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by Published on October 23rd, 2006 21:24
Via IGN
Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. today announced that just in time for the 20th anniversary of the Castlevania series, consumers who pre-order Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin for the Nintendo DS at Gamestop, EB Games and GameCrazy locations nationwide will receive, at the time of purchase, a limited edition box set at no additional cost containing items that document the history of this legendary franchise. Highlighting 20 years of one of the most celebrated video game series of all time, the Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin limited edition gift with purchase comes in a highly collectible wax-sealed box and includes the following items:
Art Book: This 48 page book details the artwork of every game in the Castlevania series and features an embossed cover.
20th Anniversary Soundtrack CD: Spanning 20 years of music that has defined the Castlevania series, this soundtrack contains songs from nearly every Castlevania game ever made, including four never before released tracks from Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin.
Stylus and DS Game Case: Emblazoned with the Castlevania logo, this extendable stylus is sure to give virtual vampire hunters the edge in their next handheld encounter with Dracula, while the transparent game case lets gamers keep both Castlevania DS adventures out of harm's way.
Timeline Poster: Detailing key events and characters in the history of Castlevania, this fold out poster features a timeline on the front and a Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin poster on the back.
Breaking new ground in the Castlevania series, Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin lets players continue the battle against the evil minions of the night as two playable characters, Jonathan Morris and Charlotte Aulin. Players can choose to use Jonathan's whip-cracking melee abilities or Charlotte's magical prowess individually or team up together for the first time in the history of the franchise as they explore all new levels and environments. Players can also play online with friends and wirelessly trade items using the Nintendo® Wi-Fi Connection service.
Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin will be available for the Nintendo DS this December. For more information, please visit www.konami.com ...by Published on October 23rd, 2006 21:15
RawmeatCowboy (yum) got some of the first shots of the illuminating Wii gift card that will be available at Target. It's all part of an elaborate scheme to get you to buy more shit at Target. The card is obviously too thick to easily fit in a wallet, so Target expects you to forget the gift card at home and be forced to buy their goods without the gift card. Geniuses! Actually this card looks pretty snazzy—even if it is thick as hell.
Screen Via Comments ...by Published on October 23rd, 2006 21:13
All this week UK Pro Evolution Soccer champions Mark Gardiner and Rob McLean have teamed up with PSM3 magazine to bring you a masterclass in football gaming.
The experts will offer an A-grade training session each day in the run up to the launch of Pro Evolution Soccer 6 this Friday, 27 October, when we'll also be bringing you a definitive review of the latest outing in the series.
Head over to PSM3mag.com at 5pm today for the first instalment, where Mark and Rob will be showing you the best way to pick, tune and organise your team's formation to produce a goal-reaping band of winners. Each day will focus on a single crucial element, from shooting to passing and defending. Miss out and you run the risk of seeing your friends crush your flimsy defence like damp cake.
http://www.psm3mag.com/ ...by Published on October 23rd, 2006 21:11
Wing Island is a novel flight sim swooping on to Nintendo's Wii this year and here's the first handful of shots to give you an idea of the quaint, non-violent missions you can expect to fly through. Hit the images tab above for more airborne views.
Wing Island's appeal is in its unique controls - you hold the Wii-mote just like a toy plane, tipping, pitching and rolling your hand to pilot your on-screen bi-plane through a selection of missions, including Spot the cows, Deliver the medicine and an air battle checkpoint chasing raceathon. Performing a "neeeoowwwwrrrhhhhmmmnnn" noise at the same time is entirely optional.
For instance, Spot the cows tasks you with soaring across an island looking for the milk-giving farm animals and clocking them by flying close. Deliver the medicine has you dropping medical supplies from the air to a stricken island village, while at other times you might be flying through crevices and over cliffs in formation, collecting a set number of balloons in a time limit.
We had a go with Wing Island and found that the controls work pretty well. Our only worry is that it can get very uncomfortable quickly, and your wrist isn't versatile enough to bank and dive in both directions - just try it for yourself with a toy. But with a tweak to the sensitivity, Wing Island should be an entertaining, if very basic, aerial adventure with Wii.
Screens Here ...by Published on October 23rd, 2006 21:08
The latest Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 trailer seems to have been made just to drop the "we only play it for the volleyball and dating-game elements" case out from under us - no gameplay, and all notorious 'gravure' pose scenes. Hit the movies tab above for the scandalous footage.
So, if you're game for watching the cast roll in the sand, pole-dance, torment crabs, bob on inflatable killer whales and look vulnerable in the jungle, this is the flick for you.
If nothing else, you can check out the 360-powered cloth physics and self-shadowing, and wince slightly at the DOA4-style writhing mass of cables that pass for the girls' hair. All the more reason to play the close-cut-bonced Christie or Lisa, then.
Due out in late November across the pond, we're confident the incredibly addictive collectathon elements have received as much attention as the photo shoot scenes. We'll let you know as soon as we've sampled a few of DOAX2's pina coladas under a hi-def sunset.
Movie Here ...by Published on October 23rd, 2006 21:06
Proving that a picture can say a thousand physics and particle-effect buzzwords, new screens of Full Auto 2: Battlelines, the PS3-only sequel to the Xbox 360-only original, have crashed on to our images tab.
