Spotted this Nintendo Fall 2006 catalog at a local game shop showing the new Pearl Pink and Onyx Black DS Lites and the Wii. No breaking release date information (just a "Coming Soon" for the Wii). Thought I'd share it with the Nintendo fans out there. See pics below.
Today, Ubisoft has announced that Brothers In Arms D-Day will be released exclusively for the Sony PSP.
From Ubisoft: "Developed specifically for the PSP system, Brothers In Arms D-Day will offer a new and unique gaming experience. Players will experience the intensity of WWII through the stories of Sergeants Baker and Hartsock and their squad of paratroopers during the Normandy invasion. Brothers in Arms D-Day is being developed by Ubisoft Shanghai in collaboration with Gearbox Software and will be available in fall 2006."
Key Features:
PSP system debut: The highest rated World War II franchise hits the PSP system for the first time, bringing both Baker and Hartsock to a new platform.
Developed specifically for the PSP system: Unique gameplay sequences designed specifically for the on-the-go nature of handheld gaming with all-new controls specific to the PSP system.
The best of Brothers In Arms with exclusive content: New teammate capabilities, improved enemy A.I., new weapons and destroyable cover make their way to the handheld
Storyline specific to PSP: Play as Baker as you make your way to Carentan and as Hartsock as you head toward St. Sauveur, encompassing the entire Normandy campaign.
Co-op multiplayer (Skirmish mode): Play with a friend over ad hoc (wireless) through 12 different Skirmish missions in four different game modes through the co-op campaign.
A new "Sony PlayStation Portable Entertainment" pack is listed on buy.com. The new bundle includes a higher capacity Memory Stick Pro Duo, a UMD game, a UMD movie and a sampler disc:
Sony PSP Entertainment Pack Bundle includes:
- Sony PSP
- 1 GB Memory Stick Pro Duo
- ATV Offroad Fury: Blazin' Trails
- Lords of Dogtown UMD Movie
- Game/Music/Movie video Sampler Disc
Scheduled for release on September 20, 2006. While not necessarily an official price drop of the PSP, the bundle offers significantly more than previously released bundles. See the Sony PSP Entertainment Pack here at buy.com.
Sony's PlayStation Portable may be getting a camera and GPS add-on soon. More information is expected to come at at the Tokyo Games Show on September 22, 2006. No official announcement from Sony has been made on the peripherals. See earlier comments on the PSP from Kaz Hirai here.
New spells have been added to the land of Cyrodiil in this upcoming $1 downloadable content pack for Elders Scrolls IV: Oblivion.
From Oblivion's web site: "This pack adds 'Spell Tomes' to the world's random treasure. These books grant you wondrous and powerful magic spells, just by reading them! Now Mages will also gain instant benefits by treasure hunting. Friend and foe alike will bow in awe before your power.
Features:
- Hundreds of new spell-giving books
- All the most useful basic spells covered
- Low level and high level spells available
- Many new powerful spells with multiple effects added
- Extremely powerful new spells that are balanced with slightly detrimental effects to lower the cost in Magicka
- Find Spell Tomes in dungeons all over Cyrodiil
- Spend less time and money arming yourself with the spells you want and need.
Here are just a few of the new spells obtained from Spell Tomes:
- Blink: A low-level invisibility spell to get you out of trouble.
- Baltham's Insight: a short duration but long range detect life spell.
- Shield Wall: Fortify Heavy Armor and Shield effect.
- Night Form: Powerful Invisibility and Fortify Sneak, and take Sun damage, which reduces Magicka cost to cast.
- Pride of Hirstaang: Fortify Strength, Resist Frost, and Summon a Bear.
- Orum’s Aquatic Escape: Invisibility, Night-Eye, and Water-breathing.
- Elemental Blast: A powerful offensive spell with: Fire damage, Frost damage, and Shock damage.
- Magicka Vortex: Absorb Magicka, Weakness to Magic 25% and Stunted Magicka."
A pretty big update to the Xbox 360's Backward Compatibility List came today. The Xbox games listed below have been added, or updated, on the Xbox 360's Backward Compatibility List.
Here's the list of new games added to the list:
Aggressive Inline
All-Star Baseball 2005
Aquaman: Battle of Atlantis
Burnout 3: Takedown
Catwoman
Counter-Strike
Dead to Rights
ESPN Major League Baseball
Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly DIRECTOR'S CUT
Freaky Flyers
Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows
IndyCar Series 2005
LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
Links 2004
Maximum Chase
MTX: Mototrax
MX vs. ATV Unleashed
Namco Museum 50th Anniversary Arcade Collection
Outlaw Tennis
Over the Hedge
Richard Burns Rally
Rogue Trooper
Serious Sam
Shincho Mahjong
Sid Meier's Pirates!
Smashing Drive
SpyHunter: Nowhere to Run
Taz Wanted
The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning
The Suffering
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Island Thunder
Torino 2006 Winter Olympics
Trigger Man
True Crime: Streets of LA
Vietcong: Purple Haze
Wrath Unleashed
X2 Wolverine's Revenge
Here are several games that were updated:
All-Star Baseball 2003
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
Crash Nitro Kart
Digimon Rumble Arena 2
Ford vs. Chevy
Half-Life 2
Kabuki Warriors
Magatama
Mortal Kombat Deception
Sneakers
The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer
I also noticed that there was an update to "Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords" when I fired it up on the Xbox 360 today, although it is not indicated on the Backwards Compatibility List. Looks like several soon to be released titles made it on as well, such as Lego Star Wars 2 and Spyhunter.
A replica of Doom's BFG is in production. The gun prop replica comes from the game inspired "Doom" movie. Pre-orders are currently sold out. The BFG retails for $79.95.
From Wickedcoolstuff.com: "Here it is! The BFG! From the hit game series and now hit movie - DOOM! The "Bio Force Gun" (come on - we all know 'BFG' really means 'Big F**king Gun') measures 12" long and comes on a display base. Wow your friends when they see this otherworldly weapon live and in person!"
Coming to Xbox Live Arcade is a sequel to Tempest 2000/3000, tentatively titled "Space Giraffe" (taken from the name of the main character). Looks like it will be giving Geometry Wars a run for its money in the color spectrum/orgy department!
The Xbox Live Vision Camera is enabled in the game as well (looks like liquid camera effect is there).
Jeff Minter's comments from blog: "You'll also get new Neon effects supporting the webcam input as unlockables. That's to make up for the fact that MS stiffed me on doing a proper new version of Neon to truly support the cam, and instead have done some half-assed thing where they just superimpose some cam effect layers over existing Neon. I figure that was a bit rude, so I'll put some proper cam-Neon stuff in the new game by way of schoolin."
Here's a video to give you a look into some of the characters and gameplay footage of the upcoming Castlevania adventure, Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin.
Scheduled for release in Fall 2006 on the Nintendo DS.
