Couple Gaming

“No, you got Twitter on my DS!”

The two things I am so addicted to that when I say I “unplug for the weekend”, these are 2 things I leave out as more necessary than an oxygen tank. That’s right my Nintendo DS & Twitter are getting together and making a little DSTwitter baby, and I couldn’t be happier than if my own daughter had programmed it.

Sure, it’s made for DS2.0, and it’s currently in spanish.. but that’s just a hop, skip, and a jump from getting @feliciaday messages while playing Lost in Blue.   Oh, I’m so happy, I could cry.

I’d better start investing in little Twitterette cigars.

 http://kotaku.com/5038733/say-mucho-gust…

I am not sure how i missed this, maybe because we have been ever so busy on other things, including beta testing WarHammer, but it seems that Guitar Hero: World Tour Instruments will work with Rock band and possibly Rock Band 2.

the Xbox 360 version of “Guitar Hero: World Tour” will indeed be compatible with the instruments for the first “Rock Band.” The “GH” developers have, for obvious reasons, not been able to test their new game with the upcoming “Rock Band 2.” Other third-party guitar and drum controllers are expected to work with “GH: World Tour” as well.

This is by far the best news yet, this means that even the Ion drum set should work with GH: World tour as well!

Interesting news about Rock Band, it appears they want the average Rock Band player to abandoned the safety of their house and close friends and get on stage and let thousands of people watch them do their thing.  I am not sure this is something I would ever do, but if its for you see the details below.

    NEW YORK, July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The musical video game phenomenon of
Rock Band(TM) is coming to a city near you. This fall Rock Band Live
(http://www.rockbandlivetour.com) will travel across the country with
headline acts Panic At The Disco and Dashboard Confessional, together on
stage, with very special guests Plain White T's, The Cab, and possibly YOU!

    The concert tour will let Rock Band bands rock their way onto the main
stage with a truly interactive experience that allows fans to compete in
head-to-head competitions for the chance to play on the main stage
in-between the tour acts' sets. Bands will be selected through local radio
promotions, national contests and on-site at each show.

I consider this more of a teaser than a trailer.. no actual gameplay.. But it’s from E3 & us GoW fanatics love it.

E3 is upon us and I am going to recap some of the best things I think are coming out. I will edit this post as necessary to include more things.

MICROSOFT

8 party chat for Xbox Live: Seriously this is one of the things we have wanted for a long time!

Netflix Intergration into Live Market: WOW! I know a lot of people using vncnetflix on their vista boxes and now we don’t need too!

Fable 2: coming out this fall with the ability to have your friends join you.

Gears of War 2: We all know this is coming, but its still always worth mentioning

New Xbox Live look and feel: Avatars, new design, lots of changes with more content

Portal: Still alive: YES a new portal game!!!

Fallout 3: Co-op for this game as well! WOoot!

1 vs. 100: A massively multiplayer game show coming to Xbox Live this Fall. You’ll be able to win real prizes

Music Games Continue with Lips, a game to sing along to your own music, Guitar Hero: World Tour, which is offering music in-game simultaneously or even prior to it’s world release, and Rock Band 2, again reiterating that past DLC will work with new stuff.

Movies(?): This is a little unclear, but there is a game coming that will let you use the live camera (it ships with one) to make your own movies…..I dont know how to feel about that.

Final fantasy to come to the 360: Final Fantasy XIII is being released on the 360 the same time as the PS3, people said that would never happen. Ever since Penny Arcades RPG, we’ve been dying to try out another RPG, to see if we get the same level of enjoyment out of it. The preview is so beautiful, it looks less like a game, and more like a Summer Blockbuster Movie. It’s breathtaking…

Rock Band 2 song list: This can be found in our forums! HERE

NINTENDO

Nintendos conference came across more as a board meeting than a true E3 exciting preview. A few neat things came out of it..

Cooking Navi - this has been in Europe & Asia for a while.. but it’s finally coming stateside. Evidently, this is a game that walks you through recipes by talking to you. Yeah, I’m a little intrigued too

Wii Sports: Resort - Water skiing, fencing of some sort, Frisbee, etc.

