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Nintendo had 30 Wii Wheel prototypes
Nintendo Wii
Nintendo Wii
Reads: 173
Posted by def9 on Sunday, April 06 @ 10:13:36 MDT

Get some plastic, shape it into a circle, cut out a slot for the Wii Remote, and bam, out comes a Wii Wheel. As it would turn out, Nintendo's driving peripheral that will be integral to Mario Kart Wii required a bit more thought to get just right. Actually, a lot more thought. In Nintendo's most recent "Ask Iwata" developer interview, Wii Wheel lead designer Kenichiro Ashida explains that the device went through around 30 iterations before finalization.

Wii Wheels's seen here

"While we were making prototypes like these, we went through a process of trial and error," explained Ashida. "With regard to weight, we thought carefully about how many grams would best suit gameplay. When considering durability, we wanted to make something strong using thick materials, but increasing the weight by even 30 grams would have been considered too heavy for some people. We eventually designed it to be as light as possible so people could use it for a long time without getting tired too quickly."

Weight and durability weren't the only factors Ashida and his team grappled with in the wheels design. Concerns spanned from where it would be best to house the wheel to how to best accommodate button positioning to whether the shape should be circular or rectangular.

Miyamoto, who was also party to the "Ask Iwata" interview, succinctly summarized Ashida's process, saying, "It costs a lot, so we needed it to do a lot of work!"


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Brawl Bogged Down with Online Issues
Nintendo Wii
Nintendo Wii
Reads: 213
Posted by def9 on Monday, March 17 @ 22:16:50 MST

Wii online capabilities suffer another 300% knock-out

GoNintendo has posted the following official statement from Nintendo regarding the online problems with Brawl:

"As with the launch of any online-enabled game, especially one as popular as Super Smash Bros. Brawl, everyone wants to play at once. This puts a strain on the pipeline. We have seen improvements in online play performance every day since launch."

So Nintendo's solution seems to be, "Less people should play our game." And if the online problems persist, that will almost certainly be the case. Brilliant.


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HD DVD dropped by Wal-Mart, Toshiba?
General News
General News
Reads: 317
Posted by def9 on Saturday, February 16 @ 13:28:06 MST

It's been a rough year for Toshiba's HD DVD format. After spending 2006 and 2007 locked in a heated battle with the Sony-backed Blu-ray for high-definition, high-capacity disc format dominance, HD DVD has suffered a series of devastating setbacks in the first two months of the year.

Warner Bros. kicked 2008 off by going Blu-ray exclusive in the first week of January. An apparently panicked HD DVD camp canceled its Consumer Electronics Show conference in response, and reports quickly surfaced that HD DVD holdouts Paramount and Universal were looking to switch to Blu-ray.

Bad news for HD DVD fans is continuing to snowball this week, as Best Buy and movie rental service Netflix both said they would back the Sony-supported format going forward. (Best Buy will still stock HD DVD, but its salespeople will advise prospective customers to go Blu-ray).

Two more big names came up as abandoning HD DVD today. This morning the official Wal-Mart blog confirmed that the massive retail chain is going Blu-ray exclusive by June, and the Hollywood Reporter is citing "reliable industry sources" for the news that Toshiba itself is ready to drop its own format.

A Toshiba representative denied the news to the film-focused trade newspaper, but left plenty of room for people to infer there is some truth to the report.

"Given the market developments in the past month," the rep is quoted as saying, "Toshiba will continue to study the market impact and the value proposition for consumers, particularly in light of our recent price reductions on all HD DVD players."

A source "close to the HD-DVD camp" told the paper that an announcement could be made in a matter of weeks, but that it is definitely coming soon.


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Upcoming PC Game Releases
PC Software/Hardware News
PC Software/Hardware News
Reads: 341
Posted by def9 on Sunday, December 23 @ 19:34:20 MST


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First UT3 User Mods Released For PS3
PS3 News
PS3 News
Reads: 346
Posted by def9 on Sunday, December 23 @ 19:30:34 MST

Epic Games has released its first round of user-created content for the PlayStation 3 version of Unreal Tournament 3.

The multiplayer map called DM-Shrine, created by Nottingham, England, resident Thomas Browett (aka Setheran) can be downloaded onto a PC, copied onto a PS3-readable memory device and uploaded to your system.

The map was originally created for the PC version of the game and "cooked" by Epic for the PS3. According to Epic president Mark Rein, who posted the announcement on the Epic forums last night, the company hasn't edited the content but simply reformatted the code to run on the console.

"We're waiting on some paperwork from Sony that will allow us to release an editor update so mod creators can do this cook process for themselves," Rein said. "We expect to have that very soon."

