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Around the Net – endo

WiiNintendo’s nightly wrap up of things you may have missed
This daily feature is a work in progress…
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Nintendo releases statement concerning Virtual Console release dates
Nintendo Voice Chat Podcast, Episode 17
NHL 2K9 Hands-On
Animal Crossing: City Folk Screens
MotionPlus Demo Video
Pro Golfer Saru Wii New Images
Tanooki Original: Nintendo brings people together
Fatal Frame IV alternate costumes – “Luigi” and “Zero [...]

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Wii News: Why is Nintendo still slow to compete online?

I just read an article from the Wall Street Journal where the interviewer specifically asked about video-downloading:
“Sony and Microsoft’s video-downloading services on the PS3 and Xbox 360, respectively, are both aimed in part at winning customers beyond core game players. But Nintendo has already captured the audience it wants with simple, intuitive games. Have you [...]

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QuickJump QuickPeek 58: Of PSP summer homebrew contests, Square Enix’s DKS3713 mania, and real-life mutant-pigs proving stranger than fiction

It’s August! It’s August! And yes, the end of the world may be looming large already, care of the Hadron Collider, but pretty much everything else is business as usual. Especially since August is filled with some fun events.

In fact, just this weekend, one of them took place: Square Enix’s DKS3713 private party down at Tokyo! Yeap, we got quite a doozy of news lined up for you guys, so be prepared. And then later sometime in the middle of the month, there’s the Leipzig Games Convention at Germany.

So, hello, Weekend Warriors! Let’s get this show on the road!

DKS3713 brought in new details for PSP fans waiting for KH: Birth by Sleep and Dissidia – and hey! Parasite Eve 3 and FF Agito 13 for the PSP! If you’re an FF geek like I am, join us for a celebration of 20 years of Cid!

In other news, we also got a special treat for the homebrew community! The PSP Updates Summer Homebrew Contest has finally kicked off! Interested? Well, we got a sweet pot of US 300 to give away to the winner! New releases include emulators by the bulk: Dreamcast, Mac, Atari, ZX Spec, and more!

Link: The PSP Weekend Warrior: Cid-tastic Final Fantasy, Q1 2008 sales, and Dissidia for the holidays

Link: The PSP Homebrew Weekend Warrior: emulators by the boatload, useful apps, and the PSP Updates Summer Homebrew Contest

New firmware released: PS3 FW 2.42! The Life with PlayStation feature will be scheduled for some time later this month though, and eventually, the introduction of PSN Cards. From DKS3713: FF13 demo in FF7ACC!

Link: The PS3 Weekend Warrior: New firmware, good business, and the dawn of PS3 brew

Some Xbox 360 hacks came in, including one that can supposedly run a leaked copy of the Xbox Live Experience update. New games (Armored Core yay!) have also been announced, and that makes us happy campers.

Link:The Xbox 360 Weekend Warrior: OMGHAXORZ, the Summer of Arcade, and QJ goodies

Wii news slowed to a crawl, but we still had some major updates on upcoming third-party games, and even a hint at the Wii’s successor! The big topic this week though, seems to be Nintendo. Have they really abandoned the core community?

On the Wiibrew side of things, we have some wicked new programs for you, including two releases from waninkoko: the Wii Region Changer and updates on his Wii Custom Firmware programs. Unfortunately, it’s not all good news this week as waninkoko and Team Twiizers have parted ways.

Link: The Wii Weekend Warrior: of game delays, the next Wii, and… just what is the core gamer anyway?

Link: The Wiibrew Weekend Warrior: 3D homebrew engine, DVD access library coming, a parting of ways between devs, more

There’s been more corporate talk on the fate of R4, and it looks like a solution won’t be found any time soon. We also got to see Pokemon Platinum gameplay, and from the DKS3713 event, new info for KH 358/2 Days!

Link: The DS Weekend Warrior: talk of successors, Pokemon, and more R4

Windows has revealed the next-gen in OSes: Midori, the OS to end all OSes, is seen as a computing cloud of various networked devices. Over on the gamer side of things, we got a handful of Red Alert 3 deets and Spore updates.

