Wiiva la Revolution!! {News Topic}

[heyou]

Reggie says no secrets left for Wii, GamePro says there are, Falafelkid agrees

 

Let us briefly examine the News.com interview. At first, Reggie seemed intent on evading the issue, mentioning how only the box contents had been finalized. This would have left the back door open for any secrets regarding the Virtual Console or WiiConnect24, for example. Only when pressed about a last-minute announcement did he actually rule one out.

 

This is in keeping with GamePro´s response. They are confident that their source is accurate. I therefore strongly believe that Reggie decided to deceive us, rather than reiterate his earlier comments at the conference (which he must have meant to be confidential). After all, a secret is only a secret for as long as it is not talked about in public.

[heyou]

Nα'τες οι καλές προσφορές. Στην ουσία 13 ευρώ έκπτωση απο το Wii Play + τσαντα + κάποιο κουπόνι.

(480 δολάρια Αυστραλίας = 287 ευρώ)

 

[xrest]

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[Daredevil]

Wireless Wii Sensor Bar coming from Nyko We've heard that high quality video game peripheral market Nyko are to create a wireless Wii sensor bar. The wireless bar will detect pointer and motion movements from up to 25ft away and have 2.4GHz Wireless technology which works for up to 30ft. It should be on sale for around $30 and is described as ideal for those home set ups with wall mounted TV's or complicated cabling.

[xrest]

Samuel L. Jackson Hosts Spike TV Awards

Videogames motherf@#$&er, do you play them?!

 

Spike TV's fourth annual Video Game Awards is getting some much-needed energy. Sam "Snakes on a Plane" Jackson is set to return as host of the awards show which airs December 13 at 10 PM. The awards, taped on December 8 and then edited for length and boring speeches, is being held at the University of Southern California's Galen Center in Los Angeles.

 

Voting for the show begins today at http://www.vga2006.spiketv.com. Fans can vote in 27 different categories, including Most Addictive Game, Game of the Year and Cyber Vixen of the Year (ohhh Princess Peach!). Voting closes on Thursday, December 7.

 

Absent from this year's list of awards is the choice for Best Videogame Website. It's too bad, because we had a killer speech prepared. "IGN would like to thank the Academy for this distinguished honor. And, of course, we would like to thank all the fans who voted. Without you we wouldn't be here." Then the IGN editors would collectively poop on the crowd.

 

We'll have to settle for Sam Jackson making stellar cracks at the expense of the gathered celebrities.

 

Following are the nominees for Spike TV's 2006 Video Game Awards:

 

GAME OF THE YEAR

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Softworks)

Okami (Capcom/Clover Studio)

Gears of War (Microsoft/Epic Games)

Guitar Hero 2 (Red Octane/Harmonix)

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (Ubisoft)

CRITIC'S CHOICE

(game to be released after 11/15/2006 & before 12/31/2006)

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo/Nintendo EAD)

Resistance: Fall of Man (Sony Computer Entertainment America/Insomniac Games)

Medieval II: Total War (Sega/Creative Assembly)

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas (Ubisoft Montreal)

Wii Sports (Nintendo)

 

BEST DRIVING GAME AWARD

Burnout Revenge-XBOX 360 (Electronic Arts/Criterion Games)

Need For Speed Carbon (Electronic Arts/EA Black Box)

TOCA Race Driver 3 (Codemasters)

GTR 2 (10tacle Studios/SimBin Development Team)

 

BEST INDIVIDUAL SPORTS GAME

Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis (Rockstar Games/Rockstar San Diego)

EA Sports Fight Night Round 3 (Electronic Arts/ EA Chicago)

Tony Hawk Project 8 (Activision/Neversoft )

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 (Electronic Arts/EA Redwood Shores)

Top Spin 2 (2K Sports/Power & Magic)

 

BEST ACTION GAME

Dead Rising (Capcom)

New Super Mario Bros (Nintendo/Nintendo EAD)

Okami (Capcom/Clover Studio)

Saints Row (THQ/Volition)

Bully (Rockstar Games/Rockstar Vancouver)

BEST TEAM SPORTS GAME

NBA2K7 (2K Sports/Visual Concepts)

Madden NFL 07 (Electronic Arts/Tiburon)

NCAA Football 07 (Electronic Arts/Tiburon)

FIFA 07 (Electronic Arts/EA Canada)

NHL 07 (Electronic Arts/EA Canada)

 

CYBER VIXEN OF THE YEAR

Lara Croft - Tomb Raider: Legend (Eidos Interactive/Crystal Dynamics)

