At last check, High Voltage Software’s sharp-looking Wii game The Conduit was homeless, without a publisher to give it a snazzy marketing campaign and necessary distribution. Fortunately, thanks to an eagle-eyed NeoGAFer, it appears that Sega may have picked up the Wii MotionPlus-ready sci-fi shooter, with The Conduit appearing briefly on the Sega of America press FTP earlier today. It was rather quickly deleted, but not before screen grabs captured the moment for posterity.
According to a 1UP writer posting on NeoGAF, the PlayStation 3 version of Grand Theft Auto IV will require a 5-minute install before playing. He adds that the PS3 version also features optional SIXAXIS control for the helicopter, boat and motorcycle which he proclaims as “pretty good.” But while we’d like to get our hopes up over steering our hog through Liberty City, when has a SIXAXIS control scheme ever been “pretty good” enough to actually use for more than 2-3 minutes at a time? That’s not to say our interest isn’t piqued, but we take our precision boat jacking and bitch slapping very seriously around these parts. We have absolutely no margin for error. NeoGAF Thread [NeoGAF via CVG]
Apparently, Microsoft has temporarily locked out 23,000 thousands LIVE users who took advantage of a now resolved exploit in Call of Duty 4 beta. The exploit allowed participants to sign in on a different machine, use their beta token and download the beta again. Game site Xbox-Scene has a memo from an “internal Microsoft source” who details what’s gone down: There was an exploit (it’s been resolved), in the Call of Duty 4 beta. The public beta had 100k valid participants who qualified and were provided special tokens which allowed them to download the COD4 beta from Marketplace.