Link: The PC Weekend Warrior: computers and clouds, RA3 beta queues, little Battle.net thoughts, and a can of whoop ass for Bethesda

The MMORPG community is a buzz with a ton of updates for some upcoming games like Star Trek Online, DC Universe, and Warhammer. There’s even talk about a new law in Illinois affecting MMORPG gamers.

World of Warcraft fans can look forward to a healthy dose of information regarding Wrath of the Lich King as well. Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures subscribers got a new patch although the developers sure took their sweet time delivering it.

Link: The MMORPG Weekend Warrior: upcoming video game sneak peeks, new MMORPG laws, more

Link: The WoW Weekend Warrior: BlizzCon 2008 updates, WotLK beta’s new calendar UI, and Northrend’s possible 2008 launch

Link: The Age of Conan Weekend Warrior: the round-about patch and new content

Did you get to see the Total Solar Eclipse a few days ago? Well, lucky you. The rest of us had to see it on the Internet. Anyhoo, it’s potpourri in the Science blog this week – we have everything from the secret ingredient to making life, to… mutant pig-monkeys?

Link: The Science Weekend Warrior: diamonds, icebergs, eclipses, and… mutant pig-monkeys

Yay for shiny new software updates for Mac OS X and iTunes! There’s been some rumor of a new iPod Touch model too – think it’s better holding off buying a new unit, huh? There’s been some good brew though!

Link: The Apple Weekend Warrior: updates from Apple and the homebrew scene, with rumors of a new iPod touch

And where does the Comment of the Week hail from? We’ve heard of Comments of the Week coming from previous QuickPeek articles before, but for the first time ever (since the introduction of the Warriors, at least) we find one which comes from a Weekend Warrior!

The PS3’s Warrior, to be exact. And again, just as much as this is PS3-related, that doesn’t mean to say it cannot be applied to other platforms in general as well.

This comment from bugga12 is in reply to Glen D.’s closing remarks for the PS3 Warrior. While there’s online bashing going around everywhere, it always pays to think about  what you’re about to say even before you say it (or type it out and click the “Submit comment” button).

More than this though, bugga12 also seems to understand the weighty responsibility we online bloggers have to face daily, and for that, mad props, dude! Mad props!

Link: The PS3 Weekend Warrior: New firmware, good business, and the dawn of PS3 brew

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Wiibrew emulators: Commodore 64, CHIP-8

Heads up, Wiibrewers! We have two new emulators for you retro games today. First up is Frodo, a Commodore 64 (C64) emulator from Wiibrew developer GPF, and next is Chippy, a CHIP-8 emulator from Wiibrew dev iamabe.

Note that both emulators are still works in progress, and that no documentation is provided with them so please know what you’re doing before trying them out.

Frodo only has display so far; filesystem and controls are still in the works. This release is essentially a test binary. Chippy, on the other hand, has button mapping and speed options, with saving options to come in later versions. Some games don’t work perfectly yet, but this will also be fixed in future versions.

Download: Frodo
Download: Chippy

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Sim City Wii Trailer

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25 min. direct feed video of Order Up!

I’ve just put up a very in depth video tour of the new just released Wii cooking game Order Up! This is actually a very good third party Wii game, that I think most people aren’t aware of. With this video you’ll get 25 minutes of commentary explaining nearly every aspect of the gameplay.
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Captain Rainbow and the Boxart of Awesome

 
Seriously – how can this NOT be brilliant?
In less than four weeks, this will be available to our lucky brethren in the land of the rising sun. 
Life’s not fair if you’re a Nintendo fan and not Japanese.
© Shiny Media – [...]

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So whatever happened to the ‘big FF7 announcement’?

Let me throw out this quick post to clarify things and set matters in order. I know probably a handful of you are waiting out for that “big FF7 announcement” that Square Enix promised to reveal during their DKS3713 event. Well, the event’s finished now, and maybe some of you (myself included, to an extent) are asking “What the — that’s it?!”

Well, to the untrained eye, maybe the “big FF7 announcement” has just gone MIA, but actually, if you look close enough, it’s there. The way I see it, the so-called “big FF7 announcement” or “BFF7A” (a term which I’m now coining, thank you very much) has actually already been revealed. Sorry to get your hopes down, but here’s the deal:

BFF7A = FF13 demo included with FF7ACC

Yeap. That was it. I said as much yesterday in the “REMAKE 7″ post, and I’m saying it again – now with more firm belief since the DKS3713 event is over and done with.

