Revisiting GameCube: Four Swords Adventures
The stars aligned last week! I had a house full of friends, a GameCube, 4 GBA SPs, 4 gamelink cables and a copy of The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures. I bought this game when it origi... more
The stars aligned last week! I had a house full of friends, a GameCube, 4 GBA SPs, 4 gamelink cables and a copy of The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures. I bought this game when it origi... more
So, I finally finished Skyward Sword. To be honest, I cannot recall any other game leading me to such disparate feelings. In fact, Skyward Sword is both the best and worst game in The Legend of... more
So, I'm late to the party on Skyward Sword. I traded my Wii in shortly after the release of Warioland: Shake it! due to the lack of interest I had in any upcoming games. I recently purchased a ... more
One week ago Sony announced the PS4. I've given myself a week to digest and contemplate all of the information. Here are my thoughts broken down by topics. First off, RIP XMB. I really love the ... more
There's a lot of talk about the handheld video gaming market. Nintendo and Sony seem to be struggling in the U.S. and the Vita is dying in both Japan and the U.S. Luckily for Sony, the PSP still ... more
Controversy. If there's one thing video games, especially Zelda games, create, it's controversy. Whether I like or dislike a specific title, there are tons of people on the internet ready to pu... more
With my recent decision to revisit the last generation of consoles, I started to read about the mythical GameCube component cables. These cables are expensive, fairly hard to find and only work... more
As usual, I looked at the upcoming games list at Gamefaqs and found a total of 3 upcoming games I'm interested in - Fire Emblem: Awakening, Etrian IV and Naruto Powerful Shippuden. In the past, s... more
I've had the Neo Geo X for just under a month. After a lot of experimentation and comparison, I returned the console tonight. Basically, the handheld system is nice but the emulation is a bit slo... more
I often find myself thinking about the games that were such a great entry in its genre, that it effectively killed the genre for me. This series will examine these games as well as how and why th... more
2012 was an odd year in gaming for me. None of the big releases appealed to me and the one that did, Need for Speed, was a major letdown. On the other hand, I did pick up a ton of older games, bo... more
So, Tommo and SNKPlaymore have delivered a great device. The Neo Geo X is a wonderful piece of kit. The handheld is a nice size, the screen is impressive and the stick and buttons feel great. The... more
So, this just happened... The Neo Geo X has landed. I'm far from the first to get the system but no has really shared any info. I had a lot of questions so I'll post my findings here. The... more
I'm a sucker for the Neo Geo. I was never able to own one due to its price but I've spent countless hours in arcades playing games on the system and tons of hours playing ports on other systems... more
I started visiting Dtoid when RetroForce Go! started. I signed up in July 2007 and found a new place for blogging about one of my favorite hobbies: gaming. Since then, Dtoid has been at the cen... more
Here are the current rankings. Scores shown reflect the Super Street Fighter IV and King of Fighters XII ranbats. Zoel | 73 nilcam | 70 kirbilot | 57 s0lesurviv0r | 56 Wedge | 40 Senisan | 39 a... more
I've done a fair amount of promoting the fighting game genre here at Dtoid. I held the KoFXII contest, blogged about the genre a lot and started the PS3 Fight Club. All of that has been very rewa... more
The SSFIV ranbat has ended. We're halfway through the KoF XII ranbat and the Puzzle Fighter ranbat is getting started later than planned due to the forum situation. I must admit that running this... more
The Super Street Fighter IV Ranbat is over! Wedge battles to the top. Here are the rankings by points after the new character bonus: Wedge | 40 Senisan | 39 Zoel | 38 nilcam | 36 azninvas... more
With the forums down, I'm having to post this update to my cblog. This one is being postponed a few days thanks to the forums being down. I didn't have a chance to copy over the list of players... more
The SSFIV and KoF XII ranbats will wrap up soon and BlazBlue CS will not be out for a few weeks so it's time for the bonus round! 1. All matches will be best 2 of 3 games using the X' mode ... more
We inch ever-so-slowly to the finale of this ranbat. Again, there are only 4 matches this week, so, please try to get them done as soon as possible. I'm itching for my next fight! mrwutsgood vs... more
We're moving along by the hardest, for some reason. It seems that we've had a lot of players not understanding double elimination and also not visiting the forums or my cblog to keep up-to-date. ... more
Once both SSFIV and KoF XII wrap up, we'll have our bonus round game: Puzzle Fighter HD Remix. This will not be worth as many points as the main game, but points will be handed out. This wil... more
Things are running quite smooth, though we've lost a few more players. These are current as of all games played by 6/12. Several players are a week ahead so I'm posting these rankings as a poi... more
AdamT vs Palidi lyfeforce vs Tray Ben As I've stated before, players can play a game as soon as it's on the bracket. Get your game on! Blorp vs y0j1mb0 kirbilot vs Gen Eric Gui Current brack... more
Here's the current situation: Nightsama vs s0lesurviv0r Bracket: Forum thread: more
I had 3 great ranked matches with an online player today. I ended up winning 2-1 against the other player's Ibuki. After the last match, I sent him a "good games" message. The response back was... more
We are officially in week 2! I had to drag us kicking and screaming into Round 2. MatCD and FlatTop dropped out. Nightsama was given a loss due to absenteeism. I've extended a few Round 2 ma... more
We're down to less than 24 hours until the end of the week and there are still undone matches. This is a reminder that these games need to be finished and reported by Saturday, 8 pm Central Stand... more