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Judobaby Plans to Muscle Its Way onto Nintendo Wii
Here’s something you never see anymore in the game industry: a new startup making console games. But that’s what Judobaby plans to do as it announced it will make family games for the Nintendo Wii.
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Tales of Graces Recalled Due to Bugs
The latest game in Namco Bandai’s prestigious Tales series of role playing games, Tales of Graces, has been recalled from store shelves due to reports of numerous game-breaking bugs.
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Review: Endless Ocean: Blue World
The people who run Nintendo might want me to describe Endless Ocean: Blue World to you as the Wii’s second scuba-diving simulator. And it is. It is a vast simulation of scuba-diving and seal-life-spotting set in lovely locales around the world, all easily controlled with a Wii remote. But, sorry Nintendo marketing people, your secret isn’t safe.
This game is also a stealth role-playing game, a game with more than a hundred esoteric side goals, and enough obscure side quests that it makes Rune Factory Frontier look streamlined and the average Final Fantasy quest for ultimate weapons seem as simple as a walk to the mailbox.
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Mario Pirate Agrees to Pay $1.3 Million
According to a report Tuesday in Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald, a man has agreed to pay Nintendo 1.5 million Australian dollars (or $1.3 million) for loss of sales revenue after he allegedly illegally copied and uploaded to the Web the New Super Mario Bros. for the Wii prior to the game’s Australian release last year.
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Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Goes Episodic This Summer
Sega has taken the wraps off Project Needlemouse, and the publisher is positioning the game as a proper sequel to the series’ Genesis genesis and Sonic the Hedgehog 3, specifically. The publisher has released a new trailer for the game, revealing its official title: Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1.
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Nintendo to Publish The Last Story, Mistwalker RPG
The Last Story, which Nintendo calls a “full-scaled RPG,” will be released for Wii this year. It is the next creation of Mistwalker, the role-playing game development studio started in 2004 by Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi. More information on the game will be available in March.
Nintendo also took the opportunity to detail another Wii RPG — Xenoblade, coming from Nintendo subsidiary (and Xenosaga creator) Monolith Soft. Set to launch this spring, it is another “full-scaled RPG.”
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Why You Need to Play Tatsunoko vs. Capcom Right Now
It’s easy to review a game, but sometimes a title comes along that just begs you to sit down and experience it. We’re not going to give you a “buy” or “rent” verdict on these games, but rather say that you need to go out and give them a try. Tatsunoko vs. Capcom for the Nintendo Wii—a game with a name that begs for a quick glance on the cover art to make sure it was spelled correctly—is one of these titles. What makes it so special?
Well, we have a few thoughts on the matter.
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How to Get Your Wii Online
If you’ve recently bought a Wii and are looking for some help for hooking it up to the World Wide Web, look no further than our handy guide that’ll have you browsing the ‘net with your white wonder box in no time.
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Wii Classic Controller Pro Launching with Monster Hunter Tri
Two hit Japanese Wii products will be making their long-awaited North American debuts in tandem. Capcom has announced that when Monster Hunter Tri for the Wii arrives in April, it will be accompanied by Nintendo’s Wii Classic Controller Pro.
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Tiger Woods Console Game Tees Off in June
Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. said on Thursday it will introduce the next version of its Tiger Woods console video game in June despite the star golfer’s public relations nightmare and decline in popularity following his adultery scandal.