GamesBeat's Dan Hsu: Last week, Jellyvision gave me an early preview of the new YDJK. I had a chance to interview the men in the room: general manager Michael Bilder, marketing director Marc Blumer, and Tom Gottlieb, the infamous voice of the game’s wise-ass host, Cookie Masterson. But I wasn’t interested in asking standard-fare questions like “Tell us about your game” and “Why are all of you such jerks?”
Like I said, it was time for me to get these guys back, so I set out to make them look clueless with our own trivia game, 5 Hit Points. Let’s see if they can survive our questions and keep as much of their video game health as possible.
This is a very fun game to pay in isolation and doing things for a good cause is never a bad idea. Ten-episode live-streaming original series premieres Friday, May 1.
Jackbox games are bringing a new party game collection later this Fall to PC and Consoles simply named Jackbox Party Pack 5. The announcement comes from PAX East earlier today, where they released a comical trailer with a fake collaboration with Binjpipe.com. That trailer is included below and contains numerous little chuckles for your entertainment. Jackbox …
They get a surprising amount of play time. So easy when you have 5-6 people over
Ken McKown writes: The From A to Z series lets our editors go back and take a look at games from past generations that are classics, overlooked gems, or just titles they remember fondly. The idea behind this is to pick five games from each letter of the alphabet, once a week to showcase. This delivers 26 weeks and 130 games to talk about. Hopefully it sparks some conversation, and of course plenty of memories.
Our first series will focus on Sony’s first entry into the console business, the PlayStation.
Let’s continue with the letters “X,Y,Z, and #”.
describing "40 Winks" the author says "Every game on the PSOne wanted to beat Mario (spoiler, none of them ever did)"...i say spoiler: yes one or two games on PS1 managed to destroy Mario 64 even if they were developed before it ....Crash Bandicoot 1-2 were far far better than Mario 64 from any aspect, more fun, more difficult , better graphics (yes better graphics go compare them now to see for yrslf), better art style etcetc ...but ok there is the idiotic unscripted rule that whatever mediocrity or decent game Nintendo brings must be legendary and better than anything out there
I love Cookie Masterson!
Nice! I love these features from way back in EGM.
That was pretty funny! Nice job, GamesBeat!