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by Published on November 17th, 2008 19:09
via Eurogamer
Microsoft will be giving away over a million MS Points this week - and all you have to do to be in with a chance is use the New Xbox Experience to download Marketplace content.
Specifically, gamers from the US, Canada, Singapore and the UK (over 18) will stand a shot at 46 prizes, the star attraction of which is a whopping 500,000 MS Points (GBP 4250).
After that, there are five lots of 50,000 MS Points (GBP 425), ten batches of 10,000 MS Points (GBP 85), and 30 lumps of 5000 MS Points (GBP 42.50).
To enter, all you have to do is download a film, a telly show, a full Xbox Live Arcade game, an Xbox Originals game or a game add-on.
The sweepstake runs from 2pm (GMT) Wednesday 19th November (New Xbox Experience launch), to early morning on Monday 24th November.
There are a maximum of ten entries per Xbox Live profile, and registration involves downloading the "NXE Download and Win" gamer picture.
You could buy lots of horse armour with that money. ...by Published on November 17th, 2008 19:06
via Joystiq
It looks like we're going to have to stop by the wheelbarrow store on our way home today, because the Virtual Console is going to need one to carry its giant balls. How giant, you ask? Here's what we were greeted with when we checked Nintendo's weekly release:
"SPACE INVADERS: The Original Game (Super NES, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)"
No, seriously. That's what it says. It's pretty ballsy from the outset, but it only gets progressively more so as you examine the listing. (1) They spell it in all caps, like "Yes, that SPACE INVADERS." (2) They follow that up with "The Original Game," as if to clarify that yes, they are, in fact, asking for eight dollars to play a game from the Carter administration. (3) They actually list it before the perfectly acceptable Forgotten Worlds (Genesis, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points), today's other release.
... Come to think of it, we're not even sure there's a wheelbarrow big enough. ...by Published on November 17th, 2008 19:00
via Computer and Video Games
Screenshots have emerged showing supposed Gears of War 2 downloadable content, with multiplayer maps not available in the retail version.
The eight screenshots which you can see on this page appeared on various forums this morning, showing a multiplayer match on an unrecognisable map with glowing immulsion.
Microsoft expectedly isn't saying anything, but with Epic's long history of awesome DLC it probably isn't far-fetched to put money on these being real.
Why didn't any of the launch maps have the yellow stuff in them, anyway? It's not as if (potential spoiler) you're not walking past it for a third of the single-player campaign...
Screenshots here ...by Published on November 17th, 2008 18:57
via Eurogamer
A preview of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars in Spanish magazine MarcaPlayer has revealed a few more details on the DS entry in the series.
Most exciting must be the news that the game will range over the whole of Liberty City as it's portrayed in GTA IV - with the exception of the borough of Alderney (known as New Jersey in real life). Dukes, Bohan, Broker and Algonquin are all in there.
According to a translation by Nintendo Everything, Chinatown Wars' drug-dealing mini-game will have "big importance".
You'll have a PDA with a GPS system for keeping track of missions and navigating the streets of Liberty. This will appear on the touchscreen, along with the radio and controls for talking to people and using thrown weapons.
The rest of the action will be shown on the DS' top screen, and although the action is shown top-down, it won't be a fixed perspective. The camera can rotate through a full 360 degrees.
And, with the obligatory not-in-public use of the DS' microphone, you can whistle to call cabs.
Rockstar's owners Take-Two revealed last week that Chinatown Wars, expected in January, has been delayed to the spring of next year. ...by Published on November 17th, 2008 18:44
via Games Industry
Koch Media CEO, Dr Klemens Kundratitz, has told GamesIndustry.biz that he believes there are too many casual and DS titles in the market between now and Christmas, and that he is concerned that pricing will fall for DS titles as a result of other companies over committing.
"We're all faced with too much casual and DS product between now and Christmas, so we're also the victim of that," he said in an interview at Game Connection in Lyon. "But I think that in spite of the economic worries we as an industry can be quite confident that we're not affected in too abrupt a way.
"However, I have my worries about the street pricing of Nintendo DS products for next year, and I hope that we aren't seeing companies that have overcommitted on this platform, and are slashing prices - thereby making the business model unattractive for everybody."
Kundratitz admitted that the 'gold rush' on the DS platform was somewhat inevitable, and that he was glad that Koch Media would be able to leverage its distribution connections to ensure good retail placements for its own products.
"It's a free economy, everybody makes their own assumptions, and if a platform is so enormously successful, everybody wants to have a piece of the action," he said. "In hindsight you're always wiser, but it's not something that anybody could have foreseen.
