A chap by the name of Junkboy has been providing Swedish magazine Level with ‘demakes’ of current games. They look awesome, wonder if they can inspire publishers to make 16 but style versions of big franchises for release via download. You can see the full selection here.
Microsoft has been trying their hardest to fight against the growing threat of Google and their next stage of attack is an alternative to Google Maps, and as you can see in this video it is really rather cool! IT will be interesting to see how Google counters this, we have already seen the Google Image search engine go under a major overhaul in the past week which makes it more like Microsoft’s Bing image search. Look out for a Microsoft Maps camera car in your street soon.
Nintendo scored a major visctory in the British courts yesterday, recieving judgement that R4 and R4 style flashcarts for the Nintendo DS are now illegal in the UK. Retailers are not allowed to import, sell or advertise the devices that were used to run homebrew – and pirate DS software. The defendants, Wai Dat Chan and Playables Limited, claimed the devices should be legal as they allow homebrew applications to be run but the court ruled it illegal as it has to disable Nintendo’s security systems to work. Wonder if this will bring the end of ‘DS and 200 game’ bundles that often crop up on auction sites across the net. Should hopefully also stop mothers going into game stores with DSi’s complaining their R4 cards don’t work on the system.
Hardware manufacturers have been working hard to stop piracy this gen with Microsoft banning thousands across Xbox Live, Nintendo fighting to outlaw the R4 cards and Sony disabling Linux on PS3 after exploits were found.
A few weeks ago I traveled afar (well, went to London) to have a hands-on preview session with Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days. Read on to see what is new in the world of the psychopath criminals and to find out where you can find a demo of the game to see if you agree with my thoughts on the title.
Capcom said they had an announcement to make at Comic Con at it ended up being a rather special one – the Street Fighter IV team were hard at work making Street Fighter X Tekken, bringing the likes of Heihachi and Nina to the Street Fighter universe. If that was not exciting enough, Namco later confirmed that they would be producing Tekken X Street Fighter which would see the Street Fighter characters fighting in 3D fighting areas against the Tekken crew. I am a huge fan of both franchises though do recognise that Tekken 6 was a huge disappointment, mostly due to the godawful side scrolling story mode. Both games are due around 2011, and we should also be seeing a downloadable version of Street Fighter 3: Third Strike. Who would have thought that beat em up’s would make such a comeback, and with Capcom doing so many collaborations will we maybe see a Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat crossover?
