GameStop is having a promotion this week for anyone planning to purchase a Wii. As the title suggests, you’ll get to grab a free Wii title with the purchase of a Wii console. However, the titles are from a limited selection:
Don King Boxing
Mario and Sonic: Olympic Games
Sonic Unleashed
MadWorld
Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party
Shaun White Snowboarding Road Trip
Wario Land: Shake It
Wii Music
Animal Crossing: City Folk – Game Only
My Fitness Coach
Donkey Kong Jungle Beat
Excitebots: Trick Racing – Game Only
Not exactly your triple-a titles, but hey, it’s a free game. Wario Land: Shake It is a pretty damn fun game, too. Anyways, the offer began today and will last until July 26th.
The same guy behind the Spider-Man trilogy has been announced to be the director for the Warcraft movie. Sam Raimi is also responsible for such works as “The Evil Dead” and “Drag Me To Hell.”
Blizzard Entertainment and Legendary Pictures will be working together for the film. So, maybe it won’t be so bad if Blizzard has most of the creative control.
“Sam’s passion for ‘Warcraft’ is undeniable and we know that he will create an incredible film worthy of Blizzard’s phenomenal franchise,” said Legendary Pictures CEO Thomas Tull.
“From our first conversation with Sam, we could tell he was the perfect choice,”” added Paul Sams, chief operating officer of Blizzard Entertainment. “Sam knows how to simultaneously satisfy the enthusiasts and the mainstream audience that might be experiencing that content for the first time.”
There’s a lot of Warcraft lore out there, beginning from the debut of the scourge up to the return of the Lich King. And who can forget all of the novels that spawned along the way? Details are scarce right now, as the movie is still in production. Hopefully more information will pop up in this year’s Comic-Con.
Activision and RedOctane have confirmed a twenty-four Guitar Hero 5 tracks today, including many unreleased songs. Most of these tracks were already leaked in the past, but it’s official this time. This brings the total track list on the CD to a whopping eighty-four songs. And don’t forget that there are even more songs through DLC.
The post-hardcore AFI’s unreleased single off their new album, Medicate, will be making its debut on the game before it releases in stores. A never before released live recording of “The Spirit of Radio” from Rush will also be included. Here’s the full list:
AFI – “Medicate”
A Perfect Circle – “Judith”
Billy Idol – “Dancing With Myself”
Brand New – “Sowing Season (Yeah)”
Bush – “Comedown”
The Derek Trucks Band – “Younk Funk”
Duran Duran – “Hungry Like The Wolf”
Eagles Of Death Metal – “Wannabe In L.A.”
Gorillaz – “Feel Good Inc.”
Gov’t Mule – “Streamline Woman”
Grand Funk Railroad – “We’re An American Band”
Iron Maiden – “2 Minutes To Midnight”
King Crimson – “21st Century Schizoid Man”
No Doubt – “Ex-Girlfriend”
Peter Frampton – “Do You Feel Like We Do? (Live)”
Public Enemy Featuring Zakk Wylde – “Bring the Noise 20XX”
Rush – “The Spirit Of Radio (Live)”
Scars On Broadway – “They Say”
Smashing Pumpkins – “Bullet With Butterfly Wings”
Spacehog – “In The Meantime”
Sunny Day Real Estate – “Seven”
T. Rex – “20th Century Boy”
Weezer – “Why Bother?”
Wild Cherry – “Play That Funky Music”
A full list of songs can be viewed here. Guitar Hero 5 will be hitting stores on September 1st for the Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, and Wii.
BioWare and Dark Horse Comics are teaming up to bring a Mass Effect comic book. Titled Mass Effect: Redemption, the story will take place after the events of the first game and lead up to the sequel. The comic “opens with galactic hero Commander Shepard having mysteriously gone missing and left to fight for survival. What unfolds next will expose readers to new locations, aliens and extended storyline in the Mass Effect universe.” Marc Walters will be writing the comic.
“Fans of Mass Effect are going to be pleasantly shocked by the events in these comics,” said Walters. “We worked very closely with Dark Horse to make sure this story was built in to the Mass Effect 2 arc, right from the ground up. Reading the series won’t just add to your experience of the universe, it will change the way you look at Mass Effect 2… and beyond.”
