[Wii 204] Waar we wachten op de nieuwe E3

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2007 17:44 schreef Tomasso het volgende:

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Hoe kan jij die nu al gespeeld hebben?

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Patience is a virtue, a wise man once said, and nowhere is this more true than the circumstances surrounding the story we're about to bring you right now. A month or so before the March Game Developers Conference, Nintendo's PR agency approached us about a hush-hush new content initiative that the company had been cooking up, and wanted to know whether or not we'd be interested in being the first to get the lowdown. We were. But GDC came and went without any more information. From then on, we'd check in with Nintendo from time to time, but no new information was forthcoming, not even about when new information might be forthcoming. So we began to despair. But on Monday, the folks at Golin Harris PR reached out to us again to inform us that the time was now, that the offer was still on the table, and that Nintendo of America president Reginald Fils-Aime would be available to speak with us Tuesday afternoon. We spoke with him, and here's what we learned.

On Wednesday morning, Nintendo will officially announce to the general public its plans for WiiWare, downloadable games for the wildly popular Wii videogame console. Unlike the vintage games already being offered for legacy systems (i.e. Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo 64, Sega Genesis and TurboGrafx 16) through the Virtual Console, these games will be built specifically for the Wii and sold via the Wii Shop Channel for Wii Points currency, much like the Xbox 360- and Playstation 3-specific games being sold on Xbox Live Arcade and Playstation Network.

What's more interesting is that Nintendo isn't only seeking WiiWare from established publishers and developers like Ubisoft and Sega. At a Nintendo developer's conference earlier this week, the company informed attendees that it was seeking from indie developers as well. Shorter, original, more creative games from small teams with big ideas; these are the buzzwords that you'll be hearing from Nintendo when its Wednesday announcement goes wide. Fils-Aime told us that while Nintendo, as the retailer, would itself determine the appropriate pricing for each game on a per-title bases, the games themselves would not be vetted by Nintendo. Instead, Nintendo would only check the games for bugs and compatibility, with developers and publishers responsible for securing an E for Everyone, E10+ for Everyone 10 or older, T for Teen or M for Mature rating from the Entertainment Software Rating Board--Adults Only titles like Manhunt 2 aren't welcome. Look for the first WiiWare titles from Nintendo and third-parties to become available next year. And check back shortly with Level Up for more details on our conversation with Fils-Aime.

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Op woensdag 27 juni 2007 12:18 schreef _GdR_ het volgende:
oke... dit gaat over een golf spel?

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Op woensdag 27 juni 2007 13:17 schreef _GdR_ het volgende:
die artwork lijkt meer op een hentai ninja game...

is die golf game tof dan?

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Information comes us straight of Cannes where the IDEF is held. Ubisoft comes at the moment to officially announce that the development of Red Steel 2 is on the rails.

Far from being a surprise since we speak about it already here, this continuation will take again the best ingredients of the first episode, and will add some innovations in order to make forget the defects of this last, like the approximate gameplay. Red Steel 2 will be available on Wii in the current of the year 2008, and cherry on the cake, a online mode will integrate this new opus, which, wish, will be it with the height of the hopes of the players having already touched the first.

It is the Wii Saint today? Nobody had prevented me! Hold and if you do not have anything to make there, from continuation, now, thus come to read the test of Red Steel.

MAJ of Gizmo: Aaaaaah! Panics at Ubi Soft… Telephone call to the drafting: “What? Who confirmed? Even not true! One nothing confirmed forever! ”…
Ok. Marion, faithful to his practice, picolé serious during work, donc*…
What is an open secret for everyone since it is known that Ubi Soft will leave Red Steel 2 indeed, still “officially” was thus not announced. What you want… it is a question of policy marketing or I do not know what of other.

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Op donderdag 28 juni 2007 09:46 schreef Pronk het volgende:
Heeft iemand Resident Evil 4 al in een winkel gespot? Normaal liggen de Wii spellen 2 dagen voor de release al in o.a. de Bart Smit. Dit was bijvoorbeeld bij Mario Strikers en Excite Truck ook het geval.

Ik heb gisteren gezocht maar heb het spel helaas nog niet gevonden.

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H&G: LucasArts' Ward Talks Wii Lightsaber Game

H&G: LucasArts' Ward Talks Wii Lightsaber Game As part of the final Hollywood & Games Summit panel in Los Angeles, LucasArts' Jim Ward has been discussing the oft-raised question of a lightsaber game for Nintendo's Wii, saying that the company has internal prototypes running using the Wiimote.

In response to a question from session moderator N'Gai Croal of Newsweek asking: "What would it take to make a lightsaber game for the Wii?", Ward, who is President of LucasArts and a Senior VP at Lucasfilm, commented:

"We’re all over that, and internally we have already played a lightsaber game on the Wii. It’s a lot of fun, and we’ll get there."

He added that the whole concept of a title using a lightsaber of Nintendo Wii was "...in place! There’ll be some stuff out this Fall - it’s going to be a lot of fun."

It's unclear whether Ward could have been referring to the TT Games-developed Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga, which will debut later this year on multiple formats including the Wii, or whether the company is planning further, as yet unannounced Wii-specific Star Wars games.

(The product page for The Complete Saga notes of the Wii SKU: "Motion-sensitive inputs give you exciting new ways to control your Lego Star Wars characters.")

The publisher is likely to reveal more information on its upcoming titles at the E3 Media Summit in Los Angeles early next month - Gamasutra will have the full write-up from the Jim Ward (LucasArts) and Neil Young (Electronic Arts) panel at Hollywood and Games in the near future.

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Unfortunately, details on the game, which is simply called Cruis'n, are slim. What we do know is that players will be able to pick from "an impressive lineup of cars" that they can speed through twelve different street circuits. The title will be controlled with the Wii remote, presumably held classic style to steer. Meanwhile, the vehicles can be fitted with upgraded turbos, body kits, neon displays and nitrous boosters, among other things.

Otherwise, Midway is keeping really quiet about the racer, which is due out this November -- again, exclusively for Wii.

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Game Party challenges players to use the Wii remote to partake in minis that revolve around darts, table hockey and hoop shoot, among others. Midway promises "more than a half dozen games" for the final product. In addition, there will be a full-blown trivia mode. The title is scheduled to ship this November.

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Op donderdag 28 juni 2007 11:29 schreef Pronk het volgende:

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Daar kan ik het spel inderdaad al online bestellen, dan heb ik het spel echter pas morgen. Mijn probleempje is dat ik vanavond veel tijd over heb en daarna waarschijnlijk 2 weken niet kan spelen. Ik denk dus dat ik nog maar een paar weekjes wacht en het spel dan uit een willekeurige winkel meeneem.

Ik moet helaas gewoon even geduldig zijn.