God of War III comes out today (YES!), and with all the hoopla surrounding it, I thought this would actually be a good time to recommend/pay tribute to the other God of War games. I’ll explain. I’ve always considered myself to be a hardcore gamer — up on the big new releases, aware of what’s going on in the industry — but for some reason, I completely missed out on God of War and God of War II. I have no idea why. I hadn’t really slacked off in my gaming at all. (Maybe I was still collecting all those dumb shards in The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker. That took forever.) Yet I didn’t buy them when they were first released, and I didn’t really know anything about them. Anyway, sometime in 2007, the Wii was my current system of choice, and I was making my way through Paper Mario. It was alright: It controlled well, it looked nice, and it was cute. But I’d continually be asking myself, “Am I having fun?” I really was becoming jaded and disinterested in games at that point, I’d realized. → Read More
My initial, knee jerk reaction to the God of War III trailer was, “God of War III was fun when it was called God of War, in 2005.” → Read More
People actually groaned when Dante’s Inferno was announced a few weeks ago, and with good reason. Electronic Arts (I think I have a meeting with them tomorrow!) said something along the lines of, We want people to experience the joy of Dante, as if millions of people aren’t already familiar with the 700-year-old poem. Never mind all that, for PSM3 magazine has a 10-page feature on the game this month. Unfortunately, it’s a British magazine, which means you’re looking at a $10 price tag at the book store. Or, you know, you can just the following summary. Tell yourself it’s more green that way (no driving to the store or anything). → Read More
Previous Asshat moments. via Destructoid via EW → Read More
Someone call King Solomon. I’m now torn between this God of War PSP mod and that old Zelda DS mod from a few months back: Which one is better? Both are made by the same guy, but I’m leaning toward the GoW one. I’ve included a few pics in this post, but the actual auction page is filled with several more. → Read More
You may have read about Sony’s recent use of a decapitated goat during a God of War II press event and how people, generally, are anti-decapitated goat used for marketing purposes. Sony now says the event was of “unsuitable nature,”—corporate speak for “we done messed up”—and that the company will investigate what went wrong and how it happened. In the company’s defense, it didn’t decapitate the goat on its own, but bought it from a local butcher. That makes it all better, sure. → Read More
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