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[bl4ckfl4g]

Interesting theory from Winii on Digg

I doubt it but it is interesting none the less.

"I am going to toss out a theory on this, it's more than just a new Halo game...it's also about the motion controller.

EGM magazine said it over a year ago; Bungie is working on a new Halo game that will be bundled with a motion controller, see the EGM magazine clip for yourself here:
http://arcade-junkies.com/2008/07/e3-2008-set-to-bring-wii-like-gaming-to-next-gen-consoles/

Nintendo revealed their Wiimote 1:1 add-on before Microsoft's press conference. Why? Because their intel told them that Microsoft was releasing one with true 1:1 control. Nintendo eludes to the fact that they knew others would follow what they're doing several times during their press conference, saying that they can't just sit still on their success.

Microsoft also suspected that Sony was revealing a motion controller, so they thought 'let's see what Sony reveals first, and we'll reveal ours after them on Wednesday to steal back the thunder'.

Think about this last point; every single major Microsoft leak came true (Avatars, Lips, and even the 3D dashboard) accept the biggest one of them all, the motion controller."



edit: ok now that I read it again I think it is dumb but I'll leave it here.

 

[erwos]

That's assuming there was ever a motion controller in the first place. Looking back, I'm not sure that the evidence for it was ever so good - I'm suspecting people confused the motion-sensing in the LIPS microphones with a true motion controller, and it just blew out of control from there. It didn't help that that motion controller manufacturer was making noises like there was an imminent announcement coming (and obviously, that didn't pan out).

We had pictures of everything else. We didn't have pictures of the motion controller. That alone suggests that it might not have been coming to E3.

 

[Queasy]

Bungie is working on more Halo

Here?s something to add to all the E3 drama this week about Bungie Studios? canceled/postponed/hyped debut of a new game?

In an interview shot for MTV News on Tuesday, Microsoft?s head of Xbox business Don Mattrick, confirmed to me that Bungie is indeed working on a new ?Halo? game of some sort for Microsoft.

I had been asking Mattrick about the lack of ?Halo? news at E3. He said that Microsoft?s Monday press conference was already loaded with content and so any announcements for that series weren?t needed to get gamers excited.

I pushed him on the lack of presence for the series and asked him if we should be worried about the no-show of Ensemble Studio?s real-time-strategy game ?Halo Wars.? Not only did Mattrick say not to worry and that announcements would be coming, he also said that Microsoft is working with Bungie on a ?Halo? game.

I asked for clarification, wondering if Mattrick meant Bungie?s project was ?Halo Wars? or the long-announced Peter Jackson ?Halo? project. Neither, Mattrick said. The Bungie game is something else.

And then, not surprisingly, the topic was changed.

 

[Queasy]

Dead Rising coming to the....Wii!?

July 16, 2008 - And the string of old games Capcom is porting to the Wii continues. Dead Rising, the Xbox 360 zombie fest, is being repackaged for the Wii. This follows remakes Resident Evil 4 and Okami. Dead Rising Wii appears to be a direct port of the existing game, not something new (and, mercifully, not a mini-game collection with waggle brain devouring).

For the moment, all we have to go on are these scans from the latest issue of Famitsu, by way of blog Wii @ Everyday. We'll have more info soon.

 

[bl4ckfl4g]

Lol Shane Bettenhausen is such a Sony fanboy. It is funny listening to him talk about the conferences.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: bl4ckfl4g
Lol Shane Bettenhausen is such a Sony fanboy. It is funny listening to him talk about the conferences.

what?

 

[bl4ckfl4g]

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: bl4ckfl4g
Lol Shane Bettenhausen is such a Sony fanboy. It is funny listening to him talk about the conferences.

what?

Shane from 1up, I'm listening to 1up yours. It is just funny listening to him.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: bl4ckfl4g

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: bl4ckfl4g
Lol Shane Bettenhausen is such a Sony fanboy. It is funny listening to him talk about the conferences.

what?

Shane from 1up, I'm listening to 1up yours. It is just funny listening to him.

LOL. Yes, context is good.

 

[Queasy]

8 minute video walkthrough of Prince of Persia - Shacknews

 

[bl4ckfl4g]

Yeah so far Prince of Persia is best of show imo. Gears is up there too.

I still haven't seen bayonetta yet. Hopefully they'll show it on G4 tonight. I'm psyched about it because it is from the Devil May Cry creator.

 

[Queasy]

Gears of War 2 Horde Co-Op mode - 50 waves of death

The game has traditional multiplayer. It also has Horde. In Horde mode, a minimum of two ? but a preferred five ? players join together as a Cog squad. Players can choose to control any of the ?Gears? lead characters. They can?t play as the Locust. The goal is to survive increasingly tougher waves of Locust enemies, with at least one player needing to survive a round in order for the game to continue.