Wii Music - No notes, lots of instruments… interesting.

More of the same, only different - Grant Theft Auto for the DS: GTA : China Town Wars, Call of Duty on the Wii, Spore Creatures on the DS, more Pokemon, a new Animal Crossing: City Folk

Sony

Sony brought a bunch of numbers to talk about the PS3 and then moved on to the PS2….yes they did, I don’t lie very often.

Resistance 2: 8 Player co-op Not sure this is all that special, we all knew about this.

Little Big Planet: Also something we knew about.

PSN games: R&C: QFB, Crash Commando, Fat PRincess, PIxelJunk Eden , Pain: Amusement Park, Flower, Siren: Blood Curse , RagDoll KungFu: Fists of Plastic

GTTV: Streaming racing from around the world.

Funanimation: Movies for the PSN network, rental and downloads, can be put on the PSP as well.

“Standard and High-def rental and sell-through TV starts at $1.99. offering both rental and sales. 9.99-14.99 for purchases, 2.99 to 3.99 for rentals, “this content is portable” download on PS3, bring on PSP “put on multiple devices at the same time”

This service is avialable tonight.

PSP games coming: Resistance Retribution, Patapon 2, LocoRoco 2 and Midnight Club Los Angeles Remix, Star wars Force unleashed, Super Stardust Portable, LEGO Batman, Buzz Master Quiz, Valkyria Chronicles

More PS3 news…

DC Universe Online: Tons of DC Heros and Villans in the game, dare I say all?

God of War 3: We all knew this was coming, one of my favorite titles!

inFamous: MAG = Massive Action Game, massive online battles up to 256 players broken into teams of 8, RPG like charectar development

Update:  the “Bungie.net news / taken over website / reveal of new game” has been cancelled due to Microsofts publishing right ….   Latest gossip is that MS didn’t want to reveal the new Halo “Blue”, as it won’t be out this year.  Boo to that… what is E3 without yet another Halo game?

After many days of secret clues we now all know what is coming out next, Diablo 3!!  Blizzard has game play footage, classes, screenshots and the works over on their site http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/

So rumors are all the rage this weekend, with two rumors about a new Viva Piñata game, dubbed Viva Piñata - Trouble in Paradise, and Scene it 2.

Obviously this could all be fake, but I wager there is a lot more truth to these rumors then not.  Good news for us here at couple gaming as Viva Piñata was one of our favorite games that the whole family can play, as well as Scene it!

Most of the media responses I’ve seen against GTA IV have been regarding the fact that you can drive drunk in this game. MADD has proposed that the rating of M be changed to something harsher, and ads have been removed from 2 city transits because of it.
I’d like to clear up exactly what they are so upset about right now:

Yes, you can go to a bar, and you do leave drunk. You are wobbly, the screen is shaky, you can barely walk, and you’re told to get home. I decided I couldn’t walk, so I got in the car just to see how far I could drive. I drove ONE FOOT before deciding there was no way I could drive drunk. By the time I got out of the car, I had 3 cop cars around me. I got out to get arrested (sleep it off in a cell, I thought.. I wasn’t sure), and taking 3 steps got me shot. I “slept it off” in the hospital, which I was charged for. I have never been so terrified of driving drunk in my life.

If that isn’t an anti-drunk-driving message, I truly do not know what is.

Evidently, it is possible to get through the cops & drive drunk anyway. For those that want to know what this is like, here’s a snippet:

During the next coupe of weeks you will notice some various changes to the site, the first and most noticeable will be the look, since our current theme has some issues with the new wordpress we are moving to another theme.

The other thing is the addition of message boards. Let me make this clear right now, couple gaming was never really intended to be just a review site, it was suppose to be a place that people could come for support, companionship and to share stories about being a couple, or trying to be a couple in the video game world. Hopefully the addition of the message boards will allow us to come closer to that goal.

So as the old cliche goes, pardon our dust.

I found this so funny I had to share, and I hereby dedicate it to my buddy squidpunch cause he could do as a good as job as these ladies.