Metroid: Other M is a good game. I like it. It's a lot of fun. But the entire time I'm playing it I keep thinking about Metroid Prime. I have never thought so much about a game before while playing something else. I smile and daydream about Metroid Prime like I'm in some romantic comedy where I was set up to date some girl but really I was thinking about the woman I just realized I've been in love with all along.

This is no surprise, but I'm still flabbergasted by how many Wii games don't seem to look as good as GameCube games. I wish to understand why this is.

My cat is staring at me.

I am so glad that a company like Buena Vista (owned by Disney) took over the Turok franchise from Acclaim so that they can proceed to not make any Turok games.

Alec Trevelyan (006) looks like a freaking hobo in the new GoldenEye game. Of course he's going to betray you, he'll kill you the second he realizes you have booze money.

There are a few things that really bother me about Metroid: Other M, but then I remember the dreadful Nintendo 64 Metroid gap and I shut up.

Kid Icarus: Uprising looks neat, but thinking about its stylus heavy controls for aiming arrows has my hand cramping already.

Sometimes there is great unity with a want in our industry. And sometimes Nintendo seems oblivious. Dear Nintendo, make a new 2D Metroid on the 3DS. Call it Metroid Dread if you want. Or call it Metroid: If the Shoe Fits for all I care.

I wrote a bunch of crap here about how Other M is going to be talked about for years and that people will write ridiculous essays about it because it's so different and yet so samey. But none of that really matters because Metroid: Other M is freaking fun. It's got a few rough spots, but the good outweighs the bad and there's a furry animal in it that reminds me of Gizmo. Only this Gizmo is a "man with no name" kind of Gizmo that can speak volumes at you with just a stare.

After spending a couple hours with the title I can say that environment navigation is going to take some getting used to when I'm not following the game's "go here" beacon. So far that's my only real quabble. Playing Metroid game that is sometimes 2D, sometimes over the shoulder, and sometimes first person really causes you to lose your bearings fast. The maps seem to flow very well together, though, so I haven't had much of a problem with running in circles. We'll see how the game progresses on that front.

Buy this game and have fun, you guys.

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EA's Chief Operating Officer John Schappert has been absolutely cooing about the Nintendo 3DS. He told Business Insider, "The 3DS is just incredibly cool. The 3DS is magical. You put that in your hand, you look down, and all of a sudden it’s in 3D without glasses. That’s an amazing experience. I’m a huge fan." I feel like he's talking about my penis.

Schappert also glistened mightily when he added, "I think it’s going to do incredibly well, and in typical Nintendo fashion they have re-energized the industry, yet again."

What about Sony? "I think the PSP business has been challenged for a little while now," Schappert mused, perhaps with a hint of whimsy.

I meant to post this last month, but I didn't want to distract from all the E3 posts. Now that both E3 and regular updates are a thing of the past, here's some video! Whoo!

Nintendo's new Wii party games were not only announced at the same press conference – they were right next to each other on the E3 show floor. On one hand you have "Wii Party," the Mii-filled heir apparent to the now-dormant "Mario Party franchise. On the other, "Mario Sports Mix," the Square Enix-developed expansion of their "Mario Hoops" title on the DS, now with volleyball, hockey, and more.
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Garret:

3D TVs - Upon meandering into the Sony booth, working my way through myriad screens showing Playstation Movers and shakers, waggling away at casual games with a visual edge, I found a section dedicated to the ever growing and expanding 3D television craze. Sony, being a company that makes all kinds of electronic marvels, of course would be touting their new line of TVs and glasses that support the technology. As you might already know, the Playstation 3 is now able to display 3D games so long as you have all the necessary equipment. So why wouldn’t Sony be showing this all off? There’s games here, guys. Games in THREEE DEEEE!

I waited a moment or two for a strapping young gentlemen to put down the glasses that were tethered to a glowing white table. Once he moved, I pushed my way in and girded myself for the onslaught of this 3D phenomenon. On the screen in front of me was a demo of a racing game that will end up on the PS3 that will also be in 3D. I put on the glasses. Before me the screen went from two fuzzy images to one slightly better, depth filled image.


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Garret: As the only one of us who actually had a chance to play Metroid: Other M, I figured I'd write up a little something something about it.

The demo that I played involved some backstory, so just know they didn't take any of that business out of anything they showed. If you've been dreading the day when you actually have to learn something about Samus via something other than context clues or scanning environments, in a couple of months you'll have to endure a new type of storytelling for a Metroid. Get yourself into the mindset of getting over it. That's the new direction.

The demo was basically the one you may have read of before, the one they've been showing press for the last couple of months. Samus is sent to a scary derelict space station. As she enters, she is shot at by some crazy space marines. As Samus ninja-dodges out of the way, a cutscene enters. You learn a few things via the cutscene that we might not have known before. And how do you know that this information is something you might not know? Well, Samus says, "This is something that you might not know about me…" So there you go.

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