Evening Newspost for 05-29-07
Industry and multi-console news:
- Vivendi is porting Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail to mobile phones.
- Masashi Tsuboyama can't officially talk about Silent Hill 5, so instead the interviewer just pesters him about what consoles it might appear on. "While Nintendo Wii sales are very high, and i applaude Nintendo for their sucess, I dont think Silent Hill is a game that would be sold on Nintendo Wii as much as a game like Zelda would worldwide. This by no means says we will not consider the idea but the general opinion is that Wii is for family games and im sure the fans don't play Silent Hill with their grandma!"
- G-Stream G2020 will be supported in the next MAME update. Apparently it was one of the last 2D shooters not emulated.
- Games.net names the 49 best sequel-less games.
- WomenGamers has announced their computer camp scholarship winners, and you can read the winning essays.
- Retrogames is developing a portable multi-system emulator called the Gameport.
- Ubisoft is confident the changes to the Splinter Cell formula in Conviction will be successful, saying that they've been "working very closely with the fans from the beginning."
- OXM has new details on Unreal Tournament 3. The game will contain 18 vehicles and 5 kinds of turrets, and the 360 version will support four-player co-op and two-player split-screen in the single-player campaign.
PC news:
- The National Institute on Media and the Family has commended Microsoft on its quick handling of the Halo 2 butt issue.
- Slashdot is offering the chance to ask the CEO of Turbine about Lord of the Rings Online.
- The CEO of Obsidian says traditional RPG developers need to consider what RPGs offer over MMORPGs to avoid losing players to online games. "It used to be fine to make an RPG that was just wandering around and hacking things up with the player having very little effect on the world around them. Why play that game now if you could just play a MMO?" Because I don't want to pay a subscription and deal with MMO players?
- Blogging Ultima is a site dedicated to blogging the experience of every Ultima game from beginning to end.
- New Scientist has a narrated gallery of images from the Alter Ego book. If you don't remember, that's the one with the photos of people next to their in-game avatars.
Nintendo news:
- Shamoozal has a guide to cleaning out your N64 and games.
- 4 color rebellion offers a brief history of the Gyakuten Saiban series.
- Capcom-Europe's website has a listing for Killer 7 on the Wii. It may just be a mistake, but you never know.
- Amazon has Sonic and the Secret Rings marked down to $39.99.
Sony news:
- GameSpy has a Resistance map pack preview.
Microsoft news:
- Some people fiddling with the beta managed to make a custom game of Escort in Halo 3. And there's a pistol in it, which is apparently a big deal.
- Loinhead has an interview with creative director Dene Carter on Fable 2.
Comments
Surely its not rocket science to work out what single-player RPGs offer over their MMO variants?
Better storylines, more interesting characters than lecherous nerds, and as a result, a deeper and richer game world to explore.
Why do people still play single-player FPSs when we have online ones? Because the two offer different experiences.
Posted by: Otis | May 30, 2007 3:56 AM
are you purposefully misspelling "lionhead"
Posted by: Kirbyoto | May 30, 2007 8:45 AM
It is a fansite called Loinhead. All you have to do is look at the URL.
I hope I don't have to explain this every time I link to them.
Posted by: Ermac | May 30, 2007 1:01 PM