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LIT Launch Trailer

LIT is a 3D horror action puzzler that follows Jake, a typical, apathetic, slightly emo teenager, who’s trapped in his high school when it’s overrun by dark creatures. Players must guide Jake through 30 classrooms, using the available light sources to create paths to each exit. The goal is to reunite Jake with his girlfriend [...]

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Nintendo addresses Wii Speak concerns

Nintendo has issued a statement to ease concerns surrounding the Wii Speak Channel, made available to those who purchase the WiiSpeak microphone peripheral.
“Nintendo can confirm that when consumers purchase the Wii Speak accessory, they are provided with a Wii Download Ticket with a unique number. The ticket, which can be redeemed via the Wii Shop [...]

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine – 360 degree view of gameplay freeze

Debut Trailer:

Coming to the Wii and DS May 1st, 2009

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Wii Homebrew – Loadmii v0.3

The lemon man released his new homebrew utility for the Wii, Loadmii v0.3. To those of you new in the Wiibrew community, Loadmii is a small but powerful loader that can run executables from SD cards, USB sticks, SMB shares, USB Gecko and SD Gecko.

Loadmii is composed of three parts, namely the loader itself, the reloading stub and the bootstrapper. This new version sees the addition of smp support and code cleanup.Do take note that for you to be able to use the smb feature you’ll need to create a share.ini file in the DS root. To do that, just use the following structure:

            Field                          Value

             Username          Your name
                     Password            Your password
            Share                    Your name
            lp                           Your pc IP

There’s more to expect from The lemon man and his Loadmii brew in the future. He says he’ll be putting in an autoupdate feature as well as load files via wifi. Do stay tuned for those developments.

Download: Loadmii v0.3

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Revamped Need for Speed series set for this year with three announced new titles, and a secret one

The events unfolding within the offices of the Need for Speed franchise are certainly faster with more exciting sharp turns and a fuller pack of nitrous boost than any map in their games.

It was mid-December when Electronic Arts announced that they’re canceling the NFS studio, immediately followed by news that developer Black Box will be moving in with EA Canada. And then just last week, a memo from EA’s NFS studio leaked to the press, revealing the massive layoffs that have hit them recently.

Today though, the news that comes out relating to the franchise is way better than what we’ve seen as of late. EA’s sent out a press wire announcing a revamped NFS franchise, with not just one, or two, but three new titles to fill up the roster this year.

Here are their profiles:

Need for Speed SHIFT
Platforms: PS3, Xbox 360, PSP, PC
Release window: Fall 2009
Developers: Slightly mad Studios in collaboration with executive producer Michael Mann (Black Box) and Patrick Soderlund (Senior VP, EA Games Europe)

• Players are thrust into the heart of the action with immersive and exciting features including a stunningly realistic first-person cockpit view camera and an all-new crash mechanic, providing an unrivaled sensation of the speed and feeling of racing a car on the extreme edge of control.

Need for Speed NITRO (Working Title)
Platforms: Wii, DS
Release Window: Fall 2009
Developer: EA Montreal

• Gamers can build up their boost as they drift and drag behind their opponents and use it strategically to change the course of the race, but watch out for the cops! Offering a fresh and unique visual style, the game features a variety of licensed cars which can be fully customized to let the game reflect the player s taste and personality.

Need for Speed World Online
Platforms: PC
Release Window: Winter 2009 (North America), Summer 2009 (Asia)
Developer: Black Box, EA Singapore

• Beginning in Asia, this Play 4 Free action racing game will give Need for Speed fans access to licensed cars, parts and multiple game modes. Players will prove their racing supremacy through the sophisticated online matchmaking features and fully customize their profile and their ride.

But apparently, that press release did not say all that there is to know about this product revamp. Franchise VP of marketing Keith Munro let it slip to Eurogamer that they are, in fact, working on one more title.

“Black Box is currently working on a future action title in the franchise.” Action title for the NFS title? Will it involve more cops and chases? Could EA slip once again into focusing too much on churning out titles under the franchise, at the expense of diluting the essence of the game itself?

Fortunately, Munro says no.

This isn’t about the quantity, this is about crafting different games for different audiences and their unique tastes in the driving category.

The motivation was purely driven by our understanding of racing gamers and their desire to experience different kinds of racing games. I would say that our strategy is the inverse of milking; it is an intentionally non-traditional approach.