Horde mode gets tough quickly. At the party, I played on a five-player squad. I chose to play as Baird, a choice that seemed to only have cosmetic effects rather than any gameplay significance. We played on a level called River, which featured roadways on both sides of a mostly-drained river, a couple of houses, snowy trees, some crashed trucks and sandbags for cover. (I later saw another level that took place in a concrete courtyard where laser fences separated friend from foe; but those fences could be deactivated with the press of an in-level button.) At the start of the first wave on River, just a few Locust attacked, maybe five total, if that. Some enemies were foot soldiers. Others scrambled like insects.

Each subsequent wave produced a more terrifying assault of the Locust forces. Lumbering enemies with cannons drove me and my fellow players back. A trooper armed with a flamethrower came in to burn our squad. We took the flamethrower from him (a good weapon! A well-timed active-reload makes the flames temporarily shoot further). One new enemy type throws poison grenades and goes into a trance to revive his fallen allies. The Locust attacks were mostly relentless, though the unfinished game did show some artificial intelligence bugs. Some enemies stood still, ripe for the taking. Most did try to maul me.

Horde mode helped me try some of the game?s new features, all of them pretty violent. You have greater advantages over nearly-beaten enemies. Standing next to an enemy who is reduced to leaning on all fours lets the player press any face button to initiate either a quick kill or a scripted finishing move (a flurry of fists for a beatdown, a curb-stomp). When the tables are turned and you?re on all-fours, you can crawl away, hoping a teammate will revive you. You can only survive for a few seconds, before you can crawl no more and die. Another new features allows the player, while fit and fighting, to grab fallen enemies and use them as living shields. He or she can also set up a mortar-launcher in the ground and fire explosive projectiles up and down to the enemy. Slightly less violent than all this, the player can have his character grab a metal shield and then fire from the cover of the shield with (only) a pistol. The shield can be planted in the ground for extra cover.

In a half hour the players with whom I was tackling Horde reached Wave 7. By that time our luck ran out. We had begun to wind up half-terminated at the end of each round. One round ended with just one of us still standing, heroically facing down the Horde. (?Dead? players can fly a camera through the level, but I was told by an Epic developer that voice chat between those players and the ?living? one will be cut off in the finished game, so as to make survival harder). Players earn points for kills ? and even, in the final game, for any damage inflicted onan enemy another player then kills. But points didn?t help us with Wave 7. None of us survived.

By chatting with ?Gears? originator Cliff Bleszinski I learned a little more about the Horde mode. The developers? target is a 50-Wave story-free Horde mission-structure. Bleszinski said he hasn?t been able to survive past Wave 27. Sounds like Wave 50 will be a challenge. Given how long each later Wave can take, players will be able to bookmark their progress at every five waves.

I asked Bleszinski if the Horde idea harkened back to a specific old-school game. As I asked, I realized the answer he was going to give and one that I agree with: fighting waves of enemies is the battle plan for most old-school arcade games. Horde is a throwback ? a good one.

Sounds like getting to Wave 50 could be a challenge of the "Seriously" achievement level.

 

[erwos]

Pretty sure you meant "Gears of War 2", Queasy.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: erwos
Pretty sure you meant "Gears of War 2", Queasy.

I did. My fingers conspired against me however.

 

[Modeps]

Take Two press con just wrapped up. Nothing new from them at all... except maybe some gameplay videos of Midnight Club LA and Borderlands. Nothing mentioned about GTA DLC for the 360.

 

[Queasy]

Oh crap. Take Two announced Dora the Explorer saves the Snow Princess for the Wii and DS! <squeal!>

I'm sure I'll be getting this for my daughter.

 

[Wreckem]

Originally posted by: Queasy
Bungie is working on more Halo

Here?s something to add to all the E3 drama this week about Bungie Studios? canceled/postponed/hyped debut of a new game?

In an interview shot for MTV News on Tuesday, Microsoft?s head of Xbox business Don Mattrick, confirmed to me that Bungie is indeed working on a new ?Halo? game of some sort for Microsoft.

I had been asking Mattrick about the lack of ?Halo? news at E3. He said that Microsoft?s Monday press conference was already loaded with content and so any announcements for that series weren?t needed to get gamers excited.

I pushed him on the lack of presence for the series and asked him if we should be worried about the no-show of Ensemble Studio?s real-time-strategy game ?Halo Wars.? Not only did Mattrick say not to worry and that announcements would be coming, he also said that Microsoft is working with Bungie on a ?Halo? game.