Mass Effect: Redemption will be out in stores on January 6th, 2010.
Sega’s new Iron Man game looks a lot better than its predecessor, and will hopefully play better, too. As announced yesterday, Iron Man 2: The Video Game will go beyond than just what was told in the movie, but will also expand on the story.
As shown on the trailer, the game will be hitting stores April 2010 for all “major consoles”. The movie itself will be released on May 7th, so it’ll give you enough time to soak up the Marvel fandom.
When I first got picked up my original PSP years one of my biggest gripes was the fact that it had only 1 analog stick. Several hardware upgrades later, and still no second analog stick.
Now, with PSP Go rumors circulating I had my fingers crossed that perhaps Sony would finally add that much sought after stick. Then came the pictures, and nope, no stick. However, according to a recent Game Informer, the control scheme was considered.
Below is a quote from Sony Worldwide Studios’ President, Shuheu Yoshida:
We also felt — like many users — that we wish we had a second analog on the PSP. But we are talking about the mid-life cycle of this platform, and the PSPgo is designed to be perfectly compatible with the PSP-3000 and all the games that released before that. So we had a very serious discussion about this particular subject, but we decided not to add a second analog, and some of the developers are doing quite a nice job translating the second analog functionality to different buttons. We didn’t want to divert their efforts either.
Does this mean we can expect 2 analog sticks on the PSP 2/PSP Go 2/whatever they decide to call it? Let’s hope so.
It seems that the Entertainment Software Association is fed up with the Chicago Transit Authority’s advertising policy on M and A/O rated games and have decided to take it to court.
Now you may think it’s the CTA’s decision what they put on their buses and subways but the ESA’s argument is that there is no ban on R-rated movies or the like. This has led the ESA to suggest that this violates their constitutional right of free speech.
The ban on M and A/O rated games apparantly went down in January of this year but only now has the ESA decided to do something about it. We’ll keep you posted as this story unfolds.
The Wii is notorious for having an extensive library of titles that are nothing more than a collection of mini games, so why not add one more to the mix?
2K Sports has recently stepped forward to announce Baseball Blast! which is just that, a collectinon of baseball themes mini games. The game will apparantly have an authentic feel to it as it will feature a MLB-licensed teams.
Content wise expect to find over 20 mini games along with a trivia mode featuring over 100 questions. I’m not going to pass judgement until I actually see the game but why can’t more studios put out good Wii games like The Conduit and Dead Space Extraction?
Media Molecule is proud to announce that 1 million user-created LittleBigPlanet levels have hit the Playstation Network. As a side note, those 1 million levels have been played a full 244 million times.
This reportedly means that 1 level has been uploaded every 21 seconds since LBP‘s October 27th, 2008 streetdate, quite the amazing feat.
Finally, they also said to check the Playstation Blog around August 18th for a new LittleBigPlanet announcement. What could it be?
Here’s something that is sure to piss EA off — It seems that Activision is starting up a new games that will be based in San Francisco. Apparantly unable to find unemployed talent, Activision did the next best thing and grabbed a few from EA.
Both Glen Schofield, General Manager, and Michael Condrey, COO, from Visceral Games will be making the jump to Activision’s new studio. You’ll recoginze Visceral Studios as being the guys behind Dead Space and Dante’s Inferno.
What is to come from Activision’s new studio? Your guess is as good as mine but it better be good!
The same guy behind the Spider-Man trilogy has been announced to be the director for the Warcraft movie. Sam Raimi is also responsible for such works as “The Evil Dead” and “Drag Me To Hell.”
Activision and RedOctane have confirmed a twenty-four Guitar Hero 5 tracks today, including many unreleased songs. Most of these tracks were already leaked in the past, but it’s official this time. This brings the total track list on the CD to a whopping eighty-four songs. And don’t forget that there are even more songs through DLC.
It seems that the Entertainment Software Association is fed up with the Chicago Transit Authority’s advertising policy on M and A/O rated games and have decided to take it to court.
