Welcome back Nintendo.

Nintendo decided to come out and lay down some new info on their line of systems.

For the DS I think the biggest announcement was the bigger DSi, which I think is like a Jitterbug for video games. In all actuality it seems like a cool system, assuming this will will fit in my pocket then I may be down for a bigger screen but my busted DS will have to do in the mean time.

The excitement for this announcement for me was more details on Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Metriod: Other M.

Super Mario Galaxy was awesome, challenging but not overly so. It was kind of like…a Mario game which is inherently awesome still worth the money. Now another Mario where I can walk on ceilings? Yes please. Do we really need Yoshi? I don’t think so but I’ve always thought he was unnecessary I blame Jurassic Park completely for his inclusion in this game.

Metriod: Other M. However sounds sexy, not talking about Samus but Team Ninja can make them a bullshit action platformer and I feel this time they will not disappoint. According to Giant Bomb the control scheme is a sideways Wii Remote, no nunchucks or classic controllers or anything just the d-pad 1, 2 and A, which will apparently put you in ball mode.

I’m hoping they have a similar control scheme to New Super Mario Bros Wii where you  would twist the remote for  some contextual stuff, like the Helicopter Hat from NSMBW. From the footage I’ve seen you’re kicking and grabbing and other cool stuff so how all that can be done with 2 buttons and a D-pad remains to be seen.

I’ve been writing this post throughout the day and more details of a possible Zelda game coming out in 2010 have been posted on various video game news outlets.

My prediction: this is a final hurrah for the Wii. They’ll close it out strong and maybe at E3 we see an HD Wii (hoping they name it HDii.) With the price dropping on the Wii I think they’re carving a niche for another $250 machine, with built in Netflix and maybe a DVD if not Blu-Ray player hell if I can bring my Virtual Console games and play Melee then I’m all for it.

Tonight;  my son is coming over for a sleepover and video games. Saturday I’m working then going to see Cop Out with a friend then Sunday more work than the usual tom foolery.

I would like to dust off my 360 a bit of multiplayer but if not I’ll take something plausible like the Darksiders’ demo or maybe some Super Mario Bros?

Maiden Voyage

How's it going?

This is more of a thought exercise, a creative outlet for me to let off a little steam or flex that brain muscle in my body. I do have a blog I started end of last year on Giantbomb.com. I play on keeping both blogs up with the same information. I just wanted to spread out a little bit and allow folks who would like to read my writing not get concerned heading over to a site named Giant Bomb. Most of the time this will be a copy paste of the articles I put up there. or vice versa.

As for me, I'm a parent, a gamer and overall witness to society. I like to make fun of commercials and other super geeky things. For I am a super geek.

I talk a little about my kid but by and large this will be a space to talk about video games and the current events going on in the industry.

A good bit of my writing will be personal reactions and beliefs that I have about the relevant news stories.

I do work in politics but something I won't do is blog about my work, maybe how my work and my hobbies interact but nothing beyond that.

Here's hoping this works.