Thursday 18 May 2006
In the Wii version of Animal Crossing - currently in development at Nintendo - you'll swing your arms around to chop trees, make digging motions to dig up fossils and hold the Wii-mote just like a fishing rod in order to catch fish, according to series creator and Nintendo designer, Katsuya Eguchi.
The next-gen version of Animal Crossing will also link up with WiiConnect24 - an always-online system which remains active even if you're not playing on your Wii console.
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Oct 24, 2007
Animal Crossing will be a social networking MMO when it reaches Nintendo's Wii, naturally evolving the hugely successful series from a charming but essentially robotic experience into an exciting and socially interactive world.
This revelation comes courtesy of Edge, who credit an unamed Japanese source with confirming Animal Crossing's MMO status. The game itself has yet to be announced, even though Nintendo's Katsuya Eguchi has spoken before about the game's motion

Wii Speak was largely designed for one game, and wasn't particularly effective on a large scale, which is probably why Nintendo is now tightening the peripheral's noose. Gee, we've never seen anything like that from Nintendo before...

Just yesterday we reported on unofficial word that Nintendo was dropping the Wii to $149.99, as well as changing the pack-in game from Wii Sports to Mario Kart Wii. Today, Nintendo confirmed this news and also revealed the nifty red packaging for its $19.99 line of "Nintendo Selects" titles (seen above). Sounds mundane, but there are actually two interesting pieces of info to go along with this...
The latest sales figures for Japanese hardware paint a stark picture. And we thought the 10-1 sales story was bad a few weeks ago...
An overwhelming majority of gamers are male, so it makes perfect sense for every marketing team in the world to target their software at young guys. And what do all men ages 18 to one zillion love? Girls, gore and big loud machines. If they could make a game about a firefighting bikini squad that hunts down zombies in a decked-out sex/fire truck, world peace would be declared. But until that day, we have to settle with regular old T & A.
Developers are well aware of this, so occasionally

It's unlikely that Professor Layton or Dr Kawashima would ever get in an actual proper fight that involved slapping and spitting. Neither of them seem like men of violence. However, they are involved in a fight more important and meaningful than any trading of fists and heavy blows in a dark alley - they are engaged in the fight to win a priceless Golden Joystick award.
Two ArmA 3 devs were detained by the Greek government for allegedly spying on military installations earlier this month, and DayZ creator Dean "Rocket" Hall is urging gamers to speak up for their speedy release...
After 70 days imprisoned in a cell with 25 people, prospects look no better for Ivan Buchta and Martin Pezlar of Bohemia Interactive...
Ivan Buchta and Martin Pezlar's four-month stay in Greek jail is over...