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Posted 11:25am 29/08/08 by: Joaby  Login to add faves.
Tiger Woods is the driving force behind the Gillette - EA SPORTS Champions of Gaming, a multi-sport gaming tournament designed to find the Global Champion of Gaming.

Tiger's pumped to be involved with the tournament,

I'm proud of my association with both Gillette and EA SPORTS because they represent what it means to be at the top of your game. This program will give guys the chance to play games at the highest level possible, which is always exciting. To be the best at anything is an amazing feat.


The gaming series will take place in late October over Xbox Live - punters can compete against others worldwide to be the best in the EA Sports range - including Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 09, NASCAR 09, Madden NFL 09, NBA LIVE 09 and FIFA Soccer 09.

On the subject of EA Sports games and competition, Kreese and I went head-to-head in Madden 09 yesterday at lunch. Kreese (an appropriate name here) bullied me into playing as the Rams (team rating 77, league's worst QB) while he was the Giants (team rating 94, current NFL Champions).

He then beat me by some inconsequential amount before retiring "undefeated". Tiger Woods would be ashamed, and he can walk on water. Peer pressure might convince him to play a rematch, so tell him to man up in here!


Posted 10:42am 29/08/08 by: Joaby  Login to add faves.
This is episode 99 of the Weekly Update! That's like, 99 weeks of updates! Andy kicks things off this week with a look at Too Human, the game we described as how we "would see Diablo working on a console".

Andy then moves on to Microsoft's incoming Sidewinder X6 Keyboard, with a detachable keypad, backlit keys and a style to match your Temple of Nod-esque Sidewinder Mouse. It's out in November - we can't wait.

Straight after showing off Microsoft's new keyboard Andy pimps out iDEF - this years version of the eGames Expo. The games show is hitting Melbourne November 14 and leaving November 16 - it's shaping up to be a lot of fun.

And finally, Andy's got something big planned next week for the 100th episode of the Weekly Update. Watch the Weekly Update now!



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BigPond GameArena Weekly Update 29 Aug 2008

Posted: 28 Aug 08 | 202 views | 11 downloads | 104.8MB
Posted 10:18am 29/08/08 by: kreese  Login to add faves.
The image below features Hollywood director Brett Ratner and... a plank. Which of the two would you trust to make a movie?


Plank vs Ratner


"But Ratner made X-Men: The Last Stand", you cry, "What has a strip of varnished wood done lately?" Good point... however it's Ratner (not the plank) who has come up with the worst movie idea (possibly of all time): he wants to make a movie about... Guitar Hero.

"I love ‘Guitar Hero’ and I think it’s a part of pop culture. I would love to do a ‘Guitar Hero’ movie, if Activision would ever let me. I’m trying to convince them, but why would you have a movie screw up such a huge franchise? Not that I would make a bad movie. So that would be cool, to do a ‘Guitar Hero’ movie. ”

...

"It could be about a kid from a small town who dreams of being a rock star and he wins the ‘Guitar Hero’ competition. One of these dreams-[come-true] kind of concepts."


This is why Ratner makes movies off other people's stories. I'm struggling to think of a worse game to try converting to film format. Wii Fit? Young fat kid in a small suburban town gets bullied at school... uses Wii Fit to turn around his life and become an aerobic instructor.

Maybe Tony Hawk's Pro Skater: Young kid from a small suburban town gets bullied at school, plays Tony Hawk Pro Skater, becomes a older fat kid with broken ankles from trying to perform manual to kickflip to darkslide combos.

Let us know your best movie of the game concepts - we in turn will approach a film production house and see if we can pitch them as concepts.


Posted 10:18am 29/08/08 by: Joaby  Login to add faves.
Survivor is inexplicably a popular TV show. The show is up to its seventeenth season in the US, and this year they've got a pro-gamer on board.

Ken "Sephirothken" Hoang, the King of Smash is joining the tribes in the Survivor Gabon to see if Super Smash Bros. skills will translate into surviving in Africa.

As the King of Smash, Hoang has won over $50,000(USD) in prize money winning Super Smash Bros. tournaments, and according to the Survivor site,

As the current international champion of Nintendo's Super Smash Brothers Melee video game, Ken has traveled the world from Japan to Australia to prove his dominance.



He's single, ladies. And he can waggle all night long.


You can check out Ken's full bio at the Survivor site if you want to find out more information about this pro-waggler and repeater. Let's hope we don't hear that phrase on the show.

Maybe Jonathan "Fatal1ty" Wendell should go on the show as well. It could be Painkiller versus Super Smash Bro - who would win?


Posted 04:02pm 28/08/08 by: Joaby  Login to add faves.
Dev diaries are so cool. You get part trailer, part game run-down and at the end of it you come away with more information and more eye-candy than when you started.

This first Prince of Persia Dev Diary delivers on exactly that - there's some cool info on the enemies and our Persian prince's skillset, more awesome visuals than what you probably saw in the E3 trailer and an overview of the game's story.

It's like a four and a half minute tv show, and we can't wait for the next episode. Check it out in our videos library now and tell us what you think.



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Prince of Persia Dev Diary #1 Trailer

Posted: 28 Aug 08 | 197 views | 24 downloads | 279MB
Posted 10:41am 28/08/08 by: Joaby  Login to add faves.
EA has released a patch for the Spore Creature Creator only a week before the full game launches.

