Archive for July 19th, 2008
July 19, 2008
It’s not just trailers from E3 that found their way onto Xbox Live this week, but also Double D Dodgeball and Coffeetime Crosswords, which went up on Wednesday. For all you retro fans, DDD features an arcade graphics style and can be played with up to eight players. Coffeetime Crosswords comes with more than 150 different puzzles and can be played cooperatively with an extra player. Both games cost 800 Microsoft points.
Like Xbox Live, Sony’s PlayStation Network Store saw the addition of a whole bunch of E3-related trailers, and it also got Elefunk and Fatal Inertia EX. Elefunk features, you guessed it, elephants, as they try to escape their captors and return to the savannah. To accomplish this, you need to build bridges to help them get from place to place. Elefunk costs A$12.95 ($12.57). If shepherding elephants isn’t your thing, then futuristic racing might tickle your fancy in Fatal Inertia EX. The game will only be available for download over the PSN and features a variety of gameplay tweaks that the original Xbox 360 version didn’t have. On top of that, a training arena and support for the DualShock 3 controller have been added. Fatal Interia EX costs A$29.95 ($29.11).
Last but not least is Nintendo’s WiiWare, which sees only one game being released this week in the form of Pirates: The Key of Dreams. PKD is a top-down arcade shooter that has 10 levels for you to commit piracy on with up to three other sailors on the high seas. Pirates: The Key of Dreams will set you back 1,000 pieces of gold, ahem…Wii points.
July 19, 2008
According to a translation of Famitsu\’s Dead Rising for Wii feature, the game will be called \’Dead Rising: Zombie Sacrifice\’ in Japan and will have new features and expanded gameplay. They hope these features, along with making the game easier to play, will make it appeal more to the casual gamer. The Wii version of the game will also feature a \”behind-the-shoulder camera system modeled after Resident Evil 4\’s\” and motion controls.
July 19, 2008
High Voltage Software shown The Conduit in action at E3 this year and the game apparently \”looked good while rarely dipping below 30 frames-per-second, even during heavy action scenes.\”
July 19, 2008
Game Trailers have posted up a developer interview for The Conduit. Learn everything you need to know about this upcoming Wii FPS.
July 19, 2008
A scan of what is claimed to be the cover of Nintendo Power\’s 20th Anniversary Issue states that it will be offering the first look at Sonic and the Black Knight. The cover also states the game will be a Wii exclusive. Nintendo Power recently set the rumor mill in motion with clues about the games they will be revealing in their 20th Anniversary Issue. Nintendo Power offered the following clues: \”We\’re kicking off the next 20 years of Nintendo Power with more big reveals, including a top-secret cover story fit for a king. Its got a lot of heart. Just kidding. Its Mother 3. Just kidding. Please look forward to it.\”
July 19, 2008
Ariastis writes “UbiSoft has long been against No-CD patches. Referring to them on their forums would get you warned or banned. But now, they have just officially released a patch for Rainbow 6: Vegas 2, which, when opened in a hex editor, can easily be identified as coming from the RELOADED scene group, not from UbiSoft programmers. A picture of hex analysis is shown in the story. See? Piracy isn’t that bad! It saves you from having to code fixes for your own games! (Watch the drama on the Ubi Forums before it gets scrubbed clean.)”.
July 19, 2008
Jack Tretton, the President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America (SCEA), has said that he cares about the unknown guys that respond on blogs and trash something he has said. It’s tough to make everyone in your family love you let alone everyone in the world. It’s the price of admission but yeah it freaks me out. said Tretton.
July 19, 2008
stoolpigeon writes with this snippet from an AFP story carried by Google: “Nintendo said Thursday that its globally popular Wii has become the top-selling video game console in the United States, a crown coveted by rivals Microsoft and Sony. Market-tracking firm NPD Group reports that 666,000 Wii consoles were sold in the United States in June, raising the total sales count in the country to nearly 10.9 million units.” I’d rather play board games than video games, but the Wii Fit makes one of these tempting anyhow..
July 19, 2008
The folks at G4 have decided that LittleBigPlanet was the \’Best of Show\’ at E3. Other contenders for the Best of Show award were: Resistance 2, Gears Of War 2, Mirror\’s Edge and Fallout 3.
July 19, 2008
Maxconsole reader Komp wrote in to let us know that he has spent 3 days working out how to get his EU connected PS3 to gain access to the USA Video Store. He hasn\’t tried purchasing any content yet and the video below is just to show that it is possible for Europeans to access the Video Store.
July 19, 2008
According to The Rurland Herald, \”a West Hartford man denied charges that a violent video game drove him to violence against children.\” According to the the two children involved, they had been playing Halo 3 with the man and \”every time one of the boys killed Barr\’s character he would punch the boy in the arm.\” The man admitted he punched the boys but blamed it on alcohol (not the video game) and said he did not realize how hard he was hitting them.