Movies For Gamers: Apocalypto (2006)

This is a section of BabysoftMurderhands.com where we post and discuss a trailer for a classic cult movie. The movies we select will hopefully be movies that gamers will love too. And of course, if you haven’t seen it, we’ll give you a link to get it.

apocalypto

Apocalypto, directed and co-written by Mel Gibson, tells a heroic story in a unique, ancient setting. It stirred up some political … [ Read More... ]

Hori releasing new & improved Wireless Arcade Stick

With the fighting game renaissance of the past few years, arcade sticks have made a comeback. Mad Catz revamped it’s product line introducing high end arcade sticks, a territory previously dominated by Japanese controller maker, Hori.

Hori is back now with a wireless arcade stick. It uses Bluetooth and provides about 40 hours of gameplay via it’s rechargeable battery. You can also plug it in to recharge the stick … [ Read More... ]

Cover Art: Hyper Zone (SNES)

Welcome to Cover Art! A section of the site where we look at a retro video game’s box cover art and briefly discuss it’s gameplay and legacy.

Hyper Zone is rail shooter developed by HAL Laboratory. It was released for the Super Nintendo in 1991. Although it’s considered a shallow derivative title, I came to appreciate it thanks to an old friend.

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To the average Nintendo gamer, Hyper Zone[ Read More... ]

Konami begins using Fox Engine for next gen games starting with PES 2014

Although we don’t normal cover sports games, we’ll make this exception due to the use of Kojima Production’s Fox Engine. For those out of the loop, it’s the graphics and game engine debuted by Hideo Kojima for Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes. It’s the one he said will challenge western graphics engines. The first non-Kojima game that has been revealed to use the engine will be Pro Evolution [ Read More... ]