Now that we’ve got a name and a genre to go with the Bioware/EA Star Wars title, we can move onto other questions. Like this one: will Star Wars: Old Republic be making its way to consoles? EA are playing it coy, EA Games president Frank Gibeau saying that, along with a console version of Warhammer Online, it’s “under consideration”. Hardly committal, but then, these are early days. So give it time. If we had two money-printing licenses sitting around on PC, and could theoretically port them to consoles, we’d have them “under consideration” too.
Console Star Wars MMO “under consideration”, says EA exec [Eurogamer]
During the Tokyo Game Show 2008, imperial hot Square Enix boss Yoichi Wada voiced concerns about how the West’s gaming industry was surpassing Japan’s. In a Nikkei Business article on the Japanese gaming “crisis”, Wada further explains his position. The gaming industry in the West is growing faster, and developers and publishers have more capital than their Japanese counterparts.
Your Wii doesn’t have a HDD. Probably never will. But this one does. It’s one of the Wiis on display at the Nintendo World Store in New York City, and as you can see, it’s got a range of titles pre-installed to a hard drive so that clerks don’t have to be swapping discs all the time. Watch, repeat, dream.
[via Go Nintendo]
There were several things that stayed with me long after I’d put down Velvet Assassin – the most vivid of which was the morphine. In this World War II stealth-action game, morphine acts sort of as bullet-time; when you botch a sneaking mission and your character Violette gets shot at, you can inject yourself with a syringe of the magic medicine which turns everything all orangey with little flower petals/red blood cells floating everywhere. While this is going on, Violet appears onscreen in her hospital nightie (sexy), can run super-fast, and kills people in lightning-quick shanks.
So starved are we for additional details on Left 4 Dead, Valve must think, that we’ll even link to screen shots of the game’s user interface and menus. Seriously who they think they are? We have standards about what we’ll post.
PSP Firmware 5.01 Coming Soon, Terribly Unexciting. Sony informs us via the official PlayStation.blog that new PSP firmware is coming and coming soon. You’ll really only care if you’re an owner of a 8 GB or 16 GB variety Memory Stick PRO Duo, which wasn’t being properly recognised by the new PSP accessible Store. We were hoping for control over nuclear launch codes and such. Perhaps next firmware…
Gonna try something new this week. Something a little…fairer. While we appreciate the lengths the NPD Group go to in providing us with weekly sales data for the PC gaming market, the fact they cover only bricks-n-mortar sales skews the data somewhat, what with so many people buying their shit from Steam these days. So this week, we’re going to run two charts. The NPD charts, and the Steam charts. Give you a clearer overall picture of how the PC market’s shaping up.
Harmonix is giving you twenty extra downloadable add-on tracks for Rock Band 2 for free, pushing the sequel’s soundtrack well over 100 songs. Not too shabby. We hope you’ve already registered for your downloads, should you have the Xbox 360 or PS3 version in hand. The tracks, which go live November 4th, are more “up and coming” than they are “I just came” and do not, we repeat, do not feature Stan Bush’s “The Touch.” Of the twenty, I think I’ve heard of two. But I don’t get out much.
Gerald Willis, who composed the University of Nevada Las Vegas fight song “Win With the Rebels,” has filed suit against Electronics Arts over the company’s commercial use of his song in ten video games. The NCAA licensed titles under contention include NCAA Football, NCAA Basketball, NCAA March Madness and NCAA Baseball series, spanning from 2005 to 2008.
Mark Ecko Productions and Showtime have given us our first look at the first game based on Showtime’s Dexter — which is in turn based on the book series by author Jeff Lindsay — and, well, it’s the iPhone version. Sorry if we got your hopes up, but it may make anticipation for the console versions that much higher.
