Entries for March 2008
"My inspiration for this game came while I was playing the Wii for the first time,"
says Steven Spielberg about the new game that he developed together with Electronic Arts for the Nintendo Wii.
Boom Blox is meant to be appealing to kids and adults of all ages and the fact that Spielbergs unique ability of storytelling is a core element of the game may make this intention work quite well.
Boom Blox is designed to be a high energy game featuring - besides a wide range of activities - more than three hundred levels. An in-game editor gives players the
possibility to develop their own game and build whatever they can think of.
Regarding to EA Boom Blox gives players a huge variety of options and combinations to customize their game on the Wii and they can interact and share their creativity via WiiConnect24.
The game will be released on May 6, 2008 but it can be pre-ordered here already.
Without doubt Stephen Spielberg is extraordinary successful in whatever he does and it can be expected that Boom Blox will be a big hit in the gaming scene.
The fact that he and Electronic Arts chose the Nintendo as the first gaming platform for their game may do more for the Wii in the future than just to boost its reputation in the future.
A collection of the greatest pinball machines is available now for the Nintendo Wii: Pinball Hall of Fame - The Williams Collection which is the follow-up to the popular Pinball Hall of Fame - The Gottlieb Collection
Pinball Hall of Fame - The Williams Collection is simulating the most famous pinball tables of the high times of pinball playing in superb and realistic 3D graphic.
The producer, Crave Entertainment, worked together closely with Williams to make their game as realistic and authenthic as possible and they did their job really well.
Most of the gamers that have played this pinball collection already are absolutely enthusiastic about the game and not only a few of them get back joyful memories of the arcade games of the 1980s.
The collection includes classic pinball tables like Gorgar, Pinbot, Funhouse, Black Knight, Space Shuttle, Whirlwind, Firepower, Taxi, Jive Time & Sorcerer.
The games can be played by up to four players and the collection provides several single and multi player gaming modes.
It also features Features unlockable bonus extra game features that the player can earn throughout the game, editable table controls such as Tilt, custom pinballs, more balls per play, table art gallery and quite a bunch more.The gaming industry is making quite good business and doesnt`t seem to suffer from any king of recession.
According to Bloomberg the sales of video games, consoles and accessories jumped 34 percent to $1.33 billion from $992.2 million a year earlier.
While console sales increased about 19 percent to $480 million, video-game sales grew by 47 percent to $668.7 million.
The sales of accessories made a progress of 36 percent to $185.3 million.
Especially the Nintendo Wii was the winner compared to the Playstation and the Xbox.
The Wii was sold 29 percent more often from a year earlier and 432,000 Wii units were bought by customers in the last month alone.
Also almost 1.7 million Wii Accessories have been sold in the same time period.
Certainly the Wii sales benefited from the stronger Wii supply and the increased Wii availability after Nintendo stopped to divert shipments to Japan for the japanese holiday season.
Combined with all the new game and accessories that are announced to be released for the Wii in the next months it looks like this year will be even better for the gaming industry and Nintendo in special.Mario Kart for the Wii will be realeased on Apr. 27 in the U.S.
The game comes together with the Wii Wheel that will make playing the game more fun and also enables novices to manage the challenges fast.
Mario Kart includes a bunch of new tricks, tracks and several new ways of playing.
Amazon comments the game as follows:
* Play a whole new way with the Wii Wheel!
The Wii Wheel transforms the Wii Remote into a steering wheel that feels natural in anyone's hands, while the Wii Remote and Nunchuk offer a classic control style for the Mario Kart veteran.
In either configuration, you can perform dramatic speed-boosting tricks like jumps, flips, and wheelies and with the shake of a Wii Remote.
* Take the race worldwide!
Play with up to three friends in your living room.
Or challenge up to 11 friends via Nintendo WFC in the biggest Mario Kart race yet!
All tracks are available via Nintendo WFC, and you can visit the Mario Kart Channel to check rankings, see when your friends are playing, download ghost data, and participate in worldwide Time Trial events.
* New wheels and courses! Cruise brand-new tracks and arenas, or tour classic courses from Super Mario Kart, Mario Kart 64, Mario Kart: Super Circuit, Mario Kart: Double Dash, and Mario Kart DS!
* Tired of riding on four wheels?
Bust out one of the all-new motorbikes for special tricks and techniques.
Mario Kart Wii supports four different control options:
- Wii Remote with or without the Wii Wheel
- Wii Remote and Nunchuk controller combo
- Classic Controller and even the
- Nintendo GameCube controller.
Mario Kart Wii launches with a new channel added to the Wii Menu to enhance game play:
The Mario Kart Wii Channel.
This new channel builds on the huge online community of Wii owners and lets players compete in tournaments, check worldwide rankings, see when their friends are playing and download ghost data.
The game can be pre-ordered at Amazon with the pre-order price guarantee.
If ordered now and the Amazon price should be lower at the release date customers will get it for the lowest price.
The numbers for the Wii games that were sold more than 1 million times until now are pretty impressing.
Despite low Wii Availability for a very long time Nintendos Console is an amazing success and creates huge amounts of game sales as the figures below show:
Rank 1: Wii Sports - 11,860,000 Units sold (including hardware bundles)
Rank 2: Wii Play w/Wii Remote - 6,320,000 Units sold
Rank 3: Mario Party 8 - 2,890,000 Units sold
Rank 4: Super Paper Mario: 1,740,000 Units sold
Rank 5: Big Brain Academy - Wii Degree - 1,380,000 Units sold
Rank 6: Mario Strikers Charged - 1,330,000 Units sold
Certainly the Wii became a success story for software producers also.
Steven Spielberg is known to know exactly what he is doing and it is highly unlikely that he relied on his gut feeling only when he decided to develop Boom Blox in partnership with EA.
The Nintendo Wii is the best selling gaming console already and it can be expected that the increase of sales will continue. |
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