Here are three videos courtesy of GameTrailers.com, showcasing the gameplay of the Wii Sports sequel Wii Sports Resort. Included in these three are the sword dueling, jetski and frisbee gameplay clips. The sword dueling uses the new WiiMotion Plus add-on, to enhance gameplay and bring the Wii closer to a true 1:1 experience.
Special note of interest to those of you who are big fans of Wave Race, as this is touted to be the spiritual successor to that franchise and besides using your Miis, is supposed to be a deeper and more intuitive game.
Wii Sports Resort is expected to be released in Spring 2009 and it has been indicated that it will include as many as 10 different games in the compilation.
According to an interview with Electronic Arts president John Riccitiello, BioWare and LucasArts have teamed up for a Knights of the Old Republic MMO aimed exclusively at the PC market. A market EA analysts expect to grow from 33% currently to 50% of the total gaming marketshare by 2011.
"Increasingly, people are going to be talking about direct-to-customer in our business," said Riccitiello. "I think we'll be talking about it louder than most."
No details have been revealed about the game or it's release date, but EA is expected to use this as one if it's major products to appeal to foreign markets in particular the growing Chinese gaming industry. I just hope they include a single player game as well. Robbing us of KOTOR III is just cruel, making it online only, well that would be just bloody sadistic.
So yesterday in the midst of the Microsoft Press Conference, The Track list for Rock Band 2 was unveiled. While only a few names were mentioned and the screen too small for most public viewers who watched the conference to see the list, staff at Kotaku who were in attendance kindly posted the list on their site. Besides the fact that the 360 version has the capability to download the entire original game's song list into the 2nd game seamlessly, every song in this huge list is a master track!!. So here's the list, enjoy!
For those of you who have a bit of time to kill this week and want to be "in the know" here are the dates and times for the three main press conferences by Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft:
Microsoft: Monday July 14th, 10:30AM Pacific time (1:30PM Eastern).
Nintendo: Tuesday July 15th, 9:00AM Pacific (12:00PM Eastern).
Sony: Tuesday July 15th, 11:30AM Pacific (2:30PM Eastern).
As for where you can watch it or catch up with the latest minute by minute, here's a few websites you can stream it live:
IGN.com - Free low res stream from IGN, requires a minor download to view it. IGN Insider subscribers have access to a high res version G4TV.com - Live stream commercial free, also available on the television channel of the same name. Gamespot - Live stream plus other coverage.
If video isn't your thing, here's a few sites who will be live blogging it (updating their post every few minutes as the conference goes on):
Keep it tuned to Channel 3 this week as we bring you thoughts, impressions and hopefully other goodies from the shadow of the giant otherwise known as E3 2008.
According to an interview with Electronic Arts president John Riccitiello, BioWare and LucasArts have teamed up for a Knights of the Old Republic MMO aimed exclusively at the PC market. A market EA analysts expect to grow from 33% currently to 50% of the total gaming marketshare by 2011.
