Author: Guy Desmarais

Congratulations to Nintendo! As of last week, the Virtual Console service offers 100 games for download to the rabid Wii owners hungry for more retro gaming. Game #100 turned out to be Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, a peculiar choice when you think about it. Yes, it’s Zelda, and thus, it’s a classic Nintendo…

When it comes to being told stories, one thing we expect from one chapter to the other is continuity. We expect the pieces of the overall story to flow together naturally, and we want the author to remember what he did with his characters in the past, thus making them act logically when confronted with…

Food. We love it, we need it and we can’t live without it. Just eating it isn’t enough. Somehow, every human being has a predisposition that brings him to play with his food. How many times has your mother said “stop playing with your food”? How many food fights have you witnessed in your elementary…

Sometimes it gets hard to write an article about what’s happening in video games. Most often, that’s because nothing really interesting is happening. In this case, there was indeed some news that sent a little tingly feeling down my spine, but nothing that can possibly be worth writing an entire column about. Stuff like: –…

I am a Quebecer, or French-Canadian, if you prefer. Even worse, I am from Montreal, home of the Canadiens, the professional sports team which has won the greatest number of championships over the years, second only to the New York Yankees. Like many of my fellow citizens, I am a huge hockey fan, and that…

The Pokémon craze is about to hit once again with the release of Nintendo’s newest versions/sequels to their best-selling franchise: Pokémon Diamond and Pearl. Despite the series being initially being tagged as “just another fad”, in the same vein as Pogs or the Macarena, it managed to outgrow its “flavour of the week” label and…

Better Late Than Never I spent the last week trying to finally unlock everything in Super Smash Bros. Melee. When I say “everything”, I’m not talking about those pesky trophies, some of which are so hard to get that it becomes a pain in the ass on the scale of finishing Ghosts N Goblins without…

God of War is rapidly becoming a best-selling series in the world of video games. The first iteration won countless “Best Game of the Year” awards from web sites and magazines alike when it was released in 2005, and it looks like God of War 2 could be doing the exact same thing this year.…

Please, Just For the Voiceover… If there’s one thing we should have learned from the game based on Street Fighter : The Movie, it’s that video games based on Jean-Claude Van Damme’s movies are not meant to be. Yet, after watching The Quest this week-end (don’t ask me why, we all have skeletons in our…

Apparently, there’s a terrible drought of games coming, and the Wii is going to be hit pretty hard. If you believe this story, the drought could even spread to the Nintendo DS! All of a sudden, it’s panic time for message board posters all over the web. By listening to them, one would think that…

“This will no doubt be the last Zelda game as we know it today.” -Shigeru Miyamoto, series creator This quote, concerning The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, is already a few months old. I first read it, I believe, while reading a Nintendo Power magazine on the toilet. Then, I read it again in a…

A couple of days ago, I took a trip to the arcade with a friend. It had been at least three years since the last time I went, and needless to say, I couldn’t wait to see the new games that were out, particularly the fighting games. You see, while I prefer to play platformers…

I have something really special for you this week. We have all heard horror stories surrounding the Wii and how dangerous it can be. It looks like Nintendo’s newest console can be responsible for black eyes, bruises, broken windows, bloody hands and even injured animals. Most cases look legit, but some of them have also…

Here are some notes on what happened this week in gaming before we start with the actual subject of this column : -How could they do this to me? Nintendo Power wrote in their magazine that the silver coins challenge in Diddy Kong Racing DS had been removed to make place for an all-new touch…

The last time I remember playing that much video games, the N64 was still alive and kicking. I used to spend hours upon hours staying in front of the television with friends popping balloons with Mario Kart 64’s battle mode, wasting nights with Goldeneye’s multiplayer mode, having daily 40-men Battles Royal at WCW Revenge and…