Daily Blips: Game News from July 2nd, 2009

Nintendo should really take some risks with their franchises. Just look at what Sega has been doing with Sonic. It's been working out great for them.

News Blips:

â€¢ Big surprise: New Zelda will play like old Zelda. For a series that hasn't really evolved all that much since it debuted over 20 years ago, you'd think the upcoming Wii Zelda would do things a tad bit different, right? Nah. Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto told Nintendo Power the currently unnamed Zelda title will not be "radically different." Guess that shoots down our hope to see a gun-toting Link saving Princess Zelda from evil Hyrule terrorists. [Aeropause]

â€¢ Hollywood making a movie about asteroids called Asteroids. Yes, this movie is actually based on the classic Atari game Asteroids. Yes, it makes no sense. Yes, we'd rather have an Adventure movie, too. Yes, starting every sentence with "yes" is annoying. No, we won't stop. Err, crap. [Kotaku]

â€¢ Grease game for Wii/DS? Tell me more! Tell me more! Fine -- it's a party game being published by Paramount and 505 games. And you sing and dance to Grease songs. Can we move on now? Thanks. [GameSpot]

â€¢ Hollywood just can't kill it: Resident Evil movie reanimating again. It appears we'll be getting a fourth Resident Evil flick as rumored internal memos at Sony Pictures state the movie will hit theaters next summer. Hey, at least it's a better idea than a movie about an asteroid-destroying spaceship. [Kotaku] Â

Hit the jump for some video blips, including a doc explaining why you should like Splinter Cell: Conviction, a Japanese pop star playing an evil Final Fantasy game, a really small SNES, and...more.

Video Blips:

â€¢ Splinter Cell: Conviction developers think their game is good. Because maybe it is.

â€¢ Japanese pop singer plays Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Dark Lord. And somehow this makes us wanna buy it.

â€¢ Tales of Monkey Island will make you arrarrarr. That's pirate for "hahaha."

Cultural Blip:

â€¢ Portable SNES forgets the GameBoy Advance exists. Sure, this sleek portable Super Nintendo is cool, but, uh, we hope the modder who made this knows the GameBoy Advance plays most of the popular SNES games already. And requires 100% less construction. [technabob]

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Lance Darnell

July 02, 2009

Am I wrong, or did Miyamoto not say months ago that Twilight Princess would be the last "traditional" Zelda? Now he is saying we will get another? I am excited, but good luck at trumping Twilight Princess...

Oh, and the portable SNES is the sh$t!!!

Michael Donahoe

I hope the new Zelda is changed up a little bit. Twilight Princess couldn't keep me hooked. And I like twilight/princesses, too.

@Michael - Who does not like princesses at twilight, they look all mysterious, and its harder to see the obvious signs of inbreeding!

I hope and pray that the next Zelda is in a new genre. I have played every Zelda game except the CD-i version, and the series REALLY needs a reboot.

Totes. I'd like them to change it in the way that Super Mario Galaxy changed Mario: Kept what worked, but added tons of unique and crazy ideas that really gelled with the series.

Toby Davis

Since Monkey island is coming I just hope for Grim Fandango to hurry up and gets it's port soon.

@Michael - Full agreement: and the lack of new hardware encourages that path

@Toby - More ports of games I never played? Sure, why not?

You missed out if you have not played this or Full Throttle. Well then again i am still waiting for Death Spank to come out :)

Scott Dixon

Honestly, as far as Hollywood game movies go, we could do a lot worse than another RE movie - such as an 'Astroids' movie, for example.

That is not to say the RE movies were 'good' though.