Gamers Evolved

Rock Revolution was revealed this week at the Konami Gamer’s Night and it was confirmed that it would be released on the PS3, Wii, DS, and Xbox 360. The game is said to feature more than 40 cover songs on the disc which will be “the most realistic drum peripheral on the market.” It will also support guitar and bass as well as the vocals and drums. 

Interesting, Wii and DS versions will seemingly be stripped down and/or optimized for their respective strengths. Online multiplayer will not be supported on either, but the Wii version supports air drumming and air guitar like Disney’s forthcoming Ultimate Band, and the DS version will support vocals.

Cameron Suey the producer of the new Star Wars: The Force Unleashed stated that, “Between the Xbox 360 and the PS3, if we’ve done our job right, they’ll be indistinguishable. We really wanted to make the same sort of polished, high-end next-gen experience on both those versions.”

He went on to explain that both versions will be void of the multiplayer feature because it would have distracted them from putting everything into the story line and all of the features needed for the single player mode.

Nintendo has launched the new WiiWare – an online facility that holds dozens of downloadable games. Basically Wii users will be able to find games that new or independent. Nintendo is hoping to compete with Microsoft’s famous Xbox Live Arcade and the XNA Studio as well as Sony’s Playstation Store.

WiiWare is launching with six games: Square Enix’s Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King, Frontier Development’s LostWinds, XGen Studios’ Defend your Castle, Nnooo’s Pop, High Voltage Software’s V.I.P. Casino: Blackjack, and Gameloft’s TV Show King. Nintendo will be adding new games to WiiWare each Monday.

Microsoft is working together with Companions in Courage Foundation (CiC) to help deliver hundreds of the Xbox 360 consoles to children’s hospitals all over the country. The first set of consoles were released in late April at the Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital in New York, the Children’s Hospital & Regional Medical Center in Seattle, Washington, and the Children’s Hospital in Orange Country, California.

In a CiC press release Microsoft President of Entertainment and Devices Division, Robbie Bach, said:

I think it’s safe to say that Steven Spielberg has enough experience when it comes to developing action games. He helped put together the entire Medal of Honor series –which were based off of the film Saving Private Ryan (which was his film). He stated this week that he is on the second round of studying and playing through his new game for PC – Crysis.

We imagined that his first time being a true videogame creative director would include war, guns, and blazing glory. Instead we find out that the game is a cross between Jenga and Tetris. Apparently Spielberg is separating himself from the action games and movies that he is so well known for and getting in touch with his childhood memories.