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Did anyone ever play the spin off games on the PSP at all?

A great place sure but it's moving towards an echo chamber in some places. Sorry to say.

Saw this film very recently and went into the cinema with low expectations mainly because I had heard a lot about this film already largely from YouTube videos. I knew the basic plot and what a lot of people had said about the film but I left the cinema thinking the film was okay and better than I had expected. I personally think the previous film (The Last Jedi) did some damage to the overall thread of the newer Star Wars saga and had JJ. Abrams been involved in all three films we would have seen a more coherent direction. I don't hate The Last Jedi but it did undo a lot of good intent The Force Awakens had set up.

Merry Christmas everyone! Although it's Boxing Day here it's still Christmas until early January. Christmas Day was spent with family and it was quiet but over all too quickly. I'm already back at work but hope to get a few days off after the New Year. I'm still quite old skool when it comes to sending Christmas cards and the whole thing sometimes gets too much although I do like sending them off. I have some New Year cards to send out including New Year cards to Japan and then I can finally relax and play some video games. Best wishes to everyone at this time and of course for 2020!

Previously a Liberal Democrat voter then moved to voting Labour back in 2015 and again in 2017. I can not vote in good faith to either party anymore. Politics and the media now have become echo chambers with most people clueless/hostile towards others who have different ideas or views. People talk, are quick to judge but fail to listen. I will probably vote for an independent (aligned to no party) this time.

I've seen the trailers and I'm honestly not that fussed if I don't see it on opening night or even much later on.

Sure but I guess I should have said I would like to see third party developers maybe use this in some games or least allow the option to use it.

As someone who is still using Wii Fit U, I'm glad that Nintendo is going to continue this line of games at least in a spiritual successor way more than how Switch Boxing did. Hopefully the ring attachment will be used in other games perhaps. Not sure how at the moment though.

Part of the problem is YouTube itself, it's ethos, it's attitude to content creators, it's algorithm and it's almost complete lack of communication skills. If you log into YouTube (and 90% of the time I don't) you still get videos pop up that I don't want to watch (having an account does not really change things much) and I'm getting to the point where I can remember the grammarly advert in my sleep. A lot of independent content creators have to create something that is going to attract attention, get the YouTube algorithm to notice it and eventually burn themselves out in the process. Channels like 'The Daily Show', 'Team Coco', 'The Late Show',.. I know are very popular but I have no interest in them but YouTube will promote them even though they are already very popular in America. The days of 'broadcast yourself' are completely over, welcome to the machine. During the Wii U era part of the issue was Nintendo as well with it's odd 'Partners Program' which thankfully they have dropped but still you get YouTube channels saying things like '5 reasons why the Wii U sucks' and then '5 reasons why you should buy a Wii U in 201X', 'I bought a Wii U in 2019, Why?'... I even saw a Wii U video made in 2015 where the creator just changed the title to 2019 because they knew people would watch it more. Decent well made videos are out there but you will need more time to find them. I normally just ignore YouTube's home screen now and just use the search function.

Former head of Amusement Visions and producer of Monkey Ball/Super Monkey Ball, Toshihiro Nagoshi is still at SEGA. He has been behind many of the Super Monkey Ball games including Banana Blitz however he is also behind the Yakuza series as well. Regarding an HD remaster of the first two games, I think a remaster of Super Monkey Ball Deluxe for the original Xbox is worth it.

Good read. Actually this just came up recently with the news about the remake of Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz. Someone had translated incorrectly the original source in Japanese and it got relayed in English that an HD version of Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz was coming out plus a new Super Monkey Ball game as well. There's been a bit of back-peddling on reddit because of the mis-translation by at least one user. As a side note, I would be careful with google/bing and any other machine translators. They can give fair results but it's never perfect and it would be stupid to trust them all of the time.

I'm clearly in the minority here but I thought Banana Blitz on the Wii was good and it was certainly an improvement on Super Monkey Ball Adventures, Touch and Roll and what came after with Step and Roll. However a new monkey ball game close to the first two games style is really what is needed here rather than SEGA looking at older games and HDing them.

I saw the 2009 Mulan film in Mandarin and I thought that one was okay but this one just look generic and aimed mainly at a western audience. I might give this one a miss. If anyone is interested in reading - https://www.hypable.com/chinese-mulan-2009-jingle-ma-disney-tips/

The £150 was not my idea (see above posts). Yes I agree pricing at that level would canabilise their concept and it would lead to confusion from consumers.

I just think £150 is not a good price for Nintendo and of course VAT has to be added on, thanks. As I said I think £179.99 is a better price for what is essentially a gaming tablet which would be cheaper than an Xbox One S for example. At £200 I see less of an appeal especially with the competition from others. Nintendo however knows that the Switch is very popular and that it will sell at it's suggested price.

£150 is less than the current conversion from $200 dollars to pounds. I personally think £179.99 is a better price. Earlier post from me (merged here)- Heard about this recently but removing several features from the original won't get prompt me to buy one. Happy with the 3DS and Wii U for now. I hope Nintendo can release a shorter version of their Switch Lite trailer in the future as the one I saw went on for too long.

These stories are starting to hit mainstream news. I managed to find quite a few from non tech mainstream news places but the issue here is they don't make front page news. In the past mainstream news wanted to talk about violent video games or video game addiction but very little else in between. I think we are starting to see a change here however crunch time is really just another issue along along with how our tech is made especially the working conditions of the people who make it. The only thing most consumers can really do is vote with their wallet and to share news stories with others to highlight these issues.

oof...some of these are available as a pre-order now and will be delivered according to Nintendo by late November 2019, that's several months from now. Pre-order and wait or buy now from the scalpers.

I've just seen the IGN video on this, they killed the B movie mood completely at around the 1:21 mark - If people want to play these games on the go or have never played them before that's fine but something new or RE7 would have been better.

I saw this from Nintendo direct and it didn't fill me with excitement. The whole thing with the two people in the spooky house looked stale. If Capcom were going to release a brand new game in the Resident Evil series even a spin off, ok let's see what it's like but this is more of the same from Capcom. I'm guessing digital only again doesn't make me feel great either. I have no idea if either RE5 and RE6 will include all the DLC's or not. I have these two games already on my PS3 and despite the issues with them in places, they are good. I've played RE5 The Mercenaries the most I remember and you get a decent single player campaign length in both games especially with RE6.

Only ever played the first one on the DS which pre-dates the PS3 enhanced port.

Mario Kart Double Dash back in the day was online if you knew how and the Wii still has some online games beyond COD and Goldeneye 007 that can be played online. I never got round to playing Homeland online and doubt I could find anyone to play it with me now even though I saw a recent reddit post saying otherwise. Regardless the GameCube was a great console with some great games behind it.

Of course my family and kids would be rescued first because they are 'not things' hence the first 'thing' would be the GameCube but er, thanks for that, I guess.

I was watching a YouTube video yesterday where someone said the GameCube was already being considered a retro console. How time flies! Anyone remember watching this on TV? GameCube remains my favourite console despite owning several other systems. If there is ever a fire in my house, it will be the first thing I rescue.

The one about the new 50p's -