Friday, August 19, 2011

EA: "Do not look at Call of Duty"

The Call of Duty series has become synonymous with success for years and stratospheric sales, but this year the game Activision will face his most dangerous rival of all time, Battlefield 3. Despite the challenge is awaited by all, Peter Moore, COO of EA, has thrown a bit 'of water on the fire by stating that Electronic Arts does not have to look at the sales of his rival to succeed.

Moore declared that the company's strategy is to gain ground. "If you look at last year, probably Call of Duty has raked in 90% of the market. If we could this year to reduce their share to 70% would already be a great victory." "To succeed we must not necessarily beat Call of Duty, and be competitive enough for us to establish ourselves ...

Here are the dates of Gamescom 2012

The 2011 edition of Gamescom is issuing his final roar and it's already time to think about next year. The Gamescom 2012 will be held August 15 to 19 and probably lengthen the list of records that the growing popularity of the event in Europe is establishing in recent years. The number of visitors to this edition has not yet been announced, and will not be until August 22, but the projections say that the total of last year should be clearly exceeded.

Kinect Sports: Season 2 has a date

Microsoft has announced that Kinect Sports: Season 2 will be available on store shelves from October 28. This second compilation propose Rare signed six new sports disciplines, voice control and an unprecedented challenge mode. Microsoft also announced Kinectimals Now With Bears!, New chapter in the series available from 11 October as part of game or as DLC than the last.

Thursday, August 18, 2011

A new Wii for Christmas

Let us prepare the revision of the hardware and the loss of backward compatibility with the Wii GC wanted news about U? No, it still touches the Wii. Nintendo has announced that this Christmas will begin selling a new hardware revision of the Wii, sold bundled with Wii Party and Wii Sports. Together we will be at the console the Wii Remote Plus, instead of the standard, and a Nunchuk.

F1 Safety Car for 2011

Codemasters has confirmed the presence of the Safety Car in F1 in 2011, last in the series due out in stores in a few weeks, September 23. For those who are fasting Formula 1 (and the rhyme is served), the Safety Car is a car that was on the runway in case of an accident that "guide" F1 racing cars at a reduced speed until the problem is not resolved.

Its introduction in the new game is to guess a marked propensity for strategy and more importantly the presence of random events during the races.

GC2011 - Cars 2 inPSP version

Rather disappointing fans of Cars 2 will be able to play the arcade racing in Disney portable version for Nintendo DS and PSP. The images below are captured by the news weblog Sony laptop. Unfortunately the title does not seem to shine in terms of quality and beauty you would expect a similar performance on the DS.

Konami announces Leedmees

Konami has used, as more and more often, the pages of Famitsu to announce a new game called Leedmees. It will be released exclusively for Xbox 360 and Kinect and will have some similarities with the Lemmings series. Unfortunately the information from the Japanese magazine stop there. The output is incredibly close as the Xbox Live will welcome back from September 7.

It is unclear if that date refers only to Japanese territory.