Play Darts with your Family & Friends!
Northamptonshire UK Tuesday 12th May 2009PDC World Championship Darts 2009 on Wii™ gives you the opportunity to play darts with your family & friends without leaving any holes in the lounge wall.
In the game’s Tournament Mode you can play with up to eight friends challenging each other for the top spot in the PDC Order of Merit, playing as one of 18 Pro Players or as your own custom character.
If you fancy yourself as a bit of an expert, try out the Practice Board with reduced bed sizes and see how close you are to hitting the doubles and becoming a professional.
EA Developing Sequel to Award-Winning Video Game Expanding Collection of Family Favourite Games and Fun
Guildford, UK 12th May 2009 — Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) today announced that MR. POTATO HEAD is once again stepping up to the microphone as the M.C. of Fun to rally families and friends together to play a new lineup of Hasbro-inspired games in HASBRO FAMILY GAME NIGHT VOLUME 2. The video game, currently in development for the Wii™ and Nintendo DS™, is slated to launch this year. HASBRO FAMILY GAME NIGHT VOLUME 2 follows the release of the original HASBRO FAMILY GAME NIGHT, which launched in November 2008 and received several accolades including a Parents’ Choice Silver Honor Award as well as an “All-Star” Award from Toy Wishes Magazine.
HASBRO FAMILY GAME NIGHT VOLUME 2 for the Wii will include five popular games: OPERATION, JENGA, BOP-IT, PICTUREKA, and CONNECT 4X4. Each game will offer an Original Mode reflecting traditional board game play and Advanced Modes, including the all-new “Hasbro Family Game Show” which shifts players into party mode with MR. POTATO HEAD as the master of ceremonies. Players will feel as if they’ve been transported to a live television game show studio complete with an audience, a spinning “Challenge Wheel” and the opportunity to win big virtual prizes. In addition to providing new and exciting ways to play, the Wii version will allow fans to completely customize MR. POTATO HEAD, pick new themes, and obtain new trophies to add to their collection.
Gamers may not remember today’s occasion, but it’s actually the one year anniversary of WiiWare. In honor of this event, the company has revealed a list of games that are expected to release in the coming weeks.
Nintendo Celebrates First Anniversary of WiiWare Downloadable Game Service
WiiWare Continues to Deliver Great New Games to ConsumersNINTENDO CELEBRATES FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF WIIWARE DOWNLOADABLE GAME SERVICE
WiiWare Continues to Deliver Great New Games to Consumers
REDMOND, Wash., May 12, 2009 – WiiWare™, the downloadable video game service for Nintendo’s Wii™ home console, launched one year ago today. It arrived with a promise to provide a venue for game developers to showcase their ideas, while delivering to consumers the newest, most interesting games available at accessible prices, directly through the Wii Shop Channel in their Wii consoles. With 81 games in its library, WiiWare ensures that there’s something for everyone. But beyond quantity, WiiWare offers quality games and experiences for all types of Wii owners.
WiiWare removes barriers that make console game development expensive, and helps developers connect directly with consumers. WiiWare games have been created by more than 40 different development studios, from large companies to small startups. In fact, more than half the games in the WiiWare library were created and self-published by small independent studios, many with five or fewer employees.
“The first anniversary of our WiiWare service is a milestone that marks how far the service has come and how much great content is currently available,” said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. “We encourage everyone to get their Wii consoles connected to the Internet so they have access to the full range of WiiWare games.”
Nintendo’s roster of quality WiiWare games stands as an example of what creative minds can accomplish. Titles range from completely original creations to names that are instantly familiar and beloved. Just look at a small sampling of what has been accomplished in just one year’s time:
* World of Goo from 2D BOY won numerous industry awards after showing that a small development team with a big idea could make an incredible physics-based goo construction game.
* Tetris Party from Tetris Online, Inc., introduces a new version of the classic game, complete with multiplayer options, new game modes and support for the Wii Balance Board™ (sold separately with Wii Fit™).
* Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People from Telltale Games, the first episodic series on a console, is a hilarious five-part adventure game series featuring the popular Homestarrunner.com characters.
* The critically acclaimed retro-styled BIT.TRIP BEAT from Aksys Games and Gaijin Games reminds longtime video game fans of their gaming roots.
* LIT from WayForward Technologies is a stylish horror action puzzle that has players fending off creepy – and creeping – darkness.
* The beautifully enchanting LostWinds from FRONTIER lets players use the Wii Remote™ controller to control the power of the wind.
* Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King from SQUARE ENIX brings a unique adventure from the hugely popular franchise to WiiWare.
* Mega Man 9 from CAPCOM returns a classic franchise to its old-school, retro looks and lets players relive the glory days of gaming.
* Dr. Mario™ Online Rx from Nintendo brings online multiplayer game play to everyone’s favorite virus-busting puzzle game.
* Bonsai Barber™ from Nintendo is the first-ever first-person grooming game that requires players to give haircuts to a colorful cast of oddball and demanding plant-based characters.
