EL33TONLINE: News archive for September, 2009
A set of three new games have appeared on Xbox LIVE Marketplace this day, each offering wildly different experiences, from a quiz game about football (also known as ‘soccer’), to a turn-based military strategy game, as well as classic bubble popping mayhem, all available for 800 MS Points apiece.
First up we have Football Genius: The Ultimate Quiz, the latest game to arrive from South African game developers I-Imagine.
Football Genius challenges players’ knowledge of football facts and trivia with over 3500 questions, spanning six question packs covering International, English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish football.
Sounds perfect for all of you Fifa and Pro Evolution Soccer fans out there!
Check out El33tonline’s previous coverage of Football Genius: The Ultimate Quiz to have a look at some screenshots and a trailer.
What else is new on Xbox LIVE Arcade today?
Microsoft has taken the wraps off a new Xbox 360 Elite Holiday bundle and Xbox 360 wireless controller game pack.
The Elite Holiday bundle will include a 120GB Elite Xbox 360 console as well as two games, LEGO Batman: The Videogame and PURE. It is available now at North American and Canadian retailers for $299.
Nintendo gamers in South Africa will be spoilt for choice over the coming months. In addition to the Wii receiving a price cut here and Wii Fit Plus and New Super Mario Bros. Wii arriving in the next two months, a whole bunch of new games for both the Wii and the DS will be arriving on our sunny shores in late October/early November.
Pokemon fans will be happy to know that Pokemon Platinum for the DS and Pokemon Battle Revolution for the Wii will soon be available, while Mario fans can look forward to the highly anticipated Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story. Cooking Guide, Style Boutique and 100 Classic Books also promise to entertain both young and old this holiday season.
In addition to confirming that the Wii would also be receiving a price cut in South Africa, Core Gaming (distributors of Nintendo in SA), revealed that Wii Fit Plus and New Super Mario Bros. Wii would both be available here in South Africa in line with the European release of the games.
Wii Fit Plus will be released on the 4th of October across the US with the European release following a short while later on the 30th of October. Core Gaming has confirmed that the South African release will be parallel to Europe, meaning that Wii Fit Plus will arrive here towards the end of October!
Last week at the Tokyo Game Show Nintendo announced that the Wii would receive a $50 price cut across North America. The discount came into effect on the 27th of September, making the new price tag of the publisher’s popular console $199.99, much more competitive against the recent price cut of the Xbox 360 Elite and PS3 to $299.
El33tonline has today received confirmation from Core Gaming, distributors of Nintendo in South Africa, that the Wii will also receive a price cut here in South Africa. While the price cut does vary between local retailers, you will be able to pick up a Wii from between R2400 to R2500 from as early as the 2nd of October. In fact certain retailers have already knocked roughly R1000 off the price tag.
Gameloft is currently working on a remake of the early nineties classic action platformer, Earthworm Jim, which saw a release on home consoles such as the Mega Drive/Genesis and Super NES in 1994. This much you knew.
A single comparison screenshot has now been released, however, to show the differences in graphical detail between the game’s original release in 1994, and the new remake here in 2009.
Maybe you’ve already watched the Tokyo Game Show-exclusive Final Fantasy XIII trailer in Japanese, only shown behind closed doors at the show but recently released to the general public to see. Maybe you’ve seen that one.
But have you seen it with English subtitles? It makes it make a whole lot more sense.
Watch below:
In an effort to show off the incredible attention to detail present in their upcoming football sim, Pro Evolution Soccer 2010, Konami has released a batch of mug shots revealing England’s pride and joy of the football world in up-close-and-personal detail.
Konami’s PES 2010 team aims to bring “unrivalled realism to the world of virtual football,” as well as the “most realistic control system imaginable” and “the most lifelike representations of players ever seen.” Hefty tasks indeed.
You’ll be able to get your hands on all of that innovation on October 23rd when PES 2010 releases on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. For now though, you can take a gander at a bunch of close-ups of your favourite English footballers below:
You may remember a little while ago that El33tonline and Megarom teamed up to bring you the Fantastic Friday Mystery PS3 Prize Hamper competition. What you may not know is that the contents of the hamper were not only a secret to you all, but so top secret that we didn’t even know what was up for grabs!
