THE EAGLES, NIRVANA, THE SMASHING PUMPKINS AND OTHERS SET TO ROCK GUITAR HERO® WORLD TOUR WITH DOWNLOADABLE CONTENT IN DECEMBER
The Smashing Pumpkins’ “G.L.O.W,”“1979” and “The Everlasting Gaze” Available Tomorrow
SANTA MONICA, CA – December 3, 2008 – Legendary multi-platinum recording artists The Eagles, Nirvana and The Smashing Pumpkins, all featured in the on-disc set list of Activision Publishing, Inc.’s (Nasdaq: ATVI) Guitar Hero® World Tour, are returning in December with exclusive downloadable content for the game. Additionally, fans will be in for a treat just in time for Christmas with three free Reggae Rock tracks from Pepper, Slightly Stoopid and Expendables.
The Smashing Pumpkins, one of rock’s defining and most acclaimed bands who have sold over 30 million albums, return to Guitar Hero World Tour, tomorrow December 4th, with a three-song track pack featuring the recently released single “G.L.O.W.,” “1979” and “Everlasting Gaze.”
Featuring the stylistic melodies of Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl, the pioneers of alternative rock, Nirvana, make their Guitar Hero® downloadable content debut with the Nirvana Track Pack. Featuring the final single released by the band, “You Know You’re Right,” along with “Negative Creep,” off the band’s debut album Bleach, and the smash hit “Sliver,” the Nirvana Track Pack will be available for Guitar Hero World Tour on December 11th.
After delivering the timeless rock ballad “Hotel California” to the on-disc set list of Guitar Hero World Tour, The Eagles will thrill the Guitar Hero audience once again on December 18th with three chart topping hits. From the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees’ seventh studio album and first in 28 years, Long Road Out of Eden, “Frail Grasp on the Big Picture” is joined by two classic tracks that climbed to the top of the Billboard’s Hot 100, “One of These Nights” and “Life in the Fast Lane.”
Rounding out the downloadable set list for Guitar Hero World Tour in December are three free Reggae grooves. The Reggae Rock Track Pack is comprised of “Jimi” from Slightly Stoopid, “Your Face” from Pepper and Expendables’ “Sacrifice.” The free tracks will be available for download on December 23rd.
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Spike TV’s Video Game Awards 2008 premiere on Sunday, December 14 (9:00- 11:00 PM, ET/ tape delay west coast), broadcasting LIVE from Sony Picture Studios in Culver City, CA. The nominees for the first 12 categories are listed below.
Best Wii Game
Super Smash Bros. Brawl Publisher: Nintendo Studio: Nintendo
No More Heroes Publisher: Ubisoft Studio: Grasshopper Manufacture
Wii Fit Publisher: Nintendo Studio: Nintendo
Boom Blox Publisher: Electronic Arts Studio: EA Casual Studios
Best Xbox 360 Game
Fallout 3 Publisher: Bethesda Softworks Studio: Bethesda Game Studios
Grand Theft Auto IV Publisher: Rockstar Games Studio: Rockstar North
Gears of War 2 Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios Studio: Epic Games
Fable II Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios Studio: Lionhead
Best Soundtrack
Guitar Hero World Tour Publisher: RedOctane / Activision Publishing Studio: Neversoft Entertainment
Rock Band 2 Publisher: MTV Games Studio: Harmonix
Grand Theft Auto IV Publisher: Rockstar Games Studio: Rockstar North
LittleBigPlanet Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment Studio: Media Molecule
Spike TV’s Video Game Awards 2008 premiere on Sunday, December 14 (9:00- 11:00 PM, ET/ tape delay west coast), broadcasting LIVE from Sony Picture Studios in Culver City, CA. The nominees for the first 12 categories are listed below.
Best Independent Game Fueled By Dew World of Goo Publisher: 2D Boy Studio: 2D Boy
PixelJunk Eden Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment Studio: Q-Games
Braid Publisher: Number None, Inc. Studio: Number None, Inc.
Audiosurf Publisher: Steam/Valve Studio: Dylan Fitterer
Studio Of The Year
Media Molecule
Rockstar North
Harmonix
Bethesda Game Studios
Game of the Year
Gears of War 2 Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios Studio: Epic Games Grand Theft Auto IV Publisher: Rockstar Games Studio: Rockstar North
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Publisher: Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc Studio: Kojima Productions
Fallout 3 Publisher: Bethesda Softworks Studio: Bethesda Game Studios
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Wii™ and Nintendo DS™ topped the U.S. sales charts and combined to sell more than 1.29 million units in October. Nintendo sold 803,210 Wii consoles and 491,176 Nintendo DS systems in October, according to the independent NPD Group, which tracks video game sales in the United States. These figures bring the lifetime U.S. sales for Wii to more than 13.35 million and Nintendo DS to more than 23.02 million, extending their leads as the best-selling hardware of this generation.
Nintendo’s total hardware unit sales represent a 25.7 percent increase over October 2007. They also account for 59.3 percent of the industry’s total hardware unit sales.
Wii Fit™, the game that combines fun and fitness, sold nearly half a million copies in the United States in October, six months after it launched. The lifetime U.S. sales for Wii Fit now total more than 2.83 million.
