Guitar Hero 5’s Ultimate Eight Player Competitons
Proving your mastery of plastic instruments finds new challenges in the next Guitar Hero.
StarCraft II Warping in First Half of 2010
Fans have waited over a decade for a sequel to StarCraft, why not wait a little bit longer?
StarCraft II Delayed Until 2010
Blizzard has just announced that StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty won’t be released this year. From their announcement: “Over the past couple of weeks, it has become clear that it will take longer than expected to prepare the new Battle.net for the launch of the game. The upgraded Battle.net is an integral part of the StarCraft II experience and will be an essential part of all of our games moving forward. This extra development time will be critical to help us realize our vision for the service. … As we work to make Battle.net the premier online gaming destination, we’ll also continue to polish and refine StarCraft II, and we look forward to delivering a real-time strategy gaming experience worthy of the series’ legacy in the first half of 2010.”
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iPhone and Wiimote brought together by Bluetooth
It’s been a long time going, but it looks like the invisible divide between the iPhone and the Wii remote has finally been bridged through the magic of Bluetooth. That was apparently made possible thanks to the portable Bluetooth stack from the BTStack project, which got paired with some custom OpenGL-ES code to allow the Wiimote to control a virtual representation of itself on the iPhone. Practical? Of course not. But it’s a Wiimote controlling an iPhone. Video after the break.
[Via MAKE]
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Leaked back-of-box chart shows Xbox line winnowing down to Arcade and Elite SKUs
And then there were two? After Microsoft got all cute with us and introduced its current lineup of three concurrent Xbox versions, we thought we’d never get that portion of our limited brain matter back for storing more important things — like the complicated political structures of Frank Herbert’s Dune, for instance. Well, if this recently leaked photo of a revised Xbox 360 Arcade box is any indication, the regular “Xbox 360″ SKU is on the outs, to make room for just the Arcade and Elite configurations on each end of the spectrum. Hopefully this means the Elite is also going to shuffle on down to the middle SKU’s $300 pricepoint, but we’ll have to wait and see. Naturally, Microsoft might just want that third slot for a Project Natal-packing Xbox edition next year, or perhaps this whole different box situation is just a Excel spreadsheet mishap that’s gotten way out of hand.
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First 21 Xbox ‘Games on Demand’ titles revealed
Next Tuesday (that’s August 11th), a dream we have long held near our hearts will be fulfilled — Xbox 360 will add the first twenty-one titles to its Games on Demand service. Now, we don’t have any details about pricing for these yet, but Microsoft has said that the games, which include such august titles as Mass Effect, Call of Duty 2, and Tomb Raider: Legend, will be priced similarly to the physical games. We could whine about that all day, but we’re going to hold off until we see actual pricing details, and move on to dreaming of a trackpad that doesn’t become unresponsive when we spill orange juice on it. Check out the video of the newest addition to the dashboard after the break, hit the read link for the full list of twenty-one.
Update: A Microsoft spokesman just emailed us a list of the Games on Demand titles for the US, which has a couple of notable differences. BioShock, Ridge Racer 6, Karaoke Revolution American Idol, Dance Dance Revolution Universe, and Sonic The Hedgehog are in, while SEGA Rally and Tomb Raider: Legend are decidedly Europe-only for now. Full US list after the break.
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Brandon Routh Wants to Play Warcraft on the Big Screen
Superman says he’s a big Warcraft fan and wants in on the Sam Raimi movie based on the game.
Activision Declares Modern Warfare on Wii
The blockbuster Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is getting ported to the Wii in conjunction with the release of Modern Warfare 2 this holiday.
Crysis Maker Threatening to Ditch Germany
One of the largest game developers in Germany might move its development offices elsewhere if the Bundestag bans violent games.
What’s In an Educational Game?
An anonymous reader writes “I work at a non-profit whose mandate is to increase science literacy and awareness. One of the methods that we’ve started exploring is in making free, online educational games. Our target demographic for the games is kids aged 8-12, but there is no reason the games could not also appeal to a broader age range. What would you look for in an educational game? Does length and depth of gameplay matter to you, or would you rather play a trivial game with subconscious educational value?”
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