SEGA confirms Sonic and the Black Knight
Posted on 16 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii | 0 comments
Nintendo Power apparently has the scoop on yet another game that should be releasing on the Wii in the near future, Sonic and the Black Knight. As is the case with most Sonic games these days, there has been much doubt about the new title and tons of speculation about if the game actually exists. However, SEGA has finally confirmed that Sonic and the Black Knight is a real game and new information should be flooding in soon. Clumsyorchid, one of Sega’s community administrators noted, “I can confirm the game is indeed real, however you won’t get any info on it from me, you’ll have to wait until we post the product page tomorrow on SEGA.com and read the Nintendo Power article”
Weekly savings
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Best Buy
LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures (Wii) – $39.99
Kung Fu Panda (Wii) – $39.99
Wall-E (Wii) – $39.99
The Incredible Hulk (Wii) – $39.99
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (Wii) – $29.99
Circuit City
Final Fantasy IV (DS) – Free $10 gift card with purchase
Chicken Shoot (Wii) – $14.99
Showtime Championship Boxing (Wii) – $14.99
DS titles – $9.99: Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, Dogs & Cats, Spongebob’s Atlantis Squarepants, Cars, Transformers Autobots, Transformers Decepticons
10% off all DS accessories
Wall-E (Wii) – $39.99
Cake Mania (DS) – $14.99
Cake Mania 2 (DS) – $14.99
Target
Free $5 gift card with purchase of either SSBB, Mario Kart Wii, or Wii Play
Rock Band Special Edition (Wii) – Free $15 gift card with purchase
Guitar Hero Aerosmith Wii bundle – Free $15 gift card with purchase
Sonic and the Black Knight revealed for Wii – UPDATE
Posted on 16 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii | 10 Comments
Sonic is going to be all over the gaming world over the next few months. Sonic Unleashed and Sonic Chronicles have both been announced by SEGA and now yet another Sonic title will be hitting the Wii. An ambiguous description of the game gives an idea of what to expect: “The Blue Blur swings cold steel in his new Wii-exclusive adventure.” More as it develops.
Update: Signs are pointing to the possibility of this being a fake.
Update 2: It looks like the name of the game is indeed real, as SEGA recently trademarked a website domain.
Nintendo to core gamers: Keep playing Kart
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Reggie Fils-Aime, the President of NOA, has commented in numerous interviews regarding core gamer’s feelings about Nintendo’s E3 showing. However, his remarks about how the core gamer should be satisfied is not exactly what most had hoped for. Now, Cammie Dunaway has gotten involved in the matter as well. Dunaway had a response to those who were disappointed with Nintendo this week. Dunaway noted in a GameTrailers interview, “Keep playing Mario Kart, keep playing Smash Brothers, and check out Animal Crossing with WiiSpeak which I think is going to be a really fun experience. And check out Wii Music. Playing those drums with the Wii balance board is something that I think will be a challenge for even the most hardcore.” Dunaway went on to briefly discuss third-party support.
Mario Kart and Brawl are very entertaining products for the hardcore, but you have to wonder, where are the new games? Where’s Kid Icarus? Where’s Kirby Wii? And how long will it take for the next Mario and Zelda to launch?
High Voltage – The Wii deserves more quality games
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“The Wii is a really cool game system. It’s worth better games than it’s getting right now. There are some great games out there for the system, but it just seems like there’s such an opportunity to do so much more with it. Considering it’s such a popular system right now, it just doesn’t make sense to not focus on making really quality games.” – Matt Corso, High Voltage Software
The Wii has its fair share of impressive titles, but most of the quality is arguably coming from Nintendo. High Voltage seems to be doing everything in their power to make sure that their title, The Conduit, will be one of those “quality titles.” Based on impressions from the media, it looks like the company is well on its way to accomplishing its goal.
Roogoo announced for Wii and DS
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Just so you guys know, RooGoo will be coming to the both the Wii and DS. SouthPeak confirmed the game a few days ago, but I waited to post this due to E3 news. If you’re interested in seeing what the game is all about, check out this trailer from the XBLA version below.
A bunch of new Dead Rising details for zombie lovers
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– Dead Rising: Zombie Sacrifice is the official title
– Story setup has been changed slighty
– New enemies, items
– Camera changed to “behind the shoulder”
– Directional pad for item switch
– Reticule/target for shooting
– Wii controller shaking
– A button = subweapon
SimAnimals officially announced for Wii and DS
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Announced Today, SimAnimals Establishes A Whole New Category Of
Los Angeles, US — July 14, 2008 — The Sims™, an Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) Label announced the first details for the all-new SimAnimals™. This all-new franchise and original intellectual property from The Sims Label establishes a whole new category of wild animal games. Made exclusively for the Wii™ and the Nintendo DS™, SimAnimals will be available worldwide in January 2009.Now, for the first time players can engage with the wild world of animals in their natural surroundings in an immersive and tactile way. In this game you are challenged to engage, touch, move and try to control more than 60 animals as you journey deeper and deeper into the forest. You control an on-screen animated hand that allows you to reach out and touch, pick up and move everything in the game from foxes and bears to trees and flowers. Cohabitate with these animals in their natural surroundings, and based on how you treat them, the animals will come to know and love – or dislike you! Have fun developing relationships with wild animals and their families, and experience the humor and drama of surviving in the wilderness.“SimAnimals opens up a new world of creativity with wild animal adventure, fun and mischief,” said Rod Humble, Head of Studio for The Sims Label. “For the first time in an animal game, you can reach out and touch, engage and play with a huge cast of wild animals in their natural surroundings. SimAnimals offers an immersive and tactile experience using the Wii remote and the Nintendo DS stylus that allows you to easily and intuitively become part of the wood’s expressive, quirky and sometimes surprising narrative. Classic story-telling about wild animals comes to life in SimAnimals.”
The Conduit – 16 player online multiplayer, WiiSpeak support confirmed
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Arguably (and surprisingly), some of the biggest news of E3 came from the little publisher who could: High Voltage Software. The developers had closed-door demos available for a few members of the media to play and confirmed a few – but encouraging – details about the game. Not only will The Conduit support 16 players online, but the game will additionally take advantage of the newly announced Wii peripheral, WiiSpeak.
June NPD sales data
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PlayStation 3 405.5k
PSP 337.4k
Playstation 2 188.8k
Xbox 360 219.8k
Wii 666.7k
Nintendo DS 783k
01. PS3 METAL GEAR SOLID 4: GUN OF THE PATRIOTS KONAMI 774.6K (Does not include bundles with PS3 hardware)
02. NDS GUITAR HERO ON TOUR ACTIVISION 422.3K
03. 360 NINJA GAIDEN II MICROSOFT 372.7K
04. WII FIT W/BALANCE BOARD NINTENDO OF AMERICA 372.7K
05. WII PLAY W/ REMOTE NINTENDO OF AMERICA 359.1K
06. 360 BATTLEFIELD: BAD COMPANY ELECTRONIC ARTS 346.8K
07. WII MARIO KART W/WHEEL NINTENDO OF AMERICA 322.4K
08. WII LEGO INDIANA JONES: THE ORIGINAL ADVENTURE LUCASARTS 294.5K
09. NDS LEGO INDIANA JONES: THE ORIGINAL ADVENTURE LUCASARTS 267.8K
10. PS2 LEGO INDIANA JONES: THE ORIGINAL ADVENTURE LUCASARTS 260.3K
At this year’s E3, Nintendo said that we would be impressed by the NPD data for June. So…What do you guys think?
