjoyment.

If you were a fan of 2K Sports’ football game, you may be pleased. Though I am a fan of EA Sports I like to follow football games. The game would not use real NFL teams, nor would it use any current NFL players due to the lack of an NFL liscense.

More updates will be posted as they are released.

-Unstable

The Chinese Government is requiring companies that make MMORPGs to install software that requires players to register with their real ages and ID number to prove their ages. If the player is under the age of eighteen, they can play for three hours and gain full points, then when the hit three hours, the points are halved until hour number five and finally after too long all points are set to zero.

MMORPGs have until July 16th to install the software or else the game will shut down.

-Unstable