Ghostlight goes for gold with International Athletics
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Ghostlight are on their marks and set to explode out of the starting blocks with the release of International Athletics™ on the Nintendo DS™ and Sony PlayStation® Portable in August, 2008.
In an announcement that is sure to set hearts racing and adrenaline pumping, Ghostlight has confirmed that development duties will be handled by The Code Monkeys. Adrian Hirst, Development Director at Code Monkeys says; “Our goal is to create a highly realistic athletics simulator whilst maintaining a compelling pick up and play game style”
Central to the appeal of International Athletics will be the immense variety of the ten gut-busting events and the innate need of man to compete and win against his fellow man. As a single player game International Athletics will be challenging and rewarding but once taken to the multiplayer level things will really get serious with online leaderboards set to determine who the greatest virtual athlete in the world is. Both formats feature a multiplayer mode with up to 4 players going head to head.
First details and screens of new Tales game – Tales of Heart
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– Confirmed for DS
– “Combination Aerial LMBS” battle system
– other characters not in battle can join battle if conditions are met
– Theme song by DEEN. Title “Towa no Ashita” or “Eien no Asu”
– developed by Team Destiny
– 2D anime art, 3D CGI
– Choose between 2D/3D cutscenes (possibly 2 retail games)
New Infinity Ward game in the works
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“We’re excited to announce that in the recent months we have decided to reup on our contract with Activision publishing. The recently renegotiated deal may not seem like much of an impact from the outside perspective, but it has laid the ground work and kick started our future project, as well as the possibility of a unique new IP by Infinity Ward, that we’ll have complete control over. We’re excited to be working on our next project, but it’s going to be quite a while before I can share any details on exactly what that project is.” – Infinity Ward website/blog
As is the case in most of these situations, we really have no idea about any possible details about a new Infinity Ward game. Also, this means that the new title could be heading to a Nintendo platform.
ReWind may not be dead after all
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Some of you may recall the game ReWind, an on-rails shooter thatTwo Tribes announced a few years ago for the Nintendo DS. Information has been laying on the company’s website for years, without a single update. Just recently, however, a new press release has been sent out which seems to reveal that ReWind is still alive and kickin’. The odd thing about the whole situation though is that the press release includes no new details about the game. Generally speaking, press releases are meant to discuss the features/gameplay elements of the title, yet Two Tribes has not done so with its latest press release.
Bound Round – Episode 23: Part 3 – E3 Preview
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Japanese software sales thus far (Famitsu)
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– Wii Sports (Wii, Nintendo): 2,998,097 copies sold
Release: 12/2/06
– Mario Kart DS (NDS, Nintendo): 3,103,810 copies sold
Release: 12/8/05
– New Super Mario Bros. (NDS, Nintendo): 5,203,488 copies sold
Release: 5/25/06
– Animal Crossing: Wild World (NDS, Nintendo): 4,675,540 copies sold
Release: 11/23/05
Top 5 game sales worldwide (Amazon)
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Nintendo Wii:
North America:
1. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
2. Wii Play (Nintendo)
3. Rock Band Special Edition (EA Games)
4. Wii Fit (Nintendo)
5. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo)
Japan:
1. Tales of Symphonia: Ratatosk no Kishi (Namco)
2. Wii Fit (Nintendo)
3. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
4. Resident Evil Zero: Wii Edition (Capcom)
5. Family Trainer (Namco Bandai)
Europe:
1. Wii Fit (Nintendo)
2. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo)
3. Big Beach Sports (THQ)
4. Wii Play (Nintendo)
5. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Sega)
Nintendo DS:
North America:
1. Guitar Hero: On Tour (Activision)
2. New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
3. Mario Kart DS (Nintendo)
4. Brain Age 2 (Nintendo)
5. Brain Age (Nintendo)
Japan:
1. Daigasso! Band Brothers DX (Nintendo)
2. Derby Stallion DS (Enterbrain)
3. The Game With No Name (Square Enix)
4. DS Bimoji Training (Nintendo)
5. Hiiro no Kakera DS — Special Edition (Idea Factory)
Europe:
1. Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training (Nintendo)
2. My Health Coach (Ubisoft)
3. More Brain Training (Nintendo)
4. Scrabble 2007: New Edition (Ubisoft)
5. 42 All-Time Classics (Nintendo)
Mushroom Men takes a page out of Mario
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The Mario franchise has arguably been the most influential series of games of all time. When creating a game, developers sometimes “study” the numerous titles that have been released, as the series has one of the most important qualities of video games – each of the games are fun. Mushroom Men will be releasing later this year in North America, although you may not have known that the mushrooms in Mushroom Men are indeed a nod to Mario. In an interview, Chad Barron explained, “Dan and Kris wanted to do a game set in an oversized world. So while they wanted to pay homage to Lorne Lanning and his Oddworld series, Dan brought up the idea of having mushrooms be the focal point as a homage to the Mario games.”
