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May your weekends be filled with liveliness and joy. Welcome to Barely Related, a conversational Friday column that presents the non-gaming news stories that we, the Joystiq staff, have been talking about over the past week. And no, we're not stopping our focus on industry and gaming news. Think of this as your casual weekly recap of interesting (and mostly geeky) news, presented just in time to fill your brain with things to discuss at all of those weekend shindigs. Grab a fresh drink, lean back in your armchair, and get ready to talk nerdy with us.
ESRB rates 'Mr. Bean' for Wii (note: it is 2010)
Here's a bad idea: making a cartoon in 2002 based on a TV series that ended in 1995, which relied entirely upon one actor's physical comedy skills, and featured very little dialogue. Here's a worse idea: making a Wii platformer in 2008 based on that animated series. The worst idea yet: Taking that 2008 game based on the 2002 cartoon of the early-1990s TV show about the near-mute man, and then releasing it in another country where that character isn't nearly as popular. Oh, and doing that in 2010 or 2011. Crave is doing just that. The ESRB's description of Crave's new "Mr. Bean" game -- including use of cooking pans and bug spray as weapons -- matches up with the gameplay in Mr. Bean's Wacky World of Wii, meaning that those of us stateside will be able to take part in Mr. Bean's search for 1,000 cat biscuits. Because that's what the game is about. That has to factor into the quality of this idea somewhere.
Mr. Bean wandering to Wii
We haven't been so confused by a game announcement since we first heard about Major League Eating: The Game. We like Mr. Bean, and we like 2.5D platformers, so the announcement of Mr. Bean's Wacky World is at least good news, mathematically. But it doesn't work like that. Much like grape jelly and Cheetos (two other things we like) some excellent things become significantly less excellent when combined.How does a Mr. Bean game even work? How do you design controls for a character who is supposed to be totally inept? Will developer Blast! Entertainment even tackle this design issue, or will they make a generic platformer about jumping on the same cloned bad guy's head five million times? The PS2 game from last year seems to fall into the "generic" category, though it's fully 3D. We'll find out this fall, when the game comes out in Europe.
PSP Fanboy Theatre: Volume 24
PSP Fanboy offers the latest and greatest movie and game trailers, formatted for the PSP in this new weekly feature. Check it out every Saturday. PSP owners can download files wirelessly via m.pspfanboy.com.Instructions: Save all movie and thumbnail files to the VIDEO folder. These high resolution 480x272 videos require firmware 3.30 or above. (Note: OE custom firmware will also play these videos.)New for PSP: Get selected videos delivered automatically to your PSP via our new RSS feed. Haze [PS3]Download MP4 (21.5MB) | Download JPG The following videos are featured after the break: The Agency (PS3), Soul Calibur IV (PS3, 360), Stranglehold (PS3, 360), Time Crisis 4 (PS3), The Darkness (PS3, 360), Mr. Bean's Holiday
