Some Rock Band songs that were available to download were plagued by bugs. The problems have been patched up on the 360 (when you fire up the game, you will be notified) and the patch will appear for the PS3 on the 28th.
The following songs will have to be deleted and re-downloaded:
- Can’t Stand Losing You
- Roxanne
- Synchronicity II
- Police Pack 01
- Brass in Pocket
- Limelight
The songs have been reassigned to the right categories and the bug concerning vocal volumes being set all the way down yet still audible has been fixed.
For instructions on how to redownload view this forum post on the Rock Band website.
Phil Harrison, Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios’s (abbreviated as SCE from now on as SCEWWS is just annoying) current President is resigning from his 15 year run as the head of SCE.
According to Sony, his official resignation occurs on February 29th. Phil is leaving the company, but has not said if he plans to work for another game company. Kazuo Hirai, current president of Sony Computer Entertainment International (SCEI) will be taking over for Phil in addition to his current job.
SCE is tasked with the creative, technical and strategic elements of development and production of the PlayStation and games. SCEI is in charge of sales and Research and Development of PlayStation consoles.
Nintendo yesterday released two new Wii Virtual Console games, the first being Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards and the second, Psychosis. Both are available to purchase off of the Wii Shop at Home Channel.
Here are both of the game descriptions:
Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards: (Nintendo 64, 1-4 players, Rated E for Everyone, 1,000 Wii Points): Kirby’s first 3-D adventure is also his Nintendo 64 debut, and it finds the always-versatile hero battling a new enemy called Dark Matter. Dark Matter is after a distant land’s powerful crystal, but a young fairy named Ribbon attempts to save it by escaping with the gem to Dream Land. Now the crystal has been broken, and it’s scattered around the world. Take control of Kirby and help him journey across six worlds, battling a wide variety of enemies and challenging bosses, as he tries to collect all 100 pieces of the shattered crystal. Along the way, you’ll use Kirby’s trademark copying ability to use enemies’ strengths against them. Not only that, but try combining any two abilities to create a brand-new one that is usually stronger than the original. Throw in three exciting multiplayer minigames, and you’ve got a package of which even King Dedede would be proud. Fans of Kirby and action games with bright, colorful graphics should vacuum this one up.
Psychosis: (TurboGrafx16, 1 player, Rated E for Everyone – Mild Fantasy Violence, 600 Wii Points): This is a side-scrolling shooter played in a world created from the mind of a twisted demon. Your soul has suddenly wandered into that evil world that exists in every person’s heart. The only way out is to blast your way past the grotesque creatures that block your path in five “causes” (stages). You must face the dangers of this psychedelic world by making full use of three shot types and the satellite option. With power-ups, you can change your shots to a wide-coverage beam, a satellite-generated laser and more. Each shot type can be powered up to three levels. You can also block enemy fire by rotating the satellites to a desired position. How you use these features will be the key to successfully escaping this strange and surreal world.
The update is available now, and you should get a WiiMail (those messages on the message board) about the Update.
The update itself barely covers anything significant, and features no new items. It only improves system performance.
According to Jonathan Coulton, a future download for Rock Band will allow you to play “Still Alive”, that awesome credits songs from Portal.
No word on how much it will cost or when it will appear, but apparently, Coulton earned a 95% accuracy on the Vocals for the song. Good for you.
We were right. They aren’t free. The 7 games that Major Nelson stated would be free using the XNA system, aren’t. They are all 17-day trials (what a rip) and you have to have an active subscription to continue playing after awhile (this is an XNA subscription [$60 for about 4 months]).
To play XNA games you need to download the XNA Creators Club Game Launcher. To access the games you need to go to My Games and move the the XNA Creators Club. Then press Y to download, play and stuff. Supposedly to download you need an active XNA monthly subscription.
How lame.
Another wonderful announcement at GDC (never get tired of them), Gears of War 2 has been confirmed for a November release. Of course, knowing Microsoft, they never release any kind of press kit with awesome screenshots. Noooooo. You have to download the trailer on Xbox Live.
Also on Xbox Live is a free Gears of War 2 theme.
Another announcement at GDC, Microsoft’s Xbox division announced they are creating an open distribution service for games created by the community (they really stressed community). Games that have been created using the XNA framework can be downloaded from Xbox Live.
According to Major Nelson, seven games that were “created by the community” will appear on Xbox Live for free (17 day trials [this was not mentioned until later, sneaky Microsoft]). He didn’t mention if this is a limited time trial or not (NOTE: THESE ARE TRIAL GAMES. NOT FREE). I would guess that you will need the XNA framework tool (that’s been available for download off of Xbox Live since XNA started). Nelson states that he’ll put up a video on how to download these games on the Inside Xbox section of the dashboard.
Is this a sign that Microsoft is going to allow homebrews on the Xbox? Who knows…
A long time ago we stated that the Zune will have games in the future. Today at GDC, Chris Satchell announced that XNA will support the Zune in the future. Allowing games to be made for the Zune.
A while back, Nintendo announced a new feature called WiiWare, which would allow game developers to create simple games and sell them on the Wii Shop Channel. After that statement, WiiWare wasn’t heard from again.
Today at GDC, WiiWare was finally given a date of launch, May 12th. On that day, the first games for the service will start to show up in the Wii Shop Channel (you’ll notice there is a section for WiiWare already). According to Nintendo, new games will appear regularly from developers both big and small.
Also some games mentioned in the press release. The two that were mentioned are FINAL FANTASY CRYSTAL CHRONICLES: My Life as a King and a game called LostWinds.
My Life as a King builds upon the old GameCube game and features some pretty spiffy graphics (click the image for more images) for a downloadable game. All of the game prices are determined by the developer of the game. I would expect some reasonably high prices for most games, unless Nintendo sets a price limit later on.
The other game, LostWinds, looks a bit more cartoony and less serious. Nintendo didn’t provide a description for LostWinds, but rather just gave out screenshots. From the shots, I can conclude that you obviously control the wind using the WiiMote, and the person who appears to be the main character reacts to the wind.
We expect to hear more about the details of these titles near the launching of of the WiiWare system.
According to TellTales’ site, they are going to be working on a new episodic game series for the new WiiWare feature. No word on what exactly the new series is, but what is confirmed is that it is NOT Sam & Max.
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