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Harley Quinn's Revenge Is Batman: Arkham City's Bad New Ending I’m going to level with you: Project Gotham Racing 4 is my favourite racing game of all time. Hands down. Yes, other games feature more content, and yes, other games are more “realistic”, but you know, I don’t care. They can’t match it for visual flair, they can’t match it for sound design, and they definitely can’t match the total package of making me feel like I’m strapped inside a ridiculously expensive sports car. So it’s with tears welling in the corner of my eyes that I read Bizarre have said there’s no more content on the way for the game, at least from them (and, really, nobody else will bother). So it’s done. That’s it. Not surprising, when you consider Bizarre are now paid by Activision, but still. It’s final, and as such, it’s saddening. Because it’s the final nail in the coffin of a game that lived too fast and died too young.
When Nintendo’s not making games, it’s redesigning hardware. When it’s not redesigning hardware, it’s denying hardware revisions. Previously, Famitsu boss Hirokazu Hamamura said a new DS was coming to E3, a rumour which Nintendo and Hanamura later denied. Now game site GamesRadar contacted Nintendo about the rumour. Nintendo’s reply?
No announcement has been made by Nintendo and everything reported online is pure speculation and rumour. Our hardware development team always work on the next product after we launch one hardware. It is usual that a new model will be brought to the market when we can not offer new ideas with the current model, but we think Nintendo DS is not at that stage yet, and we’d like to keep offering all sorts of suggestions to enrich the lives of people who own a Nintendo DS.
Hit the jump for GameRadar’s seven reasons why we’ll see a new DS sooner than later.
What, Ben Heck, coming up with excellent, crafty, gaming-related things? You don’t say. This is his latest contraption, a heavy-duty pedal designed to work with Guitar Hero to give it that extra dash of authenticity. After Heck did some one-handed GH controllers for the Games for Health conference, Activision decided to send him some guitars for further experimentation, and these are what he came up with. Although primarily designed to allow someone with the use of only one hand to play Guitar Hero (as the pedal allows them to strum with their feet), they can also be used to activate the whammy bar, giving them a much more general application. While they look nice and rugged, the highlight’s got to be the fact he wired them using the controller cables from an old Jaguar controller. Guitar Hero pedal controllers [Ben Heck]
Nintendo’s doing great! Making tons of money — just look at it go, go, go. What does that mean for its competitors? It means things are hard and not easy. Publisher THQ had a disappointing year with its Disney movie games. According to company CEO Brian Farrell : The kids’ market was extremely competitive during fiscal ’08. In fact, it was the most crowded market for video games for kids in recent memory. With a tough Pixar comparison to Cars [Ratatouille]and new competition from Nintendo’s first-party titles — as well as new music games — our traditionally strong kids’ business did not meet expectations.
Wait, back up. Since when is Nintendo “new competition”? Like, since 1985?! Our advice: Stop passing the buck. Nintendo Making Life Hard [casualgaming via GamesRadar][Pic]
The boys at PALGN have spotted a June 26 release date for Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros. Brawl at online store TopShop.
You may remember TopShop also had info on the street date for the Dual Shock 3 controller. The date turned out to be correct. So this, friends, is a good sign. Now, if only Nintendo could confirm…
Super Smash bros Brawl [Topshop, via PALGN]
Sony just rattled our mailbox to let us know that, presumably just as a single copy of GT5 Prologue was slid into a plastic bag and handed to a customer somewhere in Japan, that the combined sales from the Gran Turismo series have now reached 50 million units in the ten years since the series debuted on PS1. Attached to the press release is a handy guide to just how many copies of each game have been sold, but if you simply must know now, the highest-selling title (by a fairly comfortable margin, too) is GT3, with the god-awful GT4: Prologue registering as the poorest-performing of the lot.
I’m not sure I completely understand what the Fury League is, but it sounds like Auran has changed its struggling Fury from an action-based fantasy MMO, into an action-based fantasy MMO where you can make money.
Okay, there’s more to it than the cash-for-gaming aspect. Instead of earning abilities, new players will receive all 400+ on offer and 10,000 worth of Fury gold to deck themselves out. Sounds a bit like the tournament servers Blizzard recently introduced to World of Warcraft, but I could be mistaken.
According to the press release, Auran believes it’s finally found the right balance of elements for its game, with CEO Tony Hilliam stating that “there are two things [our core community]really want – a game where skill is rewarded not time played and the chance to win cool prizes”. $25,000 in prizes is a hunky number, but it’s a far cry from the arse-kicking $1 million worth Auran offered during the game’s beta.
You can’t blame Auran for putting continued effort into making the game respectable. It’s just hard to see how those efforts will be rewarded after the game’s bumpy reception and the subsequent downsizing of the studio.
Full release after the jump.
We haven’t seen corporate smack talk like this since Sony exec Peter Dille went apeshit last July! Microsoft executive Aaron Greenberg takes the puffy sparring gloves off, picks up a battle axe and swings it at Sony. (While dropping bombshells like: “Today Xbox 360 has a 5-million-unit console sales lead on a global basis based on most recently public reported data from both companies. This includes more than double the installed base in the US according to actual NPD sell-through and over a 1-million-unit lead across Europe also based on reported sell-through from Chart Track and GfK.”) Just listen as Greenberg unloads, spewing corporate venom all over Sony:
A patent’s been uncovered by VentureBeat, which Apple first filed in November 2006. It’s for a pointer/remote device, that communicates via IR, and has a sensor bar you place in front of the tellie to detect 3D movement. You know, just like a Wii Remote. The patent states the following:
…the absolute x- and y-positions of [the]remote control can be used, for example, in video games to position a user’s character or to otherwise track the movement of the remote control in a user’s environment.
