10.09.06
No news is just plain boring
Absolutely fuck all for game news of interest lately, it’s almost disheartening. I’m not the type to consider ‘hype’ as game news, and that’s all there is at the moment it seems.
For example, ‘hype’ (+ marketing) of two Bandai/Namco games: Tales of the Tempest and Tales of Destiny. Former is out 26th this month priced approx. £25.20 for the DS, while the latter’s out 22nd November for approx. £35.70 for the PS2. Looks like the same ol’ RPG-types to me, with not much of an advantage over other such games, and yet, games sites in Japan are going nuts over it. That’s just plain ‘hype’, don’t you think?
The only ‘hype’ I’ll listen to would be the online poll that has its readers polling on which console they’ll buy: PS3 comes out at 40% (after the news that the prices may come down), Wii at 39% and Xbox360 at a meagre 6%.
Let’s just hope this ‘no news’ drought will soon end. Meanwhile, I’ll get back to playing all those PC games I’ve got lying around, and get a better high score on Yoshi’s Egg (GB game I recently purchased from an independent game store in Japan).