Microsoft have provided Capsule Computers with 7 special passes to the FINAL FANTASY XIIIÂ XBOX Lauch Event at Sydney’s IMAX THEATRE, DARLING HARBOUR.
Have a read below and enter :
** SPECIAL NOTE **
This promotion is valid for SYDNEY RESIDENTS ONLY. If you win you must make your own way to the event. We will be drawing the 7 lucky Winners SATURDAY Morning. So make sure you enter before Friday 26th February (SYDNEY TIME)
–
The wait is nearly over! Nintendo and Capcom® Entertainment, a leading worldwide developer and publisher of video games, announce Monster Hunter® Tri for Wii. Monster Hunter Tri will be available in May 2010 as a standalone game, or in a bundle with the new Classic Controller Pro™ which comes in black.
Monster Hunter Tri offers one of the best visual Wii experiences to date and depicts a living, breathing ecosystem where humans co-exist with majestic monsters that roam both dry land and brand new sub-aqua environments – a first for the series. Offering the player varied control configurations to suit their style of play, players can choose between the Classic Controller Pro, Wii Remote™ and Nunchuk™, or Classic Controller™ to slay the monsters that inhabit the world.
The Classic Controller Pro’s more traditional control configuration will give gamers the ultimate monster hunting experience. The Classic Controller Pro includes a second row of shoulder buttons and ergonomically friendly grips. The Classic Controller Pro plugs directly into the Wii Remote™ controller, and until now, has been available only in the Japanese market.
Monster Hunter Tri is online play supported, so you can take your monster hunt online with up to three of your friends and talk to them via Wii Speakâ„¢. Or hunt together with a friend on one Wii in split-screen mode.
For further information on Monster Hunter Tri, visit: http://gamesites.nintendo.com.au/monster-hunter-tri/
–
Monster Hunter TRI looks brilliant and with the option of being able to play with the classic controller it’s only going to make experience of hunting down those monsters even more enjoyable 🙂 Your comments below.
Look at what we have here !! A new Nintendo DSi called the DSi XL !! with a much bigger screen compared to the regular DSi !! This by far a the best thing Nintendo have done as a lot of people I’ve spoken to about the DSi were not very impressed with the slight increase screen size from the NDS Lite. Now with the introduction of the XL you can see a huge difference and now you dont have to squint so much when playing on a small screen.Â
Check out the official press release from Nintendo after the break :
CLICK ON LINK BELOW TO READ FULL PRESS RELEASE & Details on the DSi XL !!
Great news from Nintendo
Nintendo announces that from 11 March, Wiiâ„¢ will have a new look! For the first time Wii will be available in a sleek black colour
From the 25 February, new coloured Wii remotes will be available in black, pink and blue. The Nunchuk will also be available in black.
Wii is currently the fastest selling console in Australia with 1.75 million* sold through in 167 weeks.
Wii Sports, the first game ever available on Wii, contains five sports – boxing, bowling, tennis, golf and baseball and is suitable for all ages. Players use their own Mii caricatures in Wii Sports and play them against their friends’ Miis for a more personalised experience.
Wii has games for everyone – from the follow up to the popular Wii Sports, Wii Sports Resort, to Wii Fit, Wii Fit™ Plus, Mario Kart™ Wii and the classic side scrolling action of New Super Mario Bros.™ Wii.
Customise your Wii set up with new black and coloured remotes.
Coloured remotes $AU 69.95
Wii Black $AU 399.95
. Black Wii comes packaged with Wiiâ„¢ Sports, a black Wii Remoteâ„¢ and black Nunchukâ„¢.
–
Who’s gonna pick themselves up one of these super cool Black Nintendo Wii’s ? Let us know what you think of them. Leave a comment below.
PopCap games is offering a promotion that enables you to send a free copy of peggle nights to a friend when you sign up for their Passport.
Sign up here:Â https://store.popcap.com
By supplying an Email, and a password of choice you will be able to receive up t0 20% off on purchases, get their newsletter, and send Peggle Nights to a friend; but we all know that you will just send it to yourself, come on admit it!
