Quote:Bring on the Chaos
Ikaruga fans rejoice -- sort of. A formerly Japan-only shooter is headed to America.
by Matt Casamassina
May 6, 2005 - IGNcube learned today that the MileStone-developed GameCube shooter Chaos Field, which was published by SEGA in Japan, is now headed for a release in America. The title will be published by Q-3 and is scheduled for a late summer debut, according to the company.
Chaos Field was originally created for SEGA's ill-fated Dreamcast console. The Ikaruga-inspired vertical shooter took players through five stages of action-packed blasting, each of them made more difficult by three separate bosses.
The Japanese version of the GameCube port was more or less a copy and paste job. No word yet on whether or not the US build will include added features.
Chaos Field will be fully playable at the Electronics Entertainment Expo 2005. Stay tuned for more.
Quote:When Nintendo President Satoru Iwata unveiled the first pieces of information regarding the DS' online plans, he left gamers with many questions. Now, in a document sent to Japanese gaming website Game Watch, he has clarified some of this information.
First off, Nintendo plans to launch somewhere around 1,000 wireless hot-spots across Japan, to help those gamers who do not already have a wireless connection in their home. These hot-spots will be free to use, and there will be no set-up required. The Nintendo DS will automatically connect to them.
At the Game Developers' Conference, Iwata mentioned that there would be no need for gamers to use complicated things such as SSIDs and WEP passwords to access Nintendo's online service. This confused many gamers, leaving the impression that the DS might not be able to access hotspots that needed this information. However, in his recent comments, Iwata has stated that in order to connect to a home wireless connection, the DS will require some configuration, but that it would be minimal if the gamer users a "Nintendo approved router."
Iwata also said that Nintendo will not charge for their online service, but they are not going to stop other publishers from charging players to access their games.
I'm already planning on setting up a wireless internet connection for my house [I'm getting a laptop sometime this year], so this is definitely good news.
Some of us are going to be at work (me), and some of us don't have Insider accounts (most of you), so I think what we should do is post all of the news, screens, and video links in TC as soon as we find them. No need for long posts, just a title beginning with "E3:" or something and then the links/articles/screens. I'll post as much as I can from work, but since the conferences will be going on while I'm here (blast!), I will be missing a lot of shit.
Today we celebrate our moms, those who gave us life and reminded us every chance they got that they can take it away. The women who devoted their lives to us and are waiting for us to repay them, preferably with a large cash sum.
Thank you Mom for my life! Happy Mother's day! Sorry about the muddy hand prints on the freshly painted walls!
Just a reminder, we're getting ready for the pre-e3 conference on the 17th and we'll have our usual IRC chatathon for the duration of the week long event.
So May 17th lets all get together. Make sure you have mIRC and we'll probably in #tendocity or something similar
INVITE AS MANY WOMEN AS POSSIBLE!
Okay ladies
Server: IRCnet
Room: #tendocity
Ba ba oom a moow moow, ba ba ooma ma moow
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http://www.square-enix.co.jp/kingdom2/
One of the buttons in this flash leads to a trailer. And, well, it's the best one yet. First of all, young Tifa is apparently going to school with young Selphie. Eh...
But anyway, actually the REAL important stuff is, well, the gummi ship now looks fun. Okay, more than that, they made it AWESOME from the looks of it. It's something like Panzar Dragoon meets F-Zero... in space...
Then there's the other stuff like Christmas Town, and um, the armies...
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