It's hard to fault Battlelines for ticking all the expected videogame boxes - cars, guns, explosions - and then scribbling over the boxes with doodles of cars with guns, exploding. If there are subtle ways to show off the power of PS3, you won't find them here; it's all about speed and destructible everything, and mostly the latter.
Battlelines should get its chance to shine in the early days of PS3 online, being one of few non-Sony titles to have guaranteed network mash-ups - but bang for buck, our money's on next year's MotorStorm to take the demolition derby top-spot.
Screens Here ...by Published on October 23rd, 2006 21:03
Via Gamesradar
This fresh batch of in-game shots from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories shows off leading man Vic Vance's natty taste in tailoring, a bunch of Confederate flag-worshipping white trash you'll be running missions with and a dozy looking biker bloke in a spiked first world war helmet - brill. Hit the images tab to treat yourself to the new views.
If you're unfamiliar with Vice City Stories, check out our latest preview for the lowdown on what could be PSP's best ever game. VCS is out next week, with helicopters, jet-skis and bigger missions to beef up the already excellent action we loved in previous handheld GTA, Liberty City Stories. Expect to see a review soon.
Screens Here ...by Published on October 23rd, 2006 21:00
Selected PS3 games will offer the option to install, PC-style, on to the console's hard drive to allow faster in-game loading times, it was revealed at last Friday's Gamer's Day conference.
Slash-'em-up Genji: Days of the Blade allows a 4GB install that will drastically reduce the wait between scenes, MTV has reported - although that's not the entire contents of the game, as playing without the disc in the drive provides no music.
It's rumoured that two other PS3 launch titles shown at Gamer's Day - Resistance: Fall of Man and Ridge Racer 7 - also have this feature, in which case punters with the 20GB PS3 may find that those three alone would fill up their hard drive.
The more cynical among us might wonder if that means we can expect lengthy loading times from PS3 titles that aren't borrowing a chunk of our hard drive space - it's certainly been the case with our experience of games running off disc at E3 and the Tokyo Game Show. But it's still a welcome choice, and with some form of hard drive guaranteed in every PS3, no-one will be left out of the option. ...by Published on October 23rd, 2006 20:59
Need for Speed Carbon on Nintendo's Wii console will provide four different control options in an attempt to make motion-sensitive racing as easy to pick up as possible.
The default setting sees the Wii-mote used as a steering bar, held parallel to the ground and turned like a wheel in order to manoeuvre your car on screen, but the three other setups offer more ways to take on your street-racing rivals. Hit the images tab for more explanation in pictures.
Carbon's other control schemes use the Nunchuk. First, you can roll the Nunchuk left or right to steer while holding the Wii-mote at a 45-degree angle, raising or lowering it to accelerate or brake. Or in another setup you could hold the Wii-mote pointing straight up, dipping it to accelerate and using the Z button on the Nunchuk to brake. Finally, you can also opt to use this Wii-mote option while steering with the Nunchuk joystick.
With no 'normal' set up - using the Wii-mote's ability to act as a standard controller - EA seems to be serious about experimenting with some interesting solutions for motion-sensing gaming. "Non-gamers had no trouble picking it up," producer Larry LaPierre told US publication Newsweek of NFS Carbon's default steering-wheel setup.
"The Wii market is more casual, so that's why this is the default control," LaPierre explains, adding that "experienced gamers don't like it much. So we have alternatives". We're still unconvinced that 'experienced gamers' will choose the Wii experience over identical (and better looking) games on other platforms. But what do you think of the odd controls you'll be wrestling with on Wii? Why not hit the forums and release your views? ...by Published on October 23rd, 2006 20:57
Sony has stated its intentions to prosecute companies for what it calls "grey importing" of its products, including the PS3, from other regions to within the EU.
This comes hot on the heels of Sony's court win against Hong Kong based online retailer Lik-Sang, the second time the two have clashed, this time over Lik-Sang's selling Japanese PSPs to EU customers. The judge found in favour of Sony, and deemed that various intellectual property rights had been violated by Lik-Sang's activities.
Sony also asserted its intentions to prosecute other retailers who sell the PS3 console--which is launching around three months earlier in Japan and the US--to Europeans desperate to get their hands on it for Christmas.
Sony stated: "The law is clear, grey importing PS2, PSP or PS3 into the EU, without the express permission of SCE is illegal. Therefore, we will utilise the full scope of the law to put a stop to any retailers who chose to do this."
The company explained the reasoning behind this policy as trying to "protect" European consumers "from being sold hardware that does not conform to strict EU or UK consumer safety standards (due to voltage supply differences etc.), [and] is not (in PS3's case) backwards compatible with either PS1 or PS2 software, [and] will not play European Blu-ray movies or DVDs, and will not be covered by warranty."
When asked if Sony would be pursuing private customers, such as those who advertise PS3s on auction sites such as eBay and offer to ship their own consoles overseas (for a price), a spokesperson said that Sony currently had no comment. ...- Search DCEmu
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