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Written by: Janey the Admin at 12:42 pm on November 10, 2008
Nintendo’s nationwide mall invasion continues in full force. Already thousands of people across the country have seen and experienced the wide variety of Wii™ games available for the holidays. And later this month, Nintendo will give weary mall shoppers a break with massages, a relaxing atmosphere and fun Nintendo DS™ games.
Since Oct. 31, malls nationwide have included a nine-screen Wii presence featuring game demos and interactive game play. The Wii area helps people get the scoop on all the cool Wii games for the holidays and beyond, including Wii Music™, Wii Sports™, Mario Kart™ Wii, Mario™ Super Sluggers, Wario Land™: Shake It! and Super Smash Bros.™ Brawl. The Wii experience will be available through Dec. 29 at the following malls:
Brea Mall in Brea, Calif.
Gurnee Mills in Gurnee, Ill.
Oxford Valley Mall in Langhorne, Pa.
Stoneridge Shopping Center in Pleasanton, Calif.
Northshore Mall in Peabody, Mass.
Mall of Georgia in Buford, Ga.
The Galleria in Houston
Arrowhead Towne Center in Glendale, Ariz. (more…)
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Here’s the Wii trailer for the new game, “Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa”. This game is set to be released along with the premiere of the new Madagascar: Escape to Africa movie.
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Written by: Janey the Admin at 6:45 pm on September 16, 2008
September 15, 2008 – Today Ubisoft announced an online contest inviting fans to submit designs of their very own custom snowboard to be included in the upcoming release of Shaun White Snowboarding. Fans will be able to vote on their favorite board design, and every two weeks the top two designs with the most votes will be made into playable boards in the Shaun White Snowboarding video game.
Along with the prestige of having their board design immortalized in video game history, first-place winners will receive coveted prizes including Ubisoft games or a Wii(TM) system. In addition, all first-place winners will have their board designs put to a final vote, and one will be created into an actual, real-life snowboard!
The contest is now open, and all entries are due by October 12.
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This year at E3 it was all about the games. That means there are some very interesting titles set to be released in the upcoming months. Of the ones that were heavily promoted at E3, there were a few that really stood out to me. When it comes to game presentation I was the most disappointed by Nintendo. Their conference was geared towards more casual gamers. While I’m sure I’ll enjoy Animal Crossing, I was looking for something a bit meatier to sink my teeth into when it came to those games that will soon be made available.
Here’s my list of the games I just can’t wait to play.
1. Final Fantasy XIII - Square Enix for PS3 X360: The biggest shock of the entire E3 conference was that Final Fantasy XIII is going to be released for X360. That’s another blow for PS3, which is doing its best to keep up with the more mainstream Wii and X360 systems. While most of the buzz was about the release, it would have been nice to see more information on the actual game.
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Dominick is a twentysomething guy, who has been gaming since the days of Atari. Enthralled by his first NES before he even turned 10, he’s long been a gamer and a Nintendo enthusiast. Dominick is in a wheelchair, so he writes from the unique perspective of gaming with limited mobility. He loves playing his PS3, his Xbox 360 and even his Nintendo Wii and DS. His favorite games are action/adventure FP & MP shooter, and racing games. Amongst his favorite game series are Brother in Arms, Fallout, Armored Core, anything Mario and Legend of Zelda. When not gaming, Dominick is a human rights activist, sports enthusiast, political guru, aspiring filmmaker and homeschooling father. You can find him on twitter nearly every day so feel free to add: dominickevans.
No one is denying that of the three major gaming companies, Nintendo was the biggest letdown at E3. The presentation felt mismanaged, the jokes weren’t funny and the core games that everyone loves were barely spoken about. It’s been the buzz of E3 since Nintendo ended their presentation. Though, Shigeru Miyamoto wants you to understand that this wasn’t a folly of Nintendo as much as it was their main plan of attack.
Apparently, E3 has become so mainstream in its media reach that the folks at Nintendo felt it was more important to capture the casual or new gamer (a huge market in itself), knowing that the hardcore gamer is going to find out about their games in other ways. You might not have heard much about Mario, Zelda, or the other big Nintendo games, but he swears they are in production and will be out for sale soon enough.
In one of his latest interviews with MSNBC he spoke about the E3 conference, explaining Nintendo’s bold strategy:
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Ashtyn is definitely the casual gamer in the family. A game fan since she owned an Atari, Ashtyn can remember when her brother rigged the television so he wouldn’t lose his Super Mario Bros. game. That is, until the power went out! A fan of all things Mario, Ashtyn is a Nintendo loyalist. She digs playing Mario-style RPG games, watching others play violent shooters (because she sucks at them), and playing casual PC games (like Wedding Dash and Cake Mania). As of now, she is into the Wii and Nintendo DS, though she’s certain the games for PS3 and Xbox 360 are more appealing.
September 15, 2008 – Today Ubisoft announced an online contest inviting fans to submit designs of their very own custom snowboard to be included in the upcoming release of Shaun White Snowboarding. Fans will be able to vote on their favorite board design, and every two weeks the top two designs with the most votes will be made into playable boards in the Shaun White Snowboarding video game.