According to Rein's post, here are the steps needed to transfer and play the new user-created content:

1. Unzip the file to the root directory of any memory card that is readable by your PlayStation 3. It is already in the proper directory structure but, just in case, the path and filename need to be: ps3savedatalus30086-modimportuserdata.jam
2. Boot up Unreal Tournament 3 on your PS3
3. Go to the "Community" menu
4. Choose "My Content"
5. Press the [SQUARE] button to "Import Mod"
6. Follow the directions on the screen to import it from your memory device.

Once imported you'll be able to see the map in your list of Deathmatch maps. You'll be able to host the map and join servers that are hosting the map. All UT3 mods install this same way. If this were a mutator it would show up in the mutator list. If it were a gametype it would show up in gametype lists, etc.

Today, Epic announced three more maps and a mutator: DM-Elevation by Warby, VCTF-Slax by Kantham, DM-Krodan by Hourences, and VASUT3AutoShields (mutator) by KalCorp.



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Nintendo rules out Wii price cut, unveils game-gifting
Nintendo Wii
Nintendo Wii
Reads: 344
Posted by def9 on Sunday, October 28 @ 18:22:38 MST

Two weeks ago, Nintendo of America's outgoing senior vice president George Harrison said his company wasn't planning to cut the price of the Wii. The news wasn't surprising, since NOA president and CEO Reggie Fils-Aime previously promised the console would be in short supply through next year. However, since both executives' statements, the next-gen console war has heated up. Last week, Sony unveiled a new $399 PlayStation 3 and Microsoft touted the $279 Xbox Live Arcade as a direct Wii competitor.

Will Nintendo retaliate by cutting the price of the Wii? The short answer: No. In Japan, Nintendo Co. president Satoru Iwata told the Associated Press that the console's cost will remain unchanged in all territories. "We're still focusing on how to meet booming demand," he explained. "We're absolutely not considering a price cut."

Though Iwata's comments weren't exactly shocking, Nintendo did have one surprise up its sleeve. Also today in Japan, the company unveiled a new channel for its console which will allow Wii owners to give Virtual Console games to one another as gifts.

"We think this will be a breakthrough in encouraging customers to spread news of fun games via word of mouth," Iwata told the AP. "We also hope to spur more users to connect their Wiis to the Internet." Such statements stand in stark contrast to Iwata's position during the GameCube era, where he said that consumers were averse to consoles with online functionalities.

Unfortunately, no further information on the Wii game-gift channel was available as of press time. Nintendo of America reps said they had no further details, but urged Nintendo fans to "stay tuned."


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The E3 List
General News
General News
Reads: 488
Posted by hannibal on Sunday, July 08 @ 21:38:31 MDT

E3 will be starting this week, here is a list of games that will be shown or playable at this year's E3 event:

Activision
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PS3, Xbox 360)
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)
Guitar Hero III (PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, DS)
Tony Hawk's Proving Ground (PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, PS2, DS)
Spiderman: Friend or Foe
Bee Movie

Atari
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 (Wii, PS2)
Godzilla: Unleashed (Wii, DS, PSP)
Jenga (Wii)
The Witcher (PC)

Bethesda Softworks
Fallout 3

Capcom
Ace Attorney 3
MotoGP 2007 (PS2)
Devil May Cry 4 (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)
Rocketmen: Axis of Evil (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)
Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)
Talisman (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)
Zack and Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure (Wii)

Codemasters
Cliver Barker's Jericho (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)
HEI$T (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)
Rise of the Argonauts (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)
Turning Point: Fall of Liberty (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)


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PS3 price cut, new bundle announced
PS3 News
PS3 News
Reads: 484
Posted by hannibal on Sunday, July 08 @ 21:26:13 MDT

Sony Corp. announced a revised PlayStation 3 console Monday with a bigger hard drive for storing downloaded content such as video games and high-definition movies.

The new $599 PS3 increases the system's storage capacity from 60 to 80 gigabytes and also includes a retail copy of the online racing title ``MotorStorm,'' a company spokesman said.

Starting Monday, the current 60 gigabyte model will cost $499 _ a $100 price drop.

The larger capacity machine won't be available in the United States and Canada until August.

It plays into the company's upcoming strategy of eventually offering downloaded high-definition movies, video games, movie trailers and demos, Sony spokesman David Karraker said.

Karraker said further details on high-def movies for download would be released at a later date.

The announcement comes two days before the E3 Media & Business Summit in Santa Monica, Calif., where dozens of industry heavyweights including Sony rivals Microsoft Corp. and Nintendo Co. are expected to show off their latest games and related products.


