The Weekend Report for February 6th: Diet Coke and Mentos Edition

Put in your mouth guards and  strap on your helmets as we tackle Super Bowl week’s installment of our news roundup. Just hit the jump to check out a playbook full of stories from the past week that were good, bad or just plain weird enough to land a spot in our post and a place in our hearts.

Oh, Bionic Commando Rearmed 2. You just can’t catch a break. First you earned the ire of hardcore fans around the world by including the ability to jump . Than you stirred the pot up a bit more when reviews came out that said you don’t even need the jump function. Now it turns out you need a constant internet connection just to be played? Not cool, man.

Next you’ll be telling us your arm doesn’t even work without a crazy computer brain made out of your wif-…oh, wait.

Source: Ars Technica

Sony, Sony, Sony. We just don’t get you sometimes. Watching you try to keep the PSP Phone a secret was really painful. Honestly, if we had to choose between you and Peter Pettigrew to keep our secrets, even if our very lives depended on it. Well, let’s just say Ole’ Wormtail is a strong contender for that position. But hey, you finally decided to publicly acknowledge the existence of the Xperia Play during the Super Bowl; so we don’t need to talk about secret-keeping anymore.

But if we need to hide from some kind of Lord of Evil in the future don’t, don’t expect a call from us.

Source: Engadget

Speaking of badly kept secrets, it’s kind of a well known thing that some of us here at SideQuesting are borderline masochistic when it comes to the games we play. We don’t really talk about it, but the evidence is there. That’s why when we heard that the developers of other famous be-precise-or-die-horribly game were making level packs for Super Meat Boy, those of us endeared to the delightful game, well, we popped half a roll of Mentos if you catch our drift.

The knowledge that those level packs are coming to XBLA in the near future? It feels like somebody mixed in some Diet Coke, and now we kinda need a towel.

Source: The Team Meat Blog

As if that personal pants explosion wasn’t enough for us to deal with, the brutally hard but surprisingly fun Demon’s Souls is sort of getting a sequel. Dark Souls promises to be akin to it’s predecessor in terms of almost everything, except that everything is better than ever. The most notable change from Demon’s Souls is that Dark Souls will have a more open world to it, meaning you have a wider range of choices open before you get horribly killed by some kind of giant monster. Oh, this one will be on both the PS3 and the Xbox 360.

That sounds pretty good to us.

Source: GameSpot

Two thoughts come to our minds when we think about Twisted Pixel. The first is that they have a solid reputation for creating fun and interesting games. That’s why when we heard their newest project, The Gunstringer, was about an undead marionette cowboy out for revenge on the people who killed him in the first place, we thought that sounded pretty cool. Then we heard it was a Kinect game and we got a little worried, to be blunt. But it’s Twisted Pixel, so we’re gonna give them the benefit of the doubt on this one.

The second thought? How long until Capcom comes out with The Puppet Sheriff, of course.

Source: The Gunstringer Blog