So the rumors earlier this week were true that Amazon is running some kind of crazy holiday promotion on the 360’s next week. The details are simple. They have 4 products with crazy prices to vote on. The one with the most votes is the one that goes on sale next Thursday. Voting ends next Tuesday and the winner will be announced on Wednesday. With 75% of the votes I think it’s safe to say the 360 will be on sale. The catch? There are only 1000 units up for grabs.
The units will go on sale at 11am PST next Thursday, Nov. 23rd. I encourage you all to [url=http://www.amazon.com/gp/holiday/cv/homepage/?tag2=snackbargames-20]login to amazon and vote[/url] for the 360. It’ll be funny to see Amazon’s servers crash when this sale kicks off.
A “best of” pack of the best Star Wars games is coming to the PC. The collection will feature Star Wars: Empire at War, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Star Wars Battlefront, Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and Star Wars Republic Commando, as well as a 14 day trial to Star Wars Galaxies.
Let’s be perfectly honest. Wii Sports, the pack-in offering from Nintendo for its newest console entry, is a tech demo of what players and early adopters can expect from the hardware and its unconventional capabilities. This is not a slide against the title or the Wii itself, merely a fact. Few of the title’s included games are fleshed out to the point of inspiring continued play beyond an hour or so. Instead, the bulk of the title’s various motion-based games serve as an almost perfect introduction into what we can expect from the Wii in the months to follow the console’s debut. Inserted into the Wii, the console becomes an instant conversation piece, drawing attention from anyone within visual range of players as they move and wave their arms while taking part in the experience. The Wii is an experience, and Wii Sports is a perfect demonstration of that experience.Nintendo is blazing a new and largely unexplored trail with the Wii in its desire to appeal to gamers and non-gamers alike, and while time will tell if the gaming community at large will follow, for the short term Wii Sports makes perfect sense as an introduction to the Wii’s mechanics. Not everyone has played Super Mario Bros. or The Legend of Zelda , but everyone who picks up the Wii remote is likely to be familiar with baseball and knows full well how to swing a tennis racket.
The included games, from baseball and tennis, to bowling, golf, and even boxing are admittedly simplistic caricatures of their real life counterparts, but the emulation is such that they do not have to be realistic. That’s not the point. Rather, the point – an area where Wii Sports excels – is to get people engaged in a party-like atmosphere where those watching the game are just as engaged as those actively participating in what is taking place on the screen. While the game itself may not be played much in the weeks to follow the Wii’s debut, newcomers asking the inevitable question of A
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Bungie previously announced they had an important announcement lined up for 2am this morning and right on the mark they posted a pretty decent lot of info about Halo 2 and 3.
For starters, they are running a Halo 3 commercial during Monday Night Football on December 4th. The commercial will not feature any in game footage, but be created from the ground up in CGI. It should be pretty neat.
Secondly, they announced new Halo 2 multiplayer maps. I think I just heard the collective screams and howls of a few hundred thousand folks out there. The new maps will not be free and will require a 360 and the harddrive to play. Now I think I just heard those same people booing.
To bring you back from that news, Bungie announced an upcoming public beta for Halo 3. No further details on that so keep an ear out.
One final thing is that they released the following in game screen:
[img]http://www.snackbar-games.com/images/news/2006.11.15.Halo3.jpg[/img]
You can read the full announcement on Bungie’s [url=http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?cid=9182]website[/url].
Edit: And by new Halo 3 MP maps you knew I meant Halo 2 maps right?
