At the Wii event in Japan which took place today, Nintendo disclosed what items will be coming with the Wii console:
I just called Fantasy Flight Games to see if they had any further information on when the game will be released other than “Coming in September.”
They unfortunately did.
Looks like it will realisticly be arriving in stores and homes around the third week of October. That was a sad thing to hear, considering how long we’ve been waiting for it thus far. I almost would have prefered that they not announce this until a month away, just releasing press news about it instead of an entire product preview page. Looks like we had best settle in I suppose. At least we have the expansion’s manual available for reading already!
The next supposed “leader” of the up-coming (and partially already here *looks at Xbox 360) generation of gaming consoles, Sony’s PS3, has had a rough couple of days. Yesterday, an article on The Inquirer claimed that the graphics processor (RSX or ‘Reality Synthesizer’) was downgraded to be 10% of it’s original processing power.
This news seems to produce a few emotions in a very specific order when heard: First, “dang, that sucks, it’s not going to be as good now,” followed by either “ya know, it actually won’t affect me since I’m not buying one anyway, so nevermind.” Or if you are buying one “hmm, actually, this means it will cost me less money, so that’s cool.” I know I went through this, followed by “maybe after I buy my Wii, I’ll be able to get a PS3 a year or two after release when it’s gone down a tad (”a tad” equaling around $250-300) in price.”
After the news that Red Steel is upgrading their control schema to include real motion sword fighting, my entire Wii-life flashed before my eyes as dollar after dollar was passed to various stores in exchange for that oh so sweet Wii fix. Late nights of caffine and barely waking up in time for work the next day. Oh yeah, re-living my early 20’s… Thank you Nintendo for ruining my life!!
The worst part? Even after realizing all of that, I’m still getting a Wii. ;p
The only complaint I have had about this game was just killed, put in a plastic bag and drug into a dense forest to be buried.
“The developer has confirmed that the control scheme will be completely redesigned so the controller moves are converted into the game precisely. Besides the controller sensitivity will be completely adjustable in the final version. And the graphics were improved very well since E3, now the atmosphere is darker and thrilling.”
Finally, Fantasy Flight Games is releasing an expansion to the already fantastic boardgame, World of Warcraft called Shadow of War. The best part, aside from the impressive improvements? It’s only $25! It should be available sometime in September.
Having played the game as often as I have, I have noticed a few holes in the game. Things that draw your attention to the fact that you’re playing a board game instead of toward the idea that you’re controlling the fate of a character who is constantly striving to improve on his abilities. This expansion seems to be geared toward closing some of those holes.
I’ve been interested in overly complex World of Warcraft macros for a while now, but have not really had the time to investigate what can be done. Yesterday, I came up with a pretty cool feature, so I thought, as have the few people with whom I’ve share it with so far.
Alright, alright, so what do you have?
Well, from time to time, most players with create a new character or two. I know I have and still do on occasion. The most frustrating part is having to manually re-enter all of your friends into your newly created character’s Friends List. So why not macro the task!
How to do this:
When you are done, you will have a list that looks like the following:
/friend Bert
/friend Ernie
/friend Oscar
Once you’re satisfied with your new Friend List macro, just place the macro icon in one of your toolbars and activate it! If one of the listed friends already exists in that character’s Friend List, it will simply state that fact and try to add the next friend. I found that if I just add any new friends to this universal list as I meet them or as they join the game, all I have to do is click that button on my characters as I play them and their Friend Lists are always up to date!
The only thing I have run into that may need some attention is that each macro is only allowed 255 characters so if you have a lot of friends online, you may have to create multiple friend macros (i.e.: “Friends 1, Friends, 2, etc”).
SPOnG mentioned an announcement by Nintendo that Mario Galaxy will include a co-op play feature! This is very exciting news for those of us who play console games for the community of it instead of the concept of the game alone.
Nintendo Power announced that only six games will make it out of the gates on the day the Wii launches. Surprisingly, Mario was not one of them.
The games that will be launching are as follows:
This does not necessarily exclude the possibility that more will be released on this wonderous day. It simply means that Nintendo has confirmed these titles. For those of you who are disappointed by this list, don’t worry! Nintendo seems to be doing things right this time around and to do things right includes releasing many many games just on or after launch. I’d expect at least double that amount within a month after launch.
If you play Second Life, this should make you happy. Due to the results of a recent poll done by Second Life, development on a new feature is now underway that would allow scripters to embed web-browsing through Mozilla’s browser, Firefox in Second Life! This has an endless amount of possibilities including placing a specific web site’s current state on the face of an object in game, allowing users to browse the site without ever leaving the Second Life interface.
A friend of mine recently showed me some exciting things that already being done with Second life and it’s interface to the Web as it is now. I might just start following Second Life news… it seems as though it is starting to go into some places of great interest to me.
At long last, Nintendo has finally done away with the cool code name “Revolution” and replaced it with the crappy actual product name, “Wii” (as in “we”). I’m not sure how much crack they had to get through in order to find this name to be adequate enough to represent their next-gen console, but they apparently do find it adequate.
Nintendo has replaced their standard product page for the Revolution with an announcement page with a fun little animation for introducing the chosen name. I’m truely wondering how many gamers will be turned off by this choice. I know that I will still buy one, but I might just keep calling it the Revolution. 
This would be a great time for them to release some awe-inspiring stuff regarding the new console at E3 to make up for the bad taste in everyone’s mouths.
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