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Wii German Gaming Site Claims Atari Pulled Ads & Filed Wrongful Suit Against Them

admin — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:10:20 +0000

“The past few weeks of videogame publisher drama have been for the most part dedicated to the dispute between Tecmo and their former Rockstar/Director Tomonobu Itagaki, however Tecmo will need to move over and make room for another old school publisher. German videogame site 4players.de claims to be involved in apparent legal battle with Atari stemming from the sites review of “Alone in the Dark”, a multiplatform horror/action game published by Atari in June of 2008. Keeping in mind that the original article is in German, and it is well beyond the “normal” business hours we would utilize to obtain a comment from Atari, we were able to loosely interpret the following information from the public complaint aired on the German gaming site:” Read more from the source here

New WiiWare Developer: Steel Penny Games, nintendo console reviews

admin — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:05:52 +0000

Recently Steel Penny Games, formerly Naughty Dog Software employees, announced that they were signing with Nintendo into their WiiWare program. Currently Steel Penny is hard at work on their original IP, “Bruiser & Scratch”. Here is a quote from the official release for the game…

Steel Penny Games states that the upcoming title blends a challenging puzzle game with dramatic fantasy environments and appealing characters for an exceptionally satisfying experience. Other details about the upcoming product are not available at this time.

Hopefully more well known game studios will follow in the footsteps of Steel Penny and join the WiiWare initiative. (Via GamingShogun)

WiiWare Developer Details Come to Light, nintendo console games reviews

admin — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:00:05 +0000

Back in June, Nintendo announced it’s WiiWare service, which the company described as “a game-creation service that will allow developers large and small to create new downloadable video game content for sale by Nintendo through the Wii Shop Channel”. Now some developer guidelines for WiiWare were mentioned in a podcast at IGN, which Leo Chan at Neo Seeker discusses:

Prospective WiiWare developers must first be officially licenced by Nintendo in order to release titles for download. They can then approach either Nintendo or a third party publisher in order market their title for production/release. In both cases the other party will stand to receive a cut in potential profit; IGN believes Nintendo’s asking price is 35 percent for any WiiWare title they help publish. Developers estimate the average production budget for a WiiWare lies at under $100,000 USD. Licensed WiiWare developers are limited to releasing one downloadable WiiWare title per month. Additionally, Nintendo is reportedly enforcing a filesize limit on downloadable WiiWare titles; the current maximum is 40MB, but this is not apparently set in stone.

According to 1up.com, “Nintendo is said to be taking 35% of profits from games sold using the service with the developer taking 65%.”

Nintendo Throws a Wii Party - nintendo console games reviews

admin — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:42:29 +0000

Arizona resident Phil Chiaravelle’s house sounded like a bowling alley Thursday. And it sounded like a pool hall and a boxing ring too. That’s because Chiaravelle, was host to a Nintendo Wii party. The party was the first in of it’s kind in Arizona, and one of many that Nintendo has in the works to introduce

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admin — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:14:01 +0000

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