Monthly Archives: April 2009

Sony’s released its March PSN figures, showing Flower on top for the second month in a row.

Wheel of Fortune and Noby Noby Boy came second and third respectively.

Get the top ten from Gamerbytes.

Gamestop CEO Dan DeMatteo has told CNBC that a Wii price cut may become inevitable in the US, thanks to dwindling demand.

“I think [demand for] the Wii could slow down to the extent that Nintendo may want to cut the price,” he said.

“Nintendo has it within its arsenal to do that. The component costs have come down considerably. They used to break even on the Wii, but now they’re making a considerable margin.”

Clearly having his console price cut head on today, the exec said the Sony’s recent PS2 price drop was too little, too late.

“To be honest, it really wasn’t worth doing,” he said.

“If they’d done it earlier, publishers probably would have kept making games for the PS2, but once they’ve stopped, they’ve stopped.”

More through there.

IGN’s posted a video of Stardock’s Brad Wardell talking through imminent fixes to Demigod’s multiplayer.

Changes on the way include the ability for hosts to drop out people having trouble connecting, “more servers” and code optimisation.

The game was forced out by Gamestop putting it on shelves early at the weekend.

Take a look.

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Sucker Punch has confirmed inFamous’s gold status via Twitter, the internet social networking application of champions.

“One word: GOLD,” said the message.

The PS3 superhero exclusive’s out in the US at the end of May. We’re still down as June in Europe.

Sony’s put up a God of War III collector’s edition survey, including a question about including the previous two games on the PS3 title’s Blu-ray.

The inclusion of the PS2 titles would probably stamp another “must-own” logo on the game’s box, to go along with the other 20, so hit the link and tell Sony how great it’d be if they were there.

You need to be logged into you PSN account to take part. Finish it and you get an HD wallpaper.

NCsoft has detailed upcoming Lineage II expansion Gracia Final, as well as unloading a bunch of screens for it.

Gracia Final is a whole new continent for the MMO. Aerial transformation skills can be used to explore the place. New PVP moves will be added with the update, as will a new tournament area and three-on-three battles to the Olympiad tournament.

It’s up on the test server now.

Hit the link for the rest.

A Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty novel is to release on November 24.

It was penned by author Raymond Benson, the author of the first Metal Gear Solid novel, who’s also written books in the James Bond series.

Amazon is now taking preorders, offering 20 percent off the listed price.

Via Kotaku.

Last week, Matt Groening filed a trademark for a potential videogame based on his Life in Hell comic strip.

The creator of The Simpsons and Futurama, as Kotaku points out, is known to file trademarks for things he will never do. In other words, don’t hold your breath folks.

For those unfamiliar with the thirty-year old weekly comic strip, Life in Hell’s name was changed to Life in Swell in back in 2007, and stars a cranky rabbit named Binky, his ex, and an illegitimate son.

Would be one of the strangest games ever made, if we’re being honest.

Midway is awaiting court approval to hand out monetary incentives from a pool containing up to $600,000 providing it can sell the company for $30 million, reports Gamasutra.

Two goals for the company include the $600,000 reward pool, the other to pay key personnel $1 million once the sale closes.

Midway determined these bonuses by “the level of payment that is necessary or appropriate to provide an economic incentive for each Participant to exert additional efforts beyond his/her normal duties on behalf of the Company.”

More through the link.

Sega said today that Virtua Tennis for Wii will have online modes just like the other versions, and, thanks to Wii MotionPlus, use of buttons is optional.

Which is the main reason Sega feels its tennis game will stand out from EA Grand Slam Tennis.

“I understand our competitors are using buttons?” said a Sega producer during a demo with Eurogamer.

Moreover, the game includes 100 percent of the content and modes included in the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 versions.

Game’s out in May. Thanks, GoNintendo.

Hideo Kojima’s told Kikizo that he’s keen on collaborating with western development studios.

“I’m not sure when this will happen, but yes, I’m very interested,” he said.

“There are many development companies outside of Japan working with Konami, and I believe that they’re all special in some way; they have their unique points, and if we were to team up with them I wouldn’t dictate to them, ‘You should do things this way, use this color, change this.’

“I’d have to really try to help them do what they do best as production studios. That’s how I plan to do it in the future, and to give them freedom.”

Metal Gear Solid 5 made in Alaska confirmed. Tons more through the link.

Loads of folks have posted impressions of Luxoflux’s upcoming Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, thanks to a preview from Activision.

The general consensus is that the developers did a better job this time around. Phew.

Links:

• Destructoid
• Joystiq
• Kotaku

The game’s expected to launch with the film this summer for DS, PS3, Wii and 360.

Atari has released a few new Ghostbusters screenshots, along with a dev diary from the game’s multiplayer developers.

Threewave, the firm handling co-op for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360, was initially skeptical about working on the project because “movie licensed games are not something that Threewave, being a group of mostly hardcore shooter fans, usually get excited about.”

The team changed its tune after about a month.

Read on for the diary and hit up Shacknews for the shots.

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A single-player Dawn of War II demo’s gone out – get it from BigDownload.

It’ll got you 333Mb. The game’s also been patched to v1.2.1, for those with the full version. Get the notes through the link.

Shacknews is carrying a new Batman trailer, this one featuring Bane. He’s nasty.

The game’s out for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 this June, and looks to be shaping up very nicely indeed.

See for yourself.

Ubi’s released the first proper look at new RTS RUSE, in the form of a gameplay-heavy walthrough vid posted after the break.

It looks very cool, if the prospect of next gen WWII RTS floats your boat. The video details one of the game’s deception skills, that of radio silence.

No date as yet, but it’s coming for PC, 360 and PS3. Take a look.

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The Rolando 2 website‘s gone live, and is promising weekly updates.

The ngmoco iPhone sequel was announced at GDC.

Thanks, PocketGamer.

Take a picture of yourself eating a cake, upload it to the Fat Princess Facebook page and you may get on the beta.

First 250 win, so quick. More detail on the PS Blog.

Nintendo has told GameDaily that Wii MotionPlus will not work on older games, nor will a patch be released for WMP to work with Wii Fit.

“The Wii MotionPlus accessory is only for games that are designed to make use of its abilities,” said Nintendo in a statement.

The site originally theorized, that Nintendo would release patches that “will make the new accessory work with your already existing library.”

Via Kotaku.

The Movie Comic Media Expo will be held on May 23-24 at the ExCel Center in London, with Tekken 6, Ghostbusters and Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce all playable.

Eidos, Rising Star Games, and Koei will also be there with demos at the ready.

Last year, MCM played host to over 30,000 attendees, and 35,000 are expected this year.

Hollywood stars appearing include Tony Curtis, Linda Hamilton and Lindsey Wagner – yes, the original Bionic Woman.

More information is over on the official site.