In addition to being useful for breaking windows, bashing people over the head, stabbing, driving, and other random acts of violence, you can now use the Wii Remote as a universal remote for watching television. Japanese Wii owners can download the TV Guide Channel, which will let them surf through channels, share their favorite shows with their friends, rate shows, view demographic data to see what other Wii users are watching, and receive an e-mail or SMS message 30 minutes before a show they want to watch is going to begin.
It looks like for all its “pure gaming” ideals, Nintendo is bowing to the multi-media desires of the masses with this. Still, if they were to implement this in the US, I’d be all over it. Unfortunately, I think that until cable television becomes nationally standardized (as opposed to only within a certain state or company), this cannot be a reality.
Official Nintendo Site
I grew up on Legos. Hours of my childhood were spent building complex structures out of plastic blocks using only my mind and a strangely intuitive booklet of pictorial instructions. I’m a grown man now, and I still find myself getting giddy over the upcoming Lego themed games.
The early days of Legos in the Gaming world were sketchy at best. If you don’t remember any of them before Lego Star Wars, it’s because most of them crashed and burned (Lego Racer, anyone?). Who would have thought that there would be a proverbial renaissance of Lego video games, starting with Star Wars, and moving on the Indiana Jones and Batman? I don’t know about you, but I’d piss myself with glee if I could see one lego man tearing out the heart of another over a pit of lava.
I don’t know if it’s the style, the game play, or the humor that makes me want to play these games, but I know it has something to do with seeing your enemy blow into pieces when you shoot it with a blaster. It’s incredibly cheerful and violent at the same time. We can only hope that they keep it up in the upcoming games, and that novelty won’t be lost once we get there.
While looking online for what Lego themed games were coming out soon, I stumbled across Lego Universe, an MMO that in my opinion has the greatest possibilities for any game known to man. Freaking pirates and ninjas and lego spacemen all fighting and occupying the same world. Building your own vehicles and houses, making yourselves immense weapons from scratch. If they do this right, it could be the greatest thing since Freebird was written. However, there are an immense number of ways that this could fail miserably, so fingers crossed that this will not go down like Hellgate did.
Here’s a list of everything hooked up to the internet in my house:
5 desktops, 1 laptop, 1 Wii, 1 PS3, 1 XBox 360, 1-4 GameCubes (if I’m having a PSO party). So whenever I hear about a new router, I think, “ooooooh.”
“DIR-855 Wireless N Router supports 802.11n transmission at both 2.4GHz and 5GHz simultaneously, while supporting 802.11g and 802.11a standards”
Here’s a link to the original press release.
My RSS reader informed me today that Front Mission 2089 Border of Madness is now available for pre-order from the Official Japanese Square Enix store. I’m not a huge fan of giant mechs, but for some reason, Front Mission, Xenogears/Xenosaga, and Evangelion live in my top 20 coolest things EVER category. Anyway, it’s scheduled to release on the Nintendo DS on May 29th, 2008 and it’s a “Dramatic Simulation RPG.” The “dramatic” part amuses me.
Front Mission 2089 Official Website - Japanese
There are more wallpapers for download at their site. I just like this one. ^_^
“…a major fire that burned down the production factory where we were receiving these monitors from. However, they should be in stores by early June and we should have samples available for you by May 1.”
That’s the official word from BenQ. Thankfully the monitor is still coming but it will be delayed to around June.
I personally am really excited for this monitor as it has a 2ms response time and AMA technology that pretty much eliminates any kind of LCD tearing.
AMA increases voltage to speed up the time it takes liquid crystals to go from dark to bright and back again. With AMA, the X Series performs this cycle at a blistering 2ms GTG (Grey to Grey response time). It’s like pressing on the gas pedal to make images appear faster and give gamers what they want most: quick response.
Really incredible monitor technology that I recommend tech heads take a look at.
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“According to the developers, when a foreign disc is inserted it disables the console from being able to update its firmware. What about future firmware updates? Datel believe that it won’t have any effect, but we’ve emailed Datel ourselves to confirm. “
Sexy eh? Hopefully it’s all true and one disc will enable us crazy importers across the globe.
Via Vooks
“Well I decided to set the record straight and get the word direct from Konami’s PR stud Andrew Kelly, who today confirmed for Game Almighty that Metal Gear Solid 1 will in fact be released on a Playstation 2 disc. No disc swapping. No more gray memory card. Other than those two improvements the port should be entirely transparent to the player, retaining the PS1’s visuals and gameplay mechanics.“
Meh.
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