Alyx Vance - Half-Life 2: Episode 1 (Valve)

Princess Peach - New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo/Nintendo EAD)

Enrica - Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent (Ubisoft Montreal)

Jen - Prey (2K Games/ Human Head Studios/3D Realms)

 

BEST SONG

"LocoRoco No Uta" by Nobuyuki Shimizu and Kemmei Adachi in LocoRoco (Sony Computer Entertainment America/SCE Studios Japan)

"Heavenly Star" by Genki Rockets in Lumines II (Buena Vista Games/Q Entertainment)

"Helicopter" by Bloc Party in Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure (Atari/The Collective)

"Summer Shudder" by AFI in Madden NFL 07 (Electronic Arts/Tiburon)

"Lights and Sounds" by YellowCard in Burnout Revenge-XBOX 360 (Electronic Arts/Criterion Games)

 

BEST SOUNDTRACK

Guitar Hero 2 (Red Octane/Harmonix)

Madden NFL 07 (Electronic Arts/Tiburon)

Scarface: The World is Yours (Vivendi/Radical Entertainment)

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (Rockstar Games/Rockstar Leeds / Rockstar North)

 

STUDIO OF THE YEAR

Clover Studio (Okami)

Relic (Company of Heroes)

Cliff Bleszinski /Epic Games (Gears of War)

Todd Howard / Bethesda Softworks (The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion)

Harmonix (Guitar Hero 2)

 

BEST WIRELESS GAME

Diner Dash (Glu Mobile)

SWAT Force (Vivendi/KAOLink)

Tower Bloxx (Digital Chocolate)

Super K.O. Boxing (Glu Mobile)

 

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Softworks)

Bully (Rockstar Games/Rockstar Vancouver)

Electroplankton (Nintendo)

Okami (Capcom/Clover Studio)

Final Fantasy XII (Square Enix)

 

BEST FIGHTING GAME

Tekken: Dark Resurrection (Namco Bandai)

Dead or Alive 4 (Tecmo/Team Ninja)

Mortal Kombat Armageddon (Midway Games)

Street Fighter Alpha Anthology (Capcom)

God Hand (Capcom/Clover Studio)

 

BEST SHOOTER

Black (Electronic Arts/Criterion)

Prey (2K Games/ Human Head Studios/3D Realms)

Half-Life 2: Episode 1 (Valve)

Gears of War (Microsoft/Epic Games)

Call of Duty 3 (Activision/Treyarch)

 

BEST MILITARY GAME

Company of Heroes (THQ/Relic)

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (Ubisoft)

Call of Duty 3 (Activision/Treyarch)

The Outfit (THQ/Relic)

Battlefield 2142 (Electronic Arts/EA UK / DICE UK)

 

BEST GRAPHICS

Gears of War (Microsoft/Epic Games)

Okami (Capcom/Clover Studio)

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (Ubisoft)

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Softworks)

Company of Heroes (THQ/Relic)

 

BEST HANDHELD GAME

New Super Mario (Nintendo/Nintendo EAD)

Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day (Nintendo)

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (Rockstar Games/Rockstar Leeds / Rockstar North)

Tetris DS (Nintendo)

LocoRoco (Sony Computer Entertainment America/SCE Studios Japan)

 

BEST MULTI-PLAYER GAME

Gears of War (Microsoft/Epic Games)

Company of Heroes (THQ/Relic)

Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence (Konami/Kojima Productions)

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (Ubisoft)

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent (Ubisoft Montreal)

 

BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGY

WII (Nintendo)

PS3 (Sony Computer Entertainment America)

DS Lite (Nintendo)

Electroplankton (Nintendo)

 

BEST PC GAME

Company of Heroes (THQ/Relic)

Half-Life 2: Episode 1 (Valve)

Battlefield 2142 (Electronic Arts/Digital Illusions CE )

Star Wars: Empire at War (LucasArts/Petroglyph)

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Softworks)

 

BEST RPG

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Softworks)

Final Fantasy XII (Square Enix)

Kingdom Hearts II (Square Enix)

Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria (Square Enix/tri-Ace)

 

BEST GAME BASED ON A MOVIE OR TV SHOW

Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (LucasArts/Traveller's Tales)

The Godfather (Electronic Arts/EA Redwood Shores)

Scarface: The World is Yours (Vivendi/Radical Entertainment)

The Sopranos: Road to Respect (THQ/7 Studios)

Family Guy (2K Games/High Voltage Software)

 

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A HUMAN - MALE

Seth MacFarlane in Family Guy (2K Games/High Voltage Software)

