When Sony’s PS3 was first released, much was made of the blu-ray disc format that enables you to watch movies in a far higher resolution than DVD. However, even if you don’t have a High Definition (HD) television connected to your PS3, or you don’t feel the benefits of blu-ray disc are part of your needs right now, you can still watch high-definition movies on and about your PS3 with a variety of sources.
Ever since the halcyon days of the Mega Drive and SNES, any video game console launch has usually met with feverous response, and not just in Japan. Although Japan is still predominantly the most fanatical when it comes to video games, the rise in popularity of import gaming has led to the western countries such as the US and Europe to become as excited as the Japanese market when it comes to new hardware launches. The extent of this popularity became apparent when Sony’s latest machine, the PlayStation 3, became a high profile victim of import difficulties.
Namco’s Tekken has long been the gold standard of fighting games for the Playstation console, since the first Tekken game rolled out in those first months of its lifespan. Since then, there have been four sequels, all of them golden entries in the 3D fighting game genre. Tekken 5: Resurrection for the Playstation 3, released on March 1st is a revamp of the latest entry in the series for the Playstation 2, ported from its arcade edition. As a downloadable title in the Playstation store, it’s a great pickup, but is it better than games like Virtua Fighter 5.
Admittedly, I’d never heard of Ice Climber before Super Smash Bros. was released. I had my NES, and I played most of the classic titles, but it just never crossed my path until it was rereleased over 20 years later via the Wii’s Virtual Console on February 12. Originally released in 1985 as one of the first games for the NES, Ice Climber is a classic bottom to top, enemy bashing hurry up game.
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