Thursday, March 11th, 2010 | Posted by Gavin Greene | 2 Comments
Harmonix and MTV Games recently announced a four-song pack coming to the Music Store from pop phenomenon Lady Gaga. In addition to “Bad Romance,” “Just Dance,” “Monster,” and “Poker Face” being available as a track pack and individual songs, the popular cover version by South Park character Eric Cartman will also be made available with the track pack as a separate song when the songs premiere next week.
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010 | Posted by Gavin Greene | No Comments
Harmonix and MTV Games strive to continue their domination in the music-rhythm genre, despite a downturn in sales last year, with releasing information on two new discs in the self-described revolutionary Rock Band franchise. Via an update to their company Facebook page, Harmonix revealed Rock Band 3 as being in production. This reveal comes after the announcement that Dhani Harrison, son of Beatle George Harrison and aid in selling the band’s music rights to Apple, will be working on making Rock Band 3 instruments “more real so people can actually learn how to play music while playing the game.” No release dates have been officially announced for the title.
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 | Posted by Gavin Greene | 1 Comment
While it may lack the name recognition many other DS/Wii developers manage, Cing released a few cult favorite titles on Nintendo’s platforms before they filed for bankruptcy on March 1st. Kotaku reports that the company is over 200 million yen ($2.2 million) in debt. Former releases for Cing include Trace Memory, Little King’s Story, and Hotel Dusk Room 215, the sequel of which – Last Window - was released this January in Japan.
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 | Posted by Vincent Lam | 1 Comment
Mega Man returns in an all-new 8 bit adventure in Mega Man 10 for Wiiware, PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade. Capcom has announced that Mega Man 10 will also have downloadable content, but released a month later instead of the week after as seen with Mega Man 9. Add-on content includes:
Bass Mode for 200 Wii points on April 5
Special Stage 1 for 100 Wii points on April 5
Special Stage 2 for 100 Wii points on April 26
Special Stage 3 for 100 Wii points on April 26
Endless Attack Mode for 300 Wii points on April 26
Mega Man 10 is now available on Wiiware and will be ready for download on PSN March 11th and XBLA on March 31st. As of this posting there are no official announcement for prices and release dates of DLC for PSN and XBLA versions of the game.
Thursday, February 25th, 2010 | Posted by Vincent Lam | No Comments
With the announcements of hit Q2 titles at the Nintendo Media Summit, European gamers are eager to find out when Nintendo hit titles hit stores selves in their country. Fear not as Nintendo just released launch dates:
Mario Galaxy 2: June 11 2010
Metroid: Other M: Q3 2010
Monster Hunter Tri: April 23 with free online
Sin & Punishment: Successor of the Skies: May 7, 2010
DSiXL: March 5, 2010
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 | Posted by Vincent Lam | 1 Comment
Nintendo just had their Q1 2010 Media Summit event in San Francisco; here is a quick summary of major news items and release dates:
Metriod Other M to release June 27th
New Club Nintendo items: Mario posters, Game and Watch Collection 2, Ultrahand for wiiware
Dragon Quest IX being published by Nintendo
Monster Hunter 3 free online play for North America. Demo disc at Gamestop March 8th
Original Prince of Persia SNES remake included in Forgotten Sands
Sin and Punishment: Star Successor to release June 7th. Trailer here
Ghostwire due out October
Super Mario Galaxy 2 launches May 23rd Trailer here
Cave Story launches March 8th
Nintendo has own e-reader on DS called “100 Classic Books” to releases June 14th
DSi XL coming March 28th for $189 in burgundy or bronze pre-loaded with: Brain Age Express: Arts & Letters and Brain Age Express: Math and Photo Clock, Nintendo DSi Browser and Flipnote Studio. Trailer here
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 | Posted by Robin Meijer | 6 Comments
Cammie Dunaway, executive vice president of sales and marketing for Nintendo of America, has announced that Super Mario Galaxy 2 will release on May 23rd in the United States. The news was revealed at the Nintendo Media Summit in San Francisco earlier today.
