The following Rock Band Music Store songs will be made available on January 15:
- Rick Springfield – “Jessie’s Girl” – Pro Guitar and Pro Bass expansions available for $0.99, keyboard support, previously released on Wii
- Rick Springfield – “I’ve Done Everything For You” – Pro Guitar and Pro Bass expansions available for $0.99
- Rick Springfield – “Don’t Talk to Strangers” – keyboard support
Each song can be purchased for 200 Wii Points. A “Rick Springfield Pack 01” will be available for $5.49.
Source: Harmonix PR
Activision had two options in assigning a developer to The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct. The publisher could have gone with High Moon Studios, or the team that we now know is working on the project – Terminal Reality.
High Moon ended up going with Deadpool for its next game. That left Terminal Reality with The Walking Dead.
Terminal Reality’s principle effects artist Glenn Gamble told Eurogamer:
“We were wrapping up Star Wars and Activision came to us and were like, ‘what could you do with The Walking Dead idea?’ It’s funny. They talked to [Transformers developer] High Moon too and High Moon grabbed Deadpool and we grabbed The Walking Dead.”
Activision’s Skylanders franchise has raked in over $500 million in US retail sales, including accessory packs and figures. The milestone was reached faster than any other kids’ gaming property. More than $195 million was collected through Skylanders Giants sales.
Skylanders Giants and Skylanders Spyro’s Adventure figures outsold some of the top action figure lines in the toy category in the US such as Beyblades, WWE, and Star Wars. Last year, Skylanders Giants surpassed domestic box office sales for top holiday kids movies including “Wreck-It Ralph” and “Rise of the Guardians”.
Source: Activision PR
Footage leaked out yesterday of a Renegade Kid-made Crash Bandicoot DS demo. Did you know that the studio made the prototype in just two weeks? That is the case, according to Jools Watsham. Renegade Kid put fourteen days of work into the project… and then never touched it again.
@chillybillz We only spent a couple of weeks on the demo and haven’ttouched it since.
— Jools Watsham (@JoolsWatsham) January 10, 2013
UK fans of The Legend of Zelda will be able to purchase tickets for an upcoming Symphony of The Goddesses concert next week. Tickets go on sale next Monday at 10 AM for a May 23 concert at the Hammersmith Apollo.
This will be the first time that the Symphony of The Goddesses concert heads to the UK. A Zelda 25th Anniversary show was held back in 2011.
The scans don’t contain any new screenshots, but we do get another new look at the legendary Pokemon Xerneas and Yveltal.
Puyo Puyo’s official Twitter account is hinting at an announcement soon. News could come as soon as next week.
A message posted yesterday states that “there may be… some sort of… announcement… next week…”
We’ve never seen a true, mainline 3D Pokemon game on a Nintendo console. Maybe we never will.
And that’s where environment artist Evan Liaw comes in. Liaw, who previously worked on Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad, has recreated one area from the series in a modern-looking 3D world. Liaw made a number of Pokemon Center images, all of which are rendered in UDK.
Photos of his efforts can be found in the gallery above.
Thanks to the 3DS eShop, a few of the remaining January “Nintendo Download” releases have been confirmed. A couple of titles are due out next week thus far, while another game has been given a January 24 date.
They are as follows:
January 17
Tokyo Crash Mobs (3DS download software) – $6.99
Disney/Pixar: Finding Nemo Escape to the Big Blue Edition (3DS retail) – TBA
January 24
Cocoto Alien Brick Breaker (3DS download software) – TBA
Source: 3DS eShop
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