So unless you consider hours of Peggle goodness not worth the price of free, sign up now!
–
For everyone living in the USA. Heavy Rain on Playstation 3 one of the most anticipated titles of 2010 is now available. The Origami Killer has been unleashed upon the world and it’s your job to find him and bring him to justice !!
Heavy Rain will be available from Thursday 25th in Australia. If you don’t already have this amazing revolutionary title. Go out there and grab it now or order it online from Fishpond, Amazon or Gamestop
–
If you’ve already got Heavy Rain what do you think of it so far ? Comments please 🙂
–
Exactly 6,656 were polled over the past two years in Japan, both through online forms and in-game packaging, on whether or not they prefer Subbed video games, Dubbed video games, or had a different choice.
For those of you who don’t know, a Dubbed video game is when the original audio was removed from the game, and another language was placed over it. Such as the upcoming FXIII is an English dubbed version of the game, which originally was in Japanese.
However some people could prefer the option that the game be in the original Japanese Version, while having English subtitles below during any scenes involving dialogue.
Only a slight percentage more preferred a subbed video game, instead of a dubbed video game, with subbed having 49% and dubbed having 47%. The final 4% chose Other, which is quite curious as to how else they would prefer the game being presented to them unless they wanted it in the original language with no subtitles at all.
Personally I believe that there really should not be any need for a forced choice. Games like Eternal Sonata had an option to either hear the Japanese, or the English dialogue. Though games like Star Ocean: The Last Hope only had English settings, which is depressing considering the character motions did not match the voices nor the timing.
Game developers should try to provide a choice for their consumers, especially if the game is a Japanese import. Though it may increase the amount of data on the disk, having both dialogue options on the game would provide a more in depth experience. Also as I said before, dubbing a game can cause mistakes in the translation, or even cutting out certain dialogue as it is lost in translation.
This is seen in Armored Core 4. This occurs near the end of the game and causes confusion as an enemy acts like he knows your character, however presents no reason for this. This is because the text was not translated in the localized version for American release and was instead removed.
Technology has come quite far and translation methods have improved, but its hard to forget the errors of the past when it comes to certain translations. Though it is also hard to look at these mistakes from so many years ago, and worry about the future.
Let is know what you prefere, Subbed or Dubbed vote and also leave a comment too 🙂
–
Following yesterdays article on General Knoxx Secret Armory, we wanted to send out a courtesy reminder to all XBOX 360 owners that its now available to download !!
Details and download link available below : HAPPY PLAYING 🙂
Content: Secret Armory
Price: 800 Microsoft Points
Availability: Not available in Germany and Japan
Dash Text: Description: Borderlands goes to ELEVEN! You may have seen some games raise their level cap by 5, or maybe even 10, but with The Crimson Lance Assassination Squads wreaking havoc and Crawmerax the Invincible being all invulnerable and stuff we knew you’d need more than just 10. And that’s why Borderlands goes to ELEVEN! The Secret Armory of General Knoxx is an addon pack for Borderlands that adds new guns, new Class Mods, new vehicles, new missions, new enemy types, and increases the level cap to 61. In other words…best addon ever. Of all time. Forever. The End. ELEVEN! There are no refunds for this item. For more information, see www.xbox.com/live/accounts.
Add Secret Armory to your Xbox 360 download queue
Who’s gonna get stuck into this DLC ?? Let us know what you think of it. Leave a comment below.
The Dark Void Jet-pack’s been upgraded with a better fuel efficiant engine, that will now enable 8-bit Will to make his way down under to the land of DIDGERIDOO !! Koalas and Kangaroos !! WOOO HOOO !!
Capcom announced today that Dark Void Zero will be launching in Europe, Australia & New Zealand on March 5th, 2010 on DSiWare for only 500 wii points !!
Who from the UK, Australia or New Zealand are excited about this ?? Let us know.. Leave a comment below 🙂
