Yves Makhoul

Melbourne, Victoria, AUSTRALIA


Joined December 7th 2008

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24 year old Media Studies grad from Melbourne. Gaming veteran.

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Beyond Good and Evil 2

June 7th 2009 01:00
Uncle Pay'j


Must see vid.

Massive fan of the original. Was a cult hit among the hardcores.

This time, none of you should miss out on this masterpiece in the making. The sequel to Michel Ancel's thought provoking and imaginative Beyond Good and Evil is coming.

When?

Nobody knows.

Must see vid.




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Will Nintendo answer your plea?

April 19th 2009 07:57


Rumour has it, Nintendo is going to release something for their core demographic by the end of the year.

Given so much of their business is based on selling to casual buyers, this comes as quite a welcome surprise to their long time fans, who've been most hurt by their lack of interesting content.

Wii music, wii sports, cooking, brain training and fitness. Where did all our adventuring go?

From a business standpoint, it makes sense. Make games that don't cost much, sell them like hot-cakes and you stand to make a fair bit of cash. And Nintendo has, for a number of years now. They sort of tried to bypass the bad taste in the core's mouth with Gamecube rehashes with Wii controls, but given they ARE the core, they'd clearly have already played these games.

Nintendo's President Satoru Iwata recently spoke to ABS CBN news about the PS3 beating the Wii's sales in Japan for the month of March. He wasn't happy. In fact, he thinks the Wii "...is in the most unhealthy condition since it hit the Japanese market.The current condition in the Japanese market is not the one we want."

Maybe it's time to cater to the crowd that got you to where you are in the first place, ay?

Which leads us to the latest rumour making it's happy way round the mill.

Apparently Nintendo is awaiting e3 to announce a triple-A in house title. Considering Wii-Motion plus is on it's way (1 to 1 motion sensing for the Wii-mote), perhaps a new Zelda with realistic sword fighting? A new Mario/Luigi game? Kid Icarus? Metroid?

Maybe a completely new franchise to get the core's blood flowing?

All we know is Nintendo is GameStop's CEO Dan DeMatteo believes a big first-party game is coming because Nintendo has told them to reserve shelf space. In an interview with CNBC he says: "We think there will be a Nintendo key property coming out by the end of the year," said DeMatteo in. They haven't given us any insight, but they have told us to reserve [shelf] space."

Let the anticipation begin!




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Could it have something to do with the infamous plumber's crack? (now in HD)

Or perhaps, Clank is lost somewhere in a time crack that Ratchet has to find?

Who cares! As long as we still get to blow everything onscreen into a million pieces.

If you haven't purchased Tools of Destruction yet, get onto it ASAP in preparation for what's expected to be another AAA adventure this Fall for the north and this Spring for the south.
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PSP2 is coming.

February 27th 2009 01:56
No, this isn't the PSP2 (just a fan mock up). The real thing stands to be much thinner, with no UMD drive.


Yes, this rumour has been on-going for about two years (at least) now. However, evidence is slowly beginning to build that it might finally be true


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Uh oh, RE5's demo disappoints

February 4th 2009 08:55
You're so beautiful. On the outside.


Resident Evil 5's demo was terrible


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Red Steel. In the beginning, most pretended to have liked the game, but I think by now we can safely assume most gamers didn't.


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Resident Evil fan? You'll love this:

January 17th 2009 01:55
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Final Fantasy XIII website goes LIVE

January 10th 2009 01:14
The teaser website allows fans to get closer to the characters with a zoom in button. It also shows off the various environments and the various summons (including the always lovely Shiva).

Just click here for the full site. It is in Japanese though


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According to Nielsen research: People prefer playing the original Xbox over PS3


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Looks like Home is a success

December 28th 2008 01:03
Look different. Be different. Spend up.


Who knew that people would actually want to pay for virtual clothing and virtual furniture and virtual houses in a virtual life. People are, by the bucket loads


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Recent Comments

Comment by Yves Makhoul
on New Zelda Game's Concept Art Revealed

June 7th 2009 01:11
I'm not sure how i feel about the lack of sword.

Comment by Yves Makhoul
on The New Way of Gaming - OnLive

March 27th 2009 00:56
It sounds amazing -- but i personally don't like playing with anything but a PS3 controller. If they can somehow implement that into their system, i'm sold, once it goes mainstream.

Let them sell! They're not making that much money and i don't want them to either 1) charge for the service or 2) or under.

Comment by Yves Makhoul
on Nintendo Wii Isn't Meeting Its Potential

February 4th 2009 09:03
I agree, it's not meeting its potential at all. But Nintendo's making too much money to care.

Comment by Yves Makhoul
on Prince Of Persia

February 4th 2009 09:01
I can't wait for this. I hated the ending, but this expansion will rectify that. As long as it's not over $25 that is.

Comment by Yves Makhoul
on I heart LBP

January 12th 2009 00:57
I have to agree. I've had LBP since mid-nov and did not care for it until about last week when i sat and played it with my cousin. It was brilliant! The Co-op gameplay is simply awesome.

If only things were that simple.

Comment by Yves Makhoul
on The Incredible Facts about the Blu-Ray Disc Players

December 23rd 2008 07:40
I think the popularity of Blu-ray will grow as soon as the discs themselves become more affordable.

Comment by Yves Makhoul
on Sun Water = Fuel

December 17th 2008 07:15
This sounds like it has some potential.

Comment by Yves Makhoul
on Don't trust this company

December 13th 2008 06:46
Mate you need to send that whole post to the correct authorities in your area with some more evidence. Also post it up on whirlpool.net , they have plenty of experts that can help there.

Sounds like a disgusting company, thanks for the warning.