The famed WiiWare game, The Lost Winds, is going to be making its debut on iOS and Android. The Wii game, used the pointer as the wind, pushing/pulling both your character and the environment. According to Frontier Development head, David Braben, these controls will be replaced with a virtual pad and touch-based wind controls. The game is set to release sometime this year.
Livegen writes : Certainly one of the best WiiWare, LostWinds could land on PS3 if we believe what says Callum Rowley, Frontier's community manager, as he raises the possibility a Move compatibility...
TVGB: Those hoping to see one of the Wii's most popular WiiWare titles, the enchanting LostWinds and its upcoming sequel LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias, on the Xbox 360 and/or PlayStation 3 once their respective motion controllers launch next year may have to be disappointed.
UK developer Frontier will look at Microsoft and Sony's upcoming motion sensing technologies for opportunities to bring WiiWare platforming puzzler LostWinds to the Xbox 360 and PS3. Speaking to VideoGamer.com this week at a Nintendo press event in London, Frontier chief and Elite co-creator David Braben said that as control methods are changing, opportunities may also change.
N-Europe writes: The sequel to the breathtaking WiiWare launch title LostWinds has been named, and is featured in the latest issue of EDGE.
Edge writes: Not everyone's losing their jobs. Cambridge, U.K.-based independent developer Frontier Developments now employs 200 people, the studio announced Friday. Although we already have 200 talented development professionals here, we are still hiring for all aspects of games and technology development. said chairman and founder David Braben.
Hot on the heels of the recent announcement of its tie-up with a North American developer for the development of a new real time strategy game, Square Enix announced today another western tie-up. The company will be releasing Frontier Developments' WiiWare platformer Lost Winds to the Japanese market.
Speaking to VG247 at Develop, Frontier's David Braben confirmed that there are no plans in place to bring WiiWare smash LostWinds to either Live or PSN, but that the UK developer has other plans for downloadable 360 and PS3 content.
Frontier's David Braben's told VG247 that the developer would be stupid to not look at making more LostWinds games.
David Braben has slammed British gaming degrees, claiming that developers are finding it increasingly hard to find UK graduates looking to enter the industry.
"95% of video gaming degrees are simply not fit for purpose," Braben told the BBC. "Without some sort of common standard, like Skillset accreditation, these degrees are a waste of time for all concerned."
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