News Tagged: Gossip
News: Wisconsin To Tax Digital Downloads
With the popularity of digital downloads at an all-time high, it should come as no surprise that governments are beginning to look at ways to tax them.
The State of Wisconsin just recently signed a bill into law that allows for a 5% tax on all digital downloads spanning music, books, ring tones, and even video games. The state expects to rack up nearly 7 million dollars yearly from the tax once the..
News: Animales de la Muerte Officially NOT Coming To WiiWare
The cat is finally out of the bag! High Voltage’s Animales de la Muerte is officially NOT coming to WiiWare anymore. For those not in the know this game is a bloodthirsty comic shooter set in a zoo of all places. Check out the interview we did last year with High Voltage for more info.
The fact that it is no longer planned for WiiWare comes as no surprise to us. Our internal source at High..
News: EA's Peter Moore Likes World of Goo After All
Remember when EA bigwig Peter Moore got all confused because he couldn’t fathom why World of Goo ranked so highly in Eurogamer’s top 50 of 2008? Well he’s now redeemed himself by singing the praises of 2D Boy’s awesome WiiWare title on his blog page.
Here's what the big guy said: Before we close the door on one of the lively discussions that was breaking out here over the past couple of..
News: EA's Moore Perplexed by World of Goo Success
If you’re a keen fan of the excellent UK-based video game site Eurogamer then you’ll be aware that it recently posted its top 50 games of the past 12 months.
WiiWare gem World of Goo cropped up in a very respectable tenth position, which caused EA’s Peter Moore to scratch his chin in puzzlement and comment that he was ‘surprised’ to see it rank so highly when his own company’s FIFA 09..
News: Treasure To Support WiiWare?
Treasure president Masato Maegawa has confirmed that his company is looking at producing games for downloadable content services such as WiiWare and XBLA.
Speaking to 1up.com, Maegawa commented that he really liked the job fellow Japanese developer IntiCreates did with Mega Man 9. This might suggest that Treasure is looking at doing similar things with its own IP – which should get all serious..
News: WiiWare Games To Be Directly Downloadable To SD Cards
At a press conference in Japan today, not only did Nintendo announce a barrage of new DS/Wii games and a new DS, they also announced something Wii fans have been wanting for a long time - A storage solution!
Sadly, it's not a hard drive like many people assumed. Instead, you'll be able to directly download games to SD cards. At the moment, the only way to get games on SD cards is to download them..
News: Nintendo’s Storage Solution: Better Than HDD, Expected Soon
Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime has confirmed that the company is looking into the age-old Wii memory storage issue and has even gone as far as to say the solution they’ve come up with is ‘better’ than a hard drive.
What this could mean is anyone’s guess but as we’ve said in the past it’s doubtful that Nintendo will just allow you to plug any old hard drive in via the USB..
News: Penny Arcade Adventures Too Big For WiiWare
Kotaku recently interviewed Hothead Games, who are the developers of Penny Arcade Adventures. The interview was mostly about why this game still wasn’t available on the Playstation Network when XBLA has had it for a while, but the question of the possibility of this series coming to WiiWare also came up:
While they would love to bring the episodic game to the Wii, the size limits for Wii Ware..
News: Keiji Inafune Reveals More About Mega Man 9
In a recent interview with MTV Multiplayer, the creator of the Mega Man series, Keiji Inafune and his partner in crime, Hironobu Takeshita, producer of Mega Man 9 reveal a few more nuggets of information about this upcoming retro styled game.
Here are some of the choice bits of the interview: Multiplayer: When you guys decided to make “Mega Man 9″ in this style, I assume nobody at Capcom had..
News: Where In The World Is Strong Bad?
Bad news for Strong Bad fans today. It seems that SBCGFAP will NOT be coming out in July after all! Emily Morganti, the marketing coordinator over at Telltale Games explains the dealio on their game forum:
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the game is not coming out tomorrow.What IGN said is true - we have submitted the game to Nintendo, and as soon as we get approval from them, it will be..
News: Reggie Says Storage Issue Isn't Only For Geeks And Otaku!
