Have you guys been following Super Smash Bros. Brawl lately? The official site has been revealing new info about the game every day since May, and lately some of the stuff they've been showing off has been pretty frickin' insane. Online multiplayer and co-op play? Saved films? A stage editor? Buh? This is a Nintendo game, right?


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Greetings! It's been a while, hasn't it? Sorry for not updating -- it's been a hectic year thus far. Was ridiculously busy from January to June, and then spent most of July detoxing and enjoying the summer before work insanity picked up again earlier this month. I don't often talk about my work here on this blog, but I did want to make a quick plug ( Read more... )

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Apologies for the long bit of silence (longest since I've relaunched this blog, actually). Life has just been too darn busy and exciting lately to keep up with posting. But I'm still trying!

Golden Week just kicked off in Japan today, and I'm absolutely thrilled to be here, not having to worry about E3 arrangements or demo deadlines or anything ( Read more... )

Last week, the guys over at Gamasutra asked me a few questions about Microsoft's current situation in Japan. I dunno how many of you regularly read Gamasutra, so I thought I'd pass the link along in case any of you are interested:

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=12601

BTW, Rogue Galaxy is out today. Go buy it!

A little over a year ago I was complaining about there being too many games to play, but now it's about 10 times worse. I have stacks of unplayed games sitting here but no time to play them. Between playing games for work (which are usually long, involving RPGs) and trying to do everything else I want to in life (study, read, exercise, learn, ( Read more... )

I brought my Japanese Wii home for the holidays, mainly to show off Hajimete no Wii (good family fun) and to indulge in a little holiday Mii making, but I wound up spending most of my time playing Virtual Console games. Yesterday we had the family over for Christmas Eve, and my brother and I decided to download Ice Hockey for a quick Old Timers ( Read more... )