Strike up the band and let the confetti fly! This week, the Wii™ Shop Channel celebrates the momentous release of its 250th game title for the Virtual Console™, pushing the selection of classic games to an exhilarating new high. And because a special occasion deserves a special guest, Nintendo is thrilled to name the beloved Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars™ as the game to hold this exciting distinction. Along with a delightful new WiiWare™ title and a delirious underwater adventure, this gem from the Super NES® era guarantees a festive, fun-packed Labor Day holiday for Wii™ owners of all stripes.
Nintendo adds new and classic games to the Wii Shop Channel at 9 a.m. Pacific time every Monday. Wii owners with a high-speed Internet connection can redeem Wii Points™ to download the games. Wii Points can be purchased in the Wii Shop Channel or at retail outlets. This week’s new games are:
“I have not left the gaming industry for good. I love it.” – Perrin Kaplan, former Vice President, Marketing & Corporate Affairs for NOA
Everyone remembers Perrin Kaplan, right? You know, back when Nintendo’s E3 conferences weren’t completely terrible? I’m just kidding, Nintendo! But in all seriousness, Kaplan was great at what she did and I’m personally glad to hear that she may be interested in coming back soon.
“I really think we have cracked that nut. We look at all of the (control systems) for console RTS games, the one we learned the most from was Pikmin. That was a very good strategy game.” – Graeme Devine, lead writer & developer, Halo Wars
Best Buy
MySims (DS) – $19.99
Circuit City
Free $10 Gift Card with Guitar Hero On Tour DS bundle
Guitar Hero 3 bundle (Wii) – $69.99
Rock Band bundle (Wii) – $139.99
Top Spin 3 (Wii) – $39.99
20% off all clearance games
Target
Free $10 Gift Card with Purchase of Madden 09, Tiger Woods 09, or NCAA Football 09
Game Party (Wii): $17
Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 (Wii) – $17
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? (DS) – $17
Take a look at this excerpt from GameSpot’s most recent preview of The Conduit…
“High Voltage does plan to support Wii Motion Plus add-on so we will have to see later how that will work.”
This comes from the build at PAX 2008. I don’t know if GameSpot has their information mixed up, but I would be a bit surprised if the developers wished to incorporate that technology at this point. As far as I know, most developers just recently got their hands on MotionPlus. However, The Conduit does have about six or so months before it launches if the game releases in March 2009.
Although Capcom has ytet to officially announce Street Fighter IV for Wii, quite a few company members have expressed the thought that it’s very possible that Wii owners will be able to experience it one day. However, if it does, it’s not going to be dumbed down to make it less violent or for the game to fit in with Nintendo’s strategy of appealing to both casual and hardcore gamers. Yoshinori Ono has told Game Informer that if the game ever releases on Nintendo’s console, it will not be kiddy. Yoshinori Ono has told Game Informer that if the game ever releases on Nintendo’s console, it will not be kiddy. “We’ve had a lot of requests for Street Fighter IV on Wii. Since it’s a 2D fighting game, it’s doable, but whether we’d try we don’t know. We’d have to see. If we can sell it, we might consider it. And it would be a straight-forward Street Fighter IV—it wouldn’t be a kid’s version.”
London, (29th August 2008 ) – SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. (the “Company”) announced today that the Company submitted to the board of directors of TECMO, LTD. (Securities Code: 9650, 1st Section of the TSE, “TECMO”) a proposal for basic conditions of acquisition of shares of common stock issued by TECMO (the “TECMO Shares”) through a friendly take over bit (the “TOB”) (the “Proposal”) in order to obtain consent to the TOB by the board of directors of TECMO.
The Proposal was made in order to acquire the TECMO Shares through the TOB, and is subject to obtaining consent by the board of directors of TECMO no later than September 4, 2008. Therefore, please be advised that the Company will NOT acquire the TECMO Shares through the TOB as planned in the Proposal in case that the Company receives no response from TECMO or fails to obtain consent by the board of directors of TECMO to the TOB, by the date. This Notice shall not be construed as solicitation for sales and/or purchase of the TECMO Shares.
1. The reason to submit the Proposal
Video games have been globally recognized as a major entertainment genre, and have now become an industry receiving considerable attention in terms of its market size and growth potential. In the meantime, the game industry in Japan is standing at a critical juncture whether it continues to be a center of the video game industry in the world, or not.
