Category Archives: Nintendo Media Summit 2008

Updating live from the Atari UK Alone in the Dark event in London. After the link.

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Colour us shocked. Joystiq’s reporting that the Boom Blox head-tracking feature – that was supposedly going to allow players to move the game’s camera with head movements – has been pulled. From the site:

At the Nintendo Media Summit, Boom Blox senior producer Amir Rahimi confirmed that the final version of the game will lack the head-tracking mode. We understand that it was always an Easter egg, requiring gamers to set up Wii Remotes as cameras, and hacking together their own IR LED glasses. But you didn’t have to go to TED to see the promise, and we’re disappointed to see it removed.

More here.

Couple of playtests just popped up of BioWare’s Sonic RPG, Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood. There’s one on 1up and one on MTV. Plenty of detail there for those interested, and new screens showing what appears to be a fairly standard team-based FF-esque console RPG combat system.

They’re both taken from the US Nintendo Media Summit. Go see.

Update: GoNintendo’s got one too.

1up’s gone live with a heap of impressions from last week’s Nintendo Media Summit in the US. They did it first, so they get the links. Look: LostWinds!

• FFCC: My Life as a King
• Guitar Hero: On Tour
• LostWinds
• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
• Samba de Amigo
• Boom Blox

Update: Here’s Eurogamer’s stuff. So that’s what Pop is.

Update 2: New movies, courtesy of IGN:

• Wii Rock Band
• World of Goo
• LostWinds
• Pop
• Wrap-up video from the Summit

Update: First impressions of BioWare’s Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood just went up.

Want to read some sketchy notes about a really long WiiWare presentation in America? Course you do. IGN live blogged the second day of Nintendo’s Media Summit just in case you do. There’s stuff in there about Strong Bad, World of Goo and the fact Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles and Major League Eating were playable but no one can write about them until next week. Enjoy.

The US press has been embargoed on some of this – we’re guessing one of the games you’re going to have to wait to hear about is Star Wars: The Force Unleashed – but GoNintendo’s kindly posted a list of everything shown at Nintendo’s American Media Summit yesterday. What’s “Pop”?

Wii

• Wii Fit
• Boom Blox
• Samba de Amigo
• Mario Kart Wii
• de Blob
• Rock Band
• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

DS

• Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness
• My Weight Loss Coach
• Sonic Chronicles
• Crosswords DS
• Space Invaders Extreme
• Zenses Ocean
• Kung Fu Panda

WiiWare

• World of Goo
• Major League Eating
• FFCC: My Life as a King
• Pop
• LostWinds