Nintendo Wii News
Mar
OnLive, the highly heralded cloud gaming service announced at last year’s GDC, will finally launch in the US on June 17, with PC and Mac support on day one. More after the jump.
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So what’s new in the upcoming Transformers game from High Moon Studios? Well, check out this video interview with Matt Tieger, Game Director of Transformers: War for Cybertron as he reveals new details about the game.
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Mar
A demo for Order of War: Challenge for the PC was initially released recently, but as it turns out, it was plagued with issues. Don’t worry though. A new fully workable demo has now been sent out.
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Mar
In Japan, the equivalent of the ESRB is the Computer Entertainment Rating Organization (CERO), the industry outfit responsible for giving content ratings to every console game released in the country. CERO rates based on a scale of five letters: A (all ages), B (ages 12 and up), C (ages 15 and up), D (ages 17 and up), and Z (ages 18 and up only).
That “only” attached to the Z rating has been the source of consternation for many a gamer in Japan. Unlike the ESRB’s “Adults Only” rating, CERO’s Z seems to be applied almost exclusively based on violence standards — if there’s too much blood, you’re out. What’s worse, while a Z on the box isn’t as bad as an AO rating in America (or being refused classification at all in Australia, effectively banning it from shelves), it essentially means that the game cannot be advertised in any public manner within Japan.
The situation came to a head recently when Sony’s God of War III was given a Z, even though the first two games both got D ratings in Japan. Game-store owners were, to say the least, miffed. “[The Z rating] basically means I can engage in no practical advertising,” one Tokyo-based store owner blogged last month. “There are no TV ads, no videos playing in the store. The best I can do is put up posters and flyers, but no matter how great the game is, you can’t show what makes it fun with still images. Capcom [the publisher of GOW 1 and 2 in Japan] spent all this time building up the brand, and now it’s all ruined!”
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Mar
Wii homebrew - C64-network.org v1
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Homebrew coder Simon Kagstrom has released a revamped version of his Commodore 64 emulator for the Nintendo Wii, Frodo. Now officially called c64-network.org, the latest update of the brew includes lot’s of fixes, a nifty new GUI,
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Mar
Moving beyond the tabloid fodder of the past several months, Electronic Arts has a series to market. EA Sports has started spinning up the hype machine for Tiger Woods 11, announcing that will feature support for the PS3 Motion Controller as well as the inclusion of the Ryder Cup.
As was the case with the Wii MotionPlus-enabled Tigers Woods 10, this year’s PS3 edition is aiming for “an authentic interactive swing experience.” The Wii version will continue to support MotionPlus, and will also be adding an “Advanced Plus” swing difficulty that reads rotation and swing able. There’s also the “Tour Pro” swing mechanic, which focuses on rotation, swing plane and point of contact, and a new first-person view
The Ryder Cup feature pits the best American and European golfers in the world against one another. To promote the feature, European captain Rory McIlroy will be appearing on the cover alongside Tiger Woods. It will allow for up to 24 players to compete head-to-head as members of either team.
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Mar
Lady Gaga has consistently been the voice on the radio, the music in bars, that Last Song Syndrome in your head. Her songs have been playing everywhere so much that even Eric Cartman couldn’t resist singing
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Mar
Ryan Kesler graces NHL 2K11 cover
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With contributions to the 2010 US Olympic hockey team and his heroics in the 2010 Winter Olympics, this guy will be the face of 2K Sports’ game on the ice. Any hockey fans in the house? On
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Mar
Sony’s PhyreEngine coming to PSP
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Sony Computer Entertainment has announced that its free to use, cross platform PhyreEngine adopted by a number of studios and used in PSN titles is going to be available to the PSP platform this spring.
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Mar
Steel yourselves, plastic guitar aficionados, for all is proceeding exactly as the vulgar prophet Eric Cartman foretold nearly six months ago — relentless hordes of Lady Gaga DLC loom over Rock Band’s horizon. A four-pack of tracks from the flamboyant pop star will besiege the Xbox 360 and Wii next Tuesday, March 16. PlayStation 3 users have a bit more time to prepare, as the DLC isn’t projected to hit the PlayStation Store until that Thursday, March 18.
Miss Gaga’s not alone, however. Just in time for season 14 of South Park, Cartman’s cover version of Lady Gaga’s own “Poker Face” also marches onto the Rock Band DLC scene next week — a deft counter-maneuver that just might turn the tide on this thing after all.
Each track will go for the individual price of $1.99 (160 Microsoft points; 200 Wii Points), with the quartet of Lady Gaga downloads priced at $6.99 (560 Microsoft points). Get the women and children to safety, and then educate yourself on the coming Gagapocalypse below:
“Bad Romance” by Lady Gaga
“Just Dance” by Lady Gaga
“Monster” by Lady Gaga
“Poker Face” by Lady Gaga
“Poker Face” by Eric Cartman
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