You may think of the Mii character creation system as a cute but
superfluous addition to Nintendo's Wii system to help it appeal to a
wider audience. Not so fast, though. Your Mii could help save your
system from burglary.
Remember Assassin's Creed: The Fall, the AC tie-in comic book that launched last year? Apparently it did alright for Ubisoft, because at San Diego Comic-Con, the publisher announced a follow-up series titled Assassin's Creed: The Chain.
I just got out of EA's Star Wars: The Old Republic panel at Comic-Con,
and I'm slightly more in debt than when I entered. How does that work?
Let me explain.
n -- and I say thankfully
because it turns out that Fortune Street is actually a really fun and
complex economics-driven board game translated to the Wii.
We've known about the upcoming shift to free-to-play for City of Heroes for a while now, but what other changes are in store for the superhero MMO? Good question.
An eBay seller wants to pass on a copy of the already incredibly rare
Mega Drive version of Tetris, which is made even more desirable thanks
to a signature from the game's creator, Alexey Pajitnov. The asking
price? Why, $1 million, of course.
As an RPG fan, I play plenty of lengthy games. But Square's recent handheld magnum opus, Dragon Quest IX? One hardcore fan
recently hit 100% after an astounding 773 hours.
The Zelda series maybe a stalwart fan favorite for Nintendo faithful,
but longtime series producer Eiji Aonuma has admitted in a recent
interview that he's always hoping to come up with an entirely new
concept.
If you were impressed or surprised by EA's recent $750 million purchase
of casual game developer PopCap, that's nothing. A new report claims
that Farmville and Words with Friends creator Zynga was willing to pay
even more...initially, at least.
While many Netflix users are still busy complaining about recent changes
to the service's pay structure, this week will see Netflix's popular
Instant View streaming launch on a new platform to help justify that
price hike.
