Gamers Evolved

Square Enix - the Japanese game software - stated this week that they would be launching their “Final Fantasy XIII” in 2009 in Japan. Square Enix has been keeping the due date a big secret hoping to get gamers excited.

Square Enix will offer “FF XIII” for both Sony Corp’s PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Corp’s Xbox 360 in North America and Europe, and exclusively for the PS3 in Japan. The launch timings for North America and Europe have yet to be decided.

Red Steel was one of the first games to be released on the Nintendo Wii and because of this it was able to receive quite a bit in sales. It is true that many gamers were not very pleased with the game. However, it was still able to offer a few good ideas that were not pulled off well thanks to the Wii remote.

But now, with the announcement of the MotionPlus add-on, Ubisoft hopes it can make good on the promises made in the first game. “Red Steel 2 has been in development for many months now, and this new device will help us be even more precise in what we do with the product,” Ubisoft executive director Alain Corre told GamesIndustry.biz.

PS3 has added two new titles to their PlayStation Store which include 1492: Joint Strike and Siren: Blood Curse. Siren is SCEA’s most highly anticipated horror title and is an episodic series of 12 episodes. All 12 of these episodes are available for $39.99 at 8.91GB. Or you can pay $14.99 for three bundles.

Meanwhile, 1942: Joint Strike is more of a standard PlayStation Network title, as a top-down shooter and revival of Capcom’s classic series. It’s priced at $9.99, and 129 MB in size.

Ever since the release of the famed Nintendo Wii gamers have been finding it difficult to secure one for themselves thanks to the popularity of it and the fact that Nintendo doesn’t seem to make enough to meet demand. The new Wii Fit has actually added to the mayhem and made the search even more difficult.

Gamers have seen the Wii Fit in action and are hoping to get their chance to try out a new way to play games and are looking to lose a few pounds in the process. Along with the new controller there are new titles that we can expect to hit shelves later this year.

Anyone who is playing Halo 3 or any other type of shoot ‘em up game may want to consider donning the red color if you hope to win. A new study is being conducted to show that red will always (or almost always) beat out blue in online shooter games.

The study – which will be published in the Cyberpsychology & Behavior Journal – tracked 1500 matches in Unreal Tournament in 2004. The game splits players into two different teams – the red and blue teams. There is nothing different between the two teams except that they are two different colors. This means that there should be no advantage over the other when playing.