I know it might be tough for some of you to accept it, but if you want to take the fanboy route (which I hope you don’t…), there’s always the brighter side of the “oh well, at least the demo’s going to be a PS3 exclusive” argument. (Which isn’t entirely 100 sure yet though)

But moving on. How was the big FF7 announcement the FF13 demo? That’s because if you trace back all this unnecessary hype to the original quote of Testuya Nomura, the only thing he did confirm were the following:

1. They’ll be announcing the release date of FF7ACC at the DKS3713 event.
2. To accompany this announcement, they’ll make another big announcement, and
3. that it will shock the fans in attendance.

And that’s just what happened (just not sure about #3 though…). They announced the release date for the FF7ACC Blu-ray, and alongside it, snuck in that bit about the FFXIII demo being included. To begin with, it shouldn’t have been a “big FF7 announcement” but a “big FF7ACC announcement”.

So there you go. Move along now. Stay toasty.

• FFXIII demo, Versus and Agito goodies to come with Advent Children Blu-ray release
• It’s a stretch: ‘DKS3713′ rearranged spells out ‘REMAKE 7′
• FFXIII producers confirm major shocking FFVII announcement at DKS3713 event
• Phoenix Down for hopefuls: big FF7 announcement soon

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Wii successor needs to be appraised; Wii Motion Plus Will Be Cheap

A few days ago, Nintendo prez Satoru Iwata revealed that the Wii’s successor is already in the works. Just recently too, he admitted to the Wall Street Journal that work started on Wii 2 ever since the dev team was done with the first one.

With that in mind, we go back to the question we asked earlier: can it live up to the expectations set by the first-generation Wii? Iwata, at least, is making sure it’s up to par. Speaking to the WSJ:

The hardware team started work on the next thing as soon as they were done with their previous project, but what they think up doesn’t necessarily become a product. We only turn something into a product after it’s been thoroughly vetted inside the company. We’re not at a point where we can give specifics, but of course we’re working on it.

So we can at least be sure that it’s not just “a kind of box that consumers reluctantly but in order to play our games,” which is how he described it earlier.

In the same interview, Iwata also reveals that the Wii Motion Plus will be sold for cheap, and that games that will be utilizing the accessory will be coming. We already know one of them at least: Wii Sports Resort.

We’re going to try to offer it for as little as possible. We haven’t announced the price yet, but the cost of making the Wii Motion Plus is not that much, so I think we can make it very affordable.

• Wii 2 already in the works; can it live up to expectations?
• Nintendo looking to holographic data storage for the Wii?
• Wii MotionPlus accessory: for more accurate motion tracking
• E3 2008: Wii Sports Resort announced, coming this Spring

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Wii successor needs to be appraised; Wii MotionPlus will be cheap

A few days ago, Nintendo prez Satoru Iwata revealed that the Wii’s successor is already in the works. Just recently too, he admitted to the Wall Street Journal that work started on Wii 2 ever since the dev team was done with the first one.

With that in mind, we go back to the question we asked earlier: can it live up to the expectations set by the first-generation Wii? Iwata, at least, is making sure it’s up to par. Speaking to the WSJ:

The hardware team started work on the next thing as soon as they were done with their previous project, but what they think up doesn’t necessarily become a product. We only turn something into a product after it’s been thoroughly vetted inside the company. We’re not at a point where we can give specifics, but of course we’re working on it.

So we can at least be sure that it’s not just “a kind of box that consumers reluctantly but in order to play our games,” which is how he described it earlier.

In the same interview, Iwata also reveals that the Wii MotionPlus will be sold for cheap, and that games that will be utilizing the accessory will be coming. We already know one of them at least: Wii Sports Resort.

We’re going to try to offer it for as little as possible. We haven’t announced the price yet, but the cost of making the Wii MotionPlus is not that much, so I think we can make it very affordable.

• Wii 2 already in the works; can it live up to expectations?
• Nintendo looking to holographic data storage for the Wii?
• Wii MotionPlus accessory: for more accurate motion tracking
• E3 2008: Wii Sports Resort announced, coming this Spring