THe Unfortunate Side of College

Is that I cannot post very regulary at all, for I am lazy.

There, I said it. But trust me, I will continue to post about information that I find interesting, reveleant and mysteriously erotic all at the same time.

You turned on yet? well are you?

-Ian P.

Infinite Undiscovery?

First I would like to poit out the fact that the title is very...well...

Interesting?

Who wants to play a game about UN-discovering stuff?

Secondly...

The trailer..kind of.



I don't know about you but this just doesn't get me pumped to go un-discovering things.

I would love to undiscover some things; Go to goolge and look up meat spin and click on the first thing; Undiscovering things just doesn't happen, unfortunately. Well see how this game is...

Oh yea, or just go here http://a.photos.cx/meatspin-10e.gif

-Ian P.

Ten Songs! Added To Rock Band! WOOOOO!

Here they are.

Rolling Stones, "Gimme Shelter"
Deep Purple, "Highway Star"
The Clash, "Should I Stay or Should I Go"
Faith No More, "Epic"
Smashing Pumpkins, "Cherub Rock"
Radiohead, "Creep"
Beastie Boys, "Sabotage"
Jet, "Are You Gonna Be My Girl"
OK Go, "Here It Goes Again"
Nine Inch Nails, "The Hand That Feeds"

I was thinking the other day that they should have The Clash. And Harmonix listened. And then upped it with some Faith No More! Truly they are the Kings of... Kingses? Kings's?

-K

Angry Internet... Yells at Madden

Gotta love Youtube, poorly debugged games, a year-long development cycle, and a short temper.

-K

New Guitar Hero II Downloads, Yay!

Three tracks off of My Chemical Romance's album, The Black Parade, are now available for download on the Xbox Live Marketplace. Whee!

On the downside there was no drop in price on the songs.

Oh well, we will flock anyways.

-Ian P.

Thanks to The PRP.

Katamari...Sort of.

This is my experience with OXM's new demo disk.

"WOOO! KATAMARI!" Says Me



Says the 360 back.

Sweet demo.

-Ian P.

D-Pad, Episode 3: Ich Bin Mein D-Pad

Episode 3 is ready for your consumption.

In this episode, we cover:

-Heavenly Sword
-Bioshock
-Metroid Prime 3
-And a lot of talk about DVDs and entertainment centers and stuff.

It's...So...Beautiful!

Another Katamari game? I thought that the creator left after We <3 Katamari (that's right I used the less-than-three.)? Oh well, can't really screw up a Katamari design can you? Add one part crazy soundtrack, one part King of the Cosmos, seven parts cock-piece, and another part of screaming balls of rolled up people...and you get a strangely addicting game. Seems like that's what they've done over at Namco.



This one is headed by Me & My Katamari designer Jun Moriwaki. Hopefully it will be a decent seque...l...tri-quell? Post Sequel?

Never-mind.

I am still a bit apprehensive of the offset stick control for a Katamari game. The PS2 controls, however frustrating they were at first, fit very nicely when you actually got your hands coordinated. Still, a 360 exclusive? I dunno about that...

According to Newsweek,
The title was bought out due to uncertainty in the PS3's sales. Pity. The Namco-Bandai-Microsoft relationship has been growing anyways, I just hope it doesn't leave us feeling all rolled up in the end. *Dies from bad punning.*

Biggest concern? The Xbox effect on games.*

I hope there isn't too much focus on multiplayer and visuals and not enough on the single player craziness. This is not a game that fratboy's and harcore FPS fans will oogle over if it has great online! Watch the trailer. You'll see what I mean.

Ian P.

*The Xbox effect is when a conceivably good game gets buried beneath screams of fag and pwn3d and leaves those less... extroverted screaming 'you goddamn cretins, I'm here to play with myself! I don't care that it's pretty so you can go on a message board and go 'it's the best game ever cuz it looks like awesome and I can pwn n00bs with my l33t Gamerscore skills online!' Fuck you guys, and fuck the Xbox effect. Kay?* -K

Thanks to Newsweek for this one.

