It finally seems like the 3DS has gotten its legs underneath it, even as the Wii’s glory days fade further into the rear view. But there’s an unspecified while yet until the Wii U hits retail shelves and Nintendo’s still got a bunch of software coming on the home console and handheld fronts. The company’s released a partial list of games that will be out in early 2012 and highlights include Kid Icarus: Uprising, Resident Evil Revelations and Rhythm Heaven Fever. They’re also announcing that the Circle Pad Pro will be available in the United States on February 7 for $US20. More »
The PS Vita won’t be out in the West until next year. But it will be out in Japan this year. But when? More »
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Your journey into the Wasteland alongside Warren Spector’s take on Mickey Mouse kicks off on November 20, if you have a Wii. More »
If the thought of waiting until next week for LocoRoco 2 is making you feel all wobbly, help is at hand.
Two nuggets of Mirror’s Edge news fresh from the courier’s satchel – the PC version of the free running game will be taking the scenic route to arrive in early 2009 and will be turning up at the same time as a load of cross-platform DLC for the game.
It might not be the November 7th promised by Luke’s pre-order, but the official release date for the Xbox 360 version of Rock Band 2 in Europe is definitely falling on this side of Christmas. As if summoned by Plunkett’s scorn, MTV, Harmonix, and EA have announced the official release date for the sequel to the all-too-recently released rhythm game. November 14th is the date that Europeans and United Kingdominians will be able to get their hands on the disc-only version of the game, priced at €69.99 and £49.99 respectively, with the instruments going on sale by themselves sometime in December.
Street Fighter IV Arcade is like a bowl of cherries – only the bowl is only available in Japan and you have to pay $$$ to illegally import the cherries. Then you have to solder the cherries to, er, a different bowl and they may not work and, er, taste wrong.
This list of mega-releases in November is completely CRAZY. No, seriously, I really wonder at the long-term business strategy in the games industry, still focused on the Christmas window as though gamers only get new games as Christmas presents.
Anyway. Here’s a sampler of the big names landing next month, and most of them all the space of a single week! I might have a few of these wrong, but at a quick glance I see: EndWar; Gears of War 2; Call of Duty: World at War; Rock Band; Guitar Hero World Tour; LittleBigPlanet; Mirror’s Edge; Wrath of the Lich King; LotRO: Mines of Moria; Left 4 Dead; Motorstorm Pacific Rift; Wii Music… And this is all the front half of the month…
AND all before we’ve finished digesting this month’s bumper crop! So what are you buying? What are you leaving until they hit the sale shelves early next year? And what are you ignoring? More »
