Tired of gaming podcasts being so pretentious and boring, some current and some former gaming industry folks have gotten together to form Tapezilla—a weekly dose of gaming updates, news and humor, including the now infamous Shenmue prank calls. Tapezilla finally drags the 'gaming podcast' out of the mundane, uninteresting and self-important quicksand it's been stuck in for far too long.
After a disappointing E3, the guys get together for a little E3 roundtable, discussing both the best and worst of the show. Other topics include how NeoGAF nerds ruined samurai swords, Pete’s new favorite natural disaster, Titan Quest, and everyone wonders just what the hell is so special about Little Big Planet.
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I check Joystiq and Kotaku once or twice during the day, and I’m not sure why I continually subject myself to the latter. It seems like every time I visit the site, there’s at least one story that actively pisses me off. This time around it was the story coyly titled “SEGA’s President Casually Mentions Resident Evil 5’s Wii Release”. Holy crap! The President of SEGA himself drops a bomb like that in an EXCLUSIVE interview with Kotaku at E3?! The video proudly embedded on the main Kotaku page certainly has Mr. Jeffery confirming the headline, and the teaser paragraph whets one’s appetite, promising to confer with other industry luminaries. That big pink “RUMOR” tag looks pretty juicy… I’d better click through to see what happens.
For the Dragon Quest fanatics who need something to tide them over until the release of DQIX in 2014, DQ Swords is finally beginning to drop in price. This is the cheapest we’ve seen so far.
Nintendo demonstrated “Wii Music” on stage at E3 by assembling five people to play the Super Mario Bros. theme. Did anything else think this was utterly embarassing shit? I mean, this was worse than anything I’ve seen at any Microsoft press conference. Pretty sure that drummer, “Ravi Drums,” will never work in music again.
Nintendo announced a new version of Wii Sports called “Wii Sports: Resort”
- Uses new “MotionPlus” controller
- Three sports demoed
- Frisbee
- Jet skiing (resembles Wave Race)
- Sword fighting
- “MotionPlus” and “Wii condom” included in every package
At the Nintendo press conference “Animal Crossing: City Folk” was announced by designer Katsuya Eguchi.
- It is not an MMO, but the town persists when the user is not playing, similar to past titles.
- Wii version includes a new “City”–includes a shopping district, beauty salon, post office.
- “WiiSpeak”–microphone lets all players talk simultaneously. Not an individual microphone, but a “party” microphone. Resembles a conference phone extender.
- Coming 2008.
Quite a good deal on a PC game that, while not living up to its namesake, is still a good time sink for strategy fans.
In our first E3 impressions episode, the guys put forth a valiant and mostly successful effort to talk about relevant games of the day, rather than games of Old. Fallout 3, Resident Evil 5, Gears 2, Final Fantasy XIII, and the garbage that is “You’re In The Movies” are discussed. Also, Tapezilla breaks the news about a brand new Microsoft handheld (or so Pete thinks).
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On the special E3 2008 Preview edition of Tapezilla, the boys get together to give you the least relevant pre-show coverage in the history of the industry. Games discussed include Jade Empire, Star Fox Assault, BioShock and Xena… oh, and a handful of games that’ll actually be shown at the show.
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