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High Scores And Egos: There's Always A Bigger Doodle Here’s your PC gaming good news story for the day: CD Projekt Red have announced today that, since the game was first released in 2007, The Witcher has sold over a million copies. That’s including both versions of the game, the original as well as the “Enhanced Edition”. For a traditional PC RPG, made by an obscure Eastern European developer with a silly name, those are great, great numbers. Congrats!
The Witcher Sells One Million Copies In A Year [Gamasutra]
Ten killed? Are there even ten zombies in this entire game? A new batch of Dead Rising Wii has been released, showing off things like the in-game attacks with a fire extinguisher and guitar, but not showing hoards of zombies.
Nintendo quietly slipped out a giant release schedule today. It contains dates, or at least windows, or at least a vague guess at a release year, for most of the company’s already-announced first-party and third-party titles. The schedule covers all three major regions too, so yes, Europe, even you can join the party on this one. Click through for the full breakdown.
Cashing in on election fever, EA today announced that, as part of an upcoming update for Mercenaries 3, both Sarah Palin and Barack Obama will be made available as playable characters. Palin in her trademark red jacket and hair, Obama in his trademark…suit. Sounds a little nutty, but seeing Obama punch a swarthy Venezuelan in the face is a lot funnier than you can probably imagine.
More details about the Xbox 360 port of Cave shmup Death Smiles has been released. We have those details. Good for us and good for you. There will be two editions of the game: A ¥7140 ($108) regular edition and a ¥9240 Limited Edition one. The Limited Edition version comes in a special box designed by Junya Inoue, who did the character work for Death Smiles as well as other shooters like BATSUGUN. There’s also a special soundtrack CD, too. The game is slated for Spring 2009.
Xbox 360用ソフト『デススマイルズ』の価格、初回限定版、予約特典が明らかに [Famitsu]
Signing the Beatles (or at least the people handling their song rights) to a music game can’t have been easy for MTV. And it definitely can’t have been cheap. While not disclosing just how much MTV paid them for the rights to the Fab Four’s tunes, Martin Bandier – who is CEO of Sony/ATV Music Publishing – has said:
Konami has released a forecast of its financial statement for the six month period ending September 30, 2008. This isn’t the actual statement, but a forecast, which is a fancy way to say guess. Here we go: Compared to the same timeframe, net revenues are up 9.4 percent, the income before taxes is up 71.3 percent and the net income is up 87.7 percent. However, the company’s operating income has skyrocked over the past year: It’s up 74.8 percent. All (educated) shots in the dark! According to an official statement from Konami:
So. EA are making a game based on Dante’s Inferno. The Dante’s Inferno. Not 1997′s Dante’s Peak. 1308′s Dante’s Inferno, part of Dante’s classic Divine Comedy. Except, of course, the game won’t be a literal interpretation. Instead it will, according to Variety, be “a modern interpretation of the epic poem and will have players fighting their way through the depths of hell”. The game’s yet to be officially announced, but film studios are already locked in a bidding war for rights to the reimagined property, explaining how it popped up on Variety’s radar. They say the game will be out late in 2009.
Last weekend the Timezone Tekken 6 National Final was held in Sydney, with NSW entrant Andrew taking the title and the trip to International Finals in the Phillippines in December. We’ve been sent the video of the Semi and Grand Final clips, so you can see some of the best in Australia duke it out for the title. Grand Final video after the jump, with more videos available here. Go on, tell us in the comments how much better you are, and that if you’d bothered to enter you’d have kicked their butts — you know you want to! [Thanks Kevin]
Get out the glow sticks if you’ve got ‘em! Here’s a Halo 3 light show show spectacular. While on the long side (seven minutes of this, woah), the underling concept is neat: Use Halo 3 light effects to trippy ends. It could be shorter and better edited, but like we said, the basic idea is there.
