This is a surprisingly good mix, I would have never thought to combine Queen and Super Mario Galaxy. This makes me wonder what other songs could mix well with other various Nintendo games and characters? Anyone got any ideas?
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Hang onto your hats – and your Wii Remote controllers – as we unveil a set of exciting firsts for the Wii Shop Channel this week. For starters, the new Onslaught marks the first-ever first-person shooter to be released via the WiiWare service. Using the intuitive wireless controls Wii is known for, the game puts players at the center of a pulse-pounding adventure that fans of futuristic sci-fi and multiplayer action will love.
The other big news this week is the hotly anticipated launch of Commodore 64 game titles on Virtual Console. Starting with two classic martial arts games and an awesome car racing title, we’re thrilled to add yet another old-school gaming platform to the mix. Virtual Console already offers classic games that originally appeared on a variety of platforms, and with the addition of Commodore 64, Wii owners can expect even more vintage games to rediscover and enjoy.
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Another solid showing for the DS this week with Blue Dragon Plus, Legacy of Ys, and a new Puzzle Quest leading the way. The much maligned Wii version of Dead Rising is set to hit shelves, too. Anything here on your shopping list?
DS
Blue Dragon Plus
Legacy of Ys: Books I & II
Puzzle Quest: Galactrix
C.O.R.E.
Wii
Dead Rising: Chop Til You Drop
Yamaha Supercross
Yeah… Thanks?
Game|Life has itself five fresh screens from the upcoming Wii version of Ghostbusters and they’re, well… cute?
The reasoning behind the cartoon graphics is pretty obvious (lower powered system), but I’m not so sure that’s going to be enough to sway me. It’s as if Leisure Suit Larry got loose in the Bratz mansion and nine months late this thing popped out armed with proton packs.
While I applaud developers that work with the system, as opposed to against it, when it comes to graphics (MadWorld comes to mind), this is bordering on yet another example of a developer that Just Doesn’t Get It.
Of course, that’s my opinion, and nothing more. What are your thoughts?
At Comic Con a week or so ago I had the chance to play Twisted Towers and Roogoo Attack with one of the developers from SouthPeak Games. To be honest I thought the puzzle genre was dead, you could only rehash Tetris and Line clearing so many different ways, but the guys at SouthPeak have managed to create a very unique and fun game.
Twisted Towers and Roogoo Attack, for the Wii and DS respectively, are a game that relies on stacking objects and pushing them through similar shaped slots. You might remember having a toy like that as a child where you would pushed colored shapes through a wood block, that had holes for those shapes and only those shapes could go through. This game is exactly like that except hard core to the max, and timing is key to actually successfully completing this game.
Atlus just released a new trailer for Dokapon Journey today. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the game, Dokapon Journey is a role playing game that mixes turn based “classic board game” style game play with RPG elements. You have to play to win and to win you have to play dirty, as the game system favors those who jump into fights and steal kills and exp from other players. As well as using special items to slow down or injure those who get in your way!
This game actually sounds kind of interesting, but my question is has anyone ever played a game that is like this? A board game and an RPG at the same time? This doesn’t seem to be like a normal tactics game.
You can find out more about the game at Atlus’s website below.
[Atlus (Dokapon Journey)]
One of the more creative applications for the DSi, Moving Memo Pad, is letting Japanese gamers try their hand in animation. It’s a easy to use frame by frame animation program, but it goes above and beyond the gimmick of a well designed application by integrating with a youtube-like website - Ungomom Hatena. Animations created on the DS can be uploaded, shared, and added upon by other users – creating a fun application and a diverse and interactive online community. Videos range from simple camera animations to complicated hand drawn epics. Check out these samples:
Head over to Tiny Cartridge for more details, background information, and videos showing off the potential of Moving Memo Pad.
Following in the footsteps of its support for MotionPlus in an upcoming tennis game, EA confirmed this week that its popular golf series, Tiger Woods PGA Tour, would also support Nintendo’s upcoming 1:1 motion control peripheral.
I think this is actually bigger news than the tennis title, as golf was one of the marquee sports marketed by Nintendo as the perfect match for motion controls. It didn’t really work out that way, as Wii Sports golf was quirky and the initial Tiger Woods Wii title was quirkier still, but 1:1 controls should iron all that out pretty smoothly.
Related to that, when is MotionPlus coming out, anyway? Is it still April?
