CD Kiwi? (Hey, look! I made a rhyme!)

I should have known that buying the Titan Quest Gold bundle pak from Direct2Drive for $6 was going to be too good to be true. I bought the game along with Warlords: Battlecry III late last night ‘cuz I’d played them on GameTap and liked them enough to keep them for good. Warlords installed with no problems, but I now have one activation code for IGN, which doesn’t fit the CD-key scheme used by THQ and Iron Lore for their game (the CD key only has room for 20 characters, while the codes from IGN usually have about 32 or 36)…

I got a four-leaf clover from a girl with no name

A few weeks (game time) into playing Rune Factory Frontier, I ran into a lavender-haired girl after a festival. Never saw her before then, and she doesn’t seem to like to get involved in any sort of activities with the other townspeople. Even though I’ve seen her occasionally hanging outside Mist’s house tambling on about some kind of church, she still hasn’t told me her name. She can’t be a love interest, because I’ve already met all 12 of the bachelorettes. My guess is that she’s connected to someone else in town.

Sin and Punishment: Star Successor: Bullets from heaven

Sin and Punishment, a fast-paced rail shooter, never got much of a chance to succeed outside Japan. Though it had English voice acting and required little localization (the subtitles were in Japanese), it was released close to the end of the Nintendo 64′s life cycle, but became a popular pick when it was released on the Wii’s Virtual Console service. A sequel was almost guaranteed, and Sin and Punishment: Star Successor made its way across shores, to the delight of many of its fans.

TMNT Smash-Up: I kinda like being a turtle

Say what you will about Ubisoft’s handling of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles licensed games since they took over for Konami around 2007, but you have to admit that the green guys are still marketable after years of comics, films, animated series, action figures, and even video games. The time around, Ubi and Game Arts have brought PlayStation 2 and Wii owners a new kind of beat-em-up in the vein of the Super Smash Bros. series (which Game Arts assisted in development), which seems to take most of its aspects from the 2007 film and the 2003 cartoon.

Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: When video games and anime clash, everybody wins

So Capcom’s invaded the comic book universe with Marvel vs. Capcom, and they’ve taken on a rival video game company with the SNK vs. Capcom series, so…where do they go from here? It seems the answer to that question is “the anime world”, as they’re now butting heads with the various masked heroes from Tatsunoko’s library in Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All Stars.