Cars? There’s always public transport. Jewels? What are you, a pirate? Cash money? Contrary to popular belief, no, cash does not rule everything around you. So it’s good to see that, in running a competition for Street Fighter IV, Capcom have avoided the more predictable kind of winning prizes (or their gaming equivalents like t-shirts) and gone for something more lasting. If you fancy you can draw, submit your SFIV artwork to Capcom and, if it’s picked as the winner, it’ll appear on the inside cover of the game. Sure, it’s not the outside, but the inside cover’s better than no cover.
The Beatles in my Rock Band ? Believe. Confirming that confirming email, MTV’s Rock Band has licensed The Beatles’ music reports The Wall Street Journal. This deal, set to be announced later today, is all the more remarkable considering how The Beatles have not allowed its music to be licensed to Apple’s iTunes.
Halo 3 on a NASCAR? Predictable. The Wii on a NASCAR? Understandable, since everybody has a Wii these days. But we’re struggling to find just where, exactly, the NASCAR fanbase and the LittleBigPlanet fanbase dovetail. Yet dovetail they did over the weekend just past, this GameStop/LittleBigPlanet racer finishing a respectable 5th place. Not bad for a car that looks like it was knitted by my gran.
Today in Japan, Nintendo Co., Ltd. announced its first-half financial results for the April 2008 — September 2008 period. Let’s look at the hard numbers.
Most games left homeless from the Activision-Vivendi merger have now found new homes. Indeed, the only high-profile game left whose future is undecided is Brutal Legend, Tim Schafer’s heavy metal orgy of celebrity voice-actors and demonic riffage. But that’s not for want of trying! According to Variety and “sources” at development studio Double Fine, Activision have been “an impediment” to the game finding a new publisher. Catty! What’s unclear is why Activision have been “blocking the progress”; do they want more money for the project than suitors are willing to part with? Did they have a spat with Double Fine and are simply taking the chance to punish them? Who knows. We don’t. So we’ll settle for some conjecture, with an added dash of praying that someday this game will actually be released.
OK, so they’ve actually been quietly working on this for months now, but this is the first we’ve heard of it, so up it goes: seems the cast of the mostly-great Street Fighter: The Later Years series on College Humor are getting back together for a new series. A new, proper TV series, with a pilot episode and everything. Called Street Fighter: Reunion, it continues where the story left off at the end of Later Years, as the World Warriors contemplate a life fresh out of retirement. Everybody except Dhalsim is returning as regular cast members, with new additions to the roster promised as well. This could go either way, and there’s a strong chance they blew all the good jokes in the first 3 episodes of the last series, but since Ana Parsons will be back with her strangely alluring take on Chun Li, we’re willing to give it a chance.
Atlus is back with another Famitsu teaser ad. Last time, the company used the Japanese publication to announce Raidou Kuzunoha vs. Avadon King Announced. This week, Atlus announces new DS title Devil Survivor and hints that more will be announced about the game next week. According to NeoGAF, this title could very well be related to Atlus’s popular Persona franchise. We’ll know more in a week.
New Atlus DS game – Devil Survivor [NeoGAF via DS Fanboy]
When Hollywood adapts a property for the big screen – be it a book, comic or game – they can often take a few…liberties with the source material. Take the Mario Bros. movie, for example. The upcoming Gears of War movie, however, will be doing no such thing, with the film’s screenwriter Chris Morgan telling MTV that the film will be sticking to the men and events of the game pretty closely.
As was expected, Atari have formally announced that they’ve picked up the rights to the Ghostbusters game, left in limbo ever since the Activision/Vivendi merger killed off the game’s original publisher, Sierra. Atari plans to release Ghostbusters “early next summer”, to coincide with the first movie’s 25th anniversary. Atari also announced they’ve picked up the in-development Riddick game (full title The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena), which will be out next spring.
Speaking to Pocket Gamer, an obviously-doesn’t-want-to-be-named “developer” has said there may be a problem or two regarding DS/DSi compatibility. This developer, you see, is currently developing a game for the DS. Their game obviously runs just fine on DS, but on the DSi, it keeps freezing up, and as a result is stuck in development limbo, Nintendo refusing to certify it. Nintendo, predictably, are saying “All DS titles are compatible with DSi”, but if a game in development will run on DS but not DSi, might there be some finished games that run into problems as well?
Developers facing compatibility issues with DSi? [Pocket Gamer]
