Gaming Day: Zombiebait

So I believe that Cesaria has set up a gaming day or is trying to set one up. I’m not sure what day I will be able to participate in this event or I may have my own day. We shall have to see on that later. As for now I will give out my friend codes for my Wii and the one game I will play online with that and the games and gamertags for the 360 and the PS3 that I play under.

Virtual Insanity #2: Sega Saturn

For this weeks column, we’ll be focusing the Sega Saturn, its games, and its likelihood of coming to VC. Chances are this forgeten console won’t be coming to the Virtual Console anytime soon, or anytime at all considering the meager size of the Wii’s internal memory. Of course, a simple fix would be to allow USB memory or flash memory expansions, but Nintendo seems to be very 1996 about this whole issue. They compare their memory restraints to that of an iPod; when you want to play what you want, you just swap it in for something else. It works, but it’s a hassle, hence why this probably won’t be happening, but it’s still fun to speculate. List of Saturn games that would be essential if we ever get an emulator:

Virtual Insanity! #1

The Virtual Insanity column will, each Monday, feature things revolving around Wii’s Virtual Console. It will look into the past, present, and future of the unique feature. So lets kick things off this week with a list of the games that need to come to the VC, after the jump.

The Countdown Begins

The countdown until Metroid Prime 3: Corruption is released on the Wii begins. The game gets its North American release August 27th, and to celebrate its arrival, why not go back to its beginnings!

The Metroid Retrospective on gametrailers.com is absolutely unrivaled in its presentation. They also did one on the Legend of Zelda series, and are currently working on Metroid and Final Fantasy. If you have some time to kill, I highly recommend these. BUT, as it appears, I cannot embed videos. SO, i just have to link you to the site.

Metroid Prime Retrospective

Sony: Mindfucking Your Fucking Mind

I understand this is pure speculation, but goddamn is this getting hard to follow! Check this out.

Andre Vridnaud, Microsoft’s Director of Technical Strategies, states:

“My prediction is that you’re going to see the creation of a new, low-end SKU this holiday. It’ll likely remove integrated wi-fi, memory card reader, and most controversially, all backward compatibility,” he added.

“You’ll see a new wi-fi dongle made available. And finally, this low-end SKU will likely come with a smaller 40 GB hard drive. The low-end price will be set at $399, with the higher-end 80 GB SKU dropping to $499.”