Ubisoft has announced today the official name for the third partof this generation´s PoP. The game is going to be called: Prince of Persia The two thrones from now on. Yeah i know it´s not a great or original name but the game looks pretty cool.
Prince of Persia The two thrones is expected to launch on December and will feature an additional playable character as well as some other goodies. Check out the official website for more info.
Animal Crossing Wild world, the upcoming DS version of the popular cube game will be hitting the stores for holiday season. The game will feature WiFi connectivity and some new stuff. Jeux-france has a Nintendo Power scan where you can chak some screens and extra info.
Link | Jeux-France
Nope, i didn´t say headset, this is a NES Bluetooth handset and is one of the less usable mods i´ve seen, i mean, NES controller mods are really cool but what´s next? the NES controller juice maker?
When someone calls you to your cellphone or via VoIP you have to press start on your NES controller to start talking while the A and B buttons control the volume.
Link | Kamalot
Great week in releases, holiday season is getting closer and the quantity of big releases is a clear sign of this. Batallion Wars and X-Men Legends II are some of the most expected games for the season. Enjoy!
SNK announced this weekend that they are porting four Metal Slug games to the Game Boy Advance / Game Boy Micro. Metal Slug 1, 2, 3 and X will probable be launched in the next few months but no official date was given except they are remakes of the arcade versions of this popular 2d shooter.
I´m not a fan of this kind of old-game ports to the handhelds stuff but Metal Slug sounds like a fun game to play in the Micro. It would´ve been great to get an original game tough.
Info and Screenshots | DsX2
I understand now! :). Some revolution related stupid humor never hurts. Try the revolution controller.
In case you didn´t catch the full keynote speech, here´s a dubbed version of it. The full 47 minutes right from Mr Iwata´s keynote, he talks about the industry, the games and of course: the revolution controller.
Link | TGS Satoru Iwata´s keynote
Via | 4 Color Rebellion
IGN
“For months, years even, we’ve been hearing Nintendo reiterate that it does not want to be part of the same battle that Sony and Microsoft are deeply entrenched in. However, with a system like GameCube, the comparisons are inevitable. With Revolution and its one-of-a-kind approach to the controller, drawing these parallels just became a lot more difficult. This was an important message from Nintendo in our meeting. It wants to explore uncharted waters, be a blue ocean company, and not find itself sailing the bloody waters where the competition resides.”
Joystiq
“One thing is for sure…Nintendo has balls.”
Kotaku
“Like our TV remote, this is something that you put on your coffee table. Nintendo wants this to be part of our lives”
THQ
“Nintendo has long been a trailblazer, and this controller design reinforces that reputation,” said Brian Farrell, president and CEO of THQ. “We enthusiastically support Nintendo’s next console because we believe their approach of continual innovation is very much in line with our own strategy of creating unique and innovative games for the next generation of hardware.”
Activision
“What we’re seeing from this controller is the same thing we saw with Nintendo DS,” said Chuck Huebner, Head of Worldwide Studios, Activision, Inc. “It’s a system that’s designed with an eye on enticing new players to the video game industry, and that’s something we firmly support.”
EA
“Game control is essential – it’s the area where perhaps the most game-play improvement can be made,” said John Schappert, Sr. Vice President and General Manager of Electronic Arts Canada. “While our portfolio represents a full array of titles across all genres, I think our sports titles might be the first to immediately take advantage of what this novel ‘freehand’ type of control has to offer.”
Via | Planet Gamecube
The day we´ve been all waiting for has finally arrived and no one would have ever tought of what was waiting for us. The revolution controller was finally revealed and yes… it looks like a dvd remote controller - iPod shuffle hybrid. None of the hundreds of mock-ups we saw in the recent months was even close to this.
So let´s start. How the revolution controller works? well imagine a 3d mouse you can point at the tv. Using the gyroscopic technology as expected yopu can easily “point and click” since as you can see, there are not a lot of buttons and Nintendo went for something simple.
The controller features a classic D-pad, 3 main buttons in the frontlabeled as ‘A’, ‘x’ and ‘y’. An additional ‘B’ button is in the back and works like the n-64’s ‘z’ button.
In the pictures the 2 front buttons are labeled as ‘a’ and ‘b’. This is because you can turn 90 degrees and hold it like a classic NES Controller. It is unknow which will be the final labels for this buttons.
Next, we can see the ‘power’, ’select’, ’start’ and ‘home’ buttons. There is no need to tell you the first 3 buttons functions. The ‘home’ button, i´m guessing because there was no word about it´s function, works like the 360´s one, it´s like a one click fast access to the online menus and capabilities.
We all love the old school rpg´s and Square-Enix knows it, the company has announced a Final Fantasy IV revamp for the GBA / Game Boy Micro. The game will feature the classic adventure with some fresh characters and skills and it might be launched as soon as December 12th.
