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Today, Nintendo has announced that Paper Mario series will get a new game, called Super Paper Mario which will be for the GameCube is now set for release on October 9.
And Square Enix has announced that Children of Mana for the DS will be released to the US on October 30, the same day as Pokemon Ranger: The Road to Diamond and Pearl will come out.
Halo 2 is coming to the PC, but…you won’t be able to play, until Vista comes out. Because Halo 2 will require the upcoming Windows Vista operating system to play, but it doesn’t require a DirectX 10 card. Also, the PC version will not be able to play with the Xbox version because the PC version will have new maps and a map editor. Halo 2 PC will lose the clan playlist feature from the Xbox version. But with a twist. Clans still function, but players will no longer have a clan rank.
The Xbox 360 is supposed to support webcams because of it’s new update to the live dashboard. But….where is the web cam? According to Microsoft, the webcam will release on September 19. The camera (called Live Vision) is a USB 2.0 peripheral which will be compatible with PCs as well as Xbox360s. No drivers will be required for the webcam to run on either machine. Other Web cams won’t work with the Xbox 360 only the Live Vision cam will. Using the cam you can set the desktop of the 360 dashboard, as well as add effects to pictures. Waving hands in front of the camera when it’s on its “watery” setting will cause the background to “undulate” and ripple as if underwater. Other options include an “edgy” setting and a “dotty” setting.
You can also use the cam to create a personalized visualizer for the music player mode of the 360.
The camera will also be used in several games, like: Activision’s World Series of Poker: Tournament of Champions, Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas, and several Xbox Live Arcade games.
Instant Messages will be able to be sent with photos taken from the camera.
Along time ago, Myst was (and is) a PC gaming sensation with its intriguing approach to gaming and impressive graphics.
Earlier this year, Sega revealed its intention to bring the Myst craze to the portable market in Japan by porting the original Myst to the PSP, which will release in June.
But what about the US? The answer: Midway Games (Euro branch). Midway announced that it will be bringing the PSP version to the European market. I assume that Midway US will also release the PSP version to the states. No date has been confirmed for the US or Euro port of the game.
Xbox 360 is coming……SO GET READY FOR THE LAUNCH PARTY!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!
TICKETS ARE SOLD OUT!!! UNWOOOOOOOT!
At 9:00 a.m. PST, a link will redirect contestants to a contest page for a chance to win a pair of tickets to Zero Hour.
A certain number of winners will be selected on a “first come, first served” basis, with the remaining tickets handed out in a random drawing. Registration for the contest will end promptly at 11:59 p.m. PST on November 10.
[Updated] The Xbox 360 is already out and has sold about 22 million systems
Nintendo has decided to release StarFox to the DS. This plan has been around since the end of E3 this year. But today, they decided to name it. The game will be called StarFox Command. Which looks really cool. Nintendo decided to take StarFox back to its roots and went with cockpit only levels. The game does support Wi-Fi and 8 player WiLan features. Multiplayer consists of Dogfight (air battle) and co-op.
StarFox Command is scheduled to release on August 28.
Nintendo has announced the release schedule for the games that will popup in Europe in the next few months.
The majority of the games will be made available for the DS, and among the top titles are Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training (June 9) and New Super Mario Bros. (June 30). Others of note will include Super Princess Peach (May 26), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man Chest (June 21), and Big Brain Academy (July 7).
Yet more than 25 games are announced for the GBA. These include Street Racing Syndicate (May 12), X-Men: The Official Game (May 19), Final Fantasy IV Advance (June 2), and LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (September 12).
With that GameCube to be replaced before the end of the year by the new Wii, the GCN has only a few titles that are due for release. Chibi-Robo (May 26), Super Monkey Ball Adventure (June 2), and LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (September 12) are 3 of the 12 titles to ship.
Atari has announced that it’s upcoming game, Test Drive Unlimited, will feature in-game ads. Yippie! The game will connect while you aren’t looking to the internet and download some nice ads for you, using IGA Worldwide Radial in-game advertising network and pull dynamic billboard advertisements to use in the game (and when you aren’t playing either).
Advertisers already signed up to the service, examples include various soft-drink companies and Marc Ecko. These advertisers will be able to beam ads right to your game (and desktop!).
Atari says will “enrich gamers’ experiences” according to Atari, while providing advertisers with online-style feedback on the consumption of their ads.
And yes, the method of putting ads in games has been around for awhile. But this is the first company to use a dynamic ads strategy.
LucasArts has released a new patch for its popular real-time strategy game, Star Wars: Empire at War. The latest patch bumps up the game to version 1.04.
The biggest addition to the game is the map editor, which lets players to become emperors of their newly created maps or edit default ones to produce skirmish maps.
There’s a newly released plug-in for 3D StudioMax that lets gamers build their own units for Star Wars using 3D StudioMax.
Other stuff added in the update include various balance tweaks for several (tilting) units and other small bug fixes.
Atari has announced that it will be cutting their prices down to $19.99 for all games and future games starting on June 1st. All game systems will carry the Atari’s new price cut as well as most stores and online places. There is one game that will not have the price cut, and that is Dungeons & Dragons Online.
This year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo, with about 60,000 people who came, saw and played.
The E3 Board, which is mainly just the ESA, is extremely ecstatic about this figure.
The show this year was marked predominantly by announcements made on Monday and Tuesday by Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft, which is really no surprise.
As the doors close, one would think that E3 is way too short (at least in my opinion).
Next year’s conference, E3 2007, is scheduled for May 16-18.
Peace!
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