Oltman Botha was the lucky gamer who had to wait a short while for the prize to be delivered and his curiosity to be sated. Read below for his blow by blow account of unwrapping this awesome prize.
In order to get Street Fighter fans frothing even more for the recently announced Super Street Fighter IV, Capcom has released an extended teaser trailer for the game, as well as a batch of official screenshots.
Super Street Fighter IV is set to release in Spring next year as a standalone, disc-based title, as opposed to downloadable content for the already existing Street Fighter IV, and will add eight new characters and a bevy of fixes, tweaks and improvements to the original game.
Continue on down below to see the rest of the screenshots, as well as that extended trailer. You can also stay for a little while longer and watch shaky-cam footage of some in-game action, and see new characters T. Hawk, Dee Jay and Juri crushing their opponents:
Ninja Theory (Heavenly Sword) and Namco Bandai have taken the wraps off of their latest venture, Enslaved, a tactical action adventure game set in a perilous post-apocalyptic America.
Set more than 150 years in the future, Enslaved envisions a world left in ruin after fierce wars tore it apart, leaving a drastically thinned out civilisation with reminders of these battles in the form of ruthless robots used during the wars, who now traverse the landscape.
In Enslaved, players will take up the mantle of main protagonist, Monkey, “a strong and brutish loner,” and joined by a partner by the name of Trip, “a technologically savvy but sheltered young woman from a peaceful community.”
Anno 1404 (aka Dawn of Discovery) is all about building island settlements and strategically managing their economies. It’s also about conjuring up a sense of another era, when time seemed to move slower and everything looked aesthetically pleasing, especially when zoomed in. It’s your very own circa 1404 town, complete with gothic cathedral, cobblestone streets and little 15th century people walking around.
To build a settlement you start with a storehouse on the coast of an island and then place a bunch of peasant houses around a marketplace inland. Pretty soon peasants start moving in, but in order to keep them in your newly established village you will have to feed them. Peasants are rather easy to please so building a fishing hut and connecting it to your storehouse via a road is all you need to keep them fed. The fisherman goes out in a boat and catches some fish, and a little cart from the storehouse goes and collects the fish from his hut and adds it to the stores. The fish kept in stores slowly get eaten by the peasants, so the more peasants you have the more fishermen you’ll need.
Continue reading El33tonline’s review of Anno 1404.
The new downloadable content (DLC) for Left 4 Dead, Crash Course, is now available for both Xbox 360 and PC users, so there’s just one thing left to do: play it!
Well, if you’re a PC player, you’ll also need to patch Left 4 Dead to fix some issues introduced by Crash Course. Details on that follow below.
But if you are an avid Left 4 Dead player, and you haven’t yet released 560 of your MS Points on Xbox LIVE Marketplace to buy the DLC, or downloaded it through Steam (for free), here’s a quick gameplay video from the new content to entice you into doing so:
If you haven’t already entered our competitions for this month, then there’s no time to waste!
Today is the last day to enter and stand a chance to win a copy of Super Car Challenge (PS3), FIFA 10 (PS3), Need for Speed: SHIFT (Xbox 360), Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 (Wii) and Velvet Assassin (PC/ Xbox 360). Don’t forget that you can also claim your R75 discount off anything you fancy at wantitall.co.za, simply by being an El33tonline reader!
Bungie have finally done it; not content to hold the top spot on the Xbox LIVE Activity chart this past week with Halo 3, and consistently taking the same spot on the original Xbox activity chart with Halo 2, they’ve gone and occupied the second spot as well, with Halo 3: ODST sitting contentedly at No. 2 on the list.
Call of Duty 4, Call of Duty: World at War and Gears of War 2 trail behind the two leaders.
The newly released Zombie Apocalypse becomes the best selling Xbox LIVE Arcade game for the week, followed by Pinball FX and the previous chart dominator, Trials HD.
I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1, meanwhile, continues its reign at the top of the Xbox LIVE Indie Games sales chart, having by now taken up almost permanent residence in the position, as Avatar Drop and Fishing Girl place at No. 2 and No. 3 respectively.
The full global list of top played Xbox Live games, original Xbox games and top selling XBLA and Xbox LIVE Indie Games follows below, all based on unique users and full versions purchased.
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