Top 10 new game announcements (Nintendo consoles) over the E3 2009 holiday season
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Posted by Zero on
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Yes, I consider E3 a holiday. It may actually be the best holiday, though in recent years it has been floundering a bit. However, E3 may just be "back." Though I hesitate to say it is back in full (where were the booth babes?!) this has certainly been the best E3 since the shift to the new format. And yes, much like holidays such as Easter and Christmas, I consider E3 to have a season surrounding it. So, for the sake of my top 10 list, I'm not sticking solely to games announced at E3; I am including a few that were announced in the weeks leading up to E3 as well. Just because you get your Christmas present a week or two early doesn't mean it isn't a Christmas present! Here goes... ... Read More!
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It's time for another roundtable! This time... ports and Wiimakes are our target.
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Posted by IaMspAmBOt on
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Alright guys, the last roundtable turned out pretty well and we got some interesting discussion going on, let's see if we can keep it up.
With yesterday's announcement of Silent Hill Shattered Memories it seems like a good time to talk about ports and remakes. Though most ports and remakes kind of take a bad rep, the overall vibe surrounding Silent Hill seems very positive. It looks like a lot of effort is going into the game and it looks to be one of the few (sadly) Wii full action/adventure titles that tries to use the Wii remote in interesting ways.
What do you guys about ports and remakes on the Wii? Dead set against them? Mostly against them unless some true effort is put into a total re-envisioning? Ok with them as long as they aren't rushed jobs?
Do you want to see past titles you never got around to checking out ported / remade on the Wii? What about titles you have already played through, interested in playing again w ... Read More!
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3rd party publishers may need to reassess their approach to core gaming on the Wii
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Posted by Zero on
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I hate the term “hardcore gamer.” I really do. It's already tough enough to define it as it stands, but it is a constantly evolving term. Yet it continues to pervade industry marketing chatter as if it is some firm and easily definable term, and it has become the most used term of note in respect to 3rd party sales on the Wii. Publishers can accept that 3rd party casual games can and do sell on the Wii, as games like Carnival Games the the Rayman Raving Rabbids series have shown. Publishers can also accept that hardcore 1st party games can sell, though they accept this a bit more hesitantly. But what about the 3rd party hardcore? Is there even a hardcore market on the Wii worth 3rd party time and effort, or are the Nintendo hardcore titles that sell an anomaly based on a very dedicated core Nintendo fanbase who is unwilling to look outside Nintendo to satisfy their hardcore needs? Who exactly is buying the Wii and how willing are these Wii owners to try out hardcore game ... Read More!
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Welcome to the Retro Gaming Revival. (And our very first roundtable... get involved people!)
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Posted by IaMspAmBOt on
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This is an idea Anandxxx and I were throwing around a bit, I want to see if there is much interest in doing it. Basically it would be a semi-regular (weekly? bi-weekly? monthly?) roundtable where we discuss one or another hot topics in the current game industry. The only major difference between this and half the other threads around here is A. it is posted publicly on the front page of the Negative World and B. it is focused and (I HOPE) people will try to join in every time so we can get a set of regulars contributing to it. We should probably post some questions in each roundtable to start things off but really, any on-topic conversation is fine, the questions should be looked at more as a mere means to spur on conversation.
And the topic for our first roundtable is the industry's current obsession with reviving retro gaming. It is very clear that a lot of publishers are looking into their back catalogs to find franchises they can bring back, so much so that it is b ... Read More!
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EA's Grand Slam Tennis serves up an ace on the Wii!! ...or something.
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Posted by anandxxx on
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As a lad of Indian descent, Tennis was expected of me. Tennis and Mathematics. Tennis, Mathematics, and an eventual career in Medicine or Engineering. Ping Pong was a mandatory elective, soccer was optional, and basketball was entirely out of the question. Given that, I played tennis, but I never really knew if I enjoyed it. It took the loss of opponents, youth, and flexibility to make me realize that, yes, I actually did like playing tennis. But that realization came far too late, and my annual tennis match does little to quench my thirst for the sport of nerds.
Enter Wii Sports Tennis, the first Wii game that most of us played, a universal epiphany. From the satisfying thwack of the ball from the remote's speaker to the visceral rumble of the controller upon impact, Wii Sports Tennis really embodied the catchphrase "Playing is Believing". It may not have been exa ... Read More!