A new trailer for the game, which was shown at this event, will be made available to the general public later today.
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 | Posted by Gavin Greene | 2 Comments
Batman: The Brave and the Bold has received a solid fan following since its 2008 Cartoon Network debut, garnering enough attention to become the latest video game adaptation featuring the Dark Knight. As with the original comic and television series, the video game features a co-op “team-up” motif with two or more superheroes joining forces to defeat villain masterminds. The game will also feature cross-platform functionality between its two versions (Nintendo DS and Wii) to unlock BAT-MITE as a playable character. An official description can be found after the jump.
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010 | Posted by Randy Yasenchak | 2 Comments
In a secret released to everyone from Team Meat, it has been revealed today that the highly anticipated indie game Super Meat Boy will be released on Xbox Live Arcade in 2010. Super Meat Boy will also be released on PC and WiiWare.
Get your thumbs warmed up for some platforming goodness, everyone!
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Friday, February 19th, 2010 | Posted by Vincent Lam | 4 Comments
Winners for the 2010 Annual Interactive Achievement Award (DICE awards) voted by the entire video game development community has been announced. Along with announcing top games of 2009, the Annual Interactive Achievement Awards has honored successful game designer and Activision co-founder, David Crane with the AIAS’ first Pioneer Award. Entertainment Software Association (ESA) founder, Douglas Lowenstein (Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon) was inducted into the Hall of Fame honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Find the list after the break.
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 | Posted by Gavin Greene | 3 Comments
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has released the nominee list for their prestigious video games awards show, to be held on March 19th. Naughty Dog’s Uncharted 2 leads the nomination count with ten total, followed closely by Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 with nine. Interested gamers can find the full list of nominees and categories after the jump:
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Friday, February 12th, 2010 | Posted by Gavin Greene | No Comments
Game publisher THQ recently announced their partnership with Science-Fiction television brand SyFy, the partnership manifesting as possible TV-license video game releases and with THQ’s own titles making their way onto the network. The first IP to benefit from this is Wii-exclusive paint-splatter platformer de Blob, whose gelatinous mascot will be featured in the new SyFy Kids banner logo.
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Thursday, February 11th, 2010 | Posted by Vincent Lam | 8 Comments
Nintendo takes the lead in both hardware and software sales as the Nintendo Wii and New Super Mario Bros Wii takes the number one spot in the charts 3 and 2 months in a row respectively. Mass Effect 2 had a great 6 day run in January selling around 570,000 units (2 million internationally according to EA). On the flip side Bayonetta, although with it’s high praises didn’t make the top 10 list having been released the first week of January.
Hardware Sales
• Wii — 465,800
• Nintendo DS — 422,200
• Xbox 360 — 332,800
• PlayStation 3 — 276,900
• PlayStation Portable — 100,100
• PlayStation 2 — 41,600
**Numbers based on units sold
Thursday, February 11th, 2010 | Posted by Gavin Greene | 1 Comment
With major publishers Sega vocally pulling support of Nintendo’s console, overall projected third-party development support dropping 12% from last year, hardcore hopes for outside IP on the console seem to be diluted across the board. Despite the reduced interest in the Wii from many major developers, IndustryGamers still managed to get a hint of a port possibility of the popular submarine shooter Bioshock – even though Bioshock 2 seems unlikely – from a recent interview with 2K Marin’s Jordan Thomas.
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 | Posted by Vincent Lam | 1 Comment
An online petition hits the web soon after the Sonic the Hedgehog 4 episode 1 trailer was released. Sonic fans are demanding for a more “classic” Sonic design in Sonic 4 as Sega gave empty promises of a true sequel since Sonic the Hedgehog 3 for the Genesis. If you want to be part of the petition click here. Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode 1 launches Summer 2010 for PSN, XBLA, and Wiiware.
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