Final Fantasy XII is now available at retail. For what is sure to be one of the last great PS2 games and one of the biggest changes for series in recent memory. FFXII is receiving stellar reviews from all media outlets. Here are a few scores from the North American release.
Gamespot – 9/10
Gamespy – 5/5
Official Playstation Magazine – 10/10
Gamepro – 5/5
EGM – 9/10
Game Informer – 9.25/10
IGN – 9.5/10
Convinced it’s good yet? FFXII is said to be a 50+ hour game so this one is sure to keep you occupied for the next month or two.
This Friday at Nintendo World 2006, Nintendo will give us the first look at a new character or characters in a new trailer. Sonic anyone? The trailer is suppose to show this new character with in-game footage. Hopefully the game is really coming along nicely and maybe we will get a little more info on it and it’s online features, hell maybe even a release date. As soon as it’s released Friday we will have it up for you all to see.
Here is my attempt at a Nintendo Wii cover for Starcraft 2 (wishful thinking ). Let’s see what you all have to offer e-mail your Wii boxart to us JUST CLICK HERE!. We will post the best if not all of them and give you credit.
The template below will allow your right brains to run wild (sorry Reggie). Design your own Wii mock-up boxart. Click the image below for 1024×768 image and create away.
Click here for a larger image
Please do not use this template to post boxart for say Nights 2 and claim it’s real. Although do share your designs with us.
If you saw the Sunday ads you may have noticed that Target has advertised the new slim silver PS2. Same functionality same design different color is all really. But the shiney silver does look very cool. The system comes with a silver controller, silver PS2 and included like it’s black counterpart is the built in ethernet port. It will retail for $129.99 MSRP. If you haven’t made the jump to PS2 yet or if your PS2 has broken down for the ?teenth time then why not?
Microsoft today revealed the next major dashboard update for the Xbox 360 which is being released tomarrow Oct. 31. The list is quite large and the new features are quite awesome. Heres are 10 features that I thought were particularly awesome:
HD 1080p video mode support over VGA and component cables.
Stream WMV video from a Windows PC running Windows Media Player 11, Zune software, or Windows Media Connect.
Play video from storage devices such as USB flash drives, Xbox 360 Memory Units, etc.
Play video from CD or DVD data discs.
Lightning-fast enumeration and listing of all Xbox Live® Arcade games on the console.
Optionally disable notifications from Xbox Live while watching DVD movies.
HD DVD player support.
Improved voice chat quality in Xbox Dashboard and in-game chats.
Support for upcoming release of XNA Game Studio Express (separate download and subscription required.)
Stream music, pictures and video from a Zune device.
For the full list of all 85 improvements, additions and revisions CLICK HERE!
A member of the ChinaGBA forum has posted many pictures of the Sixaxis and its innards. It is quite an analysis; in this post, even the outside of the controller is compared to the PS2 controller. One thing many have noticed is that the “non-user-replaceable” battery is much like the “non-user-replaceable” battery in the iPod; it can be easily replaced, as long as you are comfortable with taking the device apart.
I took Joystiq’s lead and have posted the link that goes through Google Translation. So, enjoy the wonderful translations.
The latest episode of IGN Weekly Episode 30 features a 10 minute walkthrough of the Nintendo Wii interface. Although the interface isn’t final in the development system they have all the options are there just not all of the channels. The options are very interesting, it’s definately worth a look. Here are just a few screens from the video.
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