EA’s shadowy and innovative Blueprint division is sadly closing down as confirmed by a former employee that all the corporate employees who worked on the project have either quit, been laid off, or moved on to another projects. However, Variety has mentioned that a sequel to wonderful puzzle-action game, Boom Blox is being developed in the style of Blue Print. The new Square Enix Studio in Los Angeles is currently focusing on the market for digitally downloadable game. Square Enix’s US President, John Yamamoto specified that all formats Xbox Live, WiiWare, PlayStation Network are all viable formats for them to work on. The team currently boasts of three members, the concentration will expand to middleware and to a wider variety of games on all formats. Animal Crossing and WiiSpeak about £60 in UK 11/16/2008
Animal Crossing: Let’s go to the City and WiiSpeak bundle will cost £59 in the UK when it launches there on December 5th. This has been confirmed by Nintendo. WiiSpeak is an accessory that works as both a speaker and microphone. It enables everyone to communicate in the room without the use of headsets. Bomb Tapper on the WiiWare 11/16/2008
The new WiiWare title that has released in Japan is the Bomb Tapper and it plays much like Boom Blox. This puzzle game has been developed by Alpha Unit and will go for 500 Wii points. The game would be available on the Japanese Virtual Console. Disastrous result for Disaster 11/10/2008
Reggie Fils-Aime’s game Disaster: Day of Crisis is doing very badly in Europe which suggests that it would be a gamble to release it in U.S. Rather, Nintendo of America was waiting to see its performance in Europe before making any decision of release in its state and the result was not at all convincing. Release of Rock Band 2 Delayed till January 11/10/2008
The largely loved Rock Band 2 having online features of Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 versions was actually sold to Wii owners by EA and was ready to be released by somewhere in December. However, it was disheartening to know that the music lovers will have to wait till January 5th, 2009. Wiiware in Japan was announced by Cable Entertainment though they have scheduled it in September. Kappa-kun to Asobou: Kappa-kun to Mori No Nakarnatachi which means Play with Kappa: Kappa and his forest friends is a picture book with voice in it. It is a story of young Kappa who has desire to become human. Mega Man 9 still planning to Surprise Gamers 11/02/2008
Nintendo is famous in giving awesome surprises. According to Seth Killian who is the community manager with Capcom, there is one thing awaited for Christmas, Mega Man 9. Games radar is putting forward a nice guide for using evil robot trash. |
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