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Aussie Endless Ocean 2 bundles
Availible at Kmart and Target - offer ends 3rd March
aussie-nintendo.com news
gamingeek
Japans Votes: Subs Vs Dubs
How do Japanese gamers like their western games?
andriasang.com news
aspro
1up preview Forgotten Sands Wii
"you won't be getting the short end of the stick; Forgotten Sands for Wii is shaping up to be a worthy Prince of Persia sequel."
1up.com impressions
gamingeek
Pachter talks Natal, Dsi XL and 3rd Party Wii
I continue to believe that the Wii audience will buy good games, and think that third parties have done a poor job of making them for the Wii.
gamedaily.com editorial
gamingeek
Endless Ocean Blue World 9/10 review
One of Wii’s deepest, most surprisingly enjoyable games.
n-europe.com impressions
gamingeek
New WiiWare Title Threatens Endless Ocean
Aquarium simulator for 800 points.
andriasang.com news
aspro
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Gamasutra's regular round-up of worldwide video game releases, "Release This!", takes a look at every game title we know to be shipping to stores this week, in a custom compiled list.
This week brings Heavy Rain and Endless Ocean 2 to North America, while Japan gets Espgaluda II Black Label and BlazBlue Portable.
The following list covers all of the game software we know to be available -- across all platforms and regions -- for the week ending February 27th, 2010.
Games Released in the United States:
Nintendo Wii:
- Endless Ocean: Blue World
- Mouse House (online)
- Pony Friends 2
- Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
- Winter Blast: Snow and Ice Games
Xbox 360:
- Greed Corp (online)
- Lazy Raiders (online)
- Risen
- Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
PlayStation 3:
- Greed Corp (online)
- Heavy Rain
- Hyperballoid HD (online)
- Last Rebellion
- Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
Nintendo DS:
- Deca Sports DS
- Flight Control (online)
- Flipper
- Hello Kitty: Birthday Adventures
- Lovely Lisa and Friends
- Pony Friends 2
- Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
- Super Speed Machines
- Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s World Championship 2010 Reverse of Arcadia
PlayStation Portable:
- Age of Zombies (online)
- Metal Slug XX
PC:
- Achtung Panzer: Kharkov 1943 (online)
- Arsenal of Democracy (online)
- Art of Murder: Cards of Destiny
- Dawn of Discovery: Venice
- Legends of Norrath: Vengeful Gods (online)
- Napoleon: Total War
- Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity
- WarBirds: Dogfights
Quantic Dream's cinematic adventure title Heavy Rain headlines this week's PlayStation 3 lineup. Wii owners can expect to see a sequel to Nintendo's undersea exploration game Endless Ocean, as Sega's mascot racer Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing premieres across multiple platforms.
Games Released in Europe:
Nintendo Wii:
- Pop'n Rhythm
- Safar'Wii
- The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces
- Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
Xbox 360:
- Crash Time III
- Indianapolis 500 Evolution
- Lips: Party Classics
- Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
- Superstars V8 Next Challenge
PlayStation 3:
- Heavy Rain
- Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
- Superstars V8 Next Challenge
- White Knight Chronicles
Nintendo DS:
- Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes
- Music for Everyone
- Puzzle Chronicles
- Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
PlayStation Portable:
- Dante's Inferno
- Echoshift
- Puzzle Chronicles
- Undead Knights
PC:
- Anno 1404: Venice
- Dawn of Discovery: Venice
- Farewell to Dragons
- The Farm
- Napoleon: Total War
- Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
- The Stronghold Collection
- Superstars V8 Next Challenge
- Theatre of War II: Africa 1943
- XIII Century: Blood of Europe
Heavy Rain and Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing will also debut in the UK this week, arriving alongside region-exclusive releases like Superstars V8 Next Challenge, Crash Time III, and Lips: Party Classics.
Games Released in Japan:
Nintendo Wii:
- Daikaijuu Battle: Ultra Coliseum DX - Ultra Senshi Daishuuketsu
- GTI Club World: City Race
- Radirgy Noa Wii
- Super Monkey Ball Athletic
Xbox 360:
- Borderlands
- Espgaluda II Black Label
- No Fate! Only the Power of Will
PlayStation 2:
- Kiniro no Corda 3
- Wand of Fortune: Mirai e no Prologue
Nintendo DS:
- Cooking Idol I! My! Main! Game de Hirameki! Kirameki Cooking
- Estpolis: The Lands Cursed by the Gods
- Fushigi no Dungeon: Fuurai no Shiren 4 - Kami no Hitomi to Akuma no Heso
- Game Book DS: Aquarian Age Perpetual Period
- Gendai Daisenryaku DS: Isshoku Sokuhatsu - Gunji Balance Houkai
- Gyouretsu no Dekiru Houritsu Soudansho
- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kizuna: Dai Yon Kan - Kizuna
- Nazotte Oboeru Otona no Kanji Renshuu Kaiteiban
- Otona no Renai Shousetsu: Harlequin Selection
- Shounen Oni Ninden Tsumuji
- Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Mugen no Frontier EXCEED
- TOEIC Test Super Coach @DS
- Utatte Touch, Utouchi!!
