Geo Wars 2

So, I've just had a bit of an eye-burning session on Geometry Wars 2 and it's rather spiffing indeed! Just working my way through the single player modes at the moment and will have a review up on Friday I suspect - in the meantime, here's some footage of me having a go at the brand new King Mode and being remarkably average. Fun!

FF4 DS

So, yeah - Final Fantasy 4 is now out on the DS in Japan and the US, meaning we'll probably get it sometime early 2012. Never fear, folks; I'll be importing it and feeding my thoughts back to you at some point in the very near future. As long as this epic moment is left untouched then it'll all be fine!

Tron 2 trailer

Oooooh! Expect this video to go down quicker than (first joke deleted due to poor taste) (subsequent joke deleted due to poorer taste) Facebook on a Friday afternoon, but here's a sneaky shaky-cam preview of the Comic Con 2008 trailer for Tr2n. Yay!

Hello, what's all this about?

Looks like our pals at Square have a bit of a leak on hand. A friendly and ever-so-sneaky chap has posted the following video on Game Trailers, detailing some CGI scenes from the supposedly-postponed Final Fantasy XIII Versus. Dare I say it looks better than the normal FF XIII? Yes, yes I do. This was shown to a closed-room audience at last year's Jump Fiesta.

Ubi gets all the chicks!

It seems when poor ol' Jade Raymond has been thoroughly used and abused of late with a comic depicting her pleasuring geeks, Ubi need some fresh buxom beauts to push their latest DS titles (while passionately pursuing a lawsuit I'm sure) . The 2 lucky stars are boob bouncing beauty Holly Willoughby and Live 8 Euro-vision Top of the Tottie Fearne Cotton. Their aim - to show the girls really can play games...

Either way, boys'll be happy too no doubt!

Left: Fearne Cotton Right: Holly Willoughby

Guitar Hero 4 now officially 'MUST BUY'

Wayhey! Activision have only gone and got the rights to use some Jimi Hendrix master tracks for Guitar Hero: World Tour, including Purple Haze, Foxy Lady (bow bow bow boooooow) and the equally awesome Little Wing. What chance a bit of his version of All Along the Watchtower, given that it rocks all over Bob Dylan's version, or Crosstown Traffic?

There'll also be a Jimi character loaded up in there too, so anyone who's ever wanted to play guitar with their teeth before setting fire to it can hopefully live that dream while they're busy jamming away.

New International Track and Field

Pretty tough on your arm and your DS for sure, but New International Track and Field has ended up being great fun! Random words from the full review (which you can check out here) include: 'wrist', 'metronomic' and 'gobble'.

Now to rest my sore triceps :-)

Hang on... how?

Seems like my cat has received some kind of windfall and now has more loose cash knocking about than I do. Figures. Free from mortgage payments and electricity bills, the little chap will soon need his own little bank account! Perhaps he might buy me a pint tonight...

:-D

Recently resurrected Publisher Apogee went into E3 with not much on their plate in terms of gameplay footage for their upcoming PSP and DS re-release of the original 2D Duke Nukem trilogy, so they went and did this instead:

Not 100% sure if they meant it as a serious trailer or a tongue-in-cheek thing, but either way it gained a moderate roffle.

Well, I would comment but...

We continued with football...me Argentina and Matt as Brazil. Got all the way to the finals to face off against each other, which made a nice change seeing as how the game tends to royally fudge you out of any chances. It had been one hell of a struggle all in all, and Matt was the proud 1 nil victor in our last match.

So...f- him!

Footy no longer in progress :-(

Jay lost so we can't carry on playing this tournament, even though I qualified from my group :-(. Booooo.

Started a final attempt - Jay as Argentina and myself as Brazil. Expect updates (and probably Jay's morose moaning).

Footy in progress.

If you were wondering how my and Jay's first Pro Evo 2008 tourney is going as seperate teams, here are a selection of my notes from our first two group games. To avoid confusion, I have divided each team into colours - my Spanish team in red, his German team in grey.

• Torres wonder flick!
• Cheating AI equaliser
• Booooo
• Jay not winning
• Now losing
• Ohnoes, he lost.
• Me hitting woodwork, goalie’s face, defender’s groin, pretty much everything
• TORRES!
• Jay making noise like open fridge
• Jay looking like he is going out of tournament
• Morose - losing again
• Even more morose now
• OMG - EQUALISER :-D

More on this tomorrow. In the meantime, here is a sampler of the Torres wonder flick as mentioned above!

A blog? Why?

So, I am sure you are wondering what this funtastic blog is all about. Are we moving away from the main site? Do we have too much time on our hands? Are we trying to leap onto the cool kids' bandwagon? Yes, and no.

Y'see, blogs are handy things, and it occurred to me and Jay (but mostly me) that for a gaming website such as ours having an associated blog would enable us to splurge more gaming-based oddness your way on a more regular basis. It'll allow us to upload videos and screenshots from whatever we are currently reviewing so you can see how we're getting along, whilst at the same time it'll allow us to communicate with you chaps much easier which is what we really want to start doing. Think of it as a first step along the community yellow brick road. We aren't moving away from the site in any shape or form, though; keep your eyes peeled for something rather shiny and new in the upcoming months.

It'll also allow us to talk about things as they happen, with anything we reckon is newsworthy being uploaded and put under our funky critical microscope. Plus, we'll occasionally just add something fun; something not to do with gaming at all. Our aim with UltraNinjas from the very start has been to tear away the pretentious, business-like gloss that other places seem happy to carry and instead just report gaming for what gaming is; a bloody fun pasttime.

Onwards and upwards!

Tuuuuuunes

Last night I found myself watching a documentary on T. Rex and Marc Bolan, and it ended up with me surfing around YouTube for a good three hours listening in to many of their tunes. I've been a bit of a closet T. Rex fan for ages now, but it seems that I am going to have to shell out for some more of their records at some point in the near future. My poor, poor wallet :-(.

Quite what Jay makes of all this glam rock gubbins is a mystery to me. I can imagine him rocking up to Top of the Pops in the early 1970s and completely refusing to get involved before choosing to go and watch the Allman Brothers or something else instead.

Matt got cross...

It would seem that every time we find something in a football game that we like, we find ourselves vomiting in frustration over something else. Case in point - trying to get Italy through a Euro cup in Pro Evo '08. I think after playing a lot of footy titles, one thing stands out above the rest - they can all be a royal pain in the ass. I completely relate to Matt's frustration, made only that much bitter from an own-goal caused by running a player on auto-pilot without any possible way of making the bugger stop in his tracks. Only to follow that up with what would've been a lovely goal had Toni not stopped in his tracks....sigh, oh well - better luck next time!

VIDEO TEST

One 100% Matt goal for you, with the added benefit of no ear-shattering feedback! (Shut up Jay)