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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land THQ knows that if you’re going to deliver a Wii to Buckingham Palace to promote your new game no ordinary console will do, so they had one gold plated.
Spectrobes makes the leap from two small screens to one large one, as Disney Interactive Studios takes their original science fiction adventure series to the Nintendo Wii with Spectrobes: Origins.
Sure, video games are raising our children and you can’t vote with a Wii remote. Now that the voting is over, President-elect Obama finds time to kick back with a little Wii Sports bowling.
…it would look a lot like this. Well, crusty hippies or industrious 19th century sailors. They’re the only types aside from DHREK who could have made a functioning Wii Remote out of hemp string.
Tristan and I were walking past the Nintendo booth yesterday at PAX when we noticed that they had demo stations for Wario Land Shake It set up.
Nintendo has been far too busy printing money and dreaming up strange new controllers to actually finish that DVD-on-Wii thing it has been promising for the last couple of years.
Happily, the homebrew community has stepped up and put together a Wii channel that will read a DVD disc and pipe it through the open source MPlayer media player.
It’s not quite ready for prime time — the audio can sometimes get out of sync, although this is more a ‘feature’ of MPlayer than the fault of the hack, we suspect. Worth checking out, though, and it might just save Nintendo the bother of building something that nobody has really been crying out for but would be nice to have for free.
Homebrew Enables DVD Playback On Wii [Gemaga.com]
Alright, alright, forgive the distortion, but if you’ve bought a next-gen console — and worldwide, more than 60 million of us have — then you are “wealthy or hardcore gamers”, according to everyone’s favourite video game software analyst, Michael Pachter. I don’t consider myself hardcore. And my aforementioned $AU 1562.4 rent apparently qualifies me as wealthy.
Pachter’s reasoning, in comments to GamePro, is that the next-gen consoles are not truly mass-market items yet, and won’t be until their price point dips to $AU 207.28.
First Balance Board Blog got hold of a rather bizarre YouTube clip that features — women in jogging leotards? dudes with horrid combovers in corsets and black socks? — running to a 60-Minutes style stopwatch. Nothing in the vid suggests it’s a promo for a game, much less one using the Wii Balance Board, so methinks viral marketing straight away.
But BBB got hold of the video’s poster and subsequent confirmation that PheroseSoft, a seven-person team made up of former devs for EA Canada Burnaby and Rockstar North, is developing something called “WiiMove”. It should be available by WiiWare sometime after October this year, Balance Board Blog reports.
A representative of PheroseSoft told BBB that “the game looks to put an unexpected slant on the Wii Balance Board”. Ya don’t say. The video’s after the jump.
Those naughty librarian eyeglasses might say say yes-yes, but a New York City woman says, no-no, they’re not hers. You see, there’s Lauren Bernat, aka Wii Fit Girl, who hulaed her way to 2 million YouTube views about three weeks ago, and then vowed it was not a viral marketing scheme. And then there’s Lauren Bernat, mild-mannered librarian, who’s been deluged with Facebook requests from cretinous pic collectors admirers who’d like to better know Wii Fit Girl. Non-Wii Fit Lauren wants everyone to know she’s trying to get a job, and the attention isn’t good for that.
Librarian Lauren says she does resemble Wii Fit Girl Lauren, enough that an employer who Googles her might have second thoughts about her temperament for a serious job. “If someone has my business card, and doesn’t know what I look like, and they Google me, it looks like it’s me, and that’s my whole career down the tubes”, she said.
Apparently, using anything other than disposable “crap-arsed gas station batteries” turns a Wii Wheel driving experience into that of a 1978 Datsun heading down to the shore. And no, that’s not a desirable mod. Not for Don at videolamer, anyway. He swears that using the battery packs from the React Recharge Dock for the Wiimote reduces the ‘Mote’s weight and makes it drive off centre when placed in the Wii Wheel.
Quoth Don:
Was the weight difference, a very noticeable one, messing with the ‘mote’s center-point?
Yes, in fact. Replacing the rechargeable pack with a standard set of crap-assed gas station batteries made our karts dead centre again.
Now I’ve got to figure out how to add weight to my charger packs. That or play Kart at an odd angle.
So, fair warning, considering that the React dock runs about $AU 53.22, if you Kart like hell and are considering eco-friendly ways to keep your ‘Mote juiced. Does anyone else have the same kind of issue, or just this guy?
Peripheral Disdain [Videolamer, thanks taidan]
