Several updates from Nintendo's meeting yesterday revealed:
- Virtual Console Games will cost about ¥500-¥1000 (about $4-$9 USD).
- The Wii will function as a download station for Nintendo DS games.
- Wii games can enable the DS Touch screen for use.
- Nintendo DS games can be expanded with the Wii.
- Pokémon Battle Revolution will be available for the Wii.
The "persistant music/volume level fix" from the Xbox 360's Spring Dashboard Update allows you to play your own music for Xbox 1 backwards compatible games. Here's all you need to do:
- Select your music from the Xbox 360's dashboard (on your harddrive, network, or cd) and start playing it.
- Insert a backwards compatible Xbox 1 game to play.
- The music will continue to play while it boots up.
- Turn down the in-game music from your Xbox 1 game, usually available in the in-game options menu.
- Use an Xbox 360 remote control to control the music (next/pause/play).
The Xbox 360 Dashboard will be unavailable, so you will need to use an Xbox 360 remote control to control the music being played in the background.
Ubisoft has announced the details of its upcoming downloadable content package, "Chapter 2," for the Xbox 360 game "Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter". See screenshots of the Chapter 2 Content here.
Chapter 2 Content to include:
The coop campaign will continue in Nicaragua with four new missions:
- Coffee Plantation (Day)
- Shipping Port (Evening)
- River Depot (Dawn)
- Jungle Mine (Day)
Several maps have also been updated, taking place at different times of the day:
- Fishing Village (Dusk)
- Wharf (Late day)
- Old Town (Morning)
- Nowhere (Evening)
- Coffee Plantation (Evening)
- Shipping Port (Sunset)
- River Depot (Day)
- Jungle Mines (Evening)
New Team Battle Game Mode with 2 game options:
- Team Blind Siege
- Team Battle
2 New Camouflage Patterns:
- Canadian CADPAT
- British DPM
In a press conference today, Nintendo announced that the Wii console will get its pricing and availability in September 2006. Nintendo also said that 16 million Nintendo DS units are expected to be sold by March 2007.
Read more at Go Nintendo.
The official web site for the upcoming Wii game, Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam, is now online. Currently there is a trailer online, showing some interaction with the Wii controller. Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam is coming in 2006.
An update to the Xbox 360's "The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion" is set to arrive soon. The patch has been released for the PC. Besides taking care of about 40 glitches in the game, the update will remove two popular "glitches" used to duplicate items and get infinite gold:
- Fixed infinite gold issue on some dead NPCs.
- Fixed an issue with duplicating items and unequiping the bow.
Bungie has released a "Making of Halo 3 trailer" online. The team that put together the trailer talks about the combination of artists and engineers on Halo 3, Master Chief's battle-worn details, Cortana's dilemma, showing in-game graphics over pre-rendered cinematics (promising what you see in the trailer is what you will get in the game), scoring the musical composition and the ending of Halo 2.
Watch the video here, available in Quicktime and Windows Media Player formats.
Condemned: Criminal Origins and Ridge Racer 6, for the Xbox 360, have been reduced to a $39.99 retail price. This follows the recent price drops of Burnout Revenge and The Outfit, bringing several more affordable games to the next-gen Xbox 360. The launch titles were originally $59.99 MSRP.
Xbox's TriXie is looking for "gamer girls of all ages, all sizes, all platforms and all skill levels" for a gamer group.
From TriXie:
"Here's the GamerchiX manifesto (yes, I wrote it in a shack in the woods):
If you play games, you’re a gamer chick. Whether you’re an Xbox Halo 2 Champ, play RPGs on the PC or Mah Jong Tiles on MSN Games, you’re a gamer chick.
Xbox GamerchiX don’t talk trash about other women. Ever. When women stop hating on each other...we will rule the world!
Xbox GamerchiX support each other.
Xbox GamerchiX are good role models for young gamer girls.
Xbox GamerchiX are not pin-ups. We're all hot in our own unique way, but it's about the games and the companionship, not T&A."
If you are a qualifying female gamer, send TriXie an email at
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The official web site for Konami's upcoming Metal Gear Digital Comic gives you an inside look into features of the upcoming release. Check out trailers, screenshots, information on Metal Gear's "Memory Building Simulation," pre-order the digital comic and more. This is Konami's second digital comic to be released, following the "Silent Hill Experience" digital comic. Metal Gear Solid Digital Graphic Novel will be available on 6/13/06. Visit the Official Metal Gear Solid Digital Graphic Novel web site here.
