Ailive, co-creator of Nintendo’s forthcoming Wii MotionPlus accessory, has posted a YouTube video showing off how well it works. Oh, and advertising its own LiveMove 2 product, which is intended to help developers get to grips with the new motion-sensing hardware.
Though it’s only a very basic demo, it certainly shows what a difference MotionPlus makes to remote movement. You can skip through the early parts - the good stuff starts at around 1:48. Is it just a coincidence that the ’sword’ looks exactly like a lightsaber. It’s almost as if it’s saying “Lucasarts - phone us”.
Definitely worth a watch. As always, let me know your thoughts in the comments thread.
A gameplay video of Bioware’s forthcoming DS RPG, Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood has emerged on Gamekyo. And it seems as if our mammalian chum has taken a heavy dose of valium, because his trademark speed is nowhere to be seen.
While the battle mechanics look interesting - employing special attacks which use Ouendan-esque touchscreen tap-points - it’s all incredibly slow, certainly for a game featuring the world’s fastest videogame hero. At least it looks as if the battles won’t be random, with enemies visible on the main screen. Graphics look nice, but let’s hope for an injection of pace before it arrives this Autumn.
Nice bit of marketing this. Nintendo’s taken the recent Hollywood approach of videoing your audience jumping like wusses during the scary bits of a film, and produced a series of ads based on that. There’s also the full trailer for the game in the vid above. Have a watch if you’re not easily frightened.
The game’s out on July 31st in Japan. It’s not at E3, so who knows when us westerners will see it.
The latest in the popular Tales series of RPGs from Namco-Bandai has been released, and it’s a doozy. Plenty of impressive CGI cutscenery, and some in-game graphics that look absolutely terrific - with an impressive sense of scale in its 3D environments, and some nice side-on battling action, reminiscent of GameCube predecessor Tales of Symphonia.
Sure, the sprites in the 3D sections aren’t amazing, but overall the look is very effective.
No concrete release date yet - all we have so far is ‘coming this Winter’. Though with that being written in English, does that mean the western version will be arriving sooner than expected? Hope so.
WiiFolder has the first video footage of the Japanese version of Mario Super Sluggers - coming out under the moniker of Super Mario Stadium: Family Baseball in the East in two weeks, and due to hit the US sometime this summer.
And, considering I wasn’t a big fan of Mario Superstar Baseball on the GameCube, I’m somewhat surprised to say that it looks pretty damn good. Rather than the boring Pianta teams of that game, it looks like there’s a whole host of Mushroom Kingdom characters to pick from, with the remote-based control scheme likely to make it play like (wait for it) a whole new ball game.
It looks nice too - with more than a hint of Mario Super Strikers about the visual treatment. And there’s a challenge mode which features a set of minigames to bolster the main rounders-lite action. And the power-ups look interesting, too - here’s hoping they don’t appear too frequently so as to unbalance the central mechanics.
No word on a UK release yet. I’ll fire a quick e-mither to Nintendo UK. My guess for the reply: “We’ve not announced anything as yet”. Tune in later to see if I’m right, readers.
UPDATE: I was wrong. “No plans at the moment”, apparently. So there you go.
I really can’t decide. I’ve watched it five times now and it’s either a work of demented genius, or absolutely terrible. Maracas, monkeys and ‘mote-shaking madness. Mental.
Either way, the chimp’s clearly the best thing about it. What do you think, readers?
The only way this can not be brilliant is if the writing’s bad. Released almost a year ago in Japan under the catchy moniker Tantei Jinguuji Saburo DS: Inishie no Kioku, Jake Hunter allows you to investigate a host of crimes in a manner not dissimilar to that of the sections outside the courtroom in Phoenix Wright, but with less chat and a bit more action - witness the bit in the trailer where you have to decide how to fight by selecting ‘uppercut’ from a menu.
Anyway, it looks exactly like the sort of thing the DS needs more of, even if the latest issue of Nintendo Power (which has probably had more nods from this site in the past week than it’s had since WiiWii.tv started) gave it a measly 5/10.
Do have a watch for the trailer above. We’re particularly fond of Jake’s immaculately-coiffed ‘do. Zwapp!
June 10th is the date for you import types. No word of a UK release just yet.
Good news, folks. Shiny Media’s corporate overlords have managed to get their hands on somecorking prizes, and are strongly recommending that you enter a competition in order to try and win them. It’s pretty easy stuff, actually, and shouldn’t interrupt your Wii Fit/Mario Kart sessions for too long.
All you have to do is use any video capturing device - whether it be acamcorder, amobile phone or a digital camera - to record some footage representing ‘My Video Life’.
Visual Networking supremos Cisco have a bucketload of ace prizes for you to get your hands on. Whoever wins the competition will get the opportunity to spend a full day in a professional studio with the experts at Cisco to create an even better video, while your entry will be featured on Cisco’s website. Fame beckons. Oh, and you’ll also get £500 worth of vouchers to go on a shopping spree. Riches and fame beckon. Eight runners-up will each win £50 vouchers from top-notch AV retailer Dabs, so you’ve got an even better chance of winning something.
Detailed info on how to enter can be found after the jump.
See above for some footage of a cat set to some almost unbearably poignant music. We had tears in our eyes watching it, particularly at the bit on forty-two seconds where….no, it’s too painful. Anyway, that’s followed by a bit of DS action where some improbably anorexic-looking moggies lie about and paw the screen in a remarkably similar way to Nintendogs.
It’s arriving next week in Japan from Sega, and it’s called Yume Neko - which translates as ‘cat dream’.
Hang on…cat dream, dream cat, dream…cats….DreamCats! DREAMCAST! We’re surprised UK Resistance aren’t going completely apesh*t over this right now. It’s clearly a coded message to the world that the much-missed console will be making a spectacular return. Maybe.
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