Video: Dog Vs Dude Wii Tennis
December 31, 2007It kind of looks like they positioned the dog so it’s paw would have a jerk reaction. Do you think it shows how much of an illusion Wii Sports Tennis gameplay really is?
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Archive for December, 2007
Nintendo: Just smack the Wii remote to make it work
December 31, 2007When a gamer noticed that his Wii remote was acting funky, he decided to take the logical step of calling up Nintendo customer support and get some help on the matter. Their response was to take the remote button side down and smack it a good few times, but not too hard that it may damage the remote. So he smacked the remote a few times and hey presto, the remote fired up once again!
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Sony encourages DIY PS3 hard drive upgrades
December 31, 2007A Social Medial Manager at the Playstation Group has blogged up a post which encourages PS3 owners to upgrade their hard drives. The post draws upon the fact that the PS3 doesn\’t require a special proprietary HDD as you can just swap it out yourself with the type of drives found at most electronics retailers. So we guess what they\’re trying to say is 1-0 to the PS3 over Xbox 360 in this context.
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MS: Live problems getting better by the hour, no one is going home until job completed
December 31, 2007Major Nelson of Microsoft has posted up an update to the recent and frequent Xbox Live outages. He wanted to let Live members know that things are getting by each hour that passes and none of the Live team are going anywhere until the platform is made fully stable once again.
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Free Software FPS Games Compared
December 31, 2007An anonymous reader writes “Linux-gamers.net has posted a thorough, although harsh, comparison of free software shooters. It compares seven open source shooter games in a lengthy discussion. Few have gone to the trouble of comparing and carefully examining the genre before. The author ranks the games in the following order (best to worst): Warsow, Tremulous, World of Padman, Nexuiz, Alien Arena, OpenArena, and Sauerbraten. In making these choices, it claims to use gameplay, design, innovation and presentation as criteria and includes a short history of free software shooters in the introduction.”.
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Wii’s biggest surprise is the continued success of the console
December 30, 2007Neil MacFarlane of the Chronicle Herald has dished out a range of awards for the Wii platform but has insisted that the biggest surprise of the Wii is it\’s continued success. Neil thought that it may be a success but nothing on the huge scale it experienced throughout the year 2007. Contrastingly, the biggest let down is the lack of developer support.
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DS outsells total lifetime sales of PS2
December 30, 2007In a true testament to the popularity of the DS, Media Create has revealed that the DS which launched in 2004 has outsold the Playstation 2 in Japan which launched way back in the year 2000.
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The new Playstation 3 kid
December 30, 2007See what happens when parents try to add an element of surprise for their kids on Christmas day…
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Sony giving away free PS3 with HDTV purchase with Sony VISA
December 30, 2007Sony is running a promotion which could see gamers net a free PS3 should they purchase a Sony HDTV from the Sony Reward Store so long as they are approved for the Sony VISA. The promotion ends in a couple of days, but the deal could save you a bit of cash. However as always, be very careful to read the fine print and know what you\’re getting yourselves in for before capitalizing on such appealing deals.
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PSPTube++ beta 3 released
December 30, 2007Sofiyacat\’s PSP Tube++ beta 3 has been released. This is a piece of homebrew that allows you to easily view Youtube clips on your PSP without the need to manually download and convert desired files. Check out all the new features here.
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Rumor: MS see brief demo of MGS 4 in action, walk away impressed
December 30, 2007According to an Indian gaming site, MS executives recently experienced a brief demo of MGS 4 and came back really impressed. The core gameplay mechanics have reportedly been finalized but the studio is yet to decide whether the game will be in the third or first person perspective. So the age-old rumor just will never die of MGS 4 appearing on the Xbox 360.
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Xbox Live Intermittent Issues resolved… for now
December 30, 2007It would seem as if the busy Christmas period has provided another hit to the Live Service and it was down once again yesterday for certain regions. Larry Hryb of Live posted a message yesterday that just because it is the holidays, it does not mean that the operations teams isn\’t working hard. The official Xbox support website denotes that everything is up and running now smoothly but who knows for how long.
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Xbox Live account hacked to steal rare Halo 3 Recon Armour
December 30, 2007According to internet reports, Microsoft cares very little about preventing hackers from stealing Xbox Live accounts. In this instance someones account was stolen in Halo 3 as they possessed the almighty rare Recon Armour. The respective account has reportedly been hacked three times in the past two months with MS reportedly turning a blind eye to each hack experienced.
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Ninja Gaiden 2 to feature 4 difficulty levels
December 30, 2007The Famitsu Xbox 360 magazine has revealed a wealth of new information on the upcoming Ninja Gaiden 2. Part of the information revealed is that the game is set to feature 4 difficulty levels, level 2 is suggested for those who cleared the first game, level 3 is for those who are skilled and are hardcore fans while level 4 is obviously made to provide extreme difficulty. Further information is revealed on the story line, user interface and damaged areas.
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Jack Thompson Claiming Games Industry in Collusion with DoD
December 30, 2007mytrip brings us a Wired blog about Jack Thompson’s recent press release, which claims an “unholy alliance” exists between the gaming industry and the U.S. Department of Defense. Game Politics also has a discussion of Thompson’s main points. From Wired: “Jim Blank, the head of the modeling and simulation division of the U.S. Joint Forces Command, says that commercial games don’t meet the demand of the military, adding, ‘first-person shooter games really don’t apply in this environment.’ Blank’s point is that game-like simulations are a valuable tool for training soldiers in situations that would be too expensive to simulate in reality.”.
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