It’s not every day that one hears a young boy takes a family car, drives off to visit his grandmother, and eventually explains that video games taught him how to do such an act. However, that is exactly what one child did. Following reports of an unmanned car, a police officer found the 9-year-old in a store parking lot. The boy said, “It’s my first time driving, but I learned from watching dad and playing at the video arcade.”
The boy was able to drive the car “by sitting at the front of the seat and clinging to wheel.” The parents were warned to watch over their car more carefully in the future.
Update: Some believe that the picture above might have been photoshopped. Obviously, if the image was indeed photoshopped, the news originally reported may also turn out to be false. Looks like we’ll have to wait for December to roll around, or an official statement from Opera/Nintendo to see if this update is the real deal.
– Buttons are new
– Compatible with Wii Speak
– Can have six tabs open at once (can be made invisible)
– View Wii mail from the browser
– Available in December for 500 points
– Owners of the browser do not have to pay for the upgrade
2D Boy confirmed today that World of Goo will be available on WiiWare in Europe. The game will most likely release in December for about 1500 Wii points, the same price as it is in North America. Previously, the game was scheduled to release only as a retail version with some extra content, but that is no longer the case. 2D Boy also states that the PC version will be available “at the time as the retail release.”
Hudson additionally confirmed that the company will release Snooker vs Billiards Cue Sports, Pit Crew Panic, and Snowboard Riot for the North American WiiWare serivce.
Coming Summer 2009–The First Job Simulation Compilation For Nintendo Wii Centered Around Fifty Odd and Quirky Jobs!REDWOOD CITY, CA – November 11th, 2008 – Hudson Entertainment, the North American publishing arm for HUDSON SOFT, announced today they will bring Help Wanted™, a fun, slap-stick new life simulation game for Wii in Summer 2009. In Help Wanted™, players are sent on a mission to save the world from impending extinction by completing fifty different jobs. Help Wanted™ is developed by Hudson Soft and published by Hudson Entertainment for North and South America.
Help Wanted™ allows players to choose from completing over fifty odd jobs, including: Haunted House Monster, Clown, Make-up Artist, Pinch Hitter, Pizza Chef, Stunt Car Driver, Sumo Referee, Action Hero and Sushi Master to name just a few. The game includes multiple difficulty levels that change up the game play elements and a multiplayer feature that allows for head-to-head play on up to fifteen different jobs.
LOS ANGELES, Nov 11, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Square Enix, Inc., the publisher of Square Enix(R) interactive entertainment products in North America, announced an updated lineup for the first quarter of 2009 today.
In addition to the previously announced STAR OCEAN(R): Second Evolution(TM) for the PSP(R) (PlayStation(R)Portable) system and STAR OCEAN: THE LAST HOPE(TM) for the Xbox 360(R) video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, Square Enix revealed that both the remade classic, DRAGON QUEST(R) V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride(TM), and the latest entry in the VALKYRIE PROFILE(R) series, VALKYRIE PROFILE: Covenant of the Plume(TM), will be primed and ready for Nintendo DS(TM) owners come 2009.
The countdown begins today for the first offerings of an exciting new year!
Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH shows capitalism gone mad in Hudson Soft’s latest party classic!
Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH has announced Job Island – a stunning collection of mini-games set within an umbrella theme, which has been created by Hudson Soft and will be released for Wii in March 2009.
Job Island was formerly known as Hard Working People, but has been renamed following the huge success of Hudson Soft’s similarly-themed Sports Island, which also used the concept of fun-orientated mini-games to such good effect.
Plenty of “Wii would like to play” commercials have been released, but this might take the cake for the most boring Wii promotion of recent memory. Although, I’m pretty sure the casual crowd will enjoy watching it!
