It’s bad news. Games e-tailer Lik-Sang has shut down, in response to several lawsuits from Sony Computer Entertainment after the site sold Asian PSPs to European gamers.
“As of today, Lik-Sang.com will not be in the position to accept any new orders and will cancel and refund all existing orders that have already been placed,” says a statement from the site, before pointedly listing several Sony Europe execs who’ve used it themselves to buy PSP stuff.
What does this mean for us punters? If you pre-ordered a Wii through Lik-Sang, you’d best find someone else to order with sharpish. And sadly, it closes off one of the more user-friendly ways to get those hard-to-find Japanese import games.
Bad news if you’re a fan of the Star Wars Rogue Squadron games that came out on Nintendo’s N64 and GameCube consoles. Developer Factor 5 has announced it won’t be developing games for Wii – or for Xbox 360 for that matter.
In an interview, the company’s president apparently called Wii “GameCube 1.5″ and also described its audio as “relatively mediocre”. Which means no Rogue Squadron games on Wii for the forseeable future. That’s cool with me. I don’t even like Star Wars. Really.
*munches sour grapes*
I once fell asleep on a long-haul flight while listening to an Ayumi Hamasaki album on the in-flight system, and woke up a few hours later, with it on a loop. Ever since then, electroclash-tinged J-Pop has been burned into my internal jukebox. Which is a wordy way of introducing this video on YouTube, where someone with a little too much time on their hands has edited together a bunch of Wii game footage, to the soundtrack of Ayumi’s ‘Evolution’ track. It is, obviously, ace.
Here’s a good eBay auction for any motor-mad Wii fans: a car number-plate WIIGEN (although that could be W11GEN I suppose), which is being sold on eBay for £299. Of course, to be entirely appropriate, it’d have to go on a car that’s had its traditional steering wheel replaced by some kind of motion sensing wand. I’m sure Toyota are working on it.
Sorry, the actual adverts themselves haven’t been unveiled yet, but the details of the marketing campaign have. Nintendo is spending £11 million advertising Wii’s launch in the UK, including TV ads on Channel 4, Channel Five, Sky One and other digital channels before the launch on December 8th.
Meanwhile, there’ll also be ads around big Christmas family shows, as well as the X-Factor final and Coronation Street. Intruigingly, there’ll also be a three-minute ad available on the Web.
I wouldn’t normally get excited about Rayman, fun though he is, but this YouTube video taken from the upcoming Wii version might’ve changed my mind. It’s one of the minigames, in which you have to pull worms out of a rabbit’s mouth. Bonkers, but strangely compelling (and sure to be a flashback before my next dentist’s appointment).
That’s the verdict of Enterbrain, the magazine publisher responsible for Famitsu magazine in Japan (i.e. they’re gurus of all things gamey, or something). President Hirokazu Hamamura reckons that by 2009, 34 million PlayStation 3s will have been sold, compared to 28 million Xbox 360s and 25 million Wiis.
A lot of the stories covering this announcement have focused on PS3 “winning” the next-gen console war, and Wii “losing”. Without getting all fanboy on yo’ ass, I’d say that 25 million ain’t bad at all, and more importantly, if all three consoles can do this level of sales, it’s good news for the games industry and gamers.
Man, I wish I’d been to the European press launch for Wii in September. Apparently Nintendo gave out 200 Wii-branded watches to journalists. Several of whom have slapped them straight on eBay. The ungrateful swines.
Still, at least it means you can get hold of one. It’s made of stainless steel, is water resistant up to five metres, and comes with its box, a Dutch press pass, and a Nintento lanyard. At the time of writing, there’s been 17 bids though, taking the price to over $150.
Hmm, unless you’re still riding the SpongeBob SquarePants wave, there’s not much to be excited about in THQ’s four launch games for Wii. Besides SpongeBob’s Creature From The Krusty Krab, the publisher’s also announced Barnyard, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Cars, based on the Disney Pixar movie.
That’s two TV brands, and two movie brands. I would say “Well, it’s Good For The Kids” if I didn’t think The Kids will be enjoying themselves silly on other games from the Wii’s launch line-up.
Bad news if you’re a fan of the Star Wars Rogue Squadron games that came out on Nintendo’s N64 and GameCube consoles. Developer Factor 5 has announced it won’t be developing games for Wii – or for Xbox 360 for that matter.
Here’s a good eBay auction for any motor-mad Wii fans: a 
That’s the verdict of Enterbrain, the magazine publisher responsible for Famitsu magazine in Japan (i.e. they’re gurus of all things gamey, or something). President Hirokazu Hamamura reckons that by 2009, 34 million PlayStation 3s will have been sold, compared to 28 million Xbox 360s and 25 million Wiis.
Man, I wish I’d been to the European press launch for Wii in September. Apparently Nintendo gave out 200 Wii-branded watches to journalists. Several of whom have slapped them straight on eBay. The ungrateful swines.
Hmm, unless you’re still riding the SpongeBob SquarePants wave, there’s not much to be excited about in THQ’s four launch games for Wii. Besides SpongeBob’s Creature From The Krusty Krab, the publisher’s also announced Barnyard, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Cars, based on the Disney Pixar movie.
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