Gerry Rosenthal in Bully (Rockstar Games/Rockstar Vancouver)

Patrick Stewart in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Softworks)

Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow (Bethesda Softworks/7 Studios/Buena Vista Games)

Kiefer Sutherland in 24: The Game (2K Games/SCEE Studios Cambridge)

 

BEST SUPPORTING MALE PERFORMANCE

Seth Green in Family Guy (2K Games/High Voltage Software)

James Woods in Scarface: The World is Yours (Vivendi/Radical Entertainment)

James Caan in The Godfather (Electronic Arts/EA Redwood Shores)

Philip Michael Thomas in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (Rockstar Games/Rockstar Leeds/Rockstar North)

James Gandolfini in The Sopranos: Road to Respect (THQ/7 Studios)

 

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A HUMAN - FEMALE

Vida Guerra in Scarface: The World is Yours (Vivendi/Radical Entertainment)

Tia Carrere in Saints Row (THQ/Volition)

Emmanuelle Vaugier in Need For Speed Carbon (Electronic Arts/EA Black Box)

Keely Haws in Tomb Raider: Legend (Eidos Interactive/Crystal Dynamics)

Rosario Dawson in Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure (Atari/The Collective)

 

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE PERFORMANCE

Rachel Leigh Cook in Kingdom Hearts II (Square Enix)

Elisha Cuthbert in 24: The Game (2K Games/SCE Studios Cambridge)

Brittany Murphy in Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure (Atari/The Collective)

Mila Kunis in Family Guy (2K Games/High Voltage Software)

Lynda Carter in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Softworks)

 

BEST CAST

The Godfather (Electronic Arts/EA Redwood Shores)

Family Guy (2K Games/High Voltage Software)

Scarface: The World is Yours (Vivendi/Radical Entertainment)

Saints Row (THQ/Volition)

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Softworks)

 

MOST ADDICTIVE

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Softworks)

Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day (Nintendo)

Gears of War (Microsoft/Epic Games)

Guitar Hero 2 (Red Octane/Harmonix)

Company of Heroes (THQ/Relic)

[heyou]

Εικόνες απο το Heatseeker

 

 

 

 

 

Wii instruction book cover/back art

 

[panther_512]

Call of Duty 3 videos.

 

IGN : "Does the control work? You bet!"

 

Στο παραπάνω link περιλαμβάνονται πολλά βίντεο του COD3 για το Wii, όπου και είναι εμφανής η υπεροχή του Wiimote σε σχέση με τα παλιότερης γενιάς χειριστήρια.

[panther_512]

IGN Wii Playground

 

Matt and Mark show you Red Steel

 

Ένα πολύ ενδιαφέρον βίντεο, με τον Matt και Mark από το IGN να μας παρουσιάζουν το Red Steel αλλά και να μοιράζονται τις σκέψεις τους για το παιχνίδι.

 

Μόλις χτές έλαβαν το Wii και από αύριο μπορούμε να περιμένουμε διαφωτιστικά reviews των παιχνιδιών.

 

Όσον αφορά το Red Steel, το κύριο μειονέκτημα που του βρίσκουν είναι το πολύ αργό στρίψιμο, λόγω του τεράστιου "bouncing box" που έβαλαν στο παιχνίδι και το οποίο δυστυχώς δεν ρυθμίζεται.

 

Υπάρχουν sensitivity settings, αλλά αυτά καθορίζουν την ταχύτητα στριψίματος.

 

Εν ολίγης, για να στρίψετε γρήγορα στο Red Steel, ο στόχος θα πρέπει να φτάσει σχεδόν στο τέρμα της οθόνης, με αποτέλεσμα να είναι δύσκολο να στρίβετε και κεντράρετε στη συνέχεια γρήγορα σε κάποιον εχθρό.

 

Ο χειρισμός του COD3 τους άρεσε πολύ περισσότερο, διότι το bouncing box είναι πολύ μικρό, με αποτέλεσμα η αίσθηση να είναι σαφώς καλύτερη από αυτή του Red Steel.

 

Πιστεύω ότι το παιχνίδι θα πάρει βαθμολογία από το IGN 8 με 8.5, ακριβώς λόγω του χειρισμού, ο οποίος είναι πολύ "χαλαρός".

[Braveheart1980]

Wii Play - Info and Screens

 

 

Wii Play

 

Wii Play (はじめてのWii Hajimete no Wii, or My First Wii in Japan) is an upcoming video game for the Wii. It will feature minigames that will use characters in the Mii Channel. Several of the games featured are from E3 2006 demos such as the Duck Hunt-styled shooting demo and Table Tennis, as well as all new mini-games.

