Orange Lounge Radio

E3 Restructuring detailed... Phantasy Star Universe Open Beta... Microsoft educates parents on a 20 city bus tour... High School Drop-out getting paid to play games... Bully Decision... Playstation 3 gets kudos at Digital Life... Sony is happy with PS3 pre-orders... After Burner on the PSP... PS3 online detailed... Sony & X-Fire partnership for PS3 online... Sony denies further delays... Release Dates... Wii kiosks are not exclusive after all... Linux already installed on the Wii? Oh wait it was a big lie... Wii dev tool launch... Nintendo World announced for Japan... Gamecube Twilight Princess only available online in Japan... Another round of DDR Sneak Peeks... and more!

Skie, I played MKA more extensively last week. Instead of a second martial arts style, each character now has their own Air Kombat moves. Again, a throwback to MK1 and MK2, if you do a popup move and quickly press up, you can do a variety of throws and special moves.

Dress-to-Kill Barbie is nice, but the best parts are after the appearance settings. You get to assign moves and how they are entered on the pad, you get to pick weapons and stance, you get to choose name, martial arts style, and a brief bio. It's very thorough, though all the moves, weapons, and stances are from the other characters.

I'm not liking the Konquest as much as in Deception. It seriously needs a jump button. I also don't like the "fatality" lines in the go-karts. If you skid over one, you can't steer back onto the track. That makes the cars feel unresponsive.

Part B is up:

Halo 3 news this Halloween... Sony says Microsoft is not a technology company... Aussie sony exec makes bold statements... Microsoft blogger says PS3 is underwhelming... 8Bit the movie... XVID and DIVX support for Xbox360?... Wiimote integration for Red Steel... Digital Distribution for Wii in 2007?... Sunlight not that big a problem for the Wii... Uru aka Myst Online is back... Ten annoying things about Next-Gen... Castlevania flick has an author and direct to DVD?... World of Warcraft fanboys attack South Park... But the sword of 1000 truths is real?... Phantom finally sells something... Get well Gamers... Psychonauts coming to Steam... Character transfers in WoW dangerous in Europe... and more!

skie wrote:... Sony says Microsoft is not a technology company... Aussie sony exec makes bold statements...

I can't wait to hear this part, but did someone give the Sony reps the crazy pills? After all, the sun hasn't risen until Sony declares it to be so.

EDIT: I will be heading up to VGXpo next weekend. I have no idea what I'm in for. I live within a reasonable commute. Will there be an OLRmy meetup on Saturday?

I know there will be an OLR meet up on Saturday at the Nintendo World Store in NYC as for VGXpo I don't know

I won't be in NYC this weekend. You guys have fun!

FYI, adjacent to the Convention Center where the VGXpo is:

Radisson Valley Forge Hotel

1160 1st Ave
King Of Prussia, PA 19406
USA

They still have rooms (1 or 2 people) at about $122 (tax incl) per night. I only just now booked a room for Friday night. I'm going to try and catch the keynote address.