Nintendo launched the WiiWare section of the Wii Shop a few days ago. For those who don’t know, this means that you can now buy ORIGINAL titles via the Wii Shop, rather than just old stuff.
The current list of titles available is here
The highlight of the available titles at the moment I think is “Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King”, which is a mix of RPG and Strategy game, for 1500 Wii Points. I must get that. 
As I rightly predicted, Mirrors Edge (see an earlier post for an outstanding video) is indeed being released on the 3 “graphical” formats - PS3, 360 and PC. Shine on EA, you predictable bastards.
The game, incidentally, has a release date of Nov 11 this year. Something to look forward to. I hope it releases on Steam, personally, but EA and Valve…ehhhh…
I’ve been pretty good with Vista - no major issues, except one - my tablet hasn’t worked since SP1 was introduced, and there’s no fix at all for it - trust me I’ve tried.
Now, that was ok, I can accept that some things get broken. However, I was testing my virtualization software today, and I didn’t really fancy putting in my product key on my vista disk (knowing M$, it’d invalidate my install - I think you need two copies to virtualize legally) so I opted for the 30-day trial of Vista to have a poke about.
It gave me a list of options - as it was an Ultimate install disk, I was presented with all the possible 32-bit installs of Vista, including Windows Vista Starter. Now I hadn’t seen Starter before, so I booted it into the Starter install, and came back 10 mins later.
Starter, it turns out, is a cheap build of Windows for certain technologically developing countries, where Vista is more likely to be pirated than bought. It is pretty poor, allowing only 1 gig of RAM to be used, 120 gig’s of HD space, and no GPU as far as I could tell. Apparantly you can only have 3 programs with a GUI running at the same time too, but I didn’t test that. All well and good, but here’s the thing.
It responded to my tablet perfectly, pressure sensitivity and all.
STARTER works, and Ultimate SP1 doesn’t? I’m gonna try and steal the sys files for the tablet from Starter, and if that failed, goodbye SP1. I’ve had enough.
EDIT: It appears that SP1 won’t uninstall. The uninstall option on other upgrades is lacking here. I know it’s possible to clean it out, but I sure as hell haven’t done that. I’m not that thick. Crap. Format?
Came across this beautiful trailer for a game in development by Edge (a company sadly owned by EA - ah well, at least it gives them a good budget).
Now, I’m naturally distrustful of first-looks like this, but if their claim at the start of the video is true, it’s games like this that will help the PS3 claw its way back up the ranks of the console market.
It had better come out on PC is all I can say - and given Edge and EA’s history, that’s fairly likely. Ah, we shall see.
If you have a PS3, or if you will have one when this game comes out, this is definitely something to look forward to - assuming EA don’t mess it up.
An FPS with built-in live Parkour? Yessssss.
EDIT: He says he was talking about 1 to 1 motion mapping on the game, which may well be a different matter. It’s 8:1 in that case. Ehhh. Still a cool screenshot.
Basically to prove a friend wrong, here is a lovely little except from Force Unleashed on the Wii.
You looking at that, Dave? 1:1 Lightsaber battles in Force Unleashed on the Wii. Which is pretty damn awesome, I must say.
Ha.
Yeah, I’m not abusing my website AT ALL.
Edit: So it turns out, this was a rogue Anon who created this - specifically someone who wanted to distract from the war on Co$. Anonymous hacked the account who made it and published a response in the video comment (bit rude for here, but feel free to visit by clicking the video down below).
Ah well. I still dislike Virgin for this.
Anonymous releases its statements on it’s newest campaign.Project: Virgins vs Virgin
http://digg.com/world_news/Message_to…Keep Virgin from destroying the internet…
The new CEO of Virgin Media, Neil Berkett, has openly stated in an interview that they think net neutrality is “a load of bollocks” and claimed they’re already doing deals to deliver some people’s content faster than others. They would then put websites and services that don’t pay Virgin in the “slow lane”, meaning those sites would load slowly and cause most users to give up using them, feeling forced to use whatever Virgin wants to push through their network.
This is not the first time an internet provider infringes upon net neutrality, but it is the first time that an ISP so brutally states that they simply plan to limit internet access to a television-like system in which the access provider completely regulates the content you have access to.
Virgin Media has over 3.5 million customers in the UK and the real danger is that when they start applying this system to their network, all major internet providers around the globe will soon follow the trend. Because this is exactly what major ISP’s have been wanting to do for years.
But we can stop it.
If the masses of the internet react against this, we will set an example of what happens when one provider tries to take away our freedom. We will make it very clear that any ISP who tries to infringe upon net neutrality will see its popularity go down the drain because the users don’t accept it. And we’ll see to it that only the providers who care about safeguarding our internet freedom have our support.
We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not Forgive. We do not Forget. Expect us.
I just went out and collected my copy of Mario Kart Wii, along with an extra wheel for a friend of mine - who would probably beat the crap out of me if I didn’t get her one. I’ve played it for about two hours now, and have only one real thing to say so far:
I hate that bloody wheel.
It’s annoying, it doesn’t fit in your hand right and to be completely honest, gamers don’t like that much physical movement. Shaking and pointing the Wiimote, sure, those are nice and easy, and actually fit really well in most games (Not all. Some games have them there just ’cause they can), but I, for one, have never liked steering with the Wiimote. I had Need for Speed: Carbon for a while, and that was the same, but harder. The wheel is naaasty, although a massive improvement on just holding the Wiimote sideways. At least you get it free with the game, and there are in fact 4 setup choices, Wheel, Wiimote, Wiimote and Nunchuk and Gamecube Controller. I tend towards the GC controller and a friend of mine says he likes the Nunchuk settings. Analogue sticks WORK for racing games.
The worst thing though is that Nintendo KNOWS the wheel is that bad. They’ve put a Wheel Usage % into your player statistics for others to view, so if you want to have some credit, you gotta use the wheel. Bastards.
Ok, so perhaps I’m being overly harsh. The game itself is good as ever, although I’m yet to sample the multiplayer, and my WiFi isn’t set up for the Wii at the moment (I’ll get round to it). We need a way of making the game think I’m using the wheel when I’m not. Then all will be good.
Anyone else who has this game, how do you feel about the Wii Wheel?
God damn these videos. They are just so easy to post.
Should the next post be a video I will pay ALL of you $1000000. In cookies.
And it’s so true. And I admire Yahtzee for not saying Otaku…I avoid it too. Believe it or not, my dear Americans, in Japan its actually an INSULT to be an Otaku. NOT A BLOODY TAG OF HONOUR. Jeez.
Originally posted over at The Escapist
Last video for a bit, I promise.
That rocks so much. Full 1:1 lightsaber battles on the Wii, Havok engine on the PS3, Original content on the PS2…ahhhh that rocks, whatever console you are getting it on. ^^