Dear Esther Mac port confirmed
Killing Floor hits a million sales, discounted on Steam
Jam Live Music Arcade announced for PS3, Xbox 360
Metal Gear Online to quietly die this summer
Mad Riders: Techland's ATV racer coming to PC, PSN, XBLA
Late Night Consoling
by Chris Remo, Sep 02, 2005 8:00pm PDTOh man, it's finally Friday. Now I can actually play some of the games I want to play. My DS has both Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga and Advance Wars: Dual Strike in it, which is sort of making my head explode since I don't know which I should choose when the machine boots up. Plus, I finally got my hands on Gitaroo-Man (PS2), and that is calling to me. And didn't I hear that Shackers play Halo 2 on Fridays? Arghgh....
- Bungie Studios, of Halo and Marathon fame, has found a way to utilize their rather enormous fan community for the purpose of aiding the Katrina disaster. They are selling "Fight the Flood" t-shirts for $19.99, and all profit will go directly to Hurricane Relief by way of the American Red Cross. So if you can't bring yourself to donate directly, do it this way and at least you get a shirt with a picture of the Master Chief kicking an alien.
Buy a T-Shirt, Help Out
[xbox] - Somewhat surprisingly, Nintendo UK general manager David Yarnton is "pretty positive" about Sony's PSP launching in Europe. The contrast is almost hilarious when one considers Sony's Phil Harrison recently claiming that the DS is "irrelevant" in terms of competition with Sony. "Whenever someone else has come into the market, whether it be Sony or Microsoft, it's been really good," stated Yarnton, "because what it's done is focused a lot of attention on the industry, and I think it has always grown it a bit more."
PSP Arrives in Europe, Nintendo Pleased
[ds] [psp] - Console game revenues are expected to have dropped $37M last month from August 2004. Top sellers should be Madden 06 (PS2, Xbox, GCN, DS, GBA, PC) and Nintendogs (DS). Electronic Arts is also expected to have lost quite a bit of market share from last year, as the other major third-party players (except THQ) all gain it. The list is comprised of Activision, Atari, EA, Majesco, Midway, Take-Two, and THQ. It is particularly striking to note, however, that while EA is predicted to lose about 7% of the market, that still leaves the company in control of 41.7%. Its closest competitor in market share is Take-Two, who is expected to have risen from 4.8% to 7.3%.
Game Revenues & EA Market Share Dropping
[ps2] [xbox] [gamecube] - Sony has announced that there will be a wireless game demo kiosk at Tokyo Game Show allowing users to download demos directly to their PSPs. Like the demos Nintendo has made available for DS, they can only be stored to the system's onboard memory, so they will be wiped when the power is turned off. The available demos will be: Konami's Metal Gear Acid 2, Hudson's Rengoku 2 (previously unannounced), Capcom's Rockman Rockman (previously unannounced), Sony's Baito Hell 2000, and Namco's Portable Resort. Metal Gear Acid 2 is known to be coming to North America this holiday season, but it was not specified which of the other games would make it out of Japan.
PSP Demos at TGS
[psp] - Good old The Inquirer is reporting that the PS3's Blu-ray drives will cost Sony more than $100 a pop. If true it would certainly be one reason Sony is warning consumers to expect an expensive console. On the other hand, this is The Inquirer and one must take everything they claim with a mountainous grain of salt.
Really Expensive Blu-Ray Drives?
[ps2] - Speaking of The Inquirer, that same site is also reporting that the PS3 will support a mouse and keyboard for use as a game controller (as opposed to the most recent information about Xbox 360, which is that it will use a keyboard for text input only). However, we must again exercise caution when dealing with this news: this is The Inquirer. GameSpot picked up the story in its weekly Rumor Control column, which points out that The Inquirer didn't really specify any kind of source despite this sort of thing not really seeming like ultra-sensitive knowledge. GameSpot declines to offer an opinion on the veracity of The Inquirer's claim, instead choosing to wait it out.
Keyboard and Mouse for PS3?