Good old Reggie Fils-Aime, he’s the man. The president of Nintendo of America is launching a one man war on the terror that is the lack of internal storage on the Wii. Europe's Laurent Fischer might think that only "geeks and otaku" are bothered about having no space left to store all the lovely WiiWare games and other downloadable content you have bought, but worry not because Reggie is on your side!
Speaking to MTV, Reggie revealed they consider the storage issue to be of wide importance now. It’s not just the hardcore demographic who are..
News: Retro Styled Castlevania Coming To WiiWare?
In an interview with Wired, the current Castlevania series producer, Koji Igarashi (who you might know as the man who nearly always wears a black cowboy hat and carries around a whip) was asked what he thinks about Mega Man 9. He responded as follows:
I'm watching that very closely to see how it does. Myself, I'm a big retro gaming fan, so if it is successful that definitely opens up doors for..
News: Mega Man 9 T-shirts To Go On Sale Soon!
Do you remember a few days ago when we posted about the retro themed Mega Man 9 box art as featured on a T-shirt which a lucky 1up staffer won at E3? Well the good news is now you too could own one of these fashionable garments!
Check out Kramez’s blog at Capcom for more info: It was quickly decided by the marketing group that if we were going to release a game that looked like it came from 1987..
E3 2008: Miyamoto Discusses Limited Storage Space On Wii
We haven’t exactly been bombarded with WiiWare news at E3 2008 yet. Well in fact, no news to speak of yet! So you can forgive us for raising the sticky wicket of the lack of a storage solution on the Wii yet again.
Hopefully there will be a breakthrough on the horizon soon. IGN caught up with Miyamoto about this ever increasing problem and here’s what he had to say: There isn't anything that we..
News: Alien Crush Returns - More Details
Japanese magazine Famitsu has put up some new screenshots of the rather tasty looking Alien Crush Returns. Check it out Google’s translation of the page for yourselves.
Here are the interesting details which we noted:Features Reverse Ball - allows you to instantly send the ball back the way it was moving. Split Ball – lets your ball split into two for a limited time for increased scoring..
News: Mega Man 9 - New Video, Online Leaderboards, NOT Exclusive!
IGN had a pre-E3 breakthrough today with a new Mega Man 9 video and some new snippets of news.
Anyone who has been around this site for the last week or so will know how stoked we are about Mega Man 9. Only the most cynical of gamers could fail to love the idea of a brand new 8-bit NES style Mega Man, with all new levels.The first bit of news is contrary to the denials we have heard, it is now..
News: Mega Man 9 Will Cost 1000 Wii Points
Way back in the days gamers would shell out $40 or more for a new NES game. Imagine the uproar if Capcom tried to ask for the same price nowadays with the upcoming Mega Man 9 game for WiiWare. There would be rioting on the streets outside Capcom’s offices across the world as otaku and geeks dressed like the blue bomber expressed their outrage!
The good news is that Japanese Famitsu magazine have..
News: Beer Pong Goes Alcohol Free
After coming under fire from groups like the Anti-Drug Coalitions of America last month it seems that Nintendo felt morally obliged to put the pressure on JV Games to change the title of their forthcoming game Frat Party Games - Beer Pong to the less offensive and alcohol free name of Frat Party Games - Pong Toss!
Here a bit of what the Las Vegas Sun reported on the matter: The first problem was..
News: Luc Bernard's Pitch For A Castlevania-Like Game On WiiWare
The ever outspoken friend of WiiWare World, Luc Bernard has revealed a game pitch from a game on his blog which he claims could have been the “Castlevania of WiiWare”. It seems that publishers were not overwhelmed by this concept for whatever reason and this idea got put on permanent hold.
We suspect Luc is referring to the Rose Princess (and her sidekick Mr. Cuddles), which was going to be his..
News: Miyamoto Gives His Thoughts On WiiWare
Shigeru Miyamoto did an interesting Q&A session with Wired recently. As ever he is his usual charming self and discusses a variety of topics including Wii Fit, swimming and hamburgers!
Of course what we are most interested to hear about are his thoughts on the WiiWare service so far. It is interesting that Miyamoto acknowledged that the American games released so far on WiiWare have been much..
