When one is unemployed and seeking to find solace through video games, we’re sure it must be a great comfort to play a game that constantly reminds you of your problems. Publisher Sega seems to think it’s a good idea, at least...
Today Sega Australia announced a new game package for the Wii titled Welcome To Violence. The package includes 3 of the best violent based games on the Wii. Going against the family friendly trend of the Wii, this package is perfect for any Wii owning action game fan.
Retailer Amazon.com this week price cut select Sega Corp. titles for Nintendo Co.'s Wii to under $13 in a new game sale.
Amazon is discounting House of the Dead: Overkill by 33%.
Sega's recent targeting of a mature audience on the Nintendo Wii has been successful in the long-term, with the publisher telling GamesIndustry.biz it has more budget for similar adult content on the format.
Nominations for Develop Industry Excellence Awards are unveiled, and two developers are likely to walk away with most of them. Rockstar and Media Molecule will be contesting for the most category nominations. Rockstar snags six of them with GTA: Chinatown Wars and GTA IV: The Lost and the Damned from Rockstar while Media Molecule's LittleBigPlanet alone is nominated for another five.
The Conduit, the upcoming Wii-exclusive sci-fi FPS billed as having graphics on a par with games on the Xbox 360 and PS3, won't suffer the same fate as other Wii titles aimed at core gamers, developer High Voltage has insisted.
The M-rated grindhouse film-inspired gore fest House of the Dead: Overkill has managed to make a modest bit of headway on the typically family-friendly Wii. The light gun game from Sega and U.K.-based Headstrong Games sold 45K units during the month of February, NPD told Edge. The game launched February 10. NPD analyst Anita Frazier said it landed around the 50th spot in the top-100 SKUs for the month in unit sales.
As reported by the Melbourne Herald-Sun, Pro Family Perspective director Angela Conway is leading the charge against HOTD:O. The game recently set a Guinness Book record for profanity. Ms Conway goes on to say The gaming industry has been mischievously misrepresenting the classification system on this issue. All this is very interesting in the face of the Australian government refusing to allow a rating that would represent 18 plus. Presumably because no-one over 18 plays games. The comments on this article are well worth reading.
The global authority on record-breaking, Guinness World Records, today announced that recently released The House of the Dead: Overkill (SEGA, 2009) has broken into the Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition for most swearing in a videogame with a whopping 189 uses of the f-word.
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