We took a consumer-fast approach and spoke with the fans about what they would like from their Need for Speed. Player feedback was consistent – create custom simulation and arcade experiences but maintain the franchises’ core values of street culture, attitude and beautiful licensed cars.

If that is the case, then I am definitely looking forward to their new titles. Admittedly, I was one of those who weren’t all too happy with the direction the franchise took with Carbon (I am an Underground baby!). But hey, there’s always a second chance for everyone, right? And thank God this time they’re taking gamer feedback seriously. Cos you know, in this case, I think the adage “The Customer is Always Right” stands true.

Okay, maybe not always.

• Confirmed: Electronic Arts closes Need for Speed studio
• Black Box moving in with EA Canada, Criterion to handle next NFS game?
  

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine full CG debut trailer

Snikt! Unleash those adamantium claws, bub. We’re watching the first ever trailer for the upcoming X-Men Origins: Wolverine game. It’s in pure CG animation and looks almost exactly like what you see in the trailers for the movie. Man, the only thing lacking here in this trailer is Deadpool. (Well, yeah, him and a whole bunch of gameplay footage too.)

Raven Software and Activision’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine is set to come out for the PS3, PS2, PSP, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, DS, and PC, coinciding with the launch of the movie on May 1.

• X-Men Origins: Wolverine influenced by God of War

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The 100 Most Social Brands of 2008, courtesy of Vitrue

Look back for a sec and try to remember which brand has been the most talked about, most advertised, and most hyped last year. Well, social media services provider Vitrue did more than just that, measuring the amount of mentions of around 2000 brands, naming the 100 most social brands of 2008.

But how exactly did they measure this? Vitrue conducted a daily analysis of over 2000 brands, checking online conversations, forums, blogs, photo and video sharing sites, etc. They measured how much a brand is mentioned, whether in a good way or bad, since even a bad mention would still bring attention towards the brand.

Well enough of that, here is the Top 20 from that list of 100. You can just go to Vitrue’s blog (see Via link) if you want to see the whole list. This list shows which companies have been making their presence felt and are doing so quite well.

1. iPhone
2. CNN
3. Apple
4. Disney
5. Xbox
6. Starbucks
7. iPod
8. MTV
9. Sony
10. Dell
11. Microsoft
12. Ford
13. Nintendo
14. Target
15. PlayStation
16. Mac
17. Turner
18. Hewlett-Packard
19. Fox News
20. BlackBerry

So the #1 is the iPhone, no surprise there. For gaming we have Xbox at #5, while the PlayStation is at #15. Sony is at #9, Microsoft stands as 11th. Nintendo makes it to #13, but what’s interesting is that the top-selling Wii isn’t even on the Top 100.

And fanboys, please, no flame wars okay?

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Wii homebrew – Wii Quizz v1.8

Cashman’s got another update for his fun homebrew game, Wii Quizz. With this release comes new languages, new question, new music, and a lot of other changes. Refer to the list below for the changelog.

Changelog for v1.8

• Add Spanish support
• Add Catalan support
• The music starts at the menu of choice of language
• Add new music
• Add save system (WiiQuizz.cnf at the root of the SD/SDHC)
• Add settings in the save (Merci Ac_K !)
• Add settings menu to modify the save (version BETA)
• Changing the URL in the pause menu to save the new
• Add questions in Italian
• Add questions in Danish
• Add questions in English
• Improved graphics during the game
• Improved screen explanations of game modes
• Use libogc 1.7.1
• Better management of vibration on the wiimote
• Others fixes and improvements…

Download: Wii Quizz v1.8

• Wii homebrew – Wii Quizz v1.7

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Nintendo Mensa – January 30th, 2009

Mario finds himself looking to buy some items at Toad’s house. Toad has his own system for pricing items, he uses vowels and consonants. A mushroom is 45¢ and a star is 23¢. According to the same system, how much does the Pwing cost?

You can bookmark or view past Nintendo Mensa puzzles here.

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WiiFuse?s Weekly Gaming Challenge! #3

Before we start, congratulations to WiiFighter for winning the last challenge, again!
FIRST, read the Rules before entering ANY challenge.
SECOND, make sure you have the game the challenge is on. If you do not own the selected game, you may have difficulty entering.
Remember:
1 WiiFuse Spark = 1 Wii Point
Okay, let’s start.
This week’s game is….
Super [...]