Tomb Raider and Infernal

Eidos has sent us two new videos of what I think could be two great games! Of course in order to play Tomb Raider: Anniversary I would have to buy a PSP, which I won’t be ever. Thankfully Infernal is for the PC so maybe I’ll try out the demo sometime soon. The graphics for both games look great! The powers that Eidos gives the player in Infernal seems really neat and obviously the Tomb Raider game is pretty much the same gameplay that we’ve seen before. Hopefully that it will be as solid as the previous Tomb Raider game, Tomb Raider: Legend.

Check out the videos in PC Game Videos as well as the PSP Game Videos shows.

Tomb Raider: Anniversary

Four SEGA Genesis Classics Coming Soon

Streets of Rage 2

Sega truly loves the Wii’s Virtual Console! They’re consistant in providing games that only retro gamers will love and this week is no different. Here’s their latest batch of titles:

Streets of Rage 2 – To celebrate their defeat of the syndicate exactly one year before, Blaze, Adam and Axel met for drinks. The next morning, Axel received a frantic phone call from Eddie ‘Skate’ Hunter, Adam’s younger brother, whom he was living with on the edge of the city. Blaze and Axel found Adam and Skate’s house wrecked and a picture of Adam chained to a wall at the feet of Mr. X. The city then once again returned to its nightmarish state and criminals ran rampant. Unable to contact their old friend from the military, Axel and Blaze team up with Skate and Max Thunder to free the city and rescue Adam from the Syndicate. It is up to you to take down Mr. X once and for all!

Toe Jam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron – A number of Earthlings hitchhiked on Toe Jam and Earl’s spaceship on their trip back home after the first game, and are now infesting Planet Funkotron. Toe Jam and Earl must track down the Earthlings and capture them in large jars and ship them back to Earth in space ships. It is also your funky mission to find 10 beloved objects belonging to Lamont the “Funkapotamus,” the source of all funk in the universe, to persuade him to return to his favorite funk-filled planet. Use your “funk powers” to assist in evading and capturing the earthlings, such as Funk Move and Funk Scan.

Shining in the Darkness – Dark Sol has vowed to reign over the enchanted Kingdom of Thornwood and only you can stop him. Roaming the dark labyrinth, you will seek out enemies and collect weapons, all of which will help you pass the test of the Ancients and become a shining knight. Get into the adventure with a stunning 3D perspective, amazing cinematic views, and fast-paced scrolling. You’ll move from battle to battle, solving puzzles and discovering secret items in this engrossing struggle between good and evil. Find the powerful Arms of Light and battle the deadly beasts that keep your people desperate and starving in this epic journey for peace.

Kid Chameleon – The local arcade is packed with kids, all lining up to play the latest, most realistic video game they’ve ever seen. It’s called Wild Side, and it uses holographic images to immerse the player in a strange world. But there’s a problem, kids are being sucked into the game and now several of them are trapped. With more than 100 levels to adventure through, you’ll take on several different forms such as a Berzerker, a Micromax, a Maniaxe, or a Skycutter, which will make you much more powerful. It’s up to you, Kid Chameleon, the best gamer in town, to get yourself inside the game so that you can defeat the games’ boss and bring your friends back to reality.

Morning’s Wrath Soundtrack

Morning’s Wrath

The highly regarded indie game, Morning’s Wrath, has fought its game onto the StuffWeLike.com media player. Users can finally listen to the entire soundtrack to the game at no cost!

The StuffWeLike.com media player called The Pipeline, allows users to stream both video and audio content. The Pipeline has partnered up with eSportsTV.com and Wii-UK.net to syndicate their videos and to provide its users with high quality content.

The Pipeline can be added onto anyone’s website, blog, or MySpace account and receive free content updates provided by StuffWeLike.com in any resolution that the player is resized too! Now everyone can have video game trailers, video game music, and more running on their webpages.

The soundtrack to Ethereal Darkness Interactive‘s Morning’s Wrath, can be found in The Pipeline under the Video Game Music Channel show.

For a list of syndicating websites go to http://www.stuffwelike.com/stuffwelike/the-pipeline-affiliates/

For more information on how to add the player onto your website go to http://www.stuffwelike.com/stuffwelike/get-stuffwelike-media-player/.

About Ethereal Darkness Interactive Games:
Ethereal Darkness Interactive Games is a independent developer headed by Raymond Jacobs. The company is based Northampton, Massachusetts. Their goal is to create Fun, Intellectually Stimulating and Engaging computer games under tight time and budget constraints. The EDI Games team is now busy working on their next adventure game, Malathedra, which is targeted for 2007. (www.edigames.com)

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Yes, Video Games Are to Blame

Lawyers are already going on TV news stating that the Virginia Tech shooter played video games and their impact was a cause for the shootings. After years of denying statements like these, I finally agree with them. Video games probably did help train the Virginia Tech shooter. They probably taught this shooter to be fearless in the heat of battle. They taught him that headshots earn him the ultimate score.

We should also blame his stressful life. His parents that didn’t nurture him. The school system that said he was average. His girlfriend who wouldn’t have sex with him.

With no way else to express himself he gave up on life and wanted to go out with a bang. The culture of gangsters drew him in and sucked him dry.

The question that I have is why should the media even try to draw its own conclusions to why the killer murdered members of his student body? Being able to cope with society is what allows humans to survive. Occasionally there are those whom do not gain this skill for whatever reason. To say that a $10 billion industry is to blame, when violence has been a form of human action since the dawn of mankind is a little ridiculous.

It’s during our life that we grow intellectually and spiritually in which we learn how to best interpret the things around us. To even try and begin to ask why a killer does what he does is pointless.

Death will happen whether it’s murder or a heart-attack. The solution is to ask, in what ways can we protect ourselves? Banning video games or even the sale of guns won’t fix the problem. How about something less drastic like a PA system installed in all schools and offices. As history has taught us, banning products destroys society.

Don’t be angered by the upcoming debates on whether or not video games were the cause – they were. What everyone should do is ask how can we limit the number of casualties in future incidents?

Video games will never be banned. Guns will never be banned. There is no way to stop people from becoming so bottled up inside that they simply pop. If we could accept these things the solution to the topic will arise.

Virginia Tech Shooting

Arcades on the Rise

Hallelujah! It is a great week already! The number of arcades has been on the decline ever since the peak in the 1980s, leaving only 2,500 currently active sites in recent years. That number has grown to 3,500 today! Fox News claims that it is in part due to nostalgia.

The question is will we finally see a rise in new arcade games? That has always been the problem with the arcade industry – there really isn’t any coverage of it. Do consumers know when a new game is released – no. Whenever I go cabinets are broken and never updated to the latest games. So sadly this is one of the many reasons why arcades have died over the years. I hope that the growing trend of arcades in the US continues, but ultimately there are a couple of issues that need to be resolved with this industry.

Arcade