Game Curmudgeons

It’s now official.

Sonic The Hedgehog is going to be in Super Smash Brothers Brawl for the Nintendo Wii, continuing the rivalry started in the 16-bit era and recently taken head to head in Sonic and Mario at The Olympic Games.

Solid Snake AND Sonic the Hedgehog? Nintendo, you’ve outdone yourself on this.

Mike Hayes, President and COO of SEGA Europe had the following to say:

“Its amazing that after all these years we get to see these two much loved characters compete against each other in another fantastic title. Bringing Mario and Sonic together again underlines the continuing partnerships between Nintendo and SEGA, and produces another industry first for our two companies.”

Super Smash Brothers Brawl is currently slated to hit the Wii sometime in early 2008.

For more information on this entry, visit Sonic’s entry, at the Super Smash Brothers Dojo. And for a bit more, here’s Sonic’s character trailer. Apparently, he’s brought his music along with him, and it looks like Super Sonic will be featured in the game. I’ll speculate it happens if he collect a star, but perhaps he’ll have some special conditions of his own with that. Chaos emeralds are visible around him in the trailer at transformation, and there’s a Sonic the Hedgehog spring-bumper shown as well. Hopefully they’ll bring more Sonic elements into the Nintendo world.

The Orange Box release time is now.

If all goes well, jubilation and playing of Ep2 and Portal.

Or, if you see an addition to this post in the next 3 minutes, we’re having a repeat of TF2.

Hurk! Decrypting! So slow. Still, let’s hope for now TF2 “Hey, it’s here! Hey, I can’t fucking play it!”

Valve is set to release The Orange Box in 8 hours.

Now, we’ve only played Team Fortress 2 so far, like everyone else in the beta. And that alone to me makes it worth it. We’ll have a full review up in a few days after the official release, but the beta has been an absolute blast, and gets better every day. Valve’s rapid patching, improvement of balance, and elimination of any exploits has been amazing.

Honestly, I’ve enjoyed TF2 more than any other multiplayer focused game. More than the BF games, more than Quake Wars, and yes, more than Counter-Strike or Halo 3.

While the full review is going to include HL2:Ep 2 and Portal(which are pretty sure bets), I feel I can safely say that TF2 alone is worth the price of admission. If you’re not so sure, there’s always the standalone for 30 dollars, which is absolutely worth it.