Amazon have just published what they believe to be the release date for the highly anticipated Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks.
Amazon.co.uk have just published a launch date of December 4th 2009 for Nintendo’s long awaited Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks. Whilst this could purely be a tentative place-holder, it’s more than plausible that we will be seeing the emergence of the action based role playing title around the Christmas period.
Action has recently been taken regarding the influx of hackers and cheaters on Sega’s recently released The Conduit.
Initially online players were finding themselves competing against other players who were able to produce infinite ammo and infinite health, now the situation has gotten even worse. Thankfully both Sega and High Voltage have decided to issue the ‘banhammer‘ to any such players found abusing or cheating throughout online matches.
Treyarch’s recently revitalized version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is looking surprisingly sumptuous given the Wii’s limited graphical capabilities. The game is still set to be released 10th November, a day before its successor lands on both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. It should certainly be worth the wait.
Pilotwings, the definitive flight game on the Super Nintendo, is set to land on the UK Virtual Console this Friday.
In Pilotwings, you take control of a range of flying machines and complete various challenges to advance through the ranks.
You can jump into a biplane and fly through the floating rings before bringing it down for a pinpoint landing, perform a precision skydive on to a distant ground target, soar silently from a hang glider and catch the thermals or even test the experimental Rocketbelt.
Popular games retailer, Toys R Us, have added a listing to their site for both the white and pink iterations of the popular Nintendo DSi. Whilst Nintendo haven’t confirmed anything as of yet, it’s more than likely that this duo will make an appearance state-side at some point this year.
Konami have released the official box-art for the long awaited Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. The survival horror title, which is a remake of the phenomenal original, is due to be released later this year. I for one can not wait.
Nintendo of America and the Pokémon Company International have announced today that the long awaited Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver are destined for both the United States and Europe during Spring 2010.
Pokémon HeartGold Version and Pokémon SoulSilver Version return players to the scenic Johto region first introduced in the beloved original Pokémon Gold and Pokémon Silver games nearly a decade ago. The richly detailed adventure of Pokémon Gold and Pokémon Silver is now enhanced for the Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi systems with updated graphics and sound, as well as new touch-screen features and a host of surprises. Pokémon HeartGold Version and Pokémon SoulSilver Version bring dozens of Pokémon characters back into the limelight for a new Pokémon generation – and longtime fans – to catch, train and battle.
EA Sports boss, Peter Moore, recently divulged how the EA Sports team handled creating ‘causal’ games for Wii at this years Edinburgh Interactive conference.
“In all the games we made, everything was focused on making things more realistic, each year – particularly at the beginning of a cycle – sports games were used to show how realistic video games had become,” he said. “That was fine back in the early ’80s when there was a huge chasm beteen what the real world looked like and what games showed.”
“But then this thing [the Wii] came along and presented us with some challenges. The dynamics changed with the launch of the Wii – play and fun was coming back in, the demographic was changing enormously, and the amount of time to play was being compressed.”
“It was hard. A lot of people at that time thought they would move on from our studios – they wanted to chase the core consumer.” Moore explained that Wii Sports was considered a serious rival, and that EA Sports staff were ‘unwilling’ to cater to the ‘casual’ consumers (now the majority of the market) and couldn’t handle the need to step back in terms of visuals.
- Peter Moore, EA Sports
European gamers who purchase and register the forthcoming Metroid Prime Trilogy on the Nintendo Wii will qualify for one of the 5,000 downloads of the original Metroid on the Virtual Console.
To qualify for the promotion, players must be one of the first lucky 5000 who register their copy of Metroid Prime Trilogy on the European Club Nintendo website and who have previously registered one of the Metroid Prime games (Metroid Prime, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, or Metroid Prime 3: Corruption).”
-Nintendo Europe
Capcom have announced that they’re teaming up with Nintendo to promote the immensely popular Monster Hunter 3 overseas.
According to Japan’s Nihon Keizai Shimbun financial newspaper Capcom will be doubling its strength by teaming up with Nintendo to promote Monster Hunter 3. The developer, which sold over 500,000 units of the game in its first two days, will be making use of Nintendo’s expertise in promoting the Pokemon franchise to help further increase sales.