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EA is slowly, but surely, finding its way on the Wii platform.
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During an interview conducted during an EA Community Event on Thursday, March 12, Peter Moore was surprisingly candid and forthcoming about EA's approach to sports games on the Wii. He admitted that the company was still feeling out how to create successful sports titles on the system that has taken the world by storm. Apparently, the plan is to keep trying different approaches until a franchise/sport gains traction, after which they will refine and iterate on that concept, the most successful example to this point being Tiger Woods Golf, which was not only EA's biggest sports title on the Wii in '08, but their biggest '08 Wii title, period. Further Tiger Woods games on the Wii will improve upon this winning formula. The upcoming Tiger Woods Golf 10 looks to be the definit ... Read More!
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Nintendo DS hits 100 million worldwide sales!!
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Posted by Zero on
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Nintendo Press release
I usually don't post news items that every other site is posting, but this seems like a pretty momentous occasion. 100 million shipped worldwide. Dang.
Remember back when the DS announced? It certainly wasn't welcomed with open arms from day one. Many gamers thought the dual screens and touch screen were a bit out there, and wacky ol' Nintendo had gone too far this time. Even Nintendo themselves went out of their way to position the DS as a "3rd tier" platform, presumably giving themselves an easy way to slip back into more traditional territory (GBA 2?) if it never took off. Yet take off it did, and we haven't heard a lick of that 3rd tier nonsense in awhile now. The DS became the true successor to the GBA, and Nintendo has never looked back. At this rate, it is on pace to become the best selling video game platform ever.
I admit that, even being a huge Nintendo fan myself, I was ... Read More!
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It has been a long, cold Winter...
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Posted by Zero on
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Will we ever see the Spring?
IGN recently published an article / interview with developer n-Space about a little Wii game that could… if only a publisher would back it. The game is called Winter, and frankly, it looks a whole hell of a lot more interesting than most of the games publishers are backing on the Wii, despite the fact that the only available media is still (and maybe forever) in early form. If n-Space are to be believed, it received a fair amount of publisher interest at first, but in the end the marketing teams just couldn’t get behind it. Which of course brings up the question; why? What exactly is keeping publishers from taking risks on interesting “core” IPs on the Wii?
Image courtesy of IGN.Com
It’s an unfortunate truth that over two years into the Wii, 3rd party publishers still ... Read More!
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***LIVE!*** Negative World GOTY 2008 awards ***LIVE!***
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Posted by Zero on
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I should probably apologize for the slight delay in our GOTY 2008 awards. It’s been a crazy last few weeks, what with last minute programming on the site, organizing and participating in the first annual Negative World Chicago Gamer’s Day, and subsequently being sick the entire week after. But it is better late than never. Special thanks to everyone who voted and made it all possible.
It’s been an interesting year for Nintendo fans. On the plus side, we got a few stellar games on the Wii, a lot of awesome games on the DS, and some interesting new announcements in the DSi and WiiMotion Plus. And Wiiware finally made its debut, bringing bite-sized gaming goodness to the millions of Wii owners. On the minus side the games weren’t always there on the Wii, Nintendo mostly ignored the DS (though the 3rd party support was excellent) and WiiWare took awhile to pick up steam. A mixed bag of a year to many, but hell, I’m not here to complain. It’s time to praise the games that deserve ... Read More!
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Where is the 3rd party support? Ten lesser known developers every Nintendo fan should be paying attention to
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Posted by Zero on
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The Nintendo Wii is an interesting phenomenon. Coming off of the disappointing sales of the Gamecube, 3rd party publishers and developers were a bit wary to jump into the next Nintendo home console right away, especially after Nintendo announced that the Wii would come with a (very) non-standard controller and a decided lack of hardware power next to its competition. Yet the Wii took the industry by surprise and soared in the marketplace, quickly becoming not just the best selling home console of the generation, but setting itself on a pace to, perhaps, become the best selling home console of all time. We are approaching the two year anniversary of the console and it is still difficult to simply walk into a store and buy a Wii; they sell out almost as fast as they come in. Surely 3rd party support has followed?
Well… yes and no. Though we are seeing more and more 3rd party support for the machine day to day, there is still a stigma surrounding it. The consensus seems to be sur ... Read More!
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