Jimmy Fallon Celebrates ‘Video Game Week’ on Late Night with CoD: Black Ops, Need for Speed, Killzone 3, & DKC Returns
Update: Whoops, got a couple of the nights wrong here. Crazy late-night schedules; things have been corrected below.
After 2009′s E3, Late Night talk show host Jimmy Fallon showed the game business a little love by featuring what was then known as Project Natal on his show. And a few weeks prior to that? He had X-Play host Morgan Webb on to help demonstrate one of Nintendo’s latest Wii titles, Punch-Out!!.
Fallon has made no secret of his love of video games, and has expressed a desire to show them the same kind of respect as movies, television shows, books, or musical performances on his show. And this week, the love has continued.
First, he took up arms on Monday’s show to give everyone a sneak peek at Call of Duty: Black Ops:
It’s hard not to get a little enjoyment as people start cheering Fallon on as he begins blowing stuff up. Unfortunately, Tuesday’s session of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit didn’t go as well for him:
Tonight, Fallon took gun in hand once more for Killzone 3, which you can now see below thanks to the marvelous wonder that is the internet.
And things will wrap up on Late Night‘s Video Game Week tomorrow night, as Nintendo of America revealed on their Twitter that Jimmy will be trying his hand at Donkey Kong Country Returns. You can catch it at 12:35am on your local NBC affiliate.
However, that’s not all: in return for the love Fallon has been showing video games this week, it appears members of the gaming press have decided to return the favor. You can find out just how big of a game-freak he is over at Kotaku, while IGN (via GoNintendo) has conducted an interview with the host about topics ranging from GoldenEye to iPhone, and from Kinect to why he thinks he’s playing Donkey Kong Country Returns Friday night instead of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword:
So Friday we’re having Donkey Kong Country, we tried to get Zelda but Aonuma probably was just like “Nope”. If it was up to him probably no one would have even played the game, he’d be like, “Just know that it exists,” and he just hides it. So Donkey Kong Country should be fun, we’ll check that out and play that. I heard it’s really cool.
[Source: GamePro]
