Your daily smörgåsbord of the very best gaming has to offer.
Enthusiast:
- Guitar Hero: World Tour details revealed at (IGN)
- LittleBigPlanet will have some semblance of story, feature user-policing for adult content (PS3 Fanboy)
- “On September 2nd, shovel talks. You dig. Monsters die,” and Atlus sets you to work building dungeons in Master of the Monster Lair for Nintendo DS (VerticalWire)
- Bandai Namco’s Ace Combat team developing Wii dogfighter based on upcoming Japanese animation The Sky Crawlers (Game|Life)
- The Witcher: Enhanced Edition free update (and premium package) dated September (Official Website via Eurogamer)
Industry:
- Sony Corp. CEO says top priority is “to restore profitability in our television and game businesses” (Bloomberg via GameSpot)
- SouthPeak Interactive raises 12.9 million (VentureBeat)
- MGS4 propels PS3 to top of Japanese weekly charts while PSP maintains healthy lead over DS (Media Create via Kotaku)
Trendwatch:
- ESRB plugs game leaks after publisher complaints (Next-Gen)
- AARP provides retirees with free online flash games (Business & Games)
Politics: London mayor (partially) blames violent games for rise in knife crime; forgets to condemn games that teach ancient curses (MCVUK)
Virtually Compelling: To celebrate 5th anniversary, Second Life hosts two-week-long Virtual World Fair (BusinessWire)
Hardware: First three benches show NVIDIA’s GeForce 9800 GTX+ edging out the AMD Radeon HD 4850, for a $30 premium (FiringSquad, LegitReviews, PC Perspective)
Interviewed: BioWare’s Sonic Chronicles project lead Mark Darrah on adapting Sonic, DS development difficulty. Hints at future Wii/PSP projects (Gamasutra)
Rumoriffic: BioWare’s (KOTOR?) MMO due fiscal 2010 (TVG via Eurogamer)
Try This: Turn your Wii Wheel and Wii Balance Board into a wireless PC racing controller. Look out, Logitech (Nintendo Wii Fanboy)
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