Your friends at Loot Ninja, namely drunk pandas and myself, have been awarded exclusive press passes to the gaming and technology in Manhattan, NYC this weekend. The conference will run from Thursday Sept 27 until Sunday the 30th. We will be there all day Saturday.
Here is the link for the conference in case any of you want to to attend though its 12 bucks for non press members. Look for the half drunk guys clad in Loot Ninja gear making a scene somewhere.
Dating Day was announced at Leipzig yesterday for the Nintendo DS and is scheduled for a release datae of Q4 2008. What can you expect from this game? Wooing. Thats right you “woo” the boy of your dreams, jesus they will make a game out of anything now a days. I for one would like to place a ban on any game that promotes wooing, but that’s just me. Look for this dating sim towards the end of next year and for every tween in the world to have a copy.
From the press release:
Hamburg, Germany: August 23, 2007. German publisher and developer Daedalic Entertainment presents their new project exclusively at this year’s Leipzig Games Convention. Dating Day couples minigames with a strong narrative in a unique Nintendo DS game, developed by Daedalic’s internal development studio.
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It is official Rock Band is getting released on the PS2 as well as the Xbox 360 and PS3. Seems that the PS2 wil actually get unique game elements as well and the European versions of Rock Band will get localized music, maybe it’s like Pokemon - Gotta Catch ‘em all? Aside from this news, new tracks were also announced:
Rolling Stones “Gimme Shelter”
Deep Purple “Highway Star”
The Clash “Should I Stay or Should I Go”
Faith No More “Epic”
Smashing Pumpkins “Cherub Rock”
Radiohead “Creep”
Beastie Boys “Sabotage”
Jet “Are You Gonna Be My Girl”
OK Go “Here It Goes Again”
Nine Inch Nails “The Hand That Feeds”
From the press release:
Leipzig, Germany – August 22, 2007- Harmonix, the leading developer of music-based games, and MTV Games, a division of MTV Networks which is a division of Viacom (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), along with distribution partner Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS), announced today plans to release the highly anticipated music videogame Rock Band™ on the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system in Europe in early 2008. As previously announced, Rock Band forthe Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PLAYSTATION 3 system will be released in the U.S. this Holiday 2007.
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Codemasters will host a stellar showing of exclusive playable reveals at this year’s Games Convention 2007 in Leipzig, Germany, running August 23rd – 26th, 2007.
The ever growing videogame developer and publisher’s showcase booth (Hall 4, F01) will feature playable premieres for Clive Barker’s Jericho™, Turning Point™: Fall of Liberty, new downloadable content for Overlord™, plus the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system edition of hit off-roader Colin McRae: DiRT™. A Codemasters Online area will be dedicated to The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™ and feature content update Book 10: The City of the Kings.
“Everyone within Codemasters is extremely excited to have both Clive Barker’s Jericho and Turning Point: Fall of Liberty playable at this year’s Games Convention in Leipzig,” states Rod Cousens, CEO, Codemasters.
“We have very high hopes for both titles and, as we continue to increase Codemasters growing presence, we recognise the significance of allowing our fans and consumers to get an early taste of what’s to come, and this year’s Games Convention in Germany is the perfect opportunity to do so.”
Visit codemasters for more info.
