Demon’s Souls, the best video game in the world, has sold a quarter million copies, much more than the paltry 15,000 Sony expected the game to sell.
As a PS3 exclusive, it seemed odd for Sony to pass on publishing the game in North America, especially since there was an Asian version of the game that already included an English language option. Sony thought that the game’s unforgiving diffuculty wouldn’t do well overseas, and the game was finally brought over by publisher of all things awesome, Atlus.
I beat the game, and that, along with earning a college degree, stands as the proudest accomplishments of my life.
If you like Action RPG’s, go buy it and die.
[Via Gamespot]
(NOTE: This was my contribution to a feature that ran @NintendoLife about the 25th Anniversary of the NES. I just wanted to archive these memories for myself.) The first video game I ever saw was Kung-Fu for the NES. My older sister’s friend down the street had just gotten the system, so she kindly escorted [...]
What if a deranged Santa Robot decided we all didn’t deserve gifts this year? Mega Man would come and bust ‘em up, that’s what! AceSparks of Sprite Inc. has re-imagined Charles Dicken’s classic, A Christmas Carol into a Mega Man game where the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, Future and Jacob Marley are evil robots [...]
Mario may be the master of Mushroom Kingdom, but that hasn’t stopped programmer Jay Pavlina from dragging other classic NES icons into goomba territory in his new aptly-titled game Super Mario Bros. Crossover. In this undefinabley-awesome act of retro bliss, players get the chance to rampage through all the levels of the original Super Mario [...]
