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Wii news, big and small: our British sister site has three interesting reports up. The first concerns 128 Marios, a game Nintendo mentioned (and even showed a demo of) that was originally in the works for the GameCube. Yeah, we weren't exactly expecting it to come out, at this point. But it turns out that 128 Marios, did, in fact, provide the underpinnings for Super Mario Galaxy on the Wii. You can check the UK story to find out more, but be careful - it says that Galaxy is
We've got another exclusive first look at one of the cars in next-gen racer Test Drive Unlimited - Saturn's aggressive new two-seater, the Sky. The 177-horsepower coupe made its debut as a concept car at the 2005 North American International Auto Show and was whisked into production shortly thereafter for the 2007 model year. Better still, the Sky is among the first vehicles your character can buy in the story mode of Test Drive Unlimited, in your choice of colors (we liked Midnight Blue and
Just in time to cement hero Rico Rodriguez as this year's most unconventional CIA agent in a game, we've got new media for Just Cause's winning combination of tropical scenery and huge explosions. Check out the Images tab to see shots of a stealthy infiltration, Rodriguez-style.
As if gatecrashing a gentleman's club in the crater of a dormant volcano isn't high adventure enough, Just Cause will let you do it by throwing Rodriguez out of a perfectly good plane and paragliding in. Of course, you
Tuesday 22 August 2006
In preparation of the 22 September launch of LMA Manager 2007, we've gathered a handful of new screenshots and a video from the PC and Xbox 360 versions of the footie management sim.
The latest update in the longest running management series will have all the latest transfers, then a free download once the game is released to make sure every player is in the right squad for the start of the season. From then on you'll have control of all your teams' changes as you get to
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According to industry site GamesIndustry.biz, Electronic Arts believes that Nintendo will release the Wii for $170 - much cheaper than the $250 price bandied around by internet pundits. Executive VP and COO of EA's worldwide studios, David Gardner says, "I've heard in Japan that the price is about $170, but I don't know if the price has been set in Europe yet." That's pretty unbelievably cheap - it's only $40 more than a DS Lite, little more than half the price of a crappy hard-drive
Now that Dead Rising has won the hearts and wallets of Xbox 360 gamers, attention turns to Capcom's next game for the system, Lost Planet. We're getting a hands-on report ready for a little later in the week, but we didn't want to wait before we delivered these fresh screens along to you (hit the Images tab above). Players use Vital Suits to brave the climate's extreme cold temperatures - though as the images show, the cold's going to be the least of your worries. Check out our existing
It was only a matter of time until things like story and characters poked their noses into the free-form Battlefield universe. Today, publisher Electronic Arts announced Battlefield: Bad Company, which ditches the team-based action for a single-player game that follows "a squad of renegade soldiers who risk it all on a personal quest for gold and revenge."
From the one screenshot that's been released, we'd guess Bad Company is a spinoff of Battlefield 2 (rather than Battlefield 1942,
Fans of last year's David Duchovny-voiced sci-fi shooter Area 51 will be pleased to know that a sequel, slyly titled Area 52, is under development for Xbox 360, PC and PS3. While no media is likely to be released for a good few months yet, it's not hard to guess at how next-gen power will be put towards intensifying the screams, bangs and flashing lights of the original setpiece-heavy experience.
News of Area 52's development slipped out in the job listings at developer Midway's Austin, Texas
Monday 21 August 2006
Announced at Microsoft's pre-E3 conference back in May and quietly scheduled for release on 19 September, Microsoft's EyeToy challenger Xbox Live Vision will come packaged with the slinky camera itself, a 360 headset, a subscription to one month of Xbox Live Gold, and a registration key for Live card-flipper Uno (which already has built-in Live Vision support.)
Noticeable by its absence is TotemBall, the gesture-driven Live Arcade game that was originally indicated to be
Monday 21 August 2006
Fans of last year's David Duchovny-voiced sci-fi shooter Area 51 will be pleased to know that a sequel, slyly titled Area 52, is under development for Xbox 360, PC and PS3. While no media is likely to be released for a good few months yet, it's not hard to guess at how next-gen power will be put towards intensifying the screams, bangs and flashing lights of the original setpiece-heavy experience.
News of Area 52's development slipped out in the job listings at developer
