The enemies in Super Smash Bros. Brawl: The Subspace Emissary are called the Subspace Army! Nintendo has kindly revealed to us some of ther more powerful foes we will face. <ROADER> Enter the motorcycle squad. Powerful in groups, weaker alone. <POPPANT> These guys apparently run from you…. <BYTAN> Kill before multiplication! only tip I can give you. <TROWLON> Works like a catapult to send you flying! <SHAYDAS> This unpleasant, fog-like enemy has a weak spot at the core of its chest! <AUROROS> This bird dives from above, piercing the ground. You can pull out any Auroros that sticks itself into the ground…and possibly use it as a weapon? hmmm….. <GREAP> It’s HUGE! It attacks by swinging two sickles down upon you. Its red head is its weak spot. <The R.O.B. Squad> The escort the Ancient Minister brings with him is a R.O.B squad?! There are some that fire beams and others that fire missiles. And there is still more enemies to come! So be ready! ~Joshua Cummins~

Brawl Update: Ice Climbers

Well your favorite ice climbers are back and ready to BRAWL in the next installment of your favorite Nintendo fighter. I feel no need to go into detail about their moves(one of which because they aren’t known yet) and I’m sure you all remember the symbiotic fighting style of the two. So just enjoy the screenshots! ~Joshua Cummins~

Today, Nintendo announced that Brawl will have something called Special Brawl. similiar to Halo custom games, it should be a nice addition to the SSB world.

Start up screen

As you can see, you can apply various rules to you rgames, when before you could only choose from a limited choice of game types like stamina.

Bunny Hood

And then add metal…

When you do this, you apply that characteristic from the start of the match to the end.

You can see the effects on the side of the screen, which is kind of fun. And getting the caption up above is also nice.

It’s a Stamina Mega Flower Curry Heavy Slow Angled Brawl!

And that’s how you fight!

Choose from a variety of of game types, make you rown, and post your ideas!

~Joshua Cummins~

Army of Two: Co-op moves revealed

Army of two, the name speaks for itself doesn’t it?

EA’s TPS is one of the first games to almost completely rely on cooperative play,
and has shown us EA shows no mercy with it’s competition.

Two skull-masked men with guns… sounds badass right?

These two unknown men’s primary goal is to fight through an aging war, and through political conspiracy. This TPS game has said some missions will be impossible without a personal buddy with you, so if you’re just with AI, you better be able to cover them…stupid AI.

Well the latest news with this game is that it has a meter at the top of the screen called agro.
This meter of red shows your characters aggression level, and obviously the more aggression the better. There has also been release of coop feature between you and your buddy. Here’s the list:

1. Boost: one person stands up against wall and holds hands out while person two gets lifted up. Second person can then reach down and pull first person up.

2. Rappeling: one person holds rope while other one scales down side of building or a large wall.

3. Back to Back: Both players go back to back to cover each other’s non-armored backsides.

4. Makeshift cover: Players can tip over tables, and other objects to create cover. Players can also pick cover up and carry around with them. Car doors can be ripped off to provide a shield.

5.Death: Player that died will have to run away from “the light” while the other player goes through a button-mashing sequence to perform CPR.

6.Driving: All vehicles need one player to drive and the other to man the turret. Known vehicles are hovercraft, fork lift, jeep, buggie and a boat.

7.Ammo: If one player runs out of ammo, the other player can give him part or all of his magazine. Also players can trade guns at anytime.

8.Emotes: Both players can do a range of emotes from slapping each other to pretending to play on an imaginary guitar. Also characters will communicate a lot and talk trash to one another. For example when Salem was healing Rios, Rios said “Where did you learn first aid, butcher school?”

9.Healing: When one player is injured, the other player must run over to him and either drag him to a safe area or heal him in that spot. This is a mini game where the player who is healing must go through a button mashing sequence and shove tampons in the other players wounds. This is a real tactic used by real life PMCS.

So another incredible game for the year 2007.

In stores November 15 for PS3 and 360.

~Harrison Armstrong~

New 360 screens from TGS!

At its pre-TGS press event in Japan today, Microsoft released a bunch of new screens for several upcoming Xbox 360 games. I picked the best ones so I think. (More Ninja Gaiden 2) Also my apologies for the extra long update. There were a lot of games.  Joshua Cummins~

Ninja Gaiden 2

Bladestorm: The Hundred Years’ War

Rez HD

Devil May Cry 4

Infinite Undiscovery

The Last Remnant

Project Gotham Racing 4

Dark Sector

Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom

Guilty Gear 2: Overture

Mobile Suit Gundam: Operation Troy

Lost Odyssey

John Rambo release date

Well, Lionsgate has officially set a January 25, 2008 release date for Sylvester Stallone’s John Rambo. This announcement was brought to us by the studios own press website.

