My Date With the Calendar Man – Day 4: New Year’s Day January 2, 2012

Happy New Year’s everyone!  Hope you had a fun and safe celebration of the end of 2011 and the beginning of 2012.  I happened to spend most of it with my family, which, along with issues I’ve been having uploading videos to YouTube using their web client is the reason why there hasn’t been as much content as I’d like being posted on the site.

But this is a holiday, which means that per gameXcess.net tradition, we have to pay a visit to Julian Day, better known as the Calendar Man, at his cell in Arkham City.  Bawls in hand, we head into Arkham as Batman to pay him a visit.

We’ll pay him another visit on February 14th, Valentine’s Day.

The Gunstringer Unboxing December 31, 2011

I’ve been a huge fan of Twisted Pixel after the release of Comic Jumper, and their most recent release has been a straight to retail Kinect game.  While this is unlike any release they’ve done previously (they usually release games for download either through Steam or Xbox Live Arcade), The Gunstringer still provides all of Twisted Pixel’s signature humor, and was a game I found myself playing all night.

Here’s an unboxing of the game.

And for those of you who have copies of the game already (or plan to pick it up), there are currently two DLC campaigns for it.  The first is free to all players and is a wonderful shout out to the classic FMV games of the arcade, The Wavy Tube Man Chronicles.  Just so you know how stylized it is, this is the original introduction for it.

The other has just been released for 240 Microsoft Points, and is called Reel Big Shootin’.

My Date With the Calendar Man – Day 3: Christmas December 28, 2011

Merry Christmas Everyone.  Apologies for not getting this uploaded Christmas Day as I should have, but I barely had enough free time to record and edit it, let alone upload it, and when I finally did have the chance to upload it, YouTube gave me problems.

Santa Claus hat on, I decide to pay a visit to Julian Day, better known as the Calendar Man, in his cell in Arkham City, to see if he’ll talk to me today.  Let’s see what he has to say.  I got the Batman: Arkham City graphic novel as a gift this year.  It’s a pretty good, albeit short read if you want to see some backstory about just what happened between Batman: Arkham Asylum and Arkham City.

The next time we can visit him will be on January 1st, New Year’s Day.

Resistance 3 Unboxing December 26, 2011

I make it no secret that the Resistance series of games is probably my favorite Playstation exclusive property.  I finally was able to pick up the final game of the Resistance series, Resistance 3, and I must admit for a game that didn’t have a CE release, it has some really nice packaging.

Unlike Resistance 2, there was no major Collector’s Edition for this game release.  The closest thing they had to one was a copy of the game, bundled with the Playstation Move’s sharpshooter, which having demoed it at E3, I don’t recommend using the play the game.

RAGE: Anarchy Edition (Xbox 360) Unboxing December 26, 2011

This is the RAGE: Anarchy Edition for the Xbox 360, made by id Software.  Following a recent trend, the Anarchy Edition of RAGE is the same price as the normal edition of the game, and offers players free access to some downloadable weapons.

This is also out for PC, and Playstation 3.

Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Kinect Library Feature December 3, 2011

The scan library for Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary actually can be navigated using the Kinect’s motion sensor as well as a regular 360 controller.  How well does the Kinect menu system work?  I take a look at that for you.