Gamers Evolved

Zelda fans are excited for the new release of Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. The story picks up where Wind Waker – which came out on Gamecube – left off. We left Zelda and Tetra sailing the high seas in search of the ghost ship. After finding it Tetra takes off to search it, but instead finds herself trapped on it as it sets off into the fog. Zelda jumps after her, but misses the ship and falls into the water where he loses his gear and abilities.

It looks like Sony has finally found a way to boost their sales, if only for a little while, by creating an amazing camera. This camera, called ‘The Eye’, can take pictures, record videos, and audio, which you can then save to your hard drive.

Sony has confirmed that the PlayStation Eye will be out in Europe on 7th November and will cost you GBP 24.99 and will come bundled with a free copy of editing suite EyeCreate. You’ll be able to shoot vids at 120fps, take bog standard snaps and even use it as a microphone while taunting online opponents.

EA has been talking to Elevation Partners and finding ways to get their hands on VG Holding Corp, the guys who own both Bioware and Pandemic. This week they closed the deal, which was valued at $860 million. EA is happy to bring in the newbies to their lineup.

BioWare Corp. and Pandemic Studios have 10 franchises under development, including six wholly owned games. BioWare Corp. is currently developing Mass Effect, which will be published by Microsoft Corp. in November, and is in the early development stages of a massively multiplayer online game.

Nintendo may be making a big hit with people now, but if they have any more delays with their products than they are going to find that fame going down the drain …fast! Not only are people not going to be able to get their hands on many Wii’s for Christmas, but now they are going to have to forgo buying the newly anticipated Super Smash Bros. Brawl – which was originally planned for Christmas.

Nintendo is upgrading the Wii to support USB keyboards so that gamers can access the internet. Version 3.1 will give the Wii built-in wireless network capability and the best part about this upgrade is that it is free.

The update finally allows users to use any USB keyboard to enter text in the Wii’s Internet browser. Also users can now send links to other Wii users, and a “copy/paste” feature has been added so users can copy a line of text and then paste it in a search box or the URL field.