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Activision thinking of charging subscription fee for Guitar Hero?

Posted Aug 27th 2008 6:14PM by David Hinkle
Filed under: Rumors

There's an interesting tidbit over at IGN. At the bottom of one of their articles on the Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero: World Tour, you'll notice a little blurb with an asterisk. It reads: "*Online gameplay is only available for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system and Wii and may require an additional subscription." Subscription?

Part of us thinks this ties into the whole music-sharing thing that was revealed during GC 2008. Remember, there Activision commented on paying for the ability to upload more of your own custom tracks. So, is this something to do with that? Or, are Wii owners going to need to pay a bit extra? We're thinking it'll have something to do with the music creation, but until we hear definitive word, this one's going to be left open for debate.

Gallery: Guitar Hero World Tour

[Thanks, Robert!]

Games Convention coming to North America

Posted Aug 26th 2008 5:21PM by David Hinkle
Filed under: News

Following up a very successful year in Leipzig, Germany, it looks like those of us in North America can look forward to the Games Convention in the future. CEO Wolfgang Marzin has announced that they're now planning on bringing the show to North America, likely looking to pick up the slack left in the wake of E3 practically going the way of the dodo.

"The concept is flexible and the network of the global games industry permits us to be active at different locations," said Marzin. "After the Southeast Asian Games Convention, we are now focusing on the North American market." With a record 203,000 attendees this year, it seems like an easy decision to bring the show to one of the largest gaming markets in the world.

GC 2008: Details for House of the Dead: Overkill escape Leipzig

Posted Aug 25th 2008 4:35PM by David Hinkle
Filed under: News

Apparently, one Bradley Crooks, developer at Headstrong Games, revealed to Gamekyo a few details about the upcoming Sega game on every Wii gamers' mind (if it isn't on your brain, then you should get your head checked) during an event at Leipzig. The list is fairly long, so head past the break, where it's all been organized with helpful bullet points.

Gallery: House of the Dead: Overkill

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GC 2008: Activision demonstrates music creation in Guitar Hero: World Tour

Posted Aug 25th 2008 9:57AM by David Hinkle
Filed under: Video

To say that Guitar Hero: World Tour has a lot of content is now an understatement. The game is so ridiculously full of goodies, fans are likely going to explogasm when they watch the video above. It goes into incredible detail, showing off the music creation fun you can have in Activision's latest installment in its popular franchise. Whether you're mixing drum loops for your tracks or turning your guitar into a keyboard (could this confirm a keyboard peripheral is inbound?), it looks like you won't be bored with Guitar Hero: World Tour anytime soon after its release.

Gallery: Guitar Hero World Tour

There's been a lot of Guitar Hero news lately. Like the confirmation that Miis will be included in the Wii game (as well as an explanation of how they'll be incorporated). Also, don't forget to check out which tracks have been confirmed for the game so far!

GC 2008: First footage of Cursed Mountain

Posted Aug 22nd 2008 2:48PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Video

You'll have to endure some conference attendee's phone call at the beginning of this off-screen Cursed Mountain footage, but it takes place during the seemingly interminable intro anyway. This video contains the first actual images of Deep Silver's horror title, which, at first, only seems scary because the music and the editing tells you it's supposed to be. It's just a foggy mountain, which isn't really that terrifying unless you're there. But then ghosts arrive, and it's generally accepted that ghosts are scary.

Judging by the brief glimpse of an onscreen prompt, QTE-style gestures figure into the combat. Either that is what they meant by motion-controlled combat, or those arrows were on the screen as a tutorial, to help players learn the gestures. There's also a pointer visible on screen, which may just be used for investigating or may also be part of the ghostbusting.

GC 2008: Piping hot trailer for The Conduit

Posted Aug 22nd 2008 9:00AM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Video

Not every Wii fan is an FPS person, and thus we may not be as fully attuned to the nuances of what makes an FPS badical, but we can recognize good Wii graphics when we see them, and we think that The Conduit is looking pretty great. This trailer, released for the Leipzig Games Convention, is all fancy atmospheric lighting effects and dudes (and alien dudes) getting shot up.

