As always, Shacknews focus on all of this week's upcoming North American titles across PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, Nintendo DS, and PSP.
Barring any unforeseen delays, most stores should have this week's games by Wednesday, January 9.
WTMG's Leo Faria: "Why do we do this? We are well aware that a specific licensed game isn’t good, yet we actually manage to be less critical, we manage to overlook its issues, and enjoy these tie-ins, these perfect definitions of the word “shovelware”, without an issue. What is it about these games that makes us more… tolerant? Is it the novelty of playing a game based on a license we like? Is it some kind of psychological effect that reminds us of simpler days? Does it mean that playing these games brings out the best version of the gamer inside of us?"
Drew Leachman 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 second series will focus on Sony’s sophomore entry into the console business, the PlayStation 2.
Let’s continue with the letter “H”.
Allan Muir of VGU.TV takes a look at exclusive sports licenses in games and why they hurt the genre
Lol @ me. For a second there I thought that was Wolverine on the cover of the Harvey Birdman game. Need coffee...
Anyway, this is a terrible week for PS3/360 owners. I wonder if Ice Hockey for wii will be good. The old one for NES with the fat guy, the skinny guy and the medium guy was awesome. All you old f*ckers know what I'm talking about.
WTF!? Two Sims Carnival expansions!?
I'll be getting KUF. Love the style and prefer it over games like Dynasty Warriors though both of them are pretty mindless button mashers.
nice to see the start of the wii getting more games then ps3 and xbox360