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LostWinds: Winter Of The Melodias Micro Review: A Pleasant Gust Of Fun
12:20PM matt cabral | Frontier Developments’ follow-up to their excellent wind-powered WiiWare launch title LostWinds returns gamers to the magical land of Mistralis. More »
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Scenes And Screens From LostWinds: Winter Of The Melodias
1:00AM Mike Fahey | Frontier Developments once again puts the power of the wind in your hands in LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias, the follow-up to the acclaimed WiiWare launch title. Here’s what it looks like. More »
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LostWinds’ Wintry WiiWare Sequel Confirmed
4:00AM Owen Good | The latest issue of Edge Magazine takes a long look at LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias, which is the sequel to last year’s WiiWare hit LostWinds. No release date was announced. More »
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Square Enix Brings LostWinds To Japan
4:00AM Mike Fahey | Square Enix’s newfound love of Western developers bears new fruit as European developer Frontier Developments announces that the Japanese publisher will be publishing their critically-acclaimed WiiWare title LostWinds in Japan and Asia. “Square Enix is a very successful, development-led organisation with a total commitment to quality,” said David Braben, Frontier’s Chairman and founder. “Frontier shares those same core ideals and we are very pleased to be doing business together. Square Enix’s strength in Japan will give LostWinds the chance to shine there, as it has done elsewhere.” More »
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Braben: Elite 4 Coming To Consoles
5:20AM Kotaku US Edition | I’ve been waiting so long for Elite 4 that the issue of what platform it will actually appear on has become kind of irrelevant. In my mind’s eye, I just see the same old 8-bit wireframes only… better, somehow. A bit less blocky would do. They don’t even have to have textures or anything, just as long as the gameplay is up to the original I will be happy. Just slap a bit of anti-aliasing on or something and I am there. Sadly, the odds of Elite 4 being released for the BBC Model B or Commodoure 64 are quite slim, but series co-creator David Braben has popped up to tease us with the idea that Elite 4 will be hitting current-gen consoles. This sounds great, but surely Elite needs about 500 keys to be playable? Matching the complex controls to a game pad is going to be tricky, clumsy or both. As to the game itself, Braben is staying tight lipped. “Very, very deep and dark,” is all he could reveal – hopefully referring to the gameplay rather than the remaining project plan. Elite 4: “We are looking at console,” says Braben [Videogaming 247] More »
Elite 4 Still Alive, Still Years Away
8:30PM Luke Plunkett | A lot of Americans may be in the dark when it comes to Elite, since it’s more fanatical followers are based mostly out of the UK, but all you really need to know is that it’s one of the greatest games ever made. Actually, I think its sequel – Frontier – is even better, but whatever, that’s open to debate. The point is, the latest Elite game, Elite 4, which has been years in the making, is…still being made, according to series creator David Braben. Which is good to know, since it’s been over nine months since we heard anything on the project. Latest is that it’ll be out after his current game, The Outsider, which is slated for release sometime next year. Putting Elite 4’s release at somewhere around 2010. At the earliest. Which, when you write it down like that, is an awfully long time away. Elite 4 technology almost finished, says Braben [Develop] More »
Already, A LostWinds Sequel
10:00PM Luke Plunkett | Wow. That. Was. Fast. It’s been out for, oh, a day, and already a LostWinds sequel is on the way. If you pop on over to Frontier Development’s website, and scroll down to the bottom of the page, you’ll be greeted by the following message: Click here to REGISTER FOR ADVANCE INFORMATION on Frontier’s forthcoming LostWinds sequel containing amazing new gameplay as Toku and Enril’s incredible adventure to save Mistralis continues. Yes, OK, the “sequel” has obviously already been made (or is at least a good ways along), but good news is still good news, regardless of how surprising or unsurprising it may be. Frontier Developments [via Go Nintendo] More »