"I think I would be in a much more nervous state right now if I had to rely on third party partners to put my products on the shelves. It's always been my viewpoint that you need to have the channels open in the key markets, and once we have those channels open - and that's now including Spain since the summer, and now also in the US - you can then invest in long term projects and strong products.
"In times where shelf space comes at a premium it's always those companies with the better retail contacts which will benefit. That will also be part of the consolidation, that people without that strength and reputation of being a reliable partner for retail will have it more difficult."
The full interview with Dr Klemens Kundratitz is available now. ...by Published on November 14th, 2008 21:04
It's the weekly reading for the latest figures for console sales in Japan again as follows:
Nintendo DSi: 104,897
Playstation Portable: 43,726
Nintendo Wii: 24,726
Playstation 3: 18,354
Xbox 360: 12,759
Nintendo DS Lite: 8,381
Playstation 2: 5,743
DSi maintains top rank, down roughly 66,000. PSP comes next, down 7,000. Wii is 3rd, up 1,600. PS3 goes down by 23,000. Xbox 360 goes up by 6,000. DS Lite slides further down the ranks and takes sales cut by half (8,000). Last in line is the old PS2, down 400. Figures from M-Create. ...by Published on November 14th, 2008 21:04
It's the weekly reading for the latest figures for console sales in Japan again as follows:
Nintendo DSi: 104,897
Playstation Portable: 43,726
Nintendo Wii: 24,726
Playstation 3: 18,354
Xbox 360: 12,759
Nintendo DS Lite: 8,381
Playstation 2: 5,743
DSi maintains top rank, down roughly 66,000. PSP comes next, down 7,000. Wii is 3rd, up 1,600. PS3 goes down by 23,000. Xbox 360 goes up by 6,000. DS Lite slides further down the ranks and takes sales cut by half (8,000). Last in line is the old PS2, down 400. Figures from M-Create. ...by Published on November 14th, 2008 20:48
via Computer and Video Games
The open beta for Sony's virtual world PlayStation Home is scheduled to launch in "the coming weeks", assuming everything goes to plan.
That's according to the project's community manager - or TedTheDog as he's known on the official PS forum - who has given PS3 owners a "rough overview" of the coming weeks.
SCEE will be inviting a large number of extra testers - who have already been chosen - into the closed beta before making it public, but there really, really shouldn't be too long to wait now unless there's some kind of major cock up.
"Finally," TedTheDog said, "Home open beta is the start of a long journey, not the end of one. I know I've said this a lot recently but I see many of you are thinking of Home open beta like a game release in that you're expecting the final version to be launched with just some patches and maybe some DLC to come afterwards....
"Home beta is a service that will grow from the foundation of v1.0 over the coming months and years so thinking of it as a start rather than a finish will help you understand where its going and what its all about. We all appreciate you've been waiting a long time to be a part of this journey and we hope you enjoy it once your onboard with us."
According to Sony's PlayStation Network director, even though it will be in beta, the Home trial will "be a fair representation of what the service can be and its potential".by Published on November 14th, 2008 20:28
via Eurogamer
Rockstar has pushed the release of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars back to some time between February and April 2009. We had expected the DS instalment before the end of January.
The publisher also shed more light on the release date for the Grand Theft Auto IV downloadable content on Xbox 360, hinting that this may slip into the same timeframe as Chinatown Wars - although it was still "aiming" for the November to January quarter.
The news was aired by Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick during an investors' conference, as reported by GameSpot.
And while the DLC may not appear this year, Rockstar was eager to communicate that work on the content was "close to completed".
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, which was announced during E3, takes a top-down, retro approach to the series. It boasts cartoon-style graphics and quirky drug-dealing mini-games as well as gang-banging and cap-popping (we're not sure if that's a real phrase) gameplay. ...by Published on November 14th, 2008 19:59
via Eurogamer
Nintendo has stuffed two more games into the Wii Virtual Console shop.
Leading the charge is Phantasy Star IV from the days of the Mega Drive, which costs 800 Wii Points (approx GBP 6 / EUR 8) to relive.
Here, spiky-haired heroes save the world turn by turn, complimented by pre-programmed assault routines, combo attacks between players and comic-book-style cut-scenes.
Or there's Mega Man 3, which you might have played on the NES all those years ago. Some people maintain that this is the best in the series: the instalment that introduced the slide move and Rush, the robo-dog helper. Yours for 500 Wii Points (approx GBP 3.50 / EUR 5).
You can expect our thoughts on the pair soon. ...- Search DCEmu
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