Steven Spielberg has tied his name to another Boom Blox title and this time it’s a party game. Boom Blox Bash Party is the sequel to the original Boom Blox for the Wii.
“BOOM BLOX Bash Party is a wild social gaming experience,” said Steven Spielberg. “We know families and friends really enjoyed playing the original BOOM BLOX together, so we designed more explosive multiplayer experiences with BOOM BLOX Bash Party.”
Boom Blox Bash Party makes a lot of sense. The Wii seems to have turned into a party game machine and the original Boom Blox failed to sell well even though the game had a fairly neat concept. Logic would dictate that adding the word “party” to the game will help its overall sales.
The game will feature more multiplayer action and over 400 new levels. It will also feature downloadable levels created by the community and EA will offer their own levels as well. The best part is, no friend codes are required.
Boom Blox Bash Party is set for release in the spring of 2009 for the Wii.
Anyone who wished to make a fan site that contains anything Nintendo may want to reconsider. Nintendo of America has been sending emails to site admins everywhere if their site has copyrighted material. This material could be logos, content, or basically anything they have taken without consent. A huge site has been friendcodes. This site would help gamers find and store each other’s Wii friend codes just by signing up. It was a community site and nothing more. NOA sees it as a legal issue and is having the site shut down. Here are some words from the sites admin:
As some of you have noticed, FC has gone down several times recently. You were told that it was due to the site being backed up. This was also what the admins THOUGHT was the cause. However, it was due to something completely different. It turns out that Corey had received several emails from NOA (Nintendo of America). In short, the email asked that we close down friendcodes.com due to copyright infringement, because Nintendo owns the phrases: friendcode, friendcodes, friend code, and friend codes.
I do understand where Nintendo is coming from here, but does this info sharing site actually pose a threat to anyone? No. It actually helps promote the Wii and their lackluster Online community. We all hope here that the site can be allowed to remain with maybe a different domain name and some choice picture.
Nintendo was sandwiched in the middle off E3 with the second press conference from the three console manufacturers. And just how did they do? There were some new game trailers and some new games/controllers announced (click here for more in depth coverage).
So what did everyone here at Loot Ninja think of the press conference? Read on to find out.
drunk pandas: With Nintendo, I was expecting a lot of games, since there is a great lack right now. The great Reggie-nator showed up some videos of Super Mario Galaxy (with a release date), announced Mario Kart for the Wii with online play, showed off the wheel for Mario Kart, and announced the Wii Zapper accessory. I can’t say I wasn’t disappointed by all of this. The Wii, for many people, has been lacking quality titles to really give a reason to play the system.
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Nintendo today announced Excite Truck 2 for the Wii via press release.
The new title will feature online multiplayer with up to 6 friends, all with their Mii’s displayed. Unfortunately, friend codes will still be used. There will also be a few new environments, including a couple tracks on the Moon.
These screenshots are from beta code of the game.
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So we’re going to get a true online multiplayer game for the Wii that people actually want to play (come on, did you really want to play Pokemon?). Mario Strikers: Charged will offer up to 4 player matched online, both ranked and unranked, as well as leaderboards.
The game will be released May 25 in Europe, with no official release date for the US yet. I would expect shortly after that.
Now if Nintendo would only do something about those insanely stupid friend codes…
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