Peter Moore Leaving Microsoft Position to Head Up EA Sports

Well, this made me do a double-take. Microsoft's ultra-dedicated (and, to me, ultra-annoying) "Corporate VP of Interactive Entertainment Business, Entertainment And Devices Division", Peter Moore, is leaving the company to join the newly-restructured Electronic Arts, specifically heading up the Sports "brand", one of many between Games, Casual, and -- wait for it -- The Sims. Yes. There's a large portion of this company dedicated to The Sims. Moore, the former President & COO of Sega of America, helped launch the Dreamcast in America in 1999, before moving on in 2003 to Microsoft to help with the creation and launch of the Xbox 360. Prior to his gaming career, he was Senior VP of Marketing at Reebok International, and was also President of Patrick USA, a subsidiary of a French sportswear company. Which I guess makes him qualified to run a Sports "brand".

I suppose this explains why he was less antagonistic this year at e3. Seeing as he'll be heading up a department of a company that'll design for the consoles he's been competing against for three-plus years.

Or this explains the 60fps/360 and 30fps/PS3 decision EA came to. No, wait, that's laziness.

-K

D-Pad, Episode 2: The Aftermath of E3 And Some 'Arry 'Otter

Click here to hear about:

- E3, Our thoughts on
- Harry Potter, Donald's review of
- Hardcore gamers, Nintendo's abandonment of
- Jokes, of the gay variety
- And much more!

Gamespot Talks With Neil Young

Not that one, the one that runs EALA, the division of the uber-publisher that is working on Steven Spielberg's two new games, LMNO (for 360/PS3) and PQRS (for Wii).

-K

E3 Q&A: EALA on Spielberg's PQRS, LMNO

Guitar Hero 3 Guitars: Pretty

The Xbox 360 one:


The PlayStation 3 one:


The Wii one:


The PS2 one:


I don't know why I posted both the 360/PS3 ones -- they're exactly the same.

-K

Nintendo is the tough boyfriend...wait that's wrong.

Apparently stealing product from Nintendo does not benefit you.

Contrary to popular belief, the act of counterfeiting is frowned upon. With very thick, frown weathered brows; That have frowned upon some of the best moments in history. Some say they have even pointed a finger once, whilst frowning. Looks like this time it's a 2.5 million dollar finger thrust from Nintendo's side at a Uruguayan counterfeiter, whomever that may be...

Let's just put it this way, taking someone else's ideas is a bad thing, and making fake wiimotes and other accesories is just the same. Making 30,000 wiimotes and other stuff and keeping them in a warehouse... thats just plain dumb.

How pissed is Nintendo? Well...

30,000 wiimotes x $40 each = $1,200,000 + $11.5 or something for the hour it took to pay the guy to release this info + an extra $1,299,988.5 for image damages.

Wow.

I wish I could sue anyone who ever slandered my buisness image for that much.

Anyway, I want to see Reggie beat this guy up personally at the E3 press conference while announcing Super Smash Bros. Brawl. That would just be badass.

He's gonna kick some serious counterfeitter butt.


Just give me my Galaxy already.

Ian P.

Nintendo's press release

D-Pad, The Podcast: Episode 1 - Past, Future... PRESENTS!

We here at D-Pad are proud to introduce our other feature, besides random inane talk: our podcast. Which is filled with... random, inane talk. You can't win 'em all. Don't even bother. Trust on this; we're not experts or anything, but who else can you trust?

Download it directly to your hard drive by doing the 'ol "right-click and save" here.

Expect us to do more, whether you listen or not. So just listen. You'll feel better about it.

Trust us. On this episode, we introduce ourselves, state our experience, talk up the pros and cons of each console, and look into this fuzzy crystal ball-shaped thing (read: TAKE WILD GUESSES) at the upcoming E3 Business And Media Summit's big surprises.

Now, just click the link.

Do it.

We have punch and pie available for those that do listen.*







*note: only we may have the punch and pie. No p&p for you. Philistines.**

**note: sorry about that "philistines" comment. Sometimes we just get too full of ourselves.***

***note: Well, just Kevin. ****

****note: He's a real jerk, don't you think?