Retro Review: Chu Chu Rocket (DC)
Release Date: November 11, 1999 Developer: Sonic Team Publisher: SEGA I keep coming back to the SEGA Dreamcast. With all the awesome old-school games I can pick through, it’s the Dreamcast I want to go back to. For this Retro Review, my pick has more meaning to usual. A little over a week ago, I wrote an article espousing my love for the console and my amazement at its longevity. That led to a dis...[Read More]
Square Enix Showing Final Fantasy Fans Some Love
Showing dedication to the series As much grief as I’ve given Square Enix over the years, it’s good to see that their signature series is finally getting treated well. Final Fantasy is one of my top three favorite JRPG series of all time. Dragon Quest and Suikoden are the other two, and I’m not sure how I’d rank them. Final Fantasy went through a really rough patch for a while. Final Fantasy X-2, w...[Read More]
Blizzard to Upgrade StarCraft and Make it Free
New Patch on the Way Soon Blizzard is working on a remaster for the original StarCraft and its expansion, Brood War. While they work on giving the classic game the 4K spit-shine, they’re also working on an update to the original game. That update – version 1.18 – will drop sometime in the next week. Along with the update comes another benefit: Blizzard will make the game completely free. The...[Read More]
GameStop Closing Up To 225 Stores Worldwide
Weak Sales Trigger Closings In my last stream-of-consciousness article, I talked about the digital distribution of video games and how the sales of physical media would eventually suffer. My mistake was in using the word “eventually”. Evidently, GameStop is feeling the proliferation of digital distribution of console games straight in the wallet. GameStop has experienced a pretty brutal fiscal yea...[Read More]
The Digital Revolution of Media and How it Affects Gamers
Sooner or later, EVERYTHING is going to go digital! Variety recently posted an article on their website that started an interesting discussion between the crew here at Digital Crack. The article spoke about the desire of six of the biggest movie studios to offer new-release movies for home viewing. This is not new. Last year, the proposal would offer first-run movies to home viewers who have a spe...[Read More]
Justice League Sneak Peeks Hint at Full Trailer Soon
After being relatively quiet for months, WB and DC have been releasing sneak peek teasers for the upcoming Justice League movie. The sneak peeks focus are 15-second bites that focus on one of the heroes. As of this writing, Aquaman and Batman teasers have been released. I’ll be updating this article with the others as soon as they drop. These mini-teasers are meant to drum up interest for th...[Read More]
New Ghost in the Shell Movie Clip Released
New clip named “Buiilding Jump” As Ghost in the Shell moves closer to its March 31st release date, more information about the movie is being shared. Dreamworks has released a new movie clip for Ghost in the Shell. This clip, clocking in at 4:44, shows a bigger slice of the dinner scene that’s been teased in previous trailers. All the elements are there. The creepy geisha bots are...[Read More]
Retro Review: Life Force (NES)
30 Lives, Excessive Force Release Date: August 1988 Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami There is a term I bring up whenever I hear someone raised on Xbox and PlayStation complain about the difficulty of a game nowadays. My daughter is one who has complained as such. My response to her is the same as it is to anyone who never played a game on a system older than the Nintendo 64. There are three kin...[Read More]
PlayStation 3 Ending Production in Japan
And Then There Were None All things must end. For Japan, Sony’s PlayStation 3 – and the seventh generation of video game consoles – has reached that point. The official Japanese PlayStation website shows the standard 500GB variant of the console ceasing production in Japan in the near future. The 500GB model is the only one still being produced in Japan. According to a tweet from a game shop...[Read More]
The SEGA Dreamcast Refuses to Die
Long Live the Dreamcast! Back in September 2000, then-SEGA of America CEO Peter Moore and Vice-President Charles Bellfield announced that SEGA would exit the video game hardware business and become a third-party developer. With that announcement, one of the titans of video gaming in the 90s bowed out. The only company to give Nintendo a bloody nose when Nintendo was EVERYTHING in home video games ...[Read More]
Have You Seen…Meet the Robinsons?
Release Date: March 30, 2007 Director: Stephen J. Anderson Starring: Jordan Fry, Angela Bassett, Daniel Hansen, Matthew Josten, Nicole Sullivan, Dara McGarry, Laurie Metcalf, Wesley Singerman, Steve Anderson Favorite quote: “If my parents figured out I brought you from the past, they’ll bury me alive and dance on my grave!” – Wilbur I had planned to write about The Emperor’s New Groove in th...[Read More]
Retro Review: Space Channel 5 (DC)
Release Date: December 16, 1999 Developer: SEGA Enterprises Ltd. Publisher: SEGA Enterprises Ltd. For all the negatives you can heap on SEGA of Japan – and I can spout out about 20 negatives off the top of my head – playing it safe with their games is not one of them. As followers know, the SEGA Dreamcast is one of my favorite consoles of all-time. SEGA’s snake bitten 128-bit box was the home of s...[Read More]