Wednesday Newspost for July 16, 2008
As I said before, I'm not going to lay out every single piece of E3 news because A) you can get that just as easily elsewhere and B) it would take me eight years. But, here are some worthwhile bits of information coming out of the show that might be overlooked (along with some other stuff that just happens to be going on at the same time):
New Live Arcade titles: Double D Dodgeball, Coffeetime Crosswords, EA Sports Fantasy Football Live Draft Tracker
New media: Street Fighter IV trailer, Prince of Persia trailer, Wolfenstein screenshots and trailer, Guitar Hero: World Tour video demonstrations
New 360 content: Rock Band tracks
- Guitar Hero: World Tour will be compatible with Rock Band instruments, at least on the 360. Likewise, a recent patch for the 360 version of Guitar Hero: Aerosmith should make it compatible with non-GH guitars.
- Dead Rising is inexplicably coming to Wii.
- Sega has no plans for Shenmue III, and a release of Seaman II in the US is very unlikely.
- This week's Zero Punctuation review is for Alone in the Dark.
- A video game based on Wanted is in the works.
- Capcom has confirmed the Lost Planet movie.
- Nintendo has announced Rhythm Heaven, a localized version of Rhythm Tengoku Gold.
- Bungie had a game announcement planned for July 14 and had set up a bunch of teasers to build up to it, but was forced to abandon the reveal at the request of their publisher.
- Microsoft has said that Bungie is working on a new Halo game that isn't Halo Wars or Peter Jackson's game. Whether this is related to Bungie's pulled announcement is up to speculation.
- Animal Crossing: City Folk has been dated for November 16.
- Wario Land Shake It! and Kirby Super Star Ultra both now have a September 22 release date.
- BioShock on the PS3 will feature exclusive DLC in the form of "challenge rooms" and extra places for side quests.
- GameTrailers has a video walkthrough of the new 360 dashboard.
- Lionhead said Fable 2's main story will take about 12 hours to complete.
- Valkyria Chronicles is not coming to the PSP, despite being shown in the handheld's montage during Sony's press conference. It was just a giant screw-up.
- The PSN comedy-adventure episodic series Rat Race has been canned.
- A Price is Right game has been announced for the Wii, DS, PC and Mac.
- Harmonix has explained a couple songs may not be available for importing from Rock Band into Rock Band 2 because the developer essentially has to re-license every song, and some may no longer be available (see: Aerosmith's Train Kept A Rollin' due to Aerosmith's exclusivity agreement with Activision). This also goes toward explaining why you're going to have to pay to import tracks.
- Kiefer Sutherland will be providing a voice for Call of Duty: World at War.
- Metallica's album Death Magnetic will be available as DLC for both Guitar Hero III and Guitar Hero World Tour.
- Koji Igarashi explains why Castlevania Judgment is a fighter.
- In other screwing with Castlevania news, CC2K has a script review for Paul W. S. Anderson's Castlevania movie. Simon apparently uses a sword instead of a whip.