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Celebs go ape$h!t over Donkey Konga
In an effort to raise money for charity-and promote their new game-Nintendo invited some celebrities to play Donkey Konga before the MTV VMAs last week. Joining the luxury suite foray were the likes of OutKast, Good Charlotte, Lil' Jon, Matchbox 20, Evanescence, Fabolous, and Chingy, among others. Each celeb was competing for a chance to contribute $10,000 in his/her name to the Red Cross, supporting the victims of Hurrican Charley. "It's not often you get to see Billy Martin (of Good Charlotte) playing music with Chingy!" exclaimed Perrin Kaplan, Nintendo's VP of Marketing & Corporate Affarairs. Now that 'Right Thurr" sounds like a 'Motivation Proclamation'. (FYI: Big Boi (of Outkast) was the winner of the private competition)
Tekken 5 tries to hold a candle to Soul Calibur
Soul Calibur is our fighter of choice, so consider us biased. The new screenshots of Tekken 5 on Worthplaying look good enough, but that's not the gripe. Namco definitely knows how to make good eye candy. It's the control scheme in the Tekken games that we take issue with - it always feels so forced. Soul Calibur's controls somehow seem like they flow into the character on the screen. Not sure how they do that, but it's true. Controlling a Tekken character feels like a bad thumb-wrestling session with your spastic nephew. Disagree? Come on. Hit me with your best shot. We have an up/up/down/up/trigger button move ready to go.
Gamecube gets a role playing game: Tales of Symphonia
Gamecube has not been the go-to console for role playing games. But the cute little box is about to get a new one and it's called Tales of Symphonia. The title has just gone gold so you'll probably see it on the shelves in July. The game doesn't use the turn-based action that a lot of RPGs have been using recently, opting to give the kids some real-time action. The visuals have a nice style to them. Worth a look if you'd like to see your Cube do some role playing action.
