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With everyone going mental over Ubisoft these days, I thought it would only be right to post up the Raving Rabbids 2 teaser trailer which Jeux France recently broke all over town. All CG, there is no gameplay footage anywhere to be found in this video, but naturally we’ll be seeing much much more over the coming weeks from these wacky bunnies.
Video and press release after the jump..
System3 CEO Mark Cale recently sat down with PALGN to talk a little about their upcoming DS, Wii and PSP titles Leaderboard, California Games and Ferrari Challenge. Essentially remakes of retro Commodore 64 titles, System3 is enhancing the visuals and game play of these classic titles and bringing them to everyones favorite handheld, the Nintendo DS (and not everyones favorite, the Sony PSP). Some of the enhancements to California Games, one of my most favorite games EVAR, is the addition of online multiplayer! A long-desired feature of the arcade elite of yesterday. The DS version will have four player multiplayer, with up to 8 players being able to shred head to head on the PSP
PALGN: You touched on California Games, which was such a massive hit back in the day, can you tell us a little bit about how the modern day remake is going to be handled?
Mark Cale: We’re re-skinning the game, bringing it up to date having the original available to play, which is the total 64 version, not emulated but totally redone from scratch, but using the exact 64 animations and positions as well as generally re-skinning, bringing it totally up to date with the look, the feel and the sound and then to merge we’ve got the original character in the new re-skinned background, that withstands the test of time. California Games however withstands the test of time in terms of being a sports title and a great, fun title to play against your friends. Unfortunately, the one disadvantage it has is that it that it only ever had six events. So, how do we get over that? Well, the simple answer for us is that, what you do is you have your six events, which if you recall were the surfing, the BMX, the Frisbee, the Keepy Uppy, half pipe and rollerblading. Once you compete in these events, if you get a gold medal in one of the events, it unlocks Summer Games 1 and 2, and you are then chosen the represent your country, and then you represent your country playing Summer Games 1 and 2, so what it does is that it actually unlocks a whole sort of a game series, instead of giving you just six events, you’ve now got twenty two events.
Read more: Mark Cale talks California Games
In an exclusive interview with games.net, Miyamoto-san reveals some of his worries going into the US Wii launch, which ended up turning out to be a huge huge success, considering most can’t even find a Wii on the shelf, months after the launch of the console worldwide. In the interview, Miyamoto takes us on a stroll through his past, discussing how he started at Nintendo, his worries over the US Wii launch and some interesting tidbits of hype/information about the future of the Wii.
One of the many interesting quotes from the man himself
There are other enhancements to the Wii interface and developments being planned that are going to really make games for hardcore players a lot more fun and interesting.
It seems Microsoft just isn’t feeling the Wii60 love anymore now that Sony has won a few minor PR battles in the UK. In a recent report by Daily Tech, Microsoft’s Xbox platform and Live product manager, John Rodman, implied that Wii customers are kids saying:
We don’t feel like the Wii customer and the Xbox customer are the same thing. We think that as soon as the Wii customer turns 14 they want something else.
Ouch!
Read more: MS: Silly gamers, Wii is for kids
Shuttle has always been a special company. Always affordable to computer enthusiasts on the VAR level, Shuttle is known for staying current with stylish industrial design on top of affordable budget PC hardware. But sometimes borrowing from other influences a tad obviously. Which seems to be the case (at least to me) for their latest media center PC, the XPC X200MC, which measures in at just a miniature 5.5 cm tall and (surprisingly) thin, about 3 DVD cases, I’d say. It features an Intel GMA950 on-board graphics chip with DVI and VGA out, multi-channel digital audio out, room for an Intel Core Duo mobile processor, room for up to 2GB of RAM and an integrated TV tuner card with remote for all your digital video or home entertainment needs. Oh, it also looks a little bit like a Wii. There, I said it.
Larger shot after the jump..
Recently stumbled upon some screenshots for the upcoming Bomberman Land N64 Wii from Japan, which don’t paint a pretty picture for Bomberman fans. With Bomberman on the VC, does anyone get the feeling this is anything more than filler? Come on Nintendo, get some 3rd party support but at least make ‘em work for it a little. Sheesh. Bomberman Land for the Nintendo Wii is out in Japan March 8th.
Take a peek after the jump..
As many already know, I’m all about the Wii and most definitely about Wii web browsing. The things that people are doing with Opera on the Wii are already exciting as hell and things just keep getting better. From the crew behind Warp Pipe comes Wiiminder, an extremely nifty tabbed browser interface for your Wii browser, giving you access to tabbed browsing (how could this be left out of Opera Wii!?), nifty little home and favorites tools and a more pleasant user experience while surfing the ‘net.
Watch Wiiminder in action after the jump..
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In a recent interview with IGN, Killer 7 director Goichi Suda has revealed some neat little tidbits about his upcoming mature Wii title, No More Heroes. Set to be a violent, open world sandbox, heavily influenced by Rockstar Games’ GTA brand, Suda is promising to make No More Heroes more violent than Manhunt 2, support progressive and widescreen graphics and also make a damn nice looking follow up to Killer 7! Though I’m not a huge fan of mature titles on the Wii, I’m extremely happy to see Nintendo opening up a bit more to mature styles of gameplay.
Read more: Suda talks to IGN about No More Heroes
A few days old, but hey, even old news is post-worthy when it points out how badly the PS3 is doing in the market. Over in Japan, the sales figures for January have rolled in and boy was it a surprise. Nintendo sold through around 405,000 units of their Wii console in comparison to the Sony PS3’s paltry 148,000 units. These are sold, in the homes, not ’shipped’ which Sony (and to a degree Microsoft) are so often touting as their sales figures. The key for Nintendo’s success is to stretch their current lead throughout the rest of the year, with solid first and third party new releases and some real expansions in their online service, which is a bit weak to say the least. Online Wii Sports anyone? Yes please!
For the PS3? Sony can probably just hope their marketing team and execs don’t completely alienate the Europeans, who are their last hope of reclaiming market dominance. Though it’s starting to seem quite clear that mainstream games and consumers are replacing their PS2s as this generation’s console of choice with the Nintendo Wii, leaving the PS3 battling it out with the Xbox 360 for the fickle hardcore gamers market.
Read more: Wii outselling PS3 by 3 to 1 in Japan
Never has 3rd party accessories been so fashionable as now with the Nintendo Wii. These little beauties are genius, even if they are ‘prototypes’, basically an over-the-counter set of wrist weights with Wii stamped on them. Wiilympics? Wiirobics? When will the brilliantly delicious madness end!
Sweat more: Wii wrist weights prototype
May 24th in 