 

The game will be sold with a Wii Remote (though no nunchuck attachment) in Japan, Australia and Europe.

 

Table Tennis

The game is one and two players and is basically a game of Pong, rallying back and forth by moving the Wii remote. The Mii characters are supported, and are represented by the audience. As the game progresses, the audience grows larger.

Laser Hockey

Played like air hockey, this is a two player game where the players move the Wii remote up and down to deflect shots and try to score in the opponents goal. Twisting the paddle aims the ball. According to developers, the physics engine used to calculate the velocity and position of the shots is extremely advanced, with Shigeru Miyamoto even stating that it rivaled the Havok physics engine in its realism.

Fishing

Players use the Wii remote in a fishing fashion to hook specific paper fish and then yank upwards to grab them.

Find Mii

Crowds of Mii characters will gather on the screen and the player is given certain details to look for among them. The player then must pick out the proper Mii that matches the objective.

Pose Mii

Players move their Miis about with the Wii remote and place themselves in the exact location and position of floating transparent Miis to score points.

Shooting

Players go through various rounds of shooting with targets, ducks, etc. One to four players can participate in this game.

Pool

Played like traditional pool games found online. Players line up their shot in both an overhead 2D and behind-the-ball style 3D viewpoints. They pull the cue stick (Wii remote) backwards, then hit it forward to launch the ball.

Charge!

The player takes a bull by the horns, steers the wild steer by holding the Wii Remote sideways, as if gripping reins, and topple scarecrows to score points.

Tanks

The player controls a tank with the Wii Remote; aims the cannon, bounces shells off walls, and blast opponents.

 

Wii wins PopSci's award for best new home entertainment product

 

 

PopSci.com, the website of Popular Science magazine, has published a list of the Best of What's New in 2006, spanning a range of categories, and the Wii has won the honor of the best new product for the home entertainment category! Here's a sample of what what they had to say about Nintendo's newest console:

 

"The company decided that gamers didnʼt need to pay extra for photo-realistic renderings of its iconic talking mushrooms. Instead it reimagined the controller, introducing a three-axis accelerometer that transforms your hand motions into in-game action, so you really play the games."

 

The Wii is showing up on more and more "most wanted" and "best product" lists, often in the #1 spot. It is really bringing Nintendo back into the forefront of the industry, much to the chagrin of Sony, I imagine, who stands to lose the most during this latest generation of consoles. To recycle an overused (but still funny) phrase, Sony has messed up and Nintendo and Microsoft are going to "attack the weak point for massive damage."

[Toufas]

mexri deftera tha exo peksei wii

avrio petao gia NY, kiriaki-deftera max pao nintendo world

[Braveheart1980]

mexri deftera tha exo peksei wii

avrio petao gia NY, kiriaki-deftera max pao nintendo world

 

Αν δεν ποσταρεις φωτο --> BAN !

λολ!

Τυχερε!

[kostacurtas]

15 New Twilight Princess Screens

 

Πατηστε πανω σε καθε φωτογραφια για να την δειτε σε μεγαλο μεγεθος.

 

[avenger]

http://www.gamespot.com/pages/features/onthespot/index.php

Live footage όπου δοκιμάζουν το wii

Λένε ότι θα παίξουν και zelda σε λίγο αλλά χλωμό φαίνεται.

 

Zelda τώρα...

[heyou]

Nέες πληροφορίες

 

http://gonintendo.com/?p=8314

 

Τα πιο σημαντικά:

 

* The graphics of Metroid Prime 3 are now “leaps and bounds” beyond the E3 build with additional lighting effects and a smooth frame rate. Sonic and the Secret Rings has more than 30 multiplayer party-style minigames.

 

* In Excite Truck, real-time terrains will include natural disasters like tornadoes and volcanic eruptions. The games graphics have been improved on from the E3 build. In Far Cry Vengeance (which is an expanded version of the Xbox version), Ubisoft is exploring the possibilities of Online Play! Call of Duty 3ʼs graphics are impressive in widescreen and in 480p.

 

* Metal Slug Anthology will have more than 35 levels in total and will include Gamecube controller compatibility besides Wii-mote controls!

[heyou]

Eχει βρει κανεις πληροφοριες για το ποτε θα κυκλοφορήσουν στην Ευρώπη το καλώδιο σύνδεσης με οθόνη PC και ο αντάπτορας usb/ethernet?