I feel bad for Mirror’s Edge — such an innovative game, but yet that didn’t quite reflect at retail. Oh well. Guess we’ll never see a sequel then. Oh, wait…
News Blips:
• Mirror’s Edge looks at reflection, sees sequel. Even though the ambitious first-person building-hopper smacked into a wall at retail, EA has confirmed a small team is working on a sequel. Pretty sweet to see they still has faith in a such risky title. [VideoGamer]
• May videogame sales tap out via slightly homoerotic submission hold. Mixed-martial arts fighter UFC 2009 Undisputed smothered the charts last month, securing the top spot with over a million copies sold (spread between both the 360 and PS3 versions). Meanwhile, free Wii controller Wii Play is still in the top ten. [Shacknews]
• Square Enix and Eidos sit in tree, don’t kiss, make game instead. Role-playing game giant Square Enix recently purchased Tomb Raider publisher Eidos, so it’s not too surprising to hear company head honcho Yoichi Wada confirm the two publishers will both be working together to create a new IP. What will be surprising, though? If the new title doesn’t contain effeminate men and/or gratuitous boobage. [Gamasutra]
• EA exec: How awesome are our racing games? Really awesome. Patrick Soderlund, senior vice president at EA Games Europe, tells VideoGamer that he thinks Need for Speed: Shift is better than the Forza 3. Oh, he also thinks it’s better than Blur and Split/Second, too. Also better than Mario Kart? Hell yeah. What about Pole Position? Smokes it. Surely not as awesome as Star Wars: Super Bombab Racing, right? Right — even he can’t admit that. [VideoGamer]
Click the jump for some video blips, including a hellish Dante’s Inferno video doc, stylus boob-touching, a vintage knee-slapping Game Boy Pocket commercial, and…more.
Video Blips:
• Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood trailer moseys on in. Learn about the characters in Ubisoft’s upcoming western first-person shooter.
• Break out your PrayStation for new Dante’s Inferno video diary. Hell is not a game.
• This makes sense: Determine who’s a witch via boob-touching. That’s exactly what you do in DS game Doki Majo Plus.
Cultural Blip:
• Game Boy Pocket Bob looks great. Check out this hilarious Game Boy Pocket commercial that comedy geniuses The State did way back when [via Offworld]: