New content for the Wii is available. The Wii Shop channel was updated to separate the directories into Virtual Console (VC), WiiWare, and Wii Channel. The WiiWare section has a few launch titles, including the infamous Flash game, Defend Your Castle and the WiiWare-exclusive Final Fantasy Crystal Cronicles game.
Coming soon (hopefully) is the WiiWare title, Everyone’s Pokemon Ranch. It’s sorta like the Pokemon Box and Hey You Pikachu! games mixed with the Mii channel. You store up to 1000 pokemon (at 999 pokemon, you supposedly get a Mew) in the game, and can play with them in various ways. The more pokemon you have and objectives you’ve done, the more you’re able to do in the game. Here are some screenshots [from gamesradar].
The Nintendo channel is more-so a game preview channel. You can watch gameplay videos, trailers, and commentary on your favorite Wii and DS games, as well as be able to download game demos to your DS via the Wii to DS download service built in.
Pi Story, a 2D MMORPG developed by NCONY Enterprise, is the newest addition to the fast-growing Outspark library.
Pi Story is a 2D side-scrolling game featuring elegant artwork and a strong story where players band together in search of quests, boss hunting, and collecting Pi to bring peace to the divided universe.
Pi Story - Shakia’s Throne (Click to enlarge)
Some features in Pi Story include: Classes, where you are either a Fighter or a Cleric; Crafting, where you can cook, make potions, and collect herbs (more things to come); a party (4 or 8-player teams) where you group up and do missions together and guild system (up to 100 members). There are also personal blogs and player-owned houses.
On another note of this release, there’s so much content that the disc is dual-layer, and a tiny fraction of Wii consoles will be unable to read the disc at times. This is mainly due to failure of the laser reading lens to read all of the crammed data from the disc if there’s dirt, dust, or anything on the lens. If you have that problem, Nintendo will clean the laser reading head for free when you ship it to them.
To make up for this problem, Nintendo temporarily upgrading shipping to be much faster (both inbound and outbound), and the cost will be free for you. That way, you can get your console back in a short period of time.
The website for the form and announcement is right here.
And please - don’t go Rambo and try to clean the lens yourself, as you might further damage or break the console yourself.
The long-awaited Super Smash Bros: Brawl has finally arrived!
This is the most-anticipated game for the Wii won’t leave you disappointed at all. From a built-in map maker, to new, highly-detailed maps, to all the classic stuff, this game has it all. Some of the new features include Final Smashes, which are finishing moves that do heavy damage or benefit the group. Also, the story mode is even more complex than before!
Some new aspects to the game include the Smashville map. It’s a map with the Animal Crossing theme, and if you play a match on that map on Saturday at 8pm, you will see and hear a special treat from K.K. Slider as he does a live performance on stage!
Yes, even the government gets to play video games and get paid for it.
The Cyber War Games is an extremely high-tech extremely complex cyber security setup developed by the National Cyber Security Division of the Department of omeland Security. They’ve been working on it for more than a year and costing more than USD $6 Million.
The world-wide simulation will be used to test the skills of entrants, including the Department of Defence, FBI, CIA, CISCO, Microsoft, and many countries from around the world in an extremely securely-connected environment. The participants join one of the two groups, Planners, who set up the exercises, or Players, who participate in the events by trying to break into the simulation networks and obtain information.
There will be many traps along the way that will throw the players off the trail. The designers will be active throughout the week-long event, injecting into the system in attempt to thwart the contestants with situations unknown to the players.
This project / event is to help benchmark how well cyberterrorism and security interact, as well as to learn how to develop more-secure networks.
The newest game to hit Outspark, Bread ‘n Butter, is now entering its second beta phase.
New features include:
* Lowered prices on mini games
* Additional mini games and decorations
* More free mini games and decorations (go to the store and buy it for free!)
* Guestbook implemented, so you can view other bakery owners’ info and post comments!
Also, you can view the top bakers, part of the dynamic project.
Microsoft is giving away USD $100,000 of its pocket (plus other goodies) to beta testers of Microsoft’s upcoming Office Live Workspace.
Registration is free at the website.
However, this comes with a catch: the users must already own a genuine copy of office.
It truly is a sad day for fans of role-playing games.
The man who co-created Dungeons & Dragons (the first Role-playing game ever made, created in 1974) is dead. Gary Gygax died Tuesday morning at his home in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin (not too far from Rockford, IL!). Apparently he had been having bad health issues for a few years.
