AFP - Computer buff Will Wright created a multi-billion-dollar franchise with “The Sims” video games that let people play at real life affairs such as dating, working and raising children.
Epic Games’ president, Mike Capps, has once again said that the company won\’t ever develop a game for the Nintendo Wii. Capps was asked if there would be a point where there are too many Wiis on the market for Epic not to make a game for it. He replied “no, we go forward, not back. It makes more sense for us to invest in the next-generation tech.”
Nell McAndrew will be one of the hosts at the Official Nintendo Wii Fit launch at London\’s South Bank on Wednesday, April 23. McAndrew was once a Lara Croft model but was fired from the job in 1999 after posing nude for the cover of Playboy. Sports presenter Gabby Logan will also be at the event.
Ben Heck\’s PS3 laptop is currently up for auction on ebay with the proceeds going to the National Cancer Coalition. The auction will end in about 5 days and the top bid is currently at US $23,600.00.
The Metal Gear Online beta has officially been opened to the UK & Europe. Some users have experienced some trouble logging into the beta, with it saying that their GAME ID and/or password was incorrect. It will apparently let you log in if you keep trying. There have also been other issues including being unable to connect to the server and being disconnected.
The Consumerist is reporting that Microsoft won\’t return a Xbox 360 to a customer as they believe she is a thief. MS, who have had the console since January, won\’t reply to a letter the customer sent to Microsoft which also included a credit card statement and original receipt as proof.
Grab a friend and go to town - these guns are made for shooting.
rafaelmizrahi writes “WiiMan the Super Hero is a full action figure costume of a super hero that functions as a Nintendo WiiMote remote. Having trouble playing Wii? WiiMan to the rescue. This GarageGeeks project combines Gaming, Technology and Useless Activity to the extreme. Rafael Mizrahi, an artificial vision and experience explorer at Feng-GUI and a GarageGeeks member along with Yael Hertzog built this custom costume that acts as a fully functional Nintendo WiiMote remote with buttons, bluetooth, accelerometers, and an IR cam. BTW, last year, they built another hero, The Guitar Hero Noid, a robot built with Tal Chalozin that plays the PlayStation game Guitar Hero.” (You might have better luck reaching the GarageGeeks site’s Google cache.).
Croakyvoice writes “Law56ker has today released the Nxdoom Collection, a massive collection of 220 Doom Mods for the Dreamcast, a collection of best Total Conversions, Megawads, and Various levels for use on NXDOOM for the Sega Dreamcast. Wads Include Duke Nukem GP, Half Life, Star Wars, Goldeneye, Quake 2 and Star Trek. They come on 2 CDS.” Registration is required for downloading anything, but if you’re low on Megawads this seems like one-stop shopping..
An anonymous reader writes “Jeremy White from CodeWeavers has made the announcement that an experimental build of CrossOver Games is now available for PC-BSD users. However, this unsupported edition should also work on FreeBSD or DesktopBSD, allowing users to play Windows games on their desktop. The FreeBSD version of CrossOver Games can be downloaded here (registration required).” From the attached notes: “Remember this is an experimental build! If you are on FreeBSD 6.x, you will need to apply a system patch from http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine to enable wine to function properly. Users of FreeBSD 7.0 and higher do not need this patch.”.