World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King hits stores on Nov. 13 for US$40, Activision-Blizzard announced today.
Scans are OK. We guess. Then again, they’re also kinda like reading a book underwater that’s wrapped in plastic. You get the gist, but it could be clearer. So it is with these Yakuza 3 screens, courtesy of Famitsu. They’re the ones you saw in the scans from last week, but they’re bigger, and they’re clearer. After all, scans just can’t do a blue, Sega sky justice.
伝説の龍、三度現る 『龍が如く3』 [Famitsu]
Peter Moore isn’t all chuckles and Xboxes and EA Sports. No, he once was a big man at Sega, and got to call a lot of shots. Some of them during good times, and some, the…not so good times. Like the demise of the Dreamcast.
WipeOut HD is a “coming sometime in the future” game no more. Sony have announced when the game will be out, and friends, it will be out soon. September 25, to be precise, and when out on September 25 will set you back $20. For that $20 you’re getting, amongst other things, 8 tracks, splitscreen racing (offline only) for two players, or if you’re up for a bigger challenge, 8-player online multiplayer.
WipEout HD Officially Dated, Priced [PlayStation.Blog]
Many didn’t like The Clone Wars and maybe you don’t like it either. Actor Sam Witwer, who did the motion capture and voice work for Darth Vader’s Secret Apprentice in The Force Unleashed, has a viable theory why:
On The Clone Wars issue, my take is I just feel like that would have been better represented on television. It was designed for television and it would have been seen in a completely different context if you saw a thirty minute story and then the next week a thirty minute story and if two weeks in a row are about Jabba the Hutt’s son, “that’s fine, let’s move on. Let’s get some more Clone War stories… What else happened?” I think when you put it in a theatre, you’re not only up against people like Pixar, but you are up against all of the other Star Wars movies, so I feel like it was a little bit handicapped and I personally feel like people are going to come back to the cartoon and go “You know what? This is great. We were hard on this.” I understand why they were, because they put it in a different arena, a completely different playing field and again I don’t think that is where it was designed to be. Would you agree with that?
Well, would you?
Quint chats with Darth Vader’s Secret Apprentice [Ain't It Cool News]
Man, as a package, The Getaway sucked. But the driving parts, and the attention to detail in recreating London, those bits were pretty great, so it’s good to see they’re at last being put to good use by somebody. A modified version of the game’s driving aspect has been used by British scientists to study how London cabbies are able to find their way around the city’s winding streets. Their findings are all a bit scientific for our stimulus-soaked brains, but hey, we’re sure the surviving Team SOHO members are thrilled to bits regardless.
Arcade site Arcade Heroes has tons of the Amusement and Music Operators Association show in Las Vegas. SEGA had the Rambo game, SEGA Rally 3 and a clay pigeon shooting game on display. Elsewhere in the show, it sounds like fighter Arcana Heart 2 is coming to the States — the game was previously thought to be Japan only. Also, the arcade version of Need for Speed Carbon has a very nice looking deluxe cabinet set-up.
Check out Arcade Heroes for the full run down.
AMOA [Arcade Heroes]
And the Spore/DRM issues just. Get. Worse. Despite the game’s manual shipping with the promise that you can set up multiple Spore accounts on the one PC, turns out that in fact the game won’t let you do this. Got more than one Spore player in the house? A friend or loved one? Sorry, they’ll have to either play as you in your account, or get their own damn copy. The anti-piracy stuff, as awful as it is, is at least defensible in theory. This, though, this is just mean.
Want More Than One Account On Your ‘Spore’ Game? Buy Another Copy [Consumerist]
A shiny finger print nightmare. Here’s a first look at the actual Club Nintendo “Premium” DS Lites announced last July. It comes with a groovy pouch too, it seems. There are only 3,000 of these cover plated “Premium” DS Lites: 1,000 Premium Silver; 1,000 Premium Black; 1,000 Premium Rose. These are actually the standard-in-Japan “Gloss Silver”, “Jet Black” and “Metallic Rose” DS Lites treated with a special metallic plating cover. Club Nintendo members interested in snagging one of these need to enter the serial numbers of two purchased DS titles that went on sale after August 2006 into the Club Nintendo online application. There’s a limit of five entries per member! From that, 3,000 winners will be selected at random.
【雑記】クラブニンテンドー限定「プレミアムDS Lite」当選者レビュー [裏はちま起稿]
So, Logan was too lazy in his final days to tell you who won some Too Human action. But winners were indeed picked and I’ve been passed the conch of knowledge to share the names amongst names. Did that make sense? What I meant was… winners after the jump!
