New gameplay trailer for the 2011 Action-RPG 'The Lord of the Rings: War in the North'
New gameplay trailer for the 2011 Action-RPG 'The Lord of the Rings: War in the North'
Nintendo plans to relaunch the WiiWare demo service this Monday and this time it appears to be staying.
After a year-long hiatus, WiiWare Demos are finally making a comeback. There are four planned titles ready for a launch this Monday: BIT.TRIP FATE, And Yet It Moves, ThruSpace and Jett Rocket. The service also appears to be back for good this time around as the e-mail Nintendo sent out this morning states that "additional demos will be added on Mondays and each will remain available on the Wii Shop Channel for a limited time". Great news for those curious about current titles.
After a week of waiting, the final pre-release character of Mario Sports Mix has been revealed to be...Suraimu?
Last week the Japanese Mario Sports Mix site revealed a number of characters for the upcoming title. While these characters turned out to be Final Fantasy themed, one last question space remained blank on the site.
Ubisoft released a new trailer for Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. The trailer primarily showcases the plot. The game releases on November 16th for Xbox 360 and PS3.
The Japanese website received an update yesterday revealing a large amount of new information.
Final Fantasy characters top the list of new Mario Sports Mix additions revealed yesterday. Alongside the new characters comes a showcase of stages and special moves.
Black Ops beat out Modern Warfare 2 day one sales. Set to surpass Modern Warfare 2's five day sales record.
Many claimed it couldn't be done by a non-Modern Warfare title, but the new Call of Duty: Black Ops has outperformed last years Modern Warfare 2 in day one sales by nearly a million copies. Last year Modern Warfare sold 4.7 million, while yesterday, Black Ops managed to sell an impressive 5.6 million copies. This was an estimated sell through rate of $360 million - a $50 million difference above what Modern Warfare 2 pulled in before.
Fallout: New Vegas Ships 5 Million copies and stores are already placing orders for more. Physical and digital sales combined are over $300 million.
Today Bethesda Softworks announced something unsurprising: New Vegas, the latest release in the Fallout series sold a lot of copies. Combined numbers of the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC versions shipped-to-date is recorded at 5 million. You can write off those numbers as 'shipped' versus sold, but Bethesda has already received numerous requests for new shipments from their retail partners.
Fans of old-school Capcom games will be delighted.
With a rough target of "this Winter," Capcom has announced it will be bringing six arcade titles to North America and Europe.
Harmonix has officially left the Guitar Hero series in the dust.
Harmonix continues to impress with their latest mainline entry of the Rock Band series. Rather than revolutionizing the genre through complete and total change, they have managed to keep the same general structure while adding the brand new Pro mode that brings players closer than ever to truly playing the instrument they are emulating. As a matter of fact, if players choose to take on the Expert variant of Pro mode, they will actually be truly playing the exact notes that comprise the song. Couple this with keyboard support and an eclectic set list and you have the best rhythm game available on the market.
In this fascinating new issue of PB & Jason, Jason gives listeners a brief bio of every member on staff except Stanton Daries, and sheds light on a few little-known connections between himself, Nick, and OJ.
