DEFTONES MAKE ROCK BAND DEBUT, PLUS SINGLES FROM BOYS LIKE GIRLS AND CROWN OF THORNS
Guildford, UK. – 4th June, 2010 – Harmonix and MTV Games today announced that alternative rock favorites Deftones, as well as Boys Like Girls and Crown of Thorns, will make their debuts in the Rock Band Music Store of downloadable content for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and WiiTM.

With more than 400 artists, including Jimi Hendrix, The Who, AC/DC and Green Day, who are exclusive to Rock Band, as well as more than 1,500 songs available through the Rock Band platform and 68 million songs sold through its download store alone, Rock Band is the undisputed sales and content leader in the interactive music space, providing the deepest and best selection of artists, songs and albums.

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Tetsuya Nomura spoke about all things Kingdom Hearts in the latest Game Informer, including plans for future titles. Nomura confirmed that an announcement about a new game will be made at E3. However, the project probably isn’t in development for Wii as Normua said that there are no plans to bring the franchise to new systems. So again, that’s a “no” for Wii most likely, but the DS certainly has a shot.

One has to wonder if the reveal is a remake of Kingdom Hearts Coded, a mobile phone download that is only available in Japan. Phil Synder, the new voice actor for Jiminy Cricket, has a small blurb on his site which states that his first project is Recoded. Coded never made its way to North America and Nomura told Game Informer that with this latest game, he wanted to “do something for the North American fans.” Perhaps Recoded will finally allow North American players to get their hands on Coded, albeit in remake form.

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5 Arcade Gems – Hmmm…
Bang Attack – Grumble Grumble
Brain Drain – Grumble Grumble
Kung Fu Funk: Everybody is Kung Fu Fighting! – Grumble Grumble
Military Madness: Nectaris – Grumble Grumble
Zombie Panic in Wonderland – Recommended

DSiWare

7 Card Games – Recommended
1001 Crystal Mazes Collection – Hmmm…
AiRace – Recommended
AlphaBounce – Recommended
Bloons – Hmmm…
Bounce & Break – Grumble Grumble
Crazy Golf – Hmmm…
Dodogo! – Recommended
Don’t Feed the Animals – Grumble Grumble
Ferrari GT: Evolution – Recommended
Gangstar 2: Kings of L.A. – Hmmm…
Puffins: Let’s Roll – Grumble Grumble
Photo Dojo – Recommended
Scrabble Slam – Hmmm…
Sokomania – Grumble Grumble
Surviving High School – Hmmm…
System Flaw Recruit – Hmmm…

VC

The King of Fighters ’95 – Recommended
Mega Man 4 – Recommended
Zaxxon – Hmmm…

According to the latest issue of Nintendo Power, two Japanese games will be coming stateside. Rune Factory 3: A Fantasy Harvest Moon is heading to North America thanks to Natsume. Additionally, Atlus will be publishing Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City. Both titles will be released sometime this fall.

Super Mario Galaxy 2 – 10
Blur – 8
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker – 8
UFC Undisputed 2010 – 9
Alpha Protocol – 8
Prince of Persia – The Forgotten Sands – 6
Rocket Knight – 5
Beat City – 6
Modnation Racers – 8
Backbreaker – 7
Vulcan M – 6
Monsters (Probably) Stole My Princess – 8

Thanks to joclo for the tip!

Have you been had any trouble accessing the site today? I’m assuming that’d be a “yes” for pretty much all of you. The thing is, NE has actually been up for almost the entire day! I had to make a few DNS settings changes, but unfortunately, the “downtime” varies for different people. Usually DNS changes take up to 24 hours to propagate, so I’m betting that a few of you won’t even be able to read this until tomorrow. All should be fine in a few hours, though!

And speaking of site updates, I’m going to have another one very soon. All I’ll say for now is that this is the biggest update since the opened the site in 2007! Stay tuned for more information…

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For what has seemed like years now, Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter has predicted that Nintendo will eventually announce a Wii HD. Nintendo has dismissed the idea on numerous occasions and has stated that a new system announcement would require more than just HD support. So, why does Pachter continue to believe that the Wii HD is on the way? He explained on the latest episode of Pach-Attack:

“…So I always thought Nintendo would respond to Natal and PS3 plus Move by having Wii HD ready when those two things launched. I’ve been wrong consistently and the reason I’ve been wrong is Nintendo doesn’t see the world the way I do. So the answer to your question why do I think it? Because it’s logical. The answer to your question, why hasn’t Nintendo done it? Because they don’t think it’s logical. And I don’t want to get in their heads, they are great business people, they run their company well, my view is this is something they should do.”

Pachter also noted that he thinks the Wii will lose some of its market share to the PS3/Move when a reasonably-priced bundle is announced. According to Pachter, Sony will be able to tell Wii owners that they can upgrade to an HD console that is being completely supported by publishers and contains additional features such as Blu-ray.

Now that the latest Media Create hardware sales data has been reported, the complete totals for February have been calculated. Here’s how things played out last month (5/3 – 5/30):

PSP – 107,224
Wii – 87,901
PS3 – 86,710
DSi LL – 72,987
DSi – 45,409
Xbox 360 – 16,850
DS Lite – 12,258
PS2 – 5,422
PSP go – 4,418