Sonic Joins the Fray

It happened. I was hoping that Mega Man or Zero would be next but I don't think they'll ever make it into Brawl. They're too much like other characters anyways.



I do agree that Sonic is wicked awesome though. Who am I agreeing with?

God of course.



In other news, Halo 3's Forge and Theater make for a mean combo. We flew Elephants.



Thanks to the dojo for this one and those are my own goddamn screenshots, right god?



Damn right.

-Ian P.

The Dojo

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.

SMASH ONLINE!

SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!

They actually did make the game online compatible.

Just go to the website, obviously it's the Smash Dojo.

-Ian P.

I Was Right: Wii Is Now Best-Selling System This Gen

I predicted back in the first podcast that the Wii would overtake the 360 in sales around the August-September period - and, as you can see above, from VGChartz.com, it's done just that.

However, I'm sure the 360 is leading, far and away, on attachments.

-K

VGChartz.com: Wii Is Market Leader In Home Console Sales

SUPER DIMENSION STEALING BROS. AWESOME

So...apparently the Subspace Emissary mode is all about this pissed off minister who wants to steal our dimension and put it in the subspace dimension.

The Pissed off Minister of...Dimension stealing?


This is all about land you see. You can never make new land, so he will steal it. That's my take at least.



Awesome.

This is done by using giant bombs which splice out sections of our dimension. I won't even mention what the things on either side of the bomb are. If you don't know what they are then you don't deserve to call yourself a Nintendo fan.



Poof it's gone.


Thoughts? New story mode is cool, as long as you have to put over 6700 hours into it to complete it, and there are 1400 characters and pointless troph...stickers you earn.

Oh wait, fuck that.

Let's hope the minister doesnt find Superman's land making crystals. Or talk to Lex Luthor.



-Ian P.

Thanks to The Dojo! once again.

Holy Crap! Devil World? Stickers? Smash Brawl Gets Weirder

Over at Smash Bros. DOJO!!, they've done a lot of wacky updating. For one, there's a new Assist Trophy - which is the top image. It's Devil, from Devil World. Yeah, I haven't heard of it, either, but that's because it never made it over here.

The other thing? Stickers! These things will appear randomly as you go through the game - think of them as an equivalent to coins, just not as common, but far easier to get than Trophies.

Weird stuff, but then again, the series story is technically that the toys come to life... AND FIGHT. And the final boss for Melee was the kid's HANDS, which you destroy. Yeah.

-K

The Dojo strikes again!

Mmn, Smash Bros.

The single player mode looks like it's getting a more thorough lookover this time around. I can dig that.

Run Fox it's a...um...one of those and they're dangerous!


The interesting twist is that this Smash has a story mode. Looks kind of like a beefed up adventure mode, but cool none the less.


Oh no! Mario is attacked by Heartless!




I just hope they dont forget the mission mode; Because the thing that drew me into Melee time and time again were the 51 off-the-charts-frustrating missions that you could complete to earn characters and other shwag.

Now remember, each time you've ever played Melee and seen Mewtwo, that means the game was played for 20 hours total, or 700 vs. matches were completed. Damn.


So the "Sub-Space Emissary" mode is cool, but...
Not as cool as If they put in 3,000 unbalanced missions! Then I could go shoot myself.

-Ian P.

Thanks again Super Smash Bros. Dojo

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.

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!

Super Mario Galaxy: 40 Levels, 120 Stars, And... Suits.

As e3 went on, of course, details rolled out about many games: some of the coolest facts that came out were on the evolution of the Super Mario franchise, Super Mario Galaxy.

Little did we know what they meant by evolution. Super Mario Galaxy will contain 40 levels and 120 stars, according to 1up.com squeezing some info from Shigeru Miyamoto himself. Not only that, but there's going to be suits: particularly, there'll be a Bee Suit!



Yeah. There's no way anyone's stopping me from playing this game the moment it comes out. November 12th, folks. November 12th. It'll probably be the first day I use the Wii for something other than some Virtual Console Mario 64 or Sonic.

I mean, c'mon. It's Mario in a bee suit. If you don't think that's awesome, I refuse to know you as a human being. You're dead to me.

-K

Nintendo Press Conference Liveblog

12:02 - Gotta love when streams are being stabbed by a thousand users going to it at once.

12:14 - Found a workable stream. Finally. Reggie's yakking about games being satellites, and... numbers.

12:15 - We know. Yes, we know, #1 worldwide in probably August. Now how about increasing shipments?

12:16 - How many of those 140 are going to be crap, and how many of those extra 60 are going to be shovelware, Reggie?

12:16 - Not "everyone is a gamer". A bunch of people playing Wii Sports and not buying another game are not players.

12:17 - This video package is fucked up.

12:18 - Wii Zapper? Awesome. Hey, you hold it like a Super Scope!

12:20 - "Zap a zombie." Somewhere, Mina's exploding.

12:20 - 32 soldiers?! Damn.

12:21 - Wii Zapper with... what? What? Oh. It'll be $20. Good deal.

