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John Cleese Voicing Butler in Fable III

Wii Gamer — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:06:57 +0000

Comedy legend John Cleese will soon be lending his voice to Fable III. The actor best known for his work on Monty Python and Fawlty Towers will be serving as the main character’s butler.

Lionhead’s Peter Molyneux dropped word of Cleese’s inclusion during his GDC session. He also confirmed that it will be possible to sell weapons online, and showed off a bit of the new user interface.

Fable III revolves around the struggle for the throne as the player first takes power then administers their new kingdom. Once you’ve got your crown, it looks like you’ll have Cleese to help you out.

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John Cleese Voicing Butler in Fable III

Wii Gamer — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:06:02 +0000

Comedy legend John Cleese will soon be lending his voice to Fable III. The actor best known for his work on Monty Python and Fawlty Towers will be serving as the main character’s butler.

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Sony Considering God of War 3 DLC

Wii Gamer — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:05:48 +0000

God of War 3 is due out next week, and Sony is mulling over the idea of adding downloadable content. VG247 reports that design director Todd Papy hinted at DLC at this year’s Game Developers Conference. “We’re talking about DLC, and the possibilities of it, to see if it’s worth for us to do it,” he said. “From a fan standpoint, I think it’s very worth it, but at the same time we don’t want to compromise our next projects.”

If DLC does come, it may not be for a while. “We’re going to take a break, come back, look into new IPs, and at the same time we’re going to look and see if there is anything left in the God of War series that we feel is very compelling that we can sink our teeth into,” Papy said. If the team is planning to give the series a short rest before even starting development on DLC, it may actually be quite a while before any of it comes out. Papy refers to a few ideas the team is looking into, but says “we’ll see if it ever comes to market.”

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PlayStation Move: Quick Impressions Of What It Can Do

Wii Gamer — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:05:23 +0000

Okay, let’s just get both the “personal hygienic massager” and the “Wii HD” comments out of the way. Done. Now, we’ve already covered some of the basics of the upcoming PlayStation Move, and we also checked out a traditional hardcore enthusiast game that supports motion-control functionality. But what about the rest of the initial lineup so far?

Sure, Sony had the requisite tech demo that showed off all sorts of Move-specific possibilities, such as a marionette demo, or a “paint the screen” demo, a “wield a club/sword/object” demo, or even a “choose the color of your motion controller’s light.” But besides that tech, Sony also showed a fair number of actual games, and here’s our quick round-up of how they felt after some Move time. In following Sony’s “It can do everything” campaign, here’s a quick question: so what can the PlayStation Move do, after all? Why, it can…

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Nexon America Shows Off Latest Round of Free MMORPGs

Wii Gamer — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:56:50 +0000

Nexon America is preparing to launch their next batch of free MMORPGs in North America, and they showed off two of them during a recent GDC event. Already available in Korea, Dragon Nest and the recently-renamed Vindictus aim to kick subgenre’s visual quality up a notch while offering different gameplay styles.

Nexon America vice president Min Kim presented Vindictus — known as Mabinogi Heroes in Korea — first, offering a quick tour of features such as the Source engine and the more action-oriented combat. Nexon is currently distributing Counter-Strike in Asia, and Kim said that relationship helped get them access to Source, which they’ve used it to create an action MMORPG featuring an easily-manipulated environment.

“The development team really wanted an engine where you can break everything,” he explained, then demonstrated a sequence in which a foe was smashed into a wall, which took noticeable damage from the impact. Armor and clothing also deteriorate from the wear and tear of battle, eventually falling apart completely.

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Epic Integrates Steamworks into Unreal Engine 3

Wii Gamer — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:55:52 +0000

Epic Games and Valve Software have announced a mutually beneficial partnership to bring Steamworks to Unreal Engine 3. Valve’s full suite of tools will now be offered to Unreal Engine licensees completely free of charge.

Steamworks allows developers to utilize any of the features of Valve’s digital distribution platform in their own products, including Steam Cloud save importing, Achievements, user stat tracking, and DRM authentication. It’s normally available for free, but its integration into the latest version of the Unreal Engine should encourage even more developers to utilize Steamworks.

“Valve has created a world-wide phenomenon with Steam and we’re excited to be able to have the Steamworks suite of services available to Unreal Engine 3 licensees so they can take full advantage of all that Steam has to offer,” explained Epic’s Mark Rein, adding, “With Valve offering these services free of charge, the idea of providing the Steamworks SDK to all Unreal Engine licensees was a no-brainer.”

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Everyone’s Recommendation selects two more titles

Wii Gamer — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:55:52 +0000

When PS3 or Xbox 360 games become successful enough, they earn the right to be re-released later on, with a cheaper and more competitive price. For the Wii, it’s different they let the Nintendo Channel users

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Game devs cuffed after cops bust wrong joint

Wii Gamer — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:55:38 +0000

A game development team was hard at work when the police suddenly busted in and put them all on handcuffs. How’d that happen?

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EA Seemingly Drops Dragon Age 2 Release Date

Wii Gamer — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:55:34 +0000

EA and BioWare are supporting the Dragon Age franchise with ambitious downloadable content plans and even an expansion. On top of that, we may have just discovered the release date for the upcoming sequel. Retail copies of Dragon Age: Origins Awakening arrived at the 1UP offices today, and included in the box was a placard with an intriguing hint (above). The iconic bloody dragon accompanies the date, February 1, 2011.

As far as release dates go, this one is being dropped much sooner than most, as well as in an unconventional manner. But February 1 falls on a Tuesday next year, the traditional game release day, and an EA conference call already revealed the Dragon Age sequel would be hitting between January and March of 2011. While we’ll have to wait for word from EA and BioWare to call it official, this fits comfortably in that range, and so it seems likely as the date for the sequel. Mark your calendars, Dragon Age fans.

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Epic Integrates Steamworks into Unreal Engine 3

Wii Gamer — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:55:28 +0000

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