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Starcraft 2 unveiled
PC Software/Hardware News
PC Software/Hardware News
Reads: 434
Posted by hannibal on Saturday, May 19 @ 09:31:14 MDT

SEOUL, South Korea – May 19, 2007 – Blizzard Entertainment® today unveiled StarCraft® II, the sequel to its award-winning real-time strategy game StarCraft, at the 2007 Blizzard Worldwide Invitational event in Seoul, South Korea. The announcement took place inside the Olympic Gymnastics Arena, in front of thousands of attendees, who received a presentation that included a StarCraft II cinematic trailer and a gameplay demonstration by the development team.

Designed to be the ultimate competitive real-time strategy game, StarCraft II will feature the return of the Protoss, Terran, and Zerg races, overhauled and re-imagined with Blizzard's signature approach to game balance. Each race will be further distinguished from the others, with several new units and new gameplay mechanics, as well as new abilities for some of the classic StarCraft units that will be making a reappearance in the game. StarCraft II will also feature a custom 3D-graphics engine with realistic physics and the ability to render several large, highly detailed units and massive armies on-screen simultaneously.

"With StarCraft II, we'll be able to do everything we wanted to do with the original StarCraft and more," stated Mike Morhaime, president and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. "We recognize that expectations are high following the long-running popularity of the original game, but we plan to meet those expectations and deliver an engaging, action-packed, competitive experience that StarCraft players and strategy gamers worldwide will enjoy."

StarCraft II will include a unique single-player campaign, as well as fast-paced online play through an upgraded version of Blizzard's renowned online gaming service, Battle.net®. In addition, the game will come with a powerful, full-featured map editor that will put the same tools used by Blizzard's designers into the hands of players.

Blizzard is developing StarCraft II for simultaneous release on the Windows® and Macintosh® PC platforms. Further information about the game, including details on the single-player, multiplayer, and map-editor features, as well as system requirements, pricing, and availability, will be announced in the months ahead. To learn more about StarCraft II, please visit the official website at www.starcraft2.com.


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Little Big Planet Facts
PS3 News
PS3 News
Reads: 436
Posted by hannibal on Monday, May 14 @ 22:44:46 MDT

Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment America
Developer: Media Molecule Ltd
Platform: PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™) computer entertainment system
Genre: Creative Gaming
Players: 1-4 Players
Rating: “RP” for Rating Pending

Developed by Media Molecule, LittleBigPlanet™ is a new PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™) computer entertainment system community-based game with a hugely innovative concept behind it. Players meet on a blue and green planet scattered with individual plots – and use their character’s amazing abilities to play, create and share what they build with other gamers throughout the world via PLAYSTATION®Network.

The LittleBigPlanet experience starts with players learning about their character’s powers to interact physically with the environment. There are places to explore, creative resources to collect and puzzles to solve – all requiring a combination of brains and collaborative teamwork. As soon as players begin their creative skills will grow and they will soon be ready to start creating and modifying their surroundings – the first step to sharing them with the whole community.

Characters have the power to move anything in this glued and stitched-together 3D landscape; they have the power to design, shape and build both objects and entire locations for others to view and play. There’s no complicated level editor; all of these skills can be learned by simply playing the game. Creativity is part of the gameplay experience and playing is part of the creative experience. Players can make their world as open or as secretive to explore as they like. When it’s ready, they can invite anyone within the LittleBigPlanet community to come and explore their patch – or can go and explore everybody else’s.

KEY FEATURES

• There’s not just one way to play. Players craft their own individual experience based on their own creativity.
• Unlimited possibilities for user-created content – players can customize everything: their characters, the landscape around them and their own patch on LittleBigPlanet.
• Players learn new skills and discover new items to aid them on their creative journey Explore the massive single player game or go online to find user-generated content.”LittleBigPlanet will change every day as players contribute their own levels
• Online and offline multiplayer modes – play alone, work as a team or get competitive
• LittleBigPlanet global community for players to get involved with: includes player comments, rankings and easy communication with new and existing friends


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Gaming News - Gamespot
·Q&A: Breaking down the Chains of Olympus
·PressSpotting: Rockin' out with MTV's Stephen Totilo
·Spot On: Putting the "super" in superhero games
·MLB Power Pros 2008 on deck
·Gran Turismo takes 50 millionth sales lap
·Burnout Paradise crashing PCs
·Verbinski BioShocks Hollywood
·Codemasters snags F1 licence
·Tony Hawk reboots on DS in '08, consoles likely in '09
·Guitar Hero "leaping forward" in Q4, On Tour DS bundle confirmed

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