[ps2] - Tired of wasting tons of electricity to power your DS, PSP, or GBA SP? Well, now you can put the power of the sun in the palm of your hand with this handy solar charger. It actually looks very much like the GBA SP itself. The charger, which apparently "can be used in Sunlight or Cloudy Conditions, plus can also be used in artificial (indoor) light," will run you $35.00 plus zero dollars on your power bill!
Solar Charger for Handhelds
[ds] [psp] [gba] - GamesIndustry.biz's full interview with Nintendo UK general manager Yarnton (from which they extracted their news story linked above) is available here. GameSpot looks at the History of Mario Sports. GameSpot goes and interviews producer Shaun Himmerick and creative director Ed Boon about Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks (PS2, Xbox).
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- The Inquirer reported that the PlayStation 3 Development Kit costs about 25000 euro. Sony currently has around 100 dev. kits available in Europe, the number will increase to 1000 by the end of the year.
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I find the DS button layout horrible for this GBA game
X
Y A
B
You are forced to run with B and jump with A so its really hard to do one of those running jumps. I seem to remember the SNES version where you could use Y to run and B to jump which didnt require moving your thumb because it covered both those buttons at the same time.
It would be nice if Nintendo released a firmware update that lets you choose 2 of the 4 buttons you want to use for GBA games
You could just charge into cars and tear them into shreds....
In the second one it's armour and damage was reduced immensely. I could never beat my friend with the monster truck, especially when he went the pimp dude in the pink car because he'd just torch the hell out of me...
Ahhhh memories...
I'll be getting the Twisted Metal game on PSP for sure.
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Xbox360: Get to market first, large developer base, easy to develop for, mild innovation, don't fix what isn't broke exclusive anything that looks profitable
PS3: Bleeding edge tech, offer a high end product that will give the consumer more than just a gaming console aka Blu-ray + presumably more home theater stuff, high cost justified by high utility why buy blu-ray when you can have blu-ray plus Castlevania?
Nintendo: Legendary branding and quality control, innovation, less focus on ultra processing and more on pure quality, core games that we grew up on Zelda/Mario/ Metroid plus new emotion and childhood memory experience++
It's almost like they don't even try to compete with each other, each almost has a different demographic and core audience. I predict a golden age of gaming.
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[this post officially unmasks me as a newfound Xbox whore]
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I find Lumines to be the best title on PSP available but its not as good as Meteos. do I have to say "in my opinion"? Wipeout is ok but nothing special. Pretty graphics.
I clearly remember when I was buying my DS few months ago that the merchant was trying to talk me into not buying it and pre-ordering a psp instead. Having both and having played Meteos, Nanostray, Mario and Kirby (Lumines and Wipeout for psp) I can say that DS+games is much better choice.
So from now on its Nintendo DS + PC games, with a few good PSP games I guess, and note to self not to buy shiny things just because they are.
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I'm no Nintendo fanboy, either. In fact, I sold THREE Nintendo systems to buy ONE Sony system. But the attitudes displayed on each side make me feel so guilty, like I'm betraying true gaming by not supporting Nintendo more.
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"In a nutshell, an anonymous source close to the Salt Lake City developers at Incognito Inc. suggests that Warhawk PS3 could be the definitive flight action game of our time. And here's exactly why..."
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/638/638298p1.html
Mr. Remo I'm dissapointed this wasn't on LNC
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Loved that game. I enjoyed beating the crap outta Spectre (that my buddy enjoyed playing) with that whats-he-called Mad Max like character with the super missile (went straight forward and did tons of damage) on the roof tops. The truck was cool too.
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Maybe I'll buy an XBox360, maybe not. Definately not at launch and definately not unless there's some title I just can't do without. Their decision to NOT allow for WASD/ESDF use is simply appalling to me, and is the only reason I never bought Halo/Halo2.
My nephews own them both and I played a ton on the controllers, and I do just fine, but I don't LIKE it.
Nintendo purchase is a given, like Chris said in another thread they put out the constant A+ games with their uber branded characters and new Metroid/Mario/Link is too powerful for me to resist. Couldn't care less about online play, NES has too much singleplayer goodness +mario kart.
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$41.7%
foozmelon is my gamertag