12:21 - Sword attachment? No sword attachment? :-(

12:22 - "Maybe you're 'deep'." What the hell does that mean?

12:23 - How can Mario run that fast?

12:23 - BRAWL. BRAWL. BRAWL. BRAWL.

12:24 - Introduce someone new... trailer... roll 'em! Now! Release date? ... SMASH BROS BRAWL December 3rd!

12:25 - Nintendo = blue-balling bastards.

12:26 - Can't we just say "I like this game because it kicks ass?"

12:26 - Mike's Mii has lady-lips. Please tell me it's going to be something interest... ooh, Phantom Hourglass! This Nintendo rep sounds like Jimmy Fallon.

12:27 - That's pretty damn cool. I might have to buy a DS.

12:28 - Damn you, Japan! Having that game already, you! I shake my fist in anger.

12:29 - It's a Nintendo game. Of course the hardcore love it, because it's good.

12:30 - Metroid Prime 3!

12:31 - Lock-on free-aiming. Odd name for it. Go into Hyper Mode? Oh, I get it. How the term "Corruption" comes into play.

12:33 - Oh boy, online. I think the guy you were talking to, Reggie, was talking about a good online multiplayer setup. Not Friend Codes. Friend Codes suck.

12:35 - Dammit, now I've got "I've Got The Whole World in My Hands" stuck in my head.

12:35 - Another Mii Channel - "Check Me Out" Channel. "Am I Hot/Not?" for Miis.

12:36 - If you like Pokemon, Reggie. What if you don't? Does that make you not a complete Wii player?

12:37 - Man, Level 5 really got the look down right on the DS for Dragon Quest, didn't they?

12:38 - Did they really have to add the "Legends" to the Guitar Hero III name?

12:39 - Mario Kart Wii! MARIO KART WII!! Actual online multiplayer! Battle mode! ... Wii Wheel? They're really going to throw crazy gimmick crap on the Wii-mote for a couple of years. At least unlike Scene-It on 360, the games will be good.

12:41 - Can we got to the Smash trailer now, Reggie? Please? Oh, dammit. AARP card members like Wii Bowling and Wii Golf. We know. Now get them to play something else.

12:43 - Dammit, the feed died! Come back, Nintendo!

12:45 - I come back to bizarre cookbook software for DS. Oh, Nintendo.

12:46 - My first day as a gamer? It was on Atari. And I was born the year the original Nintendo came out. Think about that.

12:47 - I've seen more announcements and interesting things in the last fifteen minutes than I did at last night's Microsoft conference in its entirety.

12:50 - Miyamoto in the house! Did they say he's bringing a new game with him?

12:51 - Hold on, some family in Texas got to play Galaxy? DAMN YOU.

12:52 - Huh? Deliberately lose at Rock, Paper, Scissors?

12:54 - Galaxy... November 12th, 2007! Woop.

12:55 - Picross for DS. Meh. MySims. Meh.

12:55 - Oh no, High School Musical! AHHHHH!

12:56 - Raving Rabbids 2! Score.

12:57 - My Life Coach? Huh?

12:58 - Wii Sports 2 announcement, maybe? I'm getting kind of sick of the constant videos about their media coverage.

12:59 - Wii Fit? A steppad? What is this nonsense? If they end it on this note... boo.

1:01 - "It's so real, I got a concussion from a nonexistant soccer ball!"

1:02 - That balancing game looks cool.

1:03 - MIYAMOTO! He's so happy.

1:03 - Like all the time.

1:03 - He's showing off Wii Fit? -_-

1:04 - Aw, I want to watch Miyamoto exercise.

1:05 - "So you can actually enjoy your exercise." Heh.

1:07 - Of course they chose the chick with a bust to do the bending over exercise. Naughty, Nintendo. Naughty.

1:09 - Reggie getting some exercise.

1:10 - Ho ho. I love it when they do things like this.

1:11 - This is a nice setup, I admit.

1:13 - Shigeru's word in English for the day? "excuse." At Reggie. Awesome.

1:14 - Do not fuck with Reggie. That looked great.

1:16 - Nintendo: Time Thiefs!

1:18 - Well, final thoughts: Nintendo continued a solid run, but the concentration on the casual market kind of bothers me. And no third-party announcements? Just games we already knew about. Oh well. The big question: um, Smash trailer? Where was it? I wants it. I wants it now.

-K

Smash...the Wright way?

What? Well I guess they mean it when they say that anyone can appear in the game. This is just akward though. 60 year old green haired mayor of Sim City? He fought with the good side loong before Fox even flew his first Arwing. Still...this is weird.

In all his green-headedness.

Taking his bow or...?

Oh. Of course. He's the (note: assistant to the... -K) mayor of a city so he fights by making BUILDINGS APPEAR OUT OF THIN AIR. Ok.

This game is going to be awesome.

-Ian P.

The Dojo strikes again

NiGHTS e3 Trailer

Sounds and looks like a Disney movie. I think that was the point, though.

-K

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?