Morning Newspost for 04-30-07
Industry and multi-console news:
- XOS Technologies has licensed EA's TDT Engine, used in games like Madden 07, to be applied to training simulators for college and pro football teams.
- Burnout 5 has been given the official name Burnout Paradise. There's a teaser trailer over at Kotaku.
- CVG has the first details on Tom Clancy's EndWar.
- WorthPlaying is reporting on a big Final Fantasy XI update coming in June.
- The New York Times has a new article about West Virginia's plans to incorporate DDR into school PE curriculum.
PC news:
- Soldat 1.4 has been released.
- Second Life users are sending an open letter to Linden Labs, complaining about the worsening stability problems in the game.
- Left Behind Games has accepted the resignation of their senior VP and fired their president. Who would Jesus fire?
- 1up has a featuring looking back and re-reviewing the Diablo series.
- NCSoft says the new invention system for City of Heroes is "imminent."
Nintendo news:
- This week's new Virtual Console titles are Castlevania, Legend of the Mystical Ninja, and Shockman.
- Analyst fight! One says Nintendo's success "bodes poorly for the publishers", another describes such comments as "naive."
- There's a Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles video interview at YouTube, with the Japanese developers talking about the Wii controls and the game's story.
- A game-stopping bug has been found in Card Fighters DS.
- How to make a wireless Sega Genesis controller for the Wii.
- Siliconera has a hands-on preview of Gyakuten Saiban 4.
Sony news:
- Sony will be conducting an internal investigation into the GoW2 dead goat stunt. Pictures of the event are being pulled from 80,000 issues of the Official Playstation Magazine.
- Some people are returning copies of Raiden III because they can't figure out how to leave the memory card setup screen.
- The Parappa remake for the PSP is coming to America.
Microsoft news:
- Centipede, Millipede and Settlers of Catan are coming to Live Arcade this week.
- Along with previous reports of a smaller CPU, the 360 may also move to a 65-nm GPU.
- An Ars Technica writer upgraded to the Elite, only to find his purchased Arcade games turned into demos if he didn't have the system hooked up to the Internet to authenticate them online.