I hope you aren’t trying to avoid upgrading to the latest and greatest EA games, because you won’t be able to play online soon. Pretty much anything that’s not 2006 will be dropped from online support within in a few months. Many of those 2004-2005 titles have already been dropped, as well as Need for Speed Underground 2, NBA Street V3, and Fight Night Round 2.
There’s one way to push forced upgrades. I haven’t even installed NFS: Underground 2 yet, and now I may just pass. And never buy another EA game again (ok, fat chance there). I still like to play Need for Speed 3, so I’m kinda glad they can’t take that away from me.
I don’t even get how they can drop support for NBA Street V3 already, since there isn’t even a sequel yet.
[url=http://www.joystiq.com/2006/08/06/no-more-online-gaming-for-you-says-ea/]’No more online gaming for you!’ says EA[/url] (Joystiq, also has complete listing of games and dates)
I know I’m not the only one psyched about this, so go grab it!
[url=http://www.majornelson.com/archive/2006/08/04/Dead-Rising-Demo.aspx]Demo: Dead Rising[/url] (Major Nelson)
Looks like Konami has signed up with the old Contras, Time Pilot, and even Symphony of the Night. Sweet deal.
[url=http://1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3152635]Symphony of the Night Heads to XBLA[/url] (1up, via Holt)
[url=http://www.siliconera.com/2006/08/01/build-your-own-micro-arcade-via-papercraft/#more-1651]Siliconera has templates to build mini-paper arcade machines.[/url] I’m totally gonna get these printed on cardstock at Kinkos. Rad!
Originally via [url=http://www.destructoid.com/build-your-own-wittle-desktop-arcade]Destructoid[/url]
So it seems that at least EA, Midway, and Ubisoft are set on making lots of nice fun games for the Wii. Ubisoft has even been praising the console itself, hinting that it may be a breath of fresh air in the market. Sega, who is already known to have titles on the market, seems to be a fan of the system’s price point.
The PS3, on the other hand, can count out Atari until at least next year. The publisher is worried that it will not be able to produce a viable business model on the machine.
EDIT: I forgot to throw this in, but SNK is waiting until [b]2009[/b] to touch the PS3. Ouch. A lot of us 2d nuts will count that as a huge mark against.
[url=http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/02/1751233&from=rss]Everybody Loves the Wii[/url] (slashdot)
[url=http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/feature/?id=13402]Ubisoft, Midway Pledge Strong Wii Support[/url] (GameDaily BIZ)
[url=http://www.joystiq.com/2006/08/02/atari-ceo-no-atari-ps3-games-before-2007/]Atari CEO: No PS3 games before 2007[/url] (Joystiq)
[url=http://www.joystiq.com/2006/08/03/snk-to-wait-until-2009-to-develop-for-ps3/]SNK to wait until 2009 to develop for PS3[/url] (Joystiq)
