Archive for July 4th, 2008
July 4, 2008
JoWooD announced today that it plans to enlarges its product portfolio with lifestyle games for Nintendo’s Wii console. The first product of the series in development is Yoga Wii. The well-known and favoured doctrine for mind, body and soul guarantees a unique gaming experience for young and young at heart gamers. The game will support the Wii Balance Board, as it plays a central role for the exercising (gaming) experience. Release of the title is scheduled for the second quarter of 2009.
July 4, 2008
A poll of 1000 Japanese gamers conducted by ITMedia has found that 64% of people have stopped using Wii Fit since they bought it. 22% say they have used Wii Fit everyday, 6% maybe once every two or three days and another 6% say they use it once a week.
July 4, 2008
Nintendo have said they have no plans for for any more titles in the Dr Kawashima Brain Training series despite it selling almost 24 million units worldwide since release. \”Given that both titles continue to perform well, there are no plans for any more titles in the series.\” said Nintendo UK\’s Marketing Director Dawn Paine.
July 4, 2008
Sony’s PlayStation Network director, Eric Lempel, has said that the Home open beta is still on schedule for release later this fall. \”It will be a fair representation of what the service can be and its potential, so it won’t be a 0.5 release, it will be a fully robust service.\” said Lempel. Lempel would not confirm when the service would launch in Japan and Europe.
July 4, 2008
Folks over at neogaf have deciphered a code from an advert for Resistance 2 leading them to the website http://projectabraham.com/. The site features a video where you can see \”through the eyes of someone on a stretcher. The doctors are trying to do their job (whether it\’s Good or Evil), but the woman in the video (Cassie) is obviously concerned.\”
July 4, 2008
Sony were today asked how long it will be before they fix the problems some have been having with PS3 firmware v2.4, but replied only to say that they have \”no further update\” on the issue.
July 4, 2008
Codemasters have said that they are not planning to retrospectively add PSN trophy support to GRID as it is not a trivial thing to add to a game.
July 4, 2008
A page at capcom.co.jp lists Devil My Cry for PSP. This gives credence to earlier rumors that Capcom would bring the game to the console. No release date, price or link to a dedicated site is provided.
July 4, 2008
After months of uncertainty, those awaiting word of the release of SOCOM: U.S. Navy Seals Confrontation got a firm answer in March. That’s when Sony Computer Entertainment America announced that the popular third-person shooter series’ PlayStation 3 debut would ship on September 16. The game looked set to lead a charge of first-party action games from Sony, followed by Resistance 2 around the holidays and Killzone 2 the following winter.
Unfortunately, during the week of 4th of July, the makers of SOCOM: U.S. Navy Seals Confrontation had some decidedly un-gung-ho news. Buried amongst various patch updates, an inconspicuous post on SOCOM.com saw SCEA director of development Seth Luisi revealed a hard choice had been made.
“Unfortunately, even working late into the nights and every weekend, we’ve had to re-evaluate our schedule,” he said. “Our top priority is delivering the best SOCOM online experience possible. Tough decisions had to be made and we’ve decided to push back the release date to October 14th, 2008. We just had to face the facts and do what is best for the title. Rather than sacrifice features, quality and stability, we had to do the right thing and re-adjust our schedule.”
SOCOM: U.S. Navy Seals Confrontation is the first PS3 title from Slant Six Games, the young Vancouver shop behind the PSP hits Syphon Filter Dark Mirror and SOCOM: Tactical Strike. (Most prior SOCOM games were developed by Zipper Interactive.) Bundled with a PS3-branded Bluetooth headset, the multiplayer-only game is also one of the first titles confirmed to support the console’s trophy system out of the box. For details on Confrontation’s ambitious clan support, community features, and gameplay, check out If Its Games’s recent hands-on preview.