The patch fixes a few small issues contained within the SCC and one big one - the ability to drag and drop creatures between Spore and the Spore Creature Creator.

You can grab the patches from our files library - there's one patch for the Full version of the game and one for the Trial version as well. This one is PC only - Mac creature creators will have to wait a little longer for the patch. Check below for the patch notes.

  • Improved thumbnail resolutions for saved creatures.


  • Added five new animations, recorded when creating animated GIFs in Test Drive Mode.


  • Fixed a randomly occurring system hang.


  • Fixed a crash associated with EADM.


  • Creatures no longer disappear from the Sporepedia when the save flow is interrupted.


  • Corrected the Audio buzzing found on systems with nForce2 integrated audio.


  • Updated Spanish and Polish readme files.


  • Updated the EULA found in the installer.


  • Fixed disparity between server and game complexity limits.


  • Integrated the newest save creature PNG.
    NOTE: This allows creatures PNGs made with Spore to be drag-and-dropped into the Spore Creature Creator. Spore Creature Creator players who do not patch will not be able to drag-and-drop PNGs created in patched versions of the Spore Creature Creator or Spore.


  • Improves overall stability.


Are you starting to get pumped for Spore again? We're on the final stretch now, but the first week of September is going to be pretty big for games releases - S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky (PC), Mercenaries 2 (PC, PS3 and Xbox 360) and Square Enix's Infinite Undiscovery (Xbox 360) are all launching next week.


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Posted 04:51pm 27/08/08 by: Joaby  Login to add faves.
Is Madden 09 a worthwhile addition to the 20 year old series? Is it more than just a roster update in EA Sports legacy franchise? Should PC gamers be upset at the fact that Peter Moore decided not to bring Madden 09 to the PC?

If you mess up bad enough the EA Sports Backtrack mode kicks in – it gives you an in-game replay which assesses where you went wrong. Say you call a pass play and the ball gets picked for an interception – once the play ends the game will wind back to the start of the play while the commentators tell you where you went wrong so you can try and do better next time. It’s flat out the best tool for learning how to play better. You’ll find yourself looking for routes and scanning for blockers like never before. It should be in every sports game.


Find the answers to these burning questions in our Madden 09 Review now. And if you're looking for ways to make your Madden experience more Australian - we've got you covered for that too!

Have you got any pro-tips for playing Madden 09 more Australian? Have you picked up Madden 09 yet - do you agree with our review, or are you hating the latest version of the NFL game?


Posted 04:13pm 27/08/08 by: Joaby  Login to add faves.
H.A.W.X will have real life locations, accurately mapped to an incredible degree thanks to a partnership between Ubisoft and GeoEye, "a premier provider of satellite, aerial and geospatial information" and their Earth-imaging satellite IKONOS.

Ubisoft plans to use the satellite imaging to create an ultra-realistic environment for H.A.W.X as the game takes players across 16 locations internationally. They've also worked with the U.S. Geological Survey and the Center for Earth Resources Observations and Science (USGS/EROS) to help them use the satellite images as accurately as possible.

Mark Brender, VP of corporate communications and marketing at GeoEye said,

High-resolution satellite imaging is moving from the black world of intelligence to the white world of commerce and Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X will bring that reality to gamers. With video game graphics becoming more realistic, the use of high-quality photographic ground textures in H.A.W.X adds true photo-realism to the air combat experience.



A GeoEye Image of the National Stadium in Beijing - better reception than I had of the games.


Maybe this new approach to realism will bring about a whole new "uncanny valley" - or maybe it won't matter when you whiz past the entire photo-realistic environment at Mach 3.


Posted 03:07pm 27/08/08 by: Joaby  Login to add faves.
There's a new piece up on Gaming Liberty, it's the start of a fortnightly event where Greg Tanahill will help give us some insight into how a politician looks at games.

Every two weeks we'll take your questions that you can ask in the comments (or PM me if you're shy) and Greg will do his best to answer them as a gamer and a politician. It seems everyone was shy last week, as we didn't get any questions at all - fortunately we had our own question we were interested in.

Head to our first Questions answered now to find out our question and Greg's answer and ask him one of your own! Next week we'll have another great article from Greg, plus so much more in the pipeline, so keep focused on Gaming Liberty!


Posted 02:19pm 27/08/08 by: Joaby  Login to add faves.
The Leipzig Games Convention 08 is the gift that keeps giving. In the good way. Our guys in Germany got us even more footage out of GC08 and it's just hit our video library in all its glory.

Kicking things off we have a look at the EA press conference where the mega-publisher announced a Tennis game and talked to someone who sounds like an Australian(!) about FIFA 09 before scoping out the rest of the massive line-up on offer. You can check that one out straight from our videos library.

Harry Potter fans are a crazy bunch, and the guys in Germany got face time with the ginger nut brothers of Ronald Weasley, Oliver and James Phelps, to scope out the upcoming Harry Potter game. The guys are real life twins, but they appear to be fake red heads. The game actually looks pretty fun on the Wii, especially with the wand battles. If you're a bit of a Hogwarts nut scope the video now!

Harry Potter fan or not, what do you think of the young wizard's incoming game? And what do you think of EA's plans for the coming year?



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BigPond GameArena GC 2008 HP Twins Feature

Posted: 26 Aug 08 | 1448 views | 31 downloads | 269.5MB
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