We're a bit troubled to see slowdown in the trailer, but that happens in every FPS running on a system that regular people can afford. It hardly detracts from all the blowings-up.

Gallery: The Conduit

GC 2008: Shaun White and company take a road trip

Posted Aug 21st 2008 2:40PM by David Hinkle
Filed under: Video

Straight out of Leipzig, a crazy mofo named Shaun White.

The latest trailer for Ubisoft's Balance Board-compatible sports title, Shaun White Snowboarding shows off a lot of what you'd expect from a snowboarding game: lots of spinning and big jumps. We're not poking fun, because, to be honest, we think the game looks pretty polished. SSX it may not be, but a fun time it could very well become.

Gallery: Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip

GC 2008: Left! Right! Chu! Chu! Ulala in Samba

Posted Aug 20th 2008 7:20PM by Chris Greenhough
Filed under: News, Screens

Click for more Ulala goodness.

A Sonic cameo in Samba de Amigo has long been old news, grandpa, but we've also been promised appearances from other Sega characters and venues. Here are the fruits of those promises: a cameo from the galaxy's funkiest news reporter, Ulala, and a special Space Channel 5 stage. Ulala's presence makes perfect sense really; as the protagonist of Sega's other awesome rhythm extravaganza, her inclusion was surely inevitable. Now all she needs is her own game. You listening, Sega?

Gallery: Samba de Amigo

[Via press release]

GC 2008: Finally, a pet game we can get behind

Posted Aug 20th 2008 6:25PM by Chris Greenhough
Filed under: News, Screens

Click image for MORE MONKEYS.

"Monkey Madness Wii targets kids ages 6 to 8 years," reads the opening line of the press release for Ubisoft's new monkey sim. "Like hell it does!" say we. Okay, so maybe it does, but we can't help being drawn to Ubisoft's newest pet game (and at least it's not Monkeyz). Fact: monkeys are adorable and awesome. Everybody thinks this, so no wonder Ubisoft settled on making a game about them. We've had it with labradors and kittens, frankly.

In Monkey Madness Wii, ~~kids~~ we will be able to adopt a monkey and then befriend, train, feed, play with, and photograph our simian chum. There's a range of ridiculous outfits to dress George in (we've already settled on a name), and George's personality will be shaped by how you treat him -- he could be meek, courageous, loyal, indifferent, or something else. We can even cross-breed George with other species of monkeys to create "fantastical hybrids," which sounds a tad disturbing, but we plan on George being an amorous little bugger.

We haven't even touched on the neatest feature of Monkey Madness Wii -- the ability to upload George to your Wii Remote (using the Wiimote's 6 kilobytes of on-board memory) and take him to a friend's house to play with the monkeys on their Wii. Clever! In fact, this is wasted on chil'n, and we'll say it now, readers: DO WANT. Now, can you resist a monkey gallery?

Gallery: Monkey Madness Wii

[Via press release]

GC 2008: Castlevania Judgment reserved for 2009, mysterious character appears

Posted Aug 20th 2008 5:30PM by Chris Greenhough
Filed under: News, Video, Screens

The latest Castlevania Judgment screens, fresh from the Leipzig showfloor, feature a new character not previously seen in the title. "Aeon" is probably one of the fighters produced by manga artist Takeshi Obata, who was drafted in by Konami to provide character designs. Alternatively, he could be from the DS's Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia. "Aeon" is not a name we're familiar with from previous instalments of the franchise, and neither Google or the Castlevania Wiki could shed any light on our confusion. Shanoa, the heroine of Order of Ecclesia, is already accessible in Judgment, so we wouldn't rule it out.

Whoever Aeon is, you can see more of him here, here and here. In other news, Koji Igarashi confirmed to IGN that the title will now ship to the U.S. in 2009. Grab your stake, hit up our gallery for new shots, and then trek past the break for a new trailer.

Gallery: Castlevania Judgment

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GC 2008: Dead Rising trailer is dangerously bloody

Posted Aug 20th 2008 3:40PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: News, Video

We don't question the decision to show a trailer for Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop at the Leipzig Games Convention. In fact, it's not even much of a decision: this is a very large press event, so if you are a publisher and you have a game coming out, you show it. And Dead Rising, just by its nature, is a violent and bloody game, characterized by crowds of (undead) people to be destroyed and piles of improvised weapons to make that happen.

