Gamers Evolved

Nintendo revealed a few new titles that are going to be released for the service in Japan. These new titles include Star Soldier R, Doctor Mario, and Pokemon Farm.

While the initial announcement seemed more geared towards low-budget, independent developers, major publishers are interested as well. Square Enix will reportedly upload the entire Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles game to the service.

The new Wii titles will be shipped out for the U.S. sometime in 2008.

Nintendo Wii prides itself on bringing the best and most inventive games to those who love to play – but who also needed to get off the couch and get some exercise. In keeping with this they have created the new Wii Fit game.

The new Wii Fit game requires users to play on a plastic slap that is pressure sensitive and costs $90. With it you receive a number of fitness tracking and exercise software. The board is larger than that of a weight scale and only an inch high. It will communicate to the Wii console wirelessly.

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.

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.