Nintendo Wii News
Mar
Rockstar Games has announced that due to a last minute game submission request from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe to edit some in-game contents, the Grand Theft Auto IV: Episodes from Liberty City for both the PS3 and
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Mar
Star Wars: The Old Republic
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Costs have been high for the development of EA’s Star Wars: The Old Republic. The company’s not worried, however. They’re confident that they’ll be able to recoup their expenses, just as soon as their expected 2 million
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Mar
Blizzard Entertainment has further expanded the StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty multiplayer beta by sending additional keys which will allow beta participants to invite a friend to join the beta test.
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Mar
What’s next for Yoshinori Ono after Super Street Fighter IV? Another Street Fighter game? He doubts it. Instead, he wants to make a new Darkstalkers game.
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Mar
Wii homebrew - Geckoreader v1.0
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A new version of r-win and giantpune’s GeckoReader is now ready for download. GeckoReader is “a program to be run under Windows that will open a command prompt and output what it reads from a USB gecko.
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Reggie’s back, and he’s got more to say about the PlayStation Move. This time, he asks, “Why would people buy Move when they already have Wii?”
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Mar
GameStop has something to say to publishers losing money due to used game sales: “Partner with us and we’ll both make money.”
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Mar
Well here we go again guys! A Japanese coder named maku has discovered a new flaw in the demo of an unknown game that lead him to a new savedata exploit for the PSP firmware 6.20. Is
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Mar
Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime is skeptical of Sony’s hope to make the Move an appealing proposition for Wii owners. In an Industry Gamers interview, he addresses users who might be tempted to get the Move based on it looking like a hi-def Wii. “So I’m a consumer and I’m having a great experience with my Wii,” Fils-Aime said. “And we know that’s the case - we look at the software that’s being purchased. Consumers love the Wii. What’s going to motivate them to spend minimally $300 for a new [PS3] system, plus minimally $100 for the Move motion bundle? So [as a consumer] now I’m into this for $400 and I still have to spend money on software. What’s going to motivate me to do that?”
Though Fils-Aime is biased for obvious reasons, he raises a valid point. While the PlayStation 3 has its own selling points, like HD gaming and a blu-ray player, the Move may be too similar to the Wii for its own good. Sony debuted the device with Sports Champions, which more than a few people noticed looks a lot like Wii Sports. Sony has said Move will be under $100, but that may translate to $99. Asking Wii users to spend roughly $400 for a similar experience will be a hard sell, so Sony may find more luck relying on their library of core games compatible with Move. Check out our own impressions in the video above.
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Mar
Shinji Mikami Forms New Studio
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Shinji Mikami, creator of franchises like Resident Evil and Viewtiful Joe for Capcom, is currently working with Hideki Kamiya’s Platinum Games on Vanquish, a shooter due out by the end of the year. He’s got even bigger plans in the works, though — in an interview printed in this week’s Famitsu magazine, the designer revealed that he’s moving from Osaka to Tokyo in order to create a brand-new development studio of his own.
“One of the reasons I’m building a company is to raise the game makers of the future, people who haven’t gone pro yet,” Mikami told Famitsu. “Game development is often overseen from a pure business perspective here, which is unique to Japan, and I have the impression that environment tends to prune away young talent. I really want to make Tango a company run from a creator’s perspective, one that expands upon new talent.”
Mikami, who left Capcom in November 2005 to go freelance, will fold up Straight Story (his current company) after development work on Vanquish wraps up later this year.
His new studio currently employs 13 people, including sound director Masashi Takada (formerly of Grasshopper Manufacture) and art directors Ryosuke Aiba (Final Fantasy XI) and Naoki Katakai Okami). “We’re going to handle all development within the company, so I think one development team will be the limit,” Mikami said. “I’d like to see it grow to 100 people or so in five to seven years.”
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