One of the best tower defense maps on Warcraft 3 is Element TD. This map is different from previous tower defense maps, where your aim is to build as many tower as your could (and build the best on of course). It employs are rather fresh concept of using elements to decide what kind of towers that you can build.

You get to pick an element every 5 rounds ( which involve killing one stronger elemental creep) and your choice of elements will affect the types of tower you can build. There are 6 elements to choose from, fire, nature, earth, water, light, and darkness. Mixing 2 or more elements can give you an unique strong tower but may require more gold to be able to be build.

My favourite tower is the mushroom tower that delivers fast attack speed with considerable damange. To get that, I’ll have to pick the earth and nature element. And I’ll keep on focusing on those too elements by pickup higher level earth and nature elements to be able to upgrade my mushroom tower.

There are many concepts that needs attention to fare well in this game. Tower position is extremely important and as well as the timing of building the tower. If you hold on to your cash and build towers later, you’ll be able to receive interest for the gold. That would then lead to more gold to buy more towers !!!

The best thing is to download the Element TD map and have a go at it with your friends to know more about the game mechanics.

You will be able to find the latest Element TD maps ( version 4.1) from its official website : http://eletd.com/

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Here are some screenshots of the game.

Nintendo DSi has just been released in Japan (1st Nov) and Danny Choo being so popular, got one absolutely free (I’m so jealous ! ps. This motivates me to blog more ) . He wrote an pretty good review on the DSi on his blog. Do check it out !

For folks like us (ie. not in Japan), we will have to wait till 2009 for any DSi action. I’d probably buy the DSi is its graphics and screen is improved. If not, I’d stick with just the normal old-fashion DS.

Lost Odyssey is the latest Japanese RPG coming to the Xbox360. You play a man callled Kaim, who have lived for 1000 years. Basically he has eternal life or some sort. The game’s story revolves around the many generations of which Kaim is a part, his loves and losses and conflicts.

The development of the game sees a gathering of famous Japanese developers. An all star team really. You have Hironobu Sakaguchi (creator of Final Fantasy) as game producer, Kiyoshi Shigematsu (award-winning Japanese novelist) doing the story, Takehiko Inoue (famous comic book artist, creator of Slam Dunk !) doing character design and Nobuo Uematsu (the veteran Final Fantasy music composer) doing his magic with the music.

With all the big names in the industry, you can see how hard Xbox is trying to getting a foothold on the Japanese market with these RPGs.

Lost Odyssey has already been released in Japan. While release days for North America is February 12, 2008 and Europe is February 29, 2008.

For more info, check out the video review below (worth it ) :

I can’t say that I did not see this coming.

Remember the Gameboy Advance ? Back then, Nintendo said that backlight was impractical and they will never do it. And look what happened after that ? Gameboy Advance SP ! Somehow I feel that videogame makes have a conspiracy for not releasing up to that technology so that they can sell more unit with future upgrade.

Tell me what am I gonna do with my GBA and its shitty screen !

Back to the main topic. The PSP Portable promises 33% reduction in weight, faster loading times and apparently the biggest difference of all is the ability to output hi-definition video on your TV. Really really no big deal. If you want to go high-def, go get a Blu-ray player.

I don’t really see the point in PSP slim. Oh, well. Check out the introduction of PSP during E3 by Kaz Hirai.