Nintendo will be releasing a new colour in America, the Metallic Silver DS, which has already been on sale in Japan and Europe for just under a year, on September 7.
Source: Engadget
The PS3 is now getting an upgrade, with Sony announcing a 160GB version of the console that will hit stores just in time for the Christmas period, in November, for US$500. The new ‘limited edition’ will come with the new DualShock 3 controller, that now has rumble, and two games - Pain and Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune.
While it has been less specific, it will get a bigger hard drive and two USB ports, but there will no longer be a built-in flash card reader and no backwards compatibility with older PS2 games. This comes after the 40GB "Core" version will be dumped and will be replaced by the 80GB version.
So, will this tempt you to get a PS3 because of this upgrade. Comment below. Anyway, we don’t know if this will come out in Australia yet - we hope, but it could take a while.
Full press release after the jump.
Here is something that you will enjoy; Logitech has said that it will make a new force feedback racing wheel for the Wii. Dubbed the Speed Force Wireless, you can play this from 30ft, and it is not a shell accessory for the wiimote - but is actually is a controller.
The 10" wheel rotates 200 degrees and has break controls. The first game that will be using it will be Need for Speed Undercover.
It will hit stores in November for US$100. You can read the full press release after the jump.
It’s official, the Xbox 360 has sold out in Japan; and managed to outsell the PS3 - with the Microsoft console selling 28,116 at the start of August where Sony sold only 10,705 PS3s; with the Wii beating both of them with 41,000 being sold.
And since it has sold out, Microsoft has been forced to put out a statement that it had sold out and apologized for the sold out consoles. New consoles will be out in the next month, with the company ramping up production to meet the demands.
The statement, and its translation, are after the jump.
Electronic Arts and Crytek has said that the launch of their upcoming stand-alone but follow-up to its popular and critically acclaimed game Crysis will be out in stores next month. Crysis Warhead will be on sale on September 16 in the US, while it will be released in Europe on September 12.
Warhead lets player into the nanosuit of Sergeant “Psycho” Sykes, who is deployed on a different side of the island than the original game - and also will be equipped with an expanded array of weapons and vehicles.
The game will be on sale for US$29.95, but people will get a $5 discount if they preorder it from the EA store.
Developers for Fallout 3 have been given the OK sign by the Office of Film and Literature Classification to allow the game to be released in Australia. The game has been edited, like many others, to fit within the MA15+ rating - the maximum rating a game could be released in.
No word on what has been changed in the game.
SND: It’s a Sunday, and you would have thought that we would get a break - but no, some child managed to f**k that up and decided to make up a plan to fake his own abduction.
A young, Chinese man, who’s last name is Yang, was arrested by police in Henan province for colluding with two men to fake his own abduction and demanded a 10,000 yuan ransom. Funny enough, he was arrested over withdrawing the amount from an ATM with two of his accomplices.
What was he was going to the 10,000 yuan? Well, he was going to buy himself a Wii because his parents refused to give him one.
I just have one thing to say to him: FAIL!!!!
It’s not bigger on the inside, but it has a kick-arse MAME controller.
While there are things that we certainly think that are weird, we don’t think this is - unless you are not a game freak or a Doctor Who fan. You really have to be a nerd to actually design this system, and even build a MAME controller in a design just like the console of the TARDIS - well not the one in the modern series.
Running a machine at a 1GHz Pentium with 512MB of RAM and an ATI Radeon 9550, you don’t need much to emulate an arcade game. Did we also mention that it was design by a Kiwi? No? We really should start being more innovative.
He also managed to get Sylvester McCoy (who played the 7th Doctor) to sign the door - well, the front sign box.
This gadget is the must have Wii accessory for all Wii gamers. (Image: Penguin United).
The image above, as you can see, is the latest Wii accessory that everyone is talking about. This allows you to recharge four Wiimotes, so you can be prepared if you have guests that want to play Super Smash Bros. Brawl (I am addicted to that game).
The 4X Quad Charge Station will be priced at US$44.99, and will also come with 4 colour-coded Wiimote straps, so you can identify which one is yours. It uses Li-Ion batteries rather than normal Ni-Mh (according to them), and allows you to play 13 hours on your Wiimote.
You can find more here. Now, we are just waiting for an Australian release.
New changes to game classifications in the UK has sparked a row between the government and game makers over who should be in charge with the ratings system. The game industry wants its own code, which is voluntary, to the official code for games.
Currently, all games fall under the PEGI (or Pan European Game Information) system - which is followed all over Europe; except a few games (3%) which are deemed to contain significant adult content, those are assessed by the British Board of Classification.
The government has four options: choosing either the PEGI or BBFC ratings, a hybrid system, or no changes what-so-ever except for a new scheme to ensure that shops comply.
