Rabbids Go Home Interview With A Look At Customization … In Zee Ouimote

The Rabbids have kicked Rayman out of the spotlight, and they’re finally getting their own game later this year. In “Rabbids Go Home” you’ll get to play as the pesky, screaming … rabbit… things… as they try to build a mountain of trash to go home, to the Moon. Yes, the story is actually that wacky, but that’s not even the half of it. Ubi’s developement team has always been at the forefront of Wiimote creativity, and that hasn’t changed at all for “Rabbids Go Home”; the game’s customization mode puts you inside the controller with a Rabbids. Yeah, it’s actually as awesome as it sounds.

Check out Unit’s interview with one of the game’s developers to see for a look at just what kind of craziness the Rabbids will be getting into when the game comes out this holiday season. [Continue Reading]

Top 10 Reasons The Video Game Industry Is In Trouble

Yes I will do it! I’m the bearer of doom and gloom. Someone has to do it. While most publications are rife with BEST this and that about the industry, few are looking at what ails it. I intend to rectify this with my list and hopes for the fixes of my favorite hobby. Without further ado…

10. Sequelitis

Yes, the industry has gotten sick with it. Following Hollywood tit for tat video games, for the most part, have become wholly un-original. Before you come stampeding my way with torches, let me explain. I don’t mean original as in a new genre or way to play a game (ducking Wii-motes). I mean original as in a new IP (Intellectual Property). What happened to getting excited over new characters? All of the gaming icons we know were once new. Instead of creating new characters, we get the same ones for the fifth, sixth, and eleventh installments.  I subscribe to the financial reasoning of betting on a name that people know, but it also smacks in the face of how that character became popular in the first place. No! I don’t want to play as Dante anymore, at least not for a while. I’m tired of hopping around with Mario, can I get a new character? Everyone talks about how this year was so great for gaming, but virtually every game on the Best Sellers list is a sequel – GTAIV, MGS:4, DMC 4, GHWT, Rock Band 2, GOW2, Res: 2, Mario Kart, etc etc  (You know these titles so well I can abbreviate them) How about a year without any sequels and totally new IP? Wouldn’t that be refreshing… [Continue Reading]

Thems Rabbids are back and guess what…

Looks like those lovable(and demented) Rabbids are going at it for another round of mini game silliness on the Wii. I will admit, of all the mini games available for the Wii, Rayman Ravng Rabbids stands out as one of the best of them. And Ubisoft knows this as they followed the game with a sequel. So far no real solid news has been made available yet, but one can already figure out whats in store for the third game. Just watch the trailer and see what happens when a Rabbid discovers a Wii Balance board! It’s pretty funny stuff in the teaser. Good to see other devs taking note of the peripheral!