Firefox 3.0 Beta 3 is out. It’s kinda of fun to mess around with, but I’d advise you to only run it on websites you know to be safe, since it’s still in BETA phase and not all of the bugs are worked out yet. If you’re too lazy, here’s a sneak peek at the test page.
TWCOM wishes all of you a Merry Christmas and happy holidays!
Stay safe during the winter season and don’t get in to any trouble or do anything too wreckless, now…
To kick off the new year, expect a face lift on the website. It will be easier to use along with having an RSS feed. There will also be some new entertainment to amuse yourself on work break (or, for those at school, to relieve your boredom from class, you naughty kids, you.) >:)
The theme is almost ready for the new blog software, so expect it within a few weeks.
Outspark’s second game, Secret of the Solstice, will soon be available in Open Beta… and in preparation for the release we’ve launched a completely new web site with a beautiful, easy-to-navigate design. We hope you like it as much as we do!
For those not familiar with the game, Secret of the Solstice is a multiplayer online role-playing title set in the beautiful land of Xen. With hundreds of gorgeous environments, fanciful creatures, plenty of quests and a classic feel, Secret of the Solstice invites players to create a character and explore its richly-detailed world.
As with other Outspark games, community is a core element in Secret of the Solstice. Our crew of friendly game masters will be operating dynamic in-game events like monster battles, games and contests, but with a twist: participants contribute to the evolution of the game storyline! Your success in battle will directly affect the future of Xen, so join the adventure today!
A note to Closed Beta Testers: make sure you remove / uninstall the CBT client before you install the new Beta client.
New Premium Items!
New items will be available in the Fiesta store next week, including the black tuxedo, black dress, warrior outfit and shark house (check ‘em out at the right!). Want to get some new goodies for your Fiesta character? Click below to visit the Fiesta Store and learn more about SparkCash, which is used to buy premium items in Oustpark games.
December: Beauty Shop, New Level Cap Even more options for character customization on the way!
Next month Fiesta will receive its biggest content update yet, which includes the much-anticipated Beauty Shop! Players will be able to change their character hair styles, colors and even faces. We’re also increasing the game’s level cap to 79 from 59, adding new quests for characters between level 60 and 79 and much more. More information will be released very soon.
Halo 3 comes out today!
Reports claim many people call in “sick” so they have time to play this remarkable game in the hit series published by Microsoft.
Outspark has staff from Blizzard, Dreamworks, Electronic Arts, Starz! Media, Webzen, Yahoo! and other huge companies, and GameDaily BIZ talks to CEO of Outspark, Susan Choe and gets the low-down on this quickly-expanding free-online-gaming company.
If you have any other questions regarding Manga Fighter, feel free to contact me at mangafighter@gamescampus.com. Let me know if you want Manga Fighter Action figures.
You should check out this prank video I came across again. It’s rather old, but still pretty funny in my opinion.
These people get pranked when filling up their gas station, thinking the TV show is talking to them.
Kezz on the forums announced that the CBT is finally arriving on Wednesday the 20th at 10:00am PDT (noon CDT)! All invitations should be sent out by the end of tomorrow.
If you didn’t get an invitation, well, then you didn’t make the CBT. Kezz mentioned a possibility of sending more invitations, depending on capacity. If you don’t happen to make it, you will just have to wait for the Open Beta Testing, which will be promptly after the CBT. No need to worry!
Guntrix also posted a sneak preview of the Mage and Cleric classes.
“Clerics can heal and use buff magics to aid friends and themselves. Also, Clerics have pretty powerful magic attack skills to destroy enemies.”
“Mages have ability to deal higher damage on opponents with their magical attack skills. Their physical strengh and defense might be weaker than other classes but mages play crucial role in group battles with powerful magic skills.”
The Halo 3 Beta came out today. Millions of excited fans have been waiting for this day.
Some of the main highlights of the game will include new weapons, such as the Spike Grenade and Bubble Shield.
Also, there will be the long-awaited return of the Assault Rifle.
There will be three maps available, and a new vehicle called the Mongoose.
To keep the excitement, Microsoft will only showcase a few things in the beta, which will last until June 7th.
Once the beta is over, they will take the input / feedback they recieved and see how they can change the game a little.
Also, they plan to polish the graphics (which currently appear to not be up to par with a majority of 360 games.
If you do not have a Halo 3 Beta key and want to get one, pick up a copy of Crackdown, as it comes with one.