- WiZman's World
PlayStation Portable:
- BlazBlue Portable
- Cross Channel: To All People
- FairlyLife: MiracleDays
- Himehibi: New Princess Days!! Zoku! Ni-Gakki Portable
- Katekyoo Hitman Reborn! Kizuna no Tag Battle
- Kenka Banchou 4: Ichinen Sensou
- Kiniro no Corda 3
- Koori no Bohyou Ichiyanagi Wa, 3 Dome no Junan
- Minna no Tennis Portable
- Nizu no Senritsu Portable 2: Hi no Kioku
- No Fate! Only the Power of Will
- Power Pro Success Legends
- Qix++
- Yoake Yori Ruriiro na Portable
Cave's arcade shoot'em-up Espgaluda II Black Label gets a region-free release on the Xbox 360 in Japan this week. The Nintendo Wii will host Milestone's upgraded shooter Radirgy Noa Wii, Konami's arcade racer GTI Club World: City Race, and the Ultraman franchise crossover fighting game Daikaijuu Battle: Ultra Coliseum DX.
Portable highlights for this week include the Shiren the Wanderer series sequel Fushigi no Dungeon: Fuurai no Shiren 4, a PSP port of Arc System Works' 2D fighter BlazBlue, and Estpolis: The Lands Cursed by the Gods, a remake of the Super NES-era RPG Lufia II.
I spent most of my downtime this weekend playing Ace Attorney Investigations, and I've made it about midway into the 3rd chapter. So far it's good. It's really not remarkable different from the Phoenix Wright games, though it's a little more linear. You don't have to pick and choose which locations you travel to in order to start questioning people. You pretty much do all your investigating and questioning at one stage/level at a time before going to the next one.
As far as the other new changes, I'm not a real fan of the "logic" system. At some times it's such a jump I can't figure out how anyone could draw the conclusions that Miles does and at others its so glaringly obvious I don't understand how it's considered a puzzle that needs to be figured out. On the other hand the "deduce" feature, where you match up a piece of your evidence with a feature of a crime scene, is great and makes a lot of sense. That should be something that gets carried over.
But the main question would probably be, "is it fun?" and to that I'd say of course. Once again it's the characters that make this game good. The Gumshoe/Edgeworth relationship is as amusing as ever, Kay does a pretty good job in the role of the plucky teen sidekick, new the supporting cast is full of the usual assortment of goofballs, and plenty of old familiar faces show up for a cameo in this one too. I'm not sure how good all of the cases are so far (Chapter 2 was kind of weak) but overall, still fun for the fans.
I'm in the plane now, just checking out the gift shop. That stewardess with the teddy bear is hot, well the outfit is
I'm with you, it's the same thing basically, not that different from Phoenix Wright. Its not a radical departure or anything. So its good. Story hasn't done anything for me so far though.
I'm going to an anime/comic convention in about 3 weeks, and I can almost guarantee that there will be a girl in that costume. And I'll be there with camera in hand.
Chapter 3 is pretty good. Some events happen in Chapter 2 and that builds in Chapter 3 and then things start finally getting interesting.
*clears throat*
Endless Ocean Blue World
Or with something in hand...
Oh yeah, that too. But Heavy Rain first.
*clears throat*
Bastard.
Has anyone tried the Turbo mode of opera 10?
It's damned fine, you click a tab on the bottom left of the browser to turn it on. It compresses images but makes browsing 3X faster. Its slick so far.
i was just looking at those 3 icons on the bottom left the other day (opera link, opera unite, opera turbo), all 3 were disabled. what's the price for the increased speed?
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Listen to Wu-Tang and watch Kung-Fu
Images look like ass with Opera Turbo. The faster the speed, the worse they will look.
I tried it on my sister's computer. She only has dial-up, so I figured it would be a nice performance improvement, but it didn't work. It said it was unable to connect to Opera's servers or something. I guess it only works with broadband, which is stupid, IMO.
Seems to work great with broadband. You get worse image quality though. It only loads flash video when you click on it which is cool as you dont get the performance hit for random flash ads and the like.
You can set it to auto so it only comes on when your connection drops speed. Its very cool for me at the moment. Perfect for browsing.
I works fine with dial-up. Your problem is elsewhere. The downsides are first, privacy related, as it routes you through Opera's servers in order to provide the service. There's no specific indication to think anything bad's going on, but it's a concern anytime you're going through a middle-man. SSL/TLS connections are not compressed or passed through their servers.
Additionally, if you're on a good connection, Turbo can actually slow things down. Since you have to go through another server, that's another bottleneck.
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Tell me to get back to rewriting this site so it's not horrible on mobileWell, her dial-up service is MSN, so I guess that could be the problem.
No, probably not
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Tell me to get back to rewriting this site so it's not horrible on mobileOooooo a big announcement from Capcom coming in April. I wonder what it might be. I'm really hoping it's a Darkstalkers game done in the same style as Street Fighter IV. That would be awesome.
Yeah the lack of matchmaking in ODST really hurt the final product. It certainly would have made a bigger seller and would have given the game a longer lifespan online. Halo Reach will certainly rectify that though. I'm so looking forward to playing the beta.
A $50 Natal would definitely sit well with me. Please make it happen Microsoft.
Well, if it's not MSN, then I'm going back to my original opinion that Opera Turbo sucks.