I asked for clarification, wondering if Mattrick meant Bungie?s project was ?Halo Wars? or the long-announced Peter Jackson ?Halo? project. Neither, Mattrick said. The Bungie game is something else.

And then, not surprisingly, the topic was changed.

This is why it doesnt make sense. MS knew they already had a full slate of stuff. Why wait until less than a day before an expected announcement to cancel an announcement. Bungie was planning on this announcement for months and the big 3 usually start putting together their E3 plans even further out.

 

[bl4ckfl4g]

Originally posted by: Wreckem
This is why it doesnt make sense. MS knew they already had a full slate of stuff. Why wait until less than a day before an expected announcement to cancel an announcement. Bungie was planning on this announcement for months and the big 3 usually start putting together their E3 plans even further out.

I don't think anyone expected the epic fail at the Sony and Nintendo conferences. It seems that since Microsoft already "won" they'll save the announcement for another time. If that is really the reason though, I think it is a bad decision.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Konami Conference Up to now

MGS4 = Great

MGO Expansion Coming

Also, MGO world tournament will take place at TGS in October.

The best MGO players from Asia, Europe and US will compete in a huge tournament at TGS to find out who's the best team.

New Castlevania

Its Over.

And NO. MGS4 is NOT on the 360

 

[bl4ckfl4g]

Originally posted by: tenshodo13
Konami Conference Up to now

MGS4 = Great

MGO Expansion Coming

Also, MGO world tournament will take place at TGS in October.

The best MGO players from Asia, Europe and US will compete in a huge tournament at TGS to find out who's the best team.

New Castlevania

Its Over.

And NO. MGS4 is NOT on the 360

So they announced 1 game?

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Originally posted by: bl4ckfl4g

Originally posted by: tenshodo13
Konami Conference Up to now

MGS4 = Great

MGO Expansion Coming

Also, MGO world tournament will take place at TGS in October.

The best MGO players from Asia, Europe and US will compete in a huge tournament at TGS to find out who's the best team.

New Castlevania

Its Over.

And NO. MGS4 is NOT on the 360

So they announced 1 game?

They had Silent Hill too.

 

[NiKeFiDO]

i for one will continue living in a cave until someone bashes me over the head with a "mgs4 is coming to xBox360" stick.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

http://ps3.qj.net/FFXIII-produ...event/pg/49/aid/122265


"But what's even more interesting and juicy in this interview was their hinted "big announcement" pertaining to FFVII in the coming weeks. This is in response to a query on updates regarding Tetsuya Nomura's adding of new scenes to the FFVII: Advent Children Complete Blu-ray release.

You can look forward to the upcoming invite-only fan event DKS3713 [taking place in Tokyo on August 2 and 3], where we'll have a major announcement that will shock the fans in attendance."

Let the rumours begin. Starting with the FFVII remake, of course..

 

[darkswordsman17]

Originally posted by: bl4ckfl4g

Originally posted by: tenshodo13
Konami Conference Up to now

MGS4 = Great

MGO Expansion Coming

Also, MGO world tournament will take place at TGS in October.

The best MGO players from Asia, Europe and US will compete in a huge tournament at TGS to find out who's the best team.

New Castlevania

Its Over.

And NO. MGS4 is NOT on the 360

So they announced 1 game?

Ugh. Konami apparently has abandoned all attempt to make a real 3D Castlevania. Instead we get a (?) fighting (?) game? If only they would just go highly stylized 2D/psuedo 3D.

Did anyone else catch Sony being mopy about FFXIII Japan exclusivity. Jack Tretton had this to say:
"Am I disappointed by it? Yes," Tretton told us, adding: "Am I surprised by it? No." He was quick to stress that the game remains a PS3 exclusive in Japan, but that "seeing as there isn't that big of a [PS3] installed base in [there], I don't know how big of a coup that is for us."

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Konami conference = fail.

 

[erwos]

Originally posted by: tenshodo13
http://ps3.qj.net/FFXIII-produ...event/pg/49/aid/122265


"But what's even more interesting and juicy in this interview was their hinted "big announcement" pertaining to FFVII in the coming weeks. This is in response to a query on updates regarding Tetsuya Nomura's adding of new scenes to the FFVII: Advent Children Complete Blu-ray release.

You can look forward to the upcoming invite-only fan event DKS3713 [taking place in Tokyo on August 2 and 3], where we'll have a major announcement that will shock the fans in attendance."

Let the rumours begin. Starting with the FFVII remake, of course..

Dirge of Cerberus 2, obviously!