August 22, 2008 – 5:00 pm
DigitalLife is a trade show that is put on by Ziff Davis Media at the New York Jacob Javitz Center, which typically included technology and video games, but seems to be cancelled for this year because of a bad economy. Vice President Paul O’Reilly said the following during an interview:
The poor economic conditions have created a very different and difficult dynamic for us this year, and we weren’t confident that we could present a show experience that was consistent with the successes of prior years.
I can say that as a previous attendee last year this show was dying, he goes on to say:
Hopefully, a bigger and stronger DigitalLife will return in 2009. We will make additional announcements about the future of the show when details are available.
I would love for his last statement to be true since this show is very accessible to everyone on the East coast and it would be great to have something that could rival E3 or CES on the East coast as well, but it seems like a big stretch especially after the news of this years cancellation.
[Via Cnet]
I can sum up the Nintendo press conference in one word… BORING! Nothing was said that was even remotely close to interesting.
The conference opens up with Shaun White and his new snow boarding game, which is confirmed will use the balance board. Then Satoru Iwata babbles on and on about a paradigm shift in gaming and never makes it to a valid point. Iwata’s babble went on for about 10 minutes, which seemed like forever.
Nintendo gives E3 a new acronym: E3 is Engaged, Enriched and Enthused. Ok if you say so?
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It looks like the Wii is going ot milk Mario until he is bone dry, yet another Mario based title will be launched this Spring… Mario Super Sluggers. Mario goes baseball after he gets done racing around in his Kart apparently. It should prove to be interesting since the Wiimote lends itself perfectly to a baseball game, but I can only hope that it is better than the Wii Sports baseball and MLB PowerPros already released.
Here is the official Nintendo press release:
REDMOND, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– The ongoing excitement over Nintendo’s groundbreaking Wii™ system gets a surprise springtime boost with the announcement of a new game. Kicking off its semiannual media summit in San Francisco near the company’s new sales and marketing offices in Redwood City, Calif., Nintendo of America today revealed plans for Mario Super Sluggers™ for Wii, giving baseball fans even more reason to root this season.
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Sony was not making a claim left or right if online servers were going to be shutdown. Logic would dictate that older games would fade into the distance, but Sony was not dropping any hints or at least sending a mixed message.
“SCEA has made no announcements about shutting down the servers, so I’m not sure where this website got that info,” an SCEA representative told Shacknews today. “Based on some of the game names it sounds like it is from another territory.”
During a recent update Sony did drop this tid bit:
A listing on Sony Computer Entertainment Europe’s website confirms that the online functionality for 14 titles listed in previous reports will be shut down in European territories. No such announcement has yet been made for North America.
Looks like Europe is copping to the fact that they are shutting down 14 titles for online play. Wonder why there is no word in North America, chances are people won’t care too much since this will affect old titles and nothing really current.
[Via Shacknews]
Thanks to Tha Doc for the tip.
Nintendo North American boss Reggie Fils-Aime dropped a little bombshell on his recently in an interview with Gametrailers. He speaks of a brand new game that is coming out and we all will be very, very, excited. Here is what he said:
All I can tell you is what we announce during E3 is gonna be fantastic. The gamer is gonna be excited and the expanded audience is gonna be excited.
Let’s see. It won’t be another Mario game. It won’t be Metroid either. No way its anything Metal Gear. What other beloved characeter have we not seen? I am going to say it right here. I think it will be a new Donkey Kong game. Widely regarded as the best SNES game of all time and a favorite of Billy Madison, this game would turn all kinds of heads. We should all venture our guesses and see what it will be. We shall find out this summer. Hopefully Loot Ninja will be there.
February 20, 2008 – 2:23 pm
Microsoft’s keynote today at GDC, but that doesn’t mean their European PR team can’t drop a press release early. In the document, they announced Gears of War 2 in conjunction with Epic. Is anyone really surprised?
The game will be released in November 2008, and will provide more of the story that was originally developed as a trilogy.
The first Gears was a huge success, which we gave Game of the Year in 2006. So go play through that first game again a few times while we wait for Marcus Fenix to make his return later this year.
February 1, 2008 – 3:00 pm
EA casually let out that Rock Band will be coming to the Wii. I guess that Wii logo on the microphone was no joke.
In a conference call, CEO John Riccitiello just casually mentioned the “coming launch” of the Wii version of Rock Band. IGN received confirmation that a Wii version is indeed coming, but no release date has been set.
No word on downloadable content yet for the Wii either, but I imagine it will be a difficult task given the small memory size of the console.
[via IGN]
January 19, 2008 – 1:00 pm
Rumor has it that Microsoft will be dropping the announcement at this year’s Game Developer Conference on a release date for Gears of War 2.
While we do know the game is coming at some point, it’s been rumored that 2008 is when we’ll see Cliffy B’s killer sequel. And given the fact we haven’t heard from Cliffy in quite some time, it would indicate he’s hard at work on some game, with Gears of War 2 being the most logical explanation.
Only time will tell, as GDC is right around the corner. Stay tuned as we get more information.
January 6, 2008 – 8:32 pm
Sony’s big secret that the PSP will be Skype compatible was let out early but there was one caveat that we did not see coming. A future firmware update will allow only users with the PSP Slim to obtain the update. No one knows the exact reason, but a future microphone that is to be released to allow voice communcation might not work with the older model. Although I like the idea of firmware updates, alienating a good amount of your users who were loyal to you in the beginning stages of the handheld is a huge, huge, kick to the junk.
November 13, 2007 – 11:13 am
Holy dog shit people. This is a feature begged for by the internet savvy crowd for both the Xbox 360 and PS3 since launch. Today, Sony has delivered in an announcement directly from the CEO of DivX.
Kevin Hell, CEO of DivX commented, “We are excited to work with Sony Computer Entertainment to bring DivX to PS3. Our technology will expand the multimedia functionality of PS3 by enabling users to enjoy access to the broad library of content in the DivX digital media format.”
Sounds great to me. Nothing like streaming DivX movies from my PC to my PS3. Gamers will be able to take advantage of the new features in an upcoming software update.