Looking ahead, consumers can anticipate yet another year of interesting WiiWare games, including:
* Cave Story from Nicalis, arguably the best-known indie game of all time. Cave Story takes players into a world where a race of rabbit-like creatures runs free on a serene island.
* Icarian Kindred Spirits from Over the Top Games, where players control Nyx, an enigmatic winged girl, who must descend from heaven in search of her missing friend Icarus.
* Super Meat Boy from Team Meat, an indie game in which players take the role of a cube of raw meat who must save his princess from the clutches of evil.
* BIT.TRIP CORE from Aksys Games, the follow-up to the well-reviewed BIT.TRIP BEAT with a similar graphic style and rhythm component, but featuring a completely different retro game mechanic.
* Final Fantasy IV: The After Years from SQUARE ENIX, the long-awaited sequel to Final Fantasy IV that takes place over a series of nine episodes.
Remember that Wii features parental controls that let adults manage the content their children can access. For more information about this and other Wii features, visit www.Nintendo.com.
For more information about WiiWare, visit www.WiiWare.com.
About Nintendo: The worldwide pioneer in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its Wii™, Nintendo DS™ and Nintendo DSi™ systems. Since 1983, when it launched the Nintendo Entertainment System™, Nintendo has sold more than 2.9 billion video games and more than 496 million hardware units globally, including the current-generation Wii, Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi, as well as the Game Boy™, Game Boy Advance, Super NES™, Nintendo 64™ and Nintendo GameCube™. It has also created industry icons that have become well-known, household names such as Mario™, Donkey Kong™, Metroid™, Zelda™ and Pokémon™. A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America Inc., based in Redmond, Wash., serves as headquarters for Nintendo’s operations in the Western Hemisphere. For more information about Nintendo, visit the company’s Web site at www.nintendo.com.
-Release date 11th Sept
-Preorders start on July 20th, same date as new movie, speculative preorder movie cross promotion
-From the Johto map, Kanto is hinted at
-Wifi Features Expanded
-Boy/Girl choice
-Skateboard
-Boy/Girl choice
-Suggested retail price of 4800 yen
Update: There appears to be some confusion as to whether or not the initial information is indeed valid. So consider the above details to be rumor while the details below have been confirmed.
Some of the first details on Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver are in, courtesy of the latest edition of CoroCoro.
– Female trainer not the one from Crystal
– More images of starter following you in Violet City, Azalea Town
– Will have area cutscenes from FireRed + LeafGreen (area you enter)
– Likely that all areas will have the cutscenes
– Trainer serves as a Support Role like Dawn & Lucas in Diamond/Pearl/Platinum
Thanks to Jake for the news tip!
Spore Hero and Spore Hero Arena Immerse Players into All-New Worlds of Action and Adventure
Guildford, UK – 12th May 2009 – The Spore™ franchise continues to evolve as Maxis™, an Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) studio, today revealed details about Spore Hero and Spore Hero Arena – two games built from the ground up exclusively for the Wii™ and Nintendo DS™ platforms. Building on the franchise’s core tenets of creativity, exploration and adventure, Spore Hero and Spore Hero Arena will immerse Nintendo fans into all-new experiences when the games launch this year.Spore Hero delivers the unmatched creative freedom of Spore in an accessible, story-driven action-adventure made exclusively for the Wii. Set in a rich and vibrant 3D world, Spore Hero empowers players to create their own Hero as they embark on an epic quest to save their new home world from destruction as a dark force threatens the planet. Taking full advantage of the Wii controls, Spore Hero engages players in heated battles, humorous missions, curious puzzles and more. Throughout the game, players will collect more than 250 parts with unique abilities and experience the unparalleled customisation of the revolutionary Spore Creature Creator enhanced for the Wii
EA event
– Some games are embargoed like Need for Speed
– Someone else has the exclusive on that game
– Bozon says Need for Speed: Nitro is more like Need for Speed: Nicetro (It’s good)
– Matt was pleasantly surprised but can’t talk about it
– Played Grand Slam Tennis with Wii MotionPlus, updated Tiger build with disc golf, MySims
MySims Racing
– EA said they didn’t want to take a game like Mario Kart with MySims Racing, but that’s exactly what they did
– Played pretty well but it did play like Mario Kart
– No online
– Can customize MySims characters but can’t import previous characters
– Framerate a little troublesome
– If you’re a MySims fan and like Mario Kart game you’ll enjoy it
– Can save characters you create onto Wiimote, bring it to a friend’s house
This is straight out of a Punch-Out!! preview from ESPN Games:
And multi-player isn’t even the last new feature to be announced for the game as Nintendo promises another surprise to the title once it ships to stores May 18. What will it be? I guess we’ll just have to wait a few weeks to find out. Until then, all I have to say is, the more I played the new “Punch Out!!” the more I really enjoyed it.
Aside from new fighters, I can’t really think of much else that could still be revealed aside from perhaps a Wifi mode or leader boards, both of which are very wishful thinking. Thoughts or speculation?
