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Yeah, I got the impression he meant "We have to make sure each leaf is a separate model" rather than "We have to manually produce each leaf as a unique model".

I think Crytek would be a lot more suited to simply developing engines rather than games.

Fucking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allo_Allo

Yes, the lack of aging is rather amazing.

Perfect Dark Zero and StarFox Adventures also fall into the "after they were great" category from what I understand, although I'm told the latter is quite a decent game; it's just not normal StarFox. I also wasn't personally that keen on Donkey Kong 64 or Banjo-Tooie, and felt they were both a very defined notch below their predecessors.

Clearly an oversight. I was pointing out n0wak's mistake since it seems to be an incredibly common error and presumably one he habitually makes. I'd imagine he wouldn't want to use it in articles and whatnot throughout life like I used to with "identicle". Man that was lame.

Heh, well hopefully Nintendo can broaden that fanbase somewhat. It's what they seem to be driving for, anyway. It can't be denied that those who've grown up with gaming are getting older though, and there must be an extremely large volume of people in their 20s/30s. Unless they're what Nintendo has termed a "lapsed gamer" anyway. By the way n0wak n0wak, it's spelt "ridiculous". Just so you don't make that mistake somewhere important in the future like in an internet argument. :tup:

I'm pretty irritated by the opinion swinging too. Every site/blog seems to become a fanboy resource for a different console on a weekly basis, and it's impossible to work out what the true opinions of the writers actually are. Bloggers also seem to be easily swayed by small tokens (Free Wiimote!!!!!!!!!!), resulting in yet more skewed opinion. I have faith in the Wii, but the Xbox 360 has a very important place in the future of gaming too. They are two very different consoles that I think will carve their own distinct audiences over time and both do well; I think a few more writers need to recognise this and stop playing them off against each other, although I must say with the recent PlayStation 3 backlash that has lessened somewhat. The PlayStation 3 I am less confident about since it seems very similar to the Xbox 360 in a lot of ways. I find it kind of annoying that while you can easily describe the differences between two as "One delivers a play experience like never before in how you physically interact with the games, the other delivers a play experience like never before in the presentation and ability to handle larger, richer gameplay", with the other two it's more like "One has Halo, the other has Metal Gear Solid". The only defining trait between the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 is pretty much the games themselves, and not the way you play them; I'm don't think the technological differences between the two consoles won't pan out into having that much affect overall. I'm not sure the industry should still be like this, and Nintendo obviously recognises this. Man, I love tangents.

Now that's the type of thing that causes the universe to collapse in on itself. Good foreshadowing with the site name though.

Many of the games weren't actually announced yet vimes.

A Ubisoft texture artist has sworn that it was not an intentional marketing stunt and seemed rather pissed off about it. Also it'd be a really shitty business move. I doubt it was a marketing stunt.

I'm surprised they're bothering with the GameCube version of Twilight Princess at all. Shops don't even have GameCube shelves here anymore, and if they do it's literally one or two columns. Usually one.

I think this thread might be a good opportunity for people to share the names of the best AA batteries ever so we can have long lasting Wiimotes, assuming there's no DS-like charger too.

Eh, I didn't really get that unfinished vibe from BG&E at all. It felt like an extremely polished game to me and I felt completely satisfied at the end, even if it did lead right into a sequel that never came.

I'll get it at release simply because my gut says it'll be worth it. It's not been wrong yet, so I trust it.

Heh, Eurogamer repeatedly posting the same ticker notes twice.

Yep, looks like Argos was just puking out its arse. They probably got confused with the PlayStation 3 which actually did get delayed until March 2007 last week. http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Browse/catalogId/10001/identifier/8163496.htm Hopefully it stays that way.

Nice. I also just found out the Wii Opera comes with JavaScript and Flash fully enabled, so that means you can use all your Gmail and shit quite comfortably, plus play whatever Flash games are out there — with the Wiimote!! Something about using the Wiimote to control full screen Pac-Man and then doing a bit of web-based JavaScript IRC or something appeals to me. Not sure why. Maybe it's because I've never really gotten to use the internet while laid on the sofa like an arsehole. Maybe I should get a laptop.

http://uk.wii.ign.com/articles/732/732745p1.html The Opera browser is free to download until June.

Lots of good stuff to discover here: http://www.wii.com/en_US/ And a summary of the facts in the first comment here: http://digg.com/gaming_news/US_Wii_Site_Goes_Live I like this whole Wii Channels thing, since some of those look quite useful. It also looks like the Opera can be bought using Wii Points similarly to the classic games, so I imagine it won't be much. I'm also sure I read somewhere while doing my RSSing earlier that you get some Wii Points free with the console, but I could be mistaken as fuck on that.

Those are some superb babies.

From how you've described it Rodi, that could be something worked on by having a lesser sensitivity. Or perhaps more subtle movements don't move the cursor on-screen as much, preventing you from accidentally shifting your cursor five metres when you only moved your hand a few mm. Another possible solution would be for the cursor to only move when you hold down the wiimote's A button, stopping you from throwing the cursor all over the joint when you casually move your arm around. It sounds like something that's a matter of software implementation rather than technology, anyway. We'll soon see.

Red Steel doesn't look too amazing, but I think it's a bit early to make sweeping statements like "Wii is not as good for FPS's as it may look like". That's pretty much comparable to saying the PC isn't as good for RTS games as it looks because Act of War was a pile of TOSH. I think a good implementation will come at some point; after all, they made it work on the GameCube. Now that I've mentioned RTS though, that's definitely an area where I think the Wii will shine over time. I don't know about you guys, but I've never enjoyed RTS games on consoles due to the lack of a pointer. The wiimote 'n' nunchuck could — with some loving — be a terrific way to control an RTS. The most basic implementation I can think of would be to simply use the nunchuck stick for moving the screen around, and of course using the pointer like you'd use any PC mouse. But with both the wiimote and nunchuck's abilities for all sorts of gestures, it could take RTS games to a whole new level of intuitiveness. Anyone who's played an RTS game knows that excessive buttons/keys are an issue with most. Being able to offload a lot of that clutter to gestures like we saw in the Batallion Wars video would be superb, and it'd also help draw a lot more people into the genre since it's the complex controls that can turn a lot of people off rather than the strategic gameplay.

I believe Huz (Dogman) has been messing with homebrew recently, and he's gotten all sorts of stuff working on it — including ScummVM DS. As far as I remember he had trouble getting DS roms to work on it though. It's also worth pointing out that homebrew is far from cheap. It cost Huz about £60 to get all the necessary hardware.