Official Japanese Mario Kart Wii Website Launches.

If you can read Japanese, then please head over to the website. If not, then go there anyway.
Theres still a lot of great content there (even if it is in Japanese).

Content such as, video s screen shots and more.

I personally can't wait for Mario Kart Wii! It comes out in Australia on the 24th of April, and in America on the 27th of April.

Here's the site

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/rmcj/new/index.html

Spectrobes: Beyond The Portals announced!

Disney Interactive studios has announce a second Spectrobes game (Spectrobes: Beyond the Portals.)
It will feature an entirely new story, 3D game play and the Debut of a WI-FI battle system! ( Don't Forget more new Creatures than you can poke a stick at!)

“Spectrobes has become an international sensation,” said Craig Relyea, senior vice president of global marketing, Disney Interactive Studios. “By continuing to build on its enthralling story, unique game play features and memorable characters, Spectrobes: Beyond The Portals will continue to thrill fans. This second game is part of our plan to expand the series in the coming years.”

Spectrobes : Beyond the portals is planned for a late 2008 third quarter release. Expect a review.

Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings- DS Review

I have never played a Final Fantasy game before this one. First impressions are everything, and I think I have just jumped on the Final Fantasy Bandwagon!

The first thing I noticed when I played this game was the BEAUTIFUL cut scenes! Sure they were a little choppy at times, but for DS standards, they are incredible. But when you get past the Cut scenes you see actual game play, and realise: This game looks nothing like its cut scenes. The first time you see the game in action, you notice that it has 2d sprites in a 3d world! The world looks great the sprites don't look as good.

Now that we're past the graphics, lets move on to the story and game play.
The game's story is similar to what you'd expect from a Final Fantasy game. A bunch of Sky Pirate kids go on an adventure. If I told you any more you'd probably get bored. The storyline has been done before many times in different forms.

The game is controlled entirely with the touch screen. You select your units by cropping a square over them, and you select the enemies you want to attack by tapping them. The controls work well most of the time, but a lot of the time you'll be struggling to select individual units, you can make a lot of mistakes with the controls.

The problem with Revenant Wings is the pacing. Very Early in the game you'll find yourself struggling to take down a few Alligator people. The level of Difficulty can be all over the place sometimes.

Revenant Wings is incredible. I'm no RPG fan but I still managed to enjoy it. A lot of time can be spent playing this and I think it's a welcome addition to your game collection.

OVERALL- A great game with a few minor problems (pacing is bad)

Graphics-8 Sound-9 Game play-9 Story-7 overall score: 8/10

De Blob is an Insperation to Third Parties.

For once it seems as though third party companies are started to do things right again. Watching this video shows that THQ has changed it's bad game-making ways, and put their effort into a luscious and great free roaming game.

The video above is quit short,but it's just there to show everyone what De Blob is all about.

Lego + Link To The Past= Awesome!

wow... I never pixels could look so.. real!

Enter Lwelyk, is the incredible creator of this masterpiece, and many others. From octoroks to song teaching fish, he's got it all! He really is a Lego Artist.

Just Check out his blog here-

http://lwelyk-legos.blogspot.com/

DS-10 to release worldwide

D-10, the great new Music synthesiser will be available Worldwide soon. When? Well, nobody knows.

It's funny how I posted this just after I posted the Guitar Hero DS article.

Two Music Games competing? We'll see.

Here is Korg's blog ( D-10 is made by korg).

http://www.ds10blog.jp/?p=35

Guitar Hero DS announced!

Celebrations are in order as one of the greatest rithym game ever made is coming to the DS!

As you can see from the image (right), Guitar Hero DS will be bundled with a new peripheral that will be inserted into the second slot (or 'GBA Slot").

I don't know if this peripheral will be ideal for controlling, but it's a great Idea none the less.

Guitar Hero: On Tour (as it is known on the DS) will also feature two player co-operative, and head to head.

That's about all the information that has been said. Apart from the only game play video, that all the content as well.

I know your dieing for more, so here's what the CEO had to say:

"We began prototyping ideas for Guitar Hero on DS in early 2007. We quite frankly didn't know whether it would be possible to bring the core essence of the franchise to handheld and have it actually work. It was 20-something game play prototypes that were built, all trying different mechanics and uses of the hardware. Some were pretty cool, others were total disasters!”
”At some point, we hit upon the idea of creating a peripheral that would have the fret buttons plugging into the GBA slot of the DS," he recalled. "We ripped apart an old GBA cartridge and did some electronics work on it to rig up a prototype device. As awkward and crude as that prototype was, that's when we knew we were onto something. We figured that attaching a full-size guitar or even a mini-guitar would be too awkward to play on the road, hence the design of the more compact Guitar Grip, which gives you the tactile sense of the fret buttons, with the touch screen depicting the strings of the guitar."

Stay Tuned for the info as it comes.