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Dead Rising: Chop Til You Drop
The game follows the harrowing tale of Frank West, an overly zealous freelance journalist on a hunt for the scoop of a lifetime. In pursuit of a juicy lead, he makes his way to the small suburban town of Willamette only to find that it has become overrun by zombies. Frank escapes to the local shopping mall, thinking it will be a bastion of safety but it turns out to be anything but. It will be a true struggle to survive the endless stream of enemies, but players will have full reign of a realistic shopping center and its varied stores offering an endless supply of real and makeshift weapons to fight off the flesh-hungry mob. If Frank is running low on health he can pay a visit to one of the many restaurants or cafes for a meal in order to restore his energy and continue the fight. It's a brutal fight, but with no end in sight to this zombie onslaught, Frank bides his time by messing around with a variety of comedic costumes and making use of improvised and sometimes highly ineffective weapons such as a toy sword or a football.
First footage of NASCAR Kart Racing
If you thought NASCAR Kart Racing was bad in still images, wait until you see it in motion. For us, it doesn't look like the worst thing ever. The biggest problem we have is if, well, if we're going to play a Mario Kart clone, we might as well just play Mario Kart.
What about you? Has the trailer changed your mind at all?
Downloadable video content on Wii by 2010
From later this month, Japanese Wiis will boast a similar(ish) service -- Fujisoft's Minna no Theater Wii ("Everybody's Theater Wii") from WiiWare -- but nothing on the scale of Microsoft's deal with Netflix to stream video content. Is it really so important for the Wii to offer downloadable video content? Dixon thinks so, and even argues that setting up a video on-demand service is crucial for Wii to "remain competitive in the long-term."
Hiii! Demonstrating the Wii Speak Channel voice message process
It shows the channel's voice message capability, through which short (10 seconds or less) clips can be recorded and sent to Wii friends' Message Boards. Cleverly, the Channel allows you to bundle a picture with a message, so you can take a picture of that stringfish you caught in Animal Crossing and send it with a taunting message about, you know, how your friend has yet to catch a stringfish.
The Channel also allows users to warp their voices, in a feature similar to one found in the DSi's sound functionality -- which further cements the connection between the DSi's features and UI design and the Wii Menu.
[Update: it's up in North America! Nintendo almost succeeded in completely suppressing news of an available service, but not quite!]
Wii Homebrew Channel?
The Homebrew Channel can be downloaded from the official site:
http://hbc.hackmii.com/
But did you know that you can play Homebrew, backup and import games on your Wii without voiding the warranty? Yep, there's a software called HomebreWare that enables your Nintendo Wii Console to run Homebrew Applications, more over it enables the ability of your Wii Console to play DVD movies, and finally run import and backup games.
Here's exactly what you can do with it:
Play Backup Games.
Play Homebrew Applications.
Play N64, GameCube, SNES and Sega Genesis Games, as well as games from other consoles.
Access to over 2000 Free Games that you can play using the HomebreWare Bundle
Play Region Locked Games, this means you can finally play Imported Games.
Play DVD Movies and Mp3 Songs.
And all WITHOUT a mod chip or anything else for that matter that will void your warranty. Interested? Thought so. Click here now!