Tekken 6 Featuring Cardboard Tube Samurai CONFIRMED

News confirmed Namco announced today that they are in fact offering this as a pre-order bonus. Great news!!

In a strange turn of events or at least to me Namco may be putting the Penny Arcade famed Cardboard Tube Samurai in the game. Here are the images to compare. Looks pretty close to me. The figure image is from the new figure that will be available at SDCC in San Diego next month. What do you think? If you look close you can see the pacman style logo on both shirts on the left breast. Seems like confirmation enough to me check out 1up.com for more info.

Retro Caming Still Cool

So lately I'm just tired of Xbox Live keeping up with game communites to try and play with certain people and create or keep up with a "friends list". I really am as I've mentioned before if it wasn't for Netflix I would have got rid of Xbox Live already. It costs around 8 bucks a month so I'm debating about just turning it off anyway. I'll bump up my DVD to 3 or 4 at a time. Getting demos early and playing multiplayer games isn't worth it for me. Everytime I turn on Halo 3 or recently Street Fighter IV I hear nothing but assholes. I'm really tired of it. So now fuck it I'm going back to my roots in gaming. I'm playing single player games that don't require co-op. I don't give a shit if a game has multiplayer or not. I never really have. I'm not saying I'm not playing anything new I'm just don't investing money in anything in hopes I can play it online and get a good experience. So I'm busting out my Gamecube and already getting a Wii next month. So that is my two cents about multiplayer games. I'm loving my PS3 lately I think this next year is going to be amazing for Sony and Nintendo with more solid games coming for the Wii than ever.

E3 Took Over Hollywood For The Week

E3 has surprised and disappointed me. The showing was strong from every platform I think if your a game fan you'll have something to play the next year. I was disappointed by some big games which really surprised me. All three have spawned their digital babies I'm just covering the ones I like because this is my blog and if your reading this you must have similar tastes. If not well your shit out of luck.

Microsoft had a impressive stage. The usual fanfare lot of screens lights colors like the opening of a basketball game. They open with..... The Beatles. Ok I know the Beatles were huge back in what the 60's and I am taking nothing away from them or their success. Their message of love through music, drugs and sex was great. But I'm not into playing their music with plastic instruments. I'm really not and I won't pay for that shit you have to be kidding on those prices. The 360 has a great line up I won't lie. Even with all the hardware issues (I'm on box #3) people are still buying them. The Netflix partnership really is the bane of my Xbox's life. I use it for that more than anything anymore. Without that I would have cancelled my Live subscription long ago. New Twitter and Facebook functionality??? Really wow fuck you MS who actually cares about that? Oh right the 13 year old boys who talk shit and ruin games that want to network with their equally as annoying friends. Innovative Project Natal while technically pretty neat I will never and most gamers will never use it. Why? In 10-15 years maybe the next generation of games will find it fun but if that is the way things are going I'll go back and play old games I'm not interested. I was really looking forward to Bungie showing off ODST and last weekend Reach was leaked so everyone knew it was going to be shown in some capacity. But ODST was my biggest disappointment of this years E3. The game looked good in some parts and really pure shit in others. Yeah you the bridge explosion scene WTF was that? That was the worst gameplay turn a dial on some charges fall back and snipe a couple grunts in the open and boom? The drop was great from there things were rocky. Reach well was nothing? Just some teaser which does anyone what good? We know many Spartans existed during that time adn that reach does fall. So hey going into it you know your fighting a losing battle. Bungie knows how to polish games and how to support them so I'm not that worried but I will not pay much attention to this till about August now.

Sony nice stage HUGE screens for maximum effect running PS3 for a serious HD experience. Seeing Uncharted and God of War that big was pretty cool. Uncharted looked amazing and to date one of my favorite games of PS3 so far. Grand Turismo 5 for PSP and the new Metal Gear for PSP also shown and look amazing. The PSP Go! turned into the worst kept secret of E3 which hey at least they can laugh at it. But I won't buy one why should I I have a year old PSP Slim and its great. I hope for Sony's sake it does well because it looks pretty sweet and from people on the floor it's a nice piece of hardware. Not a bad overall presentation I enjoyed watching it. I'm listing my favorite games below.

Nintendo pulled out the big guns and didn't seem to disappoint. Starting things off with Mario which suprised everyone that a new game is coming so fast but not just 1 but 3 big titles coming. Two new games for the Wii and a new game on the DS. No annoucement with Zelda until after the press conferance and Miyamoto himself said in a interview with G4 that he is working on it and it will be out next year. Hell yeah that is great perfect!! Who can forget the Metroid annoucement! That was sweeeeeet and that ties for my game of E3.

Ok so I'm sure I missed plenty of stuff at E3 but really that is what I've thought about so far I'm still going over 3 differant sites videos and articles on games. It's been a fun week with all the news good times. So below are the games I'm excited about for each system. Anything that is multiplatform I'm buying on PS3 because I can't rely on my 360 and I hate having to wait for a repair to make it back.

Wii
Muramasa
New Super Mario Bros Wii
Super Mario Galaxy 2
Metroid
Red Steel 2
Tatsunoko vs Capcom
No More Heroes 2

PS3
Call of Juarez 2
Red Dead Redemption
Castlevania Lords of Shadow
Assassins Creed 2
God of War
Grand Turismo PS3 and PSP Versions
Heavy Rain
Rachet & Clank A Crack in Time
Pixel Junk Shooter
Final Fantasy XIII
Fat Princess
Metal Gear Rising
Metal Gear PSP
Darksiders
Wet
MAG
Brutal Legend

Xbox 360
Halo ODST
Halo Reach
Alan Wake

As you can see from the list my PS3 and Wii lists are bigger and I plan on keeping it that way. So if your reading this what are you favorite games from E3?