But Capcom went the extra mile and bloodied up their trailer -- it's even bloodier than the gameplay footage already was. It's like Capcom's way of saying "Please don't let us sell this, Germany."

Gallery: Dead Rising: Chop 'Til You Drop

GC 2008: Konami rolls Kororinpa 2 our way

Posted Aug 20th 2008 1:50PM by Chris Greenhough
Filed under: News, Video, Screens

Along with Dewy's Adventure, Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz, and the massively under-rated Mercury Meltdown Revolution, Kororinpa proved that the Wii was the only place to be for enthusiasts of rolling. And now it's rolling back! Konami just announced a sequel to its vowel-heavy game at Leipzig, carefully tilting a trailer and 20 screens in our direction. Finally, another use for our Ball Bearing Maze Special Salver!

Over 100 stages will feature in Kororinpa 2, as well as multiple difficulty levels (maybe even difficult levels of difficulty this time), a swish-looking course editor, multiplayer for you and three fellow rollers, and Mii integration (which is now as important and common as having graphics). So long as it also has a better camera, we're already on board. Oh, and boxart that is half as wonderful as that of the original PAL game. Like, seriously, how perfect is this? Expect it early next year.

Gallery: Kororinpa 2

[Via press release]

GC 2008: Rock Revolution late to the stage?

Posted Aug 20th 2008 12:52PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: News, Rumors

We may have to deal with the rock status quo for a while until the Revolution arrives. According to IGN, Niais Taylor, associate producer of Konami's Rock Revolution, provided an "early 2009" release window for the music game during a demo of the drum kit (which the Wii version does not use). However, there is a bit of potential confusion.

If this unspecified release period is worldwide, or for the US, then the game has been delayed from its previous "2008" release. However, if this is the European release date -- which seems likely, since this information was presented at the Leipzig Games Convention -- then the European release, at least, is on track and we don't have any more information about the US release. But the possibility of a delay, we felt, was worth passing on.

GC 2008: Miis to rock out in Guitar Hero: World Tour

Posted Aug 20th 2008 10:55AM by David Hinkle
Filed under: News

The Wii version of upcoming Guitar Hero: World Tour just got a bit more unique. The title will apparently include Mii support, allowing those of you who don't want to go through the pain of modeling yourself in the custom character creator to still get your likeness into the game. No other details about the Mii implementation are available right now, sadly, but we're sure they'll shed some light on it soon enough.

For those of you that don't get the joke in the image above, be sure to head past the break for a brief explanation.

Gallery: Guitar Hero World Tour

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GC 2008: EA looking to start up tennis franchise on Wii

Posted Aug 20th 2008 9:57AM by David Hinkle
Filed under: News

For those of you who're fans of tennis, rejoice. EA is poised to present their own tennis title. And, as if that wasn't enough, it will take advantage of Nintendo's new MotionPlus peripheral, joining Ubisoft in proclaiming it's totally awesome. EA also mentions that this will be the first tennis game to include the All England Lawn Tennis Club, which is where Wimbledon is played.

So, how many of you are looking forward to seeing this one? A tennis game that takes advantage of MotionPlus? We're excited!

[Via Joystiq]

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Activision thinking of charging subscription fee for Guitar Hero?

Games Convention coming to North America

GC 2008: Details for House of the Dead: Overkill escape Leipzig

GC 2008: Activision demonstrates music creation in Guitar Hero: World Tour

GC 2008: First footage of Cursed Mountain

GC 2008: Piping hot trailer for The Conduit

GC 2008: Shaun White and company take a road trip

GC 2008: Left! Right! Chu! Chu! Ulala in Samba

GC 2008: Finally, a pet game we can get behind

GC 2008: Castlevania Judgment reserved for 2009, mysterious character appears

GC 2008: Dead Rising trailer is dangerously bloody

GC 2008: Konami rolls Kororinpa 2 our way

GC 2008: Rock Revolution late to the stage?

GC 2008: Miis to rock out in Guitar Hero: World Tour

GC 2008: EA looking to start up tennis franchise on Wii

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