The BBC and Nintendo UK today unveiled a new version of the popular BBC iPlayer on Nintendo’s Wii. First made available through the console’s internet channel April last year, BBC iPlayer will now be available as a dedicated Wii Channel to provide users with a new, richer experience of the BBC’s TV and Radio on demand catch up service, available from Wednesday 18th November.
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Microsoft Ireland has refused to confirm to GOONL!NE if a report this morning indicates that Alan Wake would be released in May 2010.
“[We] can neither confirm or deny it,” said a MS Ireland PR.
As for Microsoft UK, they only reiterated the Spring 2010 date given by Remedy writer Sam Lake at E3.
“I can confirm that Alan Wake is scheduled for release in SPRING 2010 but no official date has yet been announced.”
There you have it.
By Jonathan Cullen.
There is a headline I never thought I’d be writing. Square Enix has announced that they have picked the winner of the X Factor 2006 Leona Lewis to sing the English theme tune of Final Fantasy XIII.
The song is titled My Hands, from her antcipated second album Echo.
Square Enix’s US CEO John Yamamoto made the announcement at the end of the video just released, which we are uploading for you to view right now.
The game was just announced for a March 9th 2010 release.
By Jonathan Cullen.
Square Enix has finally announced the respective release dates for the Western release of Final Fantasy XIII.
It’ll come on March 9th 2010 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, in a EU-US sim-ship.
The Japanese release date was announced back in September at a premiere party. The game releases in Japan on December 17th for the PS3.
“This is truly a landmark title, arriving simultaneously for multiple platforms for the first time in the history of the series. We are also immensely proud to be able to bring the game to the European and PAL audience much earlier than was publically anticipated,” said Square Enix Europe CEO, Phil Rogers.
We gave the game earlier this year the title of “GOONL!NE’s Most Anticipated Title of 2009“, and needless to say, this won’t disappoint.
A new trailer was also released. You can watch that above, but you can also view it at a decent size here.
Oh, and Leona Lewis has been picked to do the theme song.
Press release is after the jump.
EA’s just announced that Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band will be available for The Beatles: Rock Band next week for the PS3, 360 and Wii.
The full album is available from Tuesday on Xbox Live Marketplace and Rock Band Shop for the Wii, and Thursday on the PS Store.
The album, which includes the classics like Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, When I’m Sixty-Four and the epic closer that is A Day in the Life, will retail for 1080 MS points on Marketplace, and £7.49 for the PS3 and Wii.
The full tracklist is after the jump.
Originally given a Spring 2010 release at E3, has been told that Alan Wake will recieve a global worldwide release in May 2010.
The site was also told it’ll be marketed like a Hollywood thriller.
Find more through the site. We’ve emailed Microsoft, and asked for comment.
Speaking in an interview with a French gaming publication, Square Enix president Yoichi Wada has given the clearest indication that we’l be seeing Final Fantasy XIII in Europe a lot sooner then previously thought.
“We get our future productions almost simultaneously. However, regarding the games that are being developed and whose output is imminent, I think the delays are already much shorter than before,” said the Square pres.
As for Final Fantasy XIII, at a time when we speak, we have not yet decided on its release date in the world. But I think we can get him out much earlier than imagined by European players.”
Wada also confirmed the game will recieve DLC.
“For Final Fantasy XIII, it will not change much. We always include downloadable content when we make our games.”
And as for the FFVII remake:
“We do not currently carry it out. But our developers dream of doing it. Unfortunately we have no intention of doing so yet.”
There you have it.
A massive Final Fantasy XIII announcement is expected today. What could it be?
BioWare has one again refused to either confirm or deny that they are working on a PlayStation 3 version of Mass Effect 2, insisting that they have only announced it thus far for the Xbox 360 and PC.
“Always lots of rumours, but we’ve announced basically it’s coming to Xbox 360 and PC, and thats all we’re talking about,” said BioWare co-founder Ray Muzyka, speaking in the latest GTTV.
Followed up again and asked if a PS3 version was ruled ou, other BioWare co-founder, Greg Zeschuck said:
“We’re not saying anything.”
Make of that as you will.
For now, it’s out on the 360 from January 2010.
Speaking in the latest GTTV, project director for Mass Effect 2 Casey Hudson has revealed there will be DLC support for the game.
The first Mass Effect only received two DLC packs since it’s release in 2007, Bring Down the Sky in 2008 and Pinnacle Station only this year. But it seems ME2 will be supported much better this time in terms of DLC.
“As part of trying to build [Mass Effect 1], as ambitious as it was, one of the things we werent able to do technically was to have the support in the game itself for certain kinds of downloadable content, so either it had to be a huge pack or nothing essentially was the issue,” said Hudson.
“So now, we’ve gone through and made sure that it’s technically possible to do a whole range of different kinds of downloads. Once we’re done working on Mass Effect 2, pretty much the whole team switches into working on really cool downloadable content. And then, we like to listen what fan feedback is for where do you want to go, what kind of things do you want to see.”
The game is out on January 23rd in the US and January 27th in the UK for the Xbox 360.
Just in case you aren’t aware, Square Enix are about to blow the lid off of a major Final Fantasy XIII announcement in the US and Europe today.
We don’t know much, hence we’re trying to get through to Square Enix to get some sort of understanding as to what will happen, but we do know there will be a new trailer involving producer Yoshinori Kitase.
We’re incredibly pumped. And we mean “incredibly pumped” for this.
Stay tuned, sports fans!