GGL’s hot new review show, Up All Night, now has a set release schedule! Instead of just firing the show out when it’s done, we will air new episodes bi-monthly.
Here are the next three episodes:
Jan. 30, 2008: Up All Night - Rock Band
Feb. 13, 2008: Up All Night - Burnout Paradise
Feb. 27, 2008: Up All Night - Devil May Cry 4
Up All Night is a reality TV-style review show featuring a rotating cast of gamers with their own videogame tastes and perspectives. In a one-night session, how does a game rate? Is it fun to play with your friends? Is it worth buying? We’ll answer all these questions and more in every episode.
Visit the Up All Night GGL group on the brand new GGL.com to see our previous reviews of Halo 3 and Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games. All new episodes will also debut at the UAN GGL group, but will be also be posted to GGL Wire, Epileptic Gaming, YouTube etc.
Create a GGL.com account and join the UAN group, post comments with fans and follow the show with every episode!
Tomorrow, Friday, Jan. 25, we commence filming UAN: Rock Band. Stay tuned for some behind the scenes coverage of the shoot on wire.ggl.com and epilepticgaming.ggl.com!
Nintendo has decided to pull its television adverts for the Wii in the UK, as it cannot keep up with demand in that region. The advertisements would have been broadcast running up to Christmas, but Nintendo decided to do the responsible move, and delay them for 2008.
The demand for the console has been “unprecedented and higher than Nintendo could ever have anticipated.” Worldwide sales of the Wii are reported to be about 1.8 million units sold a month, with Nintendo increasing their expectations by 3.5 million units, to 17.5 million units worldwide, in March 2008.
A Nintendo spokesperson said: “We are doing everything possible to supply continued levels of stock and meet demands as quickly as possible.”
“We are keen to act responsibly; we are potentially looking at moving some advertisements on some products into early 2008,” added the rep.
The reason why this should not cause any problems for Nintendo is the lack of a Christmas theme in the adverts themselves, so they can be used for any time of the year.
In the UK, retailers are having trouble keeping enough Wiis in stock, and many parents may have to disappoint their kids on Christmas day. Websites have been set up to help people find out when Wiis are in stock so people can get them as quickly as possible, much like in North America.
Analysts are saying that Nintendo DS is likely to take up the advertising slots which would have been used for the Wii instead.
Sony plans to use the Wii shortage to their advantage, to double US weekly sales, along with recent price cuts.
Via: BBC
I’ve never been a huge fan of the Wii, but after seeing these gorgeous scans of 2D Japanese RPG Oboro Muramasa Youtouden, I may have to see about getting one.
Of course, I’ll need to wait for the English port (if any), but it seems like a worthwhile cause. Vanillaware, the developers behind the PlayStation 2 title Odin Sphere, created Oboro Muramasa Youtouden. Here’s the pic (click to enlarge):
Oboro promises to use the Wiimote to perform slashing and hacking attacks, however, the developers plan to make the game challenging enough to appeal to more hardcore gamers as well. I’m just jazzed about the graphics. Do we have any Japanese translators in the house?
Read: New Game from Odin Sphere Developer Revealed
The San Jose Mercury News (bugmenot) reports that of the three seventh-gen gaming consoles, the Nintendo Wii has the smallest carbon footprint.
That is to say, it uses the least energy. This isn’t surprising — the Wii crunches the fewest polygons, so it’s cooler, which means less energy is required to power fans (or in the case of the Xbox 360, less power to melt the motherboard to slag). Continued…
