Gamesindustry.biz is reporting that the Wiiconnect24 service may have downloadable content and micropayments like Xbox Live, but there’s other news hidden away in the article:
[quote]Fils-Aime went on to reiterate the company’s plans to allow for downloadable content. “If you’ve gotten to a particular part in a game, we could push content out to you, so you get to battle a new boss. Maybe you get a new artifact; maybe you get a new weapon,” he said.
These items could be downloaded in the background using the console’s WiiConnect24 service, [b]which will also allow the system to function as a server of sorts, opening Animal Crossing towns and other player-specific content to friends without the console being fully turned on[/b].[/quote]
I’m very curious about that server part. I’m no Animal Crossing fan, but it sounds like it could be fun in a lot of games. Let’s hope it gets put to good use!
[url=http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=17927]Wii could support microtransactions[/url] (Gamesindustry.biz)
For those of you who still play the old Lucasarts point & clicks (I have a whole official Lucasarts CD thing full of ’em), ScummVM 0.9.0 has just been released. It also supports the now free Flight of the Amazon Queen and Beneath a Steel Sky if you haven’t played those. They can be grabbed from the ScummVM website.
[url=http://www.scummvm.org/]ScummVM Official Website[/url]
Famitsu, the Japanese gaming magazine that some people hail as perfect, has reviewed Metal Slug 3d and given it sevens across the board. Now, I had no faith in this whatsoever, but now I can admit I’m a little curious. It’ll have to be way beyond mediocre for me to be satisfied in any way, of course.
Source: [url=http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2006/6/26/4444]ArsTechnica[/url]
I’m not sure if this qualifies in any way as “news,” but apparently there are still plenty of geeks out there who still have girl issues. [url=http://images2.ggl.com/articles/3400/8.jpg]Here’s[/url] an article where girls complain about this phenomenon. I have mixed feelings about the article, because while we’ve heard it before and it’s akin to complaining that hedgehogs are all spiny, I sure do hate seeing idiots ruin the game for everyone. Thank the lord there are an increasing number of tools for dealing with these tools.
Source: [url=http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/girls/why-do-gaming-guys-hate-gaming-girls-183285.php]Kotaku[/url]
I just got my Xbox 360, and mostly I am interested in the downloadable games over everything else. Well, it looks like some [url=http://grev.co.jp/ronde360/about.html]sweet quasi 2d giant robot action[/url] may be heading the way of Xbox Live soon. I can’t tell you anything about it, but it looks gorgeous.
I do love giant robots.
Source: [url=http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/xbox-360/senko-no-ronde-for-xbox-360-site-love-183173.php]Kotaku[/url]
