The iPhone’s pretty nice, if you’re the type to stomach Apple’s simple, clean design philosophy. But what if you’re the type to prefer Nintendo’s pixellated Game Boy styles? And just can’t live without your web-browsing, iPod-playing, touch-screen mobile communications device? You get this. It’s a Game Boy theme for your (jailbroken) iPhone. Comes in two flavours – with buttons and sans buttons – but you’ll have to get Battletoads on your own.
Sonic Unleashed is getting, erm, unleashed on every console under the North American sun: Xbox 360, Wii, PLAYSTATION 3 and PlayStation. Retitled as Sonic: World Adventure for the Japanese market, the SEGA game is not getting a PS2 release in The Land of the Rising Sun. Game site Siliconera wonders why the title is not getting a PlayStation 2 port — especially because the PS2 version would be ready in time for the Japan release. SEGA hasn’t abandoned the PS2 platform yet as shooter Thunderforce IV is hitting that platform later this month. Could it be SEGA Japan’s last PS2 title?
Not the most exciting rumour surrounding Nintendo’s next home console, but then, you take what you’re given. And today, we’ve been given word from DigiTimes that – according to sources – Nintendo’s “next-generation Wii device” will use the same infared technology the current one uses. Meaning cheaper tech for the console, less expenditure on Nintendo’s part, and a happy continuation of the “please point your controller at the screen” reminders.
Capcom’s gone dizzy for and silly for slogans. The home console advertising push for SFIV features characters fighting against block-coloured backgrounds with big, cheeky text. Some of them work and work really well and some do not at all. Any favorites? Take a squizz at these screenies to help decide.
Once was a time you said something, or did something in a game, and it mattered. Games were primitive, they were punitive. But these days? With 2/3 of the industry chasing dog suits and Dogz for a cheap buck and the other 1/3 falling back on quicksaves and 6-hour campaigns, things have got…lighter. Easier. More meaningless. Something BioWare have had enough of, co-founder Greg Zeschuk is saying:
There might be Wii shortages this holiday season. Even though Nintendo stated it is increasing supply, company president Reggie Fils-Aime advises, “Once you see it on the shelf, you ought to buy it.” A sign of the times, reader Heath sends us the above photo, writing:
In September, we learned that Activision were cosying up to the late, great Colonel Sanders, in order to put together a Guitar Hero-themed fast food deal. Today, we see the results: the Guitar Hero Fully Loaded Box Meal.
Good news, PS3 firmware 2.5 is bringing Flash 9 support to consoles. Sony started working to get Flash 9 working on the PS3 a year ago and had to customise it to get the software running. The console’s online speed is getting improved, too. According to Sony Computer Entertainment, the 2.5 firmware also ups the Javascript speed by 2.8. Masaki Takase says that while that benchmark doesn’t surpass Google Chrome, but it does beat Internet Explorer 7. Not bad for a game console! Click through the link below to read more about firmware 2.5 for the PS3 and Version 5.0 for the PSP.
Sony Talks Firmware [IGN via PS3 Fanboy]
In an interview with Play, Volition’s Dan Sutton has announced that work on Saints Row 3 is already underway. And that maybe, just maybe, they’re working up the gumption to shift the series away from its tacky reliance on “gangsta” and go for something a little different. We’ve already started work on Saints Row 3, and we have a new direction we want to go in with, which we of course can’t talk about. We wrap up a lot in this one. There’s no frustration.
Last week seemed to go pretty well, so we’ll keep on running with the NPD/Steam tag-team. The NPD charts, they’re as…predictable as ever, with plenty to please Maxis and Blizzard fanboys the world over. The Steam charts, they’re a little more fluid, with Far Cry 2 shooting straight to #1, closely followed by pre-sales of Fallout 3.