The latest of the Rambo series is set in Thailand, John Rambo revolves around a group of Christian aid workers who recruit Rambo to guide them up the Salween River to deliver medical supplies to the Karen tribe of neighboring Burma (a.k.a. Myanmar). When the missionaries fail to return, Rambo is persuaded to take a group of mercenaries back into the war-torn border area to find them. What follows is a descent into what you will note as hell on earth, as the controversial trailer that recently popped up online made graphically clear.

Stallone writes, directs, produces and stars as Rambo. The picture was filmed on location in Thailand. Also starring are Julie Benz as “Sarah,” Matthew Marsden as “Schoolboy,” Graham McTavish as “Lewis,” Rey Gallegos as “Diaz,” Jake La Botz as “Reese,” Tim Kang as “En-Joo,” Paul Schulze as “Burnett,” and Ken Howard as “Arthur Marsh.”

Should be one hell of a movie!

~Joshua Cummins~

Halo 3 themed G6 GXP street additon

In response to the dizzying hype of Halo 3, Best Buy has announced it will be giving out this all new Halo 3 themed Pontiac G6 GXP Street Edition to one VERY lucky winner. Interested contestants need to pick up a copy of Halo 3 (not necessarily from BB so far as we can tell), then hit up this site on launch day to register. Might, I recommend doing it immediately? After that, a total of around 144 random winners will get a huge mega collection of Microsoft Points. Following that drawing, one of those 144 will be selected to win the grand prize Halo 3 Pontiac.Not a bad deal , since all you have to do is register and play one of the coolest games coming out this year! Personally, I think this is very cool. A Halo 3 car? How much more hype can you get? Apparently this car will be able to handle your Xbox 360 and access Xbox Live from a built in Broadband adapter in the vehicle. Sounds awesome right? So get ready to register SVGX users, because it is going to be one hell of a contest!

~Joshua Cummins~

Brawl Update: New Stage!

Battleship Halberd was announced as a stage this early morning.

Looks good to me

This stage begins in a hangar on the seas. The platform follows the Halberd as it departs.

Dynamic?

Eventually, you land on the ship’s deck.

What you see in the background is a double-barreled battery.Complete with a robotronic arm that wants and will beat you to death.

Use extreme caution near the double-barreled battery! It launches beams and missiles and even attacks with its arm.

Might want to dodge that one…
The Battleship Halberd appears not only in multiplayer Brawl stages, but has also been seen in the Subspace Emissary, as to that we have no clue, but it shall be interesting. That role is something you’ll have to look forward to.

Here’s to Brawl!

~Joshua Cummins~

Guitar Hero:Legends of Rock and XBLA

“Today Activision and Asphyr Media announced that a port of the next installment of Guitar Hero titled Legends of Rock will make it;s way to the PC this Fall. As if that wasnt supprising enough, the game was also announced to appear on the Mac format. They also annouced that as of today over 650,000 pieces of downloadable Guitar Hero II content has been downloaded reaching an Xbox Live record as one of the most succesful and in demand pieces of downloadable content out there.”

-Josh Finney.

PS3 Price Drop. Rumor or fact?

A new report published on Sunday alleges that Sony will release a new 40GB PS3 this holiday season for $399 in an effort to compete with stronger Wii and Xbox 360 sales.

Is a $400 40GB PS3 coming?

According to Ars Technica, an insider source has confirmed that Sony will drop the price of the 80 GB PS3 from $599 to $499 this holiday as previously expected. Additionally, the company will launch a brand new 40GB PS3 for $399 complete with a Spider Man 3 movie bundle.

The report claims that Sony will make clear this report/ rumor up at this year’s Tokyo Game Show later this month in addition to dropping the price of the PS2 to $100.

Sony declined to make a comment when contacted by Supervgx.

In the beginning of the PS3′s life, Sony offered a 20GB PS3 for $499 alongside the former 60GB. The company has since discontinued both of those models in favor of the current 80GB model which excludes full compatibility with PS1 and PS2 games,a move that has been said to save Sony $40 per sale.

Could this make or break Sony?

~Joshua Cummins~