An excerpt from the latest issue of NGamer, an interview with Traveller's Tales' Arthur Parsons:
From the article:
Wii gamers will soon be able to play their Star Wars titles with an actual 'Lightsaber' rather than the Wii Remote after Competition Pro announced it is to launch the add-on this Friday.
VG247: Traveller's Tales boss Jonathan Smith has kicked off this year's Nordic Game by just telling attendees that the Lego Star Wars series has achieved sales of 18 million units to date.
Jan. 2, 2008 -- MSNBC tallied in their Game of the Year readers' votes between December 19 and 27. "Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare" garnered 33 percent of the over 17,000 votes and is MSNBC Readers' Game of the Year. The runner-up was "Bioshock" at 22 percent of the votes. The second runner-up was "Mass Effect" at 10 percent.
Here are the winners and runners-up for all the categories:
MSNBC video game section has been polling gamers about their favorite games in a number of categories, trying to narrow down the search for the Game of the Year.
Call of Duty 4, Fire Emblem, Socom, and a whole slew of expansions arrive next week in North America.The amount of games coming to DS this week is almost disgusting, but only a few are worth mentioning. As per usual all games you should care about are bolded for your viewing enjoyment. What will you be buying?
Exclusive demo of PS3 title playable this week
British fans of Nintendo Wii and Star Wars will get a first glimpse of the console's upcoming Light Sabre peripheral at a gaming festival being held later this month.
Gameplayer reports that LEGO Star Wars for Wii is "just a taster" for future games featuring motion-sensitive lightsaber combat.
LucasArts and TT Games celebrated today the 30th anniversary of the classic movie series that spans generations with the announcement of LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga. Building on the success of both LEGO Star Wars "block-buster" videogames, each complete with LEGO action and minifigure humor, The Complete Saga enables families to play through the events of all six Star Wars movies in one videogame for the first time ever. Developer Traveller's Tales takes full advantage of the unique capabilities of all three next-generation consoles, while also adding new characters, new levels and new features. Players can build and battle this fall on Xbox 360, Wii, and PS3. Traveller's Tales is also creating an entirely new Nintendo DS version, developed brick by brick from the ground up.
CD Universe now accepting preorders for Complete Saga; Xbox 360 and DS versions also listed.
Codename Revolution's distributor contact says that LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga is heading to the Wii this holiday season! It seems obvious that the game is a compilation and a port of both LEGO Star Wars titles that was on the Gamecube, but this time with Wii-mote controls!