EA Head to Run US Olympic Committee

This has to be the wierdest story I've read in a while. The chairman for EA, Larry Probst has been appointed to the new olympic committee for the US.

"I'm extremely honored to be chosen for this role," Probst told the paper after his election to a four-year term. "I've had a lot of sports experience as a CEO. I've had a very successful business career. I know how to work collaboratively with people. I know how to build and develop a team."

I didnt know that owning a video game company could give you experience in sports. I thought the job of a CEO was to just look at the money beening raked in after doing one shoddy sequel after another with very little changes being made to them?

His main job will be to petition to have the 2016 games held in Chicago.

I wonder what Peter Moore thinks of all this....

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Article By: William Stephen

Nintendo Ruin Xmas

Well it looks like Nintendo didn't bother reading our feature this week. According to MCV Nintendo have stated that there will be no price drop for DS or Wii this Christmas. Obviously, they feel no threat from the recent Xbox 360 price slashing by Microsoft. Which can now be picked up cheaper than a Wii.

So it seems that Nintendo have never heard of the words 'Credit Crunch' before. Maybe by the end of the year they will have. Perhaps Nintendo should sit back and have a think about what this could mean for the holiday season...

Just think about poor Timmy. His dad couldn't afford a Nintendo Wii this Christmas. And all because it cost £179.99. Which was £10 more than his budget could allow. So instead, he had to buy little Timmy an Xbox 360, with it's glorious High Definition capabilities and 20gb Hard Drive, for a whole £10 less than the Nintendo Wii. It even had a bigger and better back catalogue of games, with less mini game compilation shite. It died a few months later.

And picture poor little Timmy 2. Who really wanted a Nintendo DS and some games. But his mummy couldn't afford to buy him the two games he wanted with it. So instead, his mummy got him a magical R4 card. Which allowed him to play all games for free! Although, they were subsequently caught. His mum ended up with a criminal record and a prison sentence. Timmy 2 was taken into care.


Hopefully Nintendo will get a bit of festive cheer closer towards the holiday season and change their mind.


Article by: Wesley Lock

Halo movie no longer 100% fragged?

Stuart Beattie, Pirates of the Caribbean, GI Joe has been talking to Gamedaily about the possible future and resurrection of the Halo movie:

The character doesn't start off as Master Chief. He starts off as John, who's the kid that's kidnapped and told he's going to be a soldier. Anyone can connect with a kid kidnapped from his own home. You're along for that journey. The Covenant comes along halfway through that movie. That gives you half the movie to really get to know everyone and care about everyone. And then when the Covenant come along, it's the first time John sees a grunt or a jackal or an elite. The audience is trying to figure out everything at the same time as the characters are. What are these aliens? Why are they killing us? What did we do? And realizing it's all about this Halo ring. And then ending the movie where the first game begins.

Now I love Halo, and I love movies, and this seems to be a MUCH better script idea than last time, when we were allegedly not going to see much of the Chief at all. An audience of non gamers needs to be able to connect with the characters, and the last script didn't do this in my opinion. Now, neither did the final scripts of any of the Resident Evil movies either.

In fact, video game movies are shite. But there is that Bioshock movie coming from Gore Verbinski that has got a pretty good chance of being the first movie based on a game to actually be good. Master Chief as Big Daddy?

Colour me excited, but Hollywood, if it doesn't work out again, how about 2½ hours of Arby and the Chief instead? I'd buy that for a dollar.

Article by: Adam Moore

Molyneux opens mouth, upsets people.

Proving that you don't necessarily need to be popular, or entertaining, or even mildly liked in the gaming industry to make the dolla, Peter Molyneux has once more opened his mouth and this time alienated the entire PC market:

If you look at the gamer market on PC, I'll be quite honest with you, it's in tatters. There aren't that many releases on PC. There are some high points like Crysis and what Blizzard is doing, but other than that you are restricted to The Sims and World of Warcraft, they seem to be dominating the PC side.

Well, thanks for clearing that up Peter, nothing like pissing on everyone who bought your shit games in the first place and got you where you are today now is there?

Next week, see Peter move to Sony and confidently declare the death of the Xbox 360, and how he secretly always knew Microsoft were Paedobears.

Article by: Adam Moore

Nintendo help you walk!

I know this is like, 4 Nintendo posts in a row, but it is their fall press conference, so it's not like we're going out of our way to bash them, they just keep throwing this crap at us. Now Nintendo unveil the DS Pedometer! Yes, Nintendo will help you walk!

Being bundled with a game called 'Your Life Rhythm', which is another wii fit/brain training affair, it is designed to be used with the DS somehow.

Only way I can see it being any fun is if you have to look at the DS while you walk, so not being mindful of your surroundings like Bruce Wayne and therefore becoming roadkill. Which is a fail on Brain training by the way.

Article by: Adam Moore

Nintendo promises to increase DS and Wii production for this Christmas

Good news Nintendo fans, Nintendo have announced today that are planning to make more of their popular consoles than usual this Christmas. This is to try and avoid the random lottery you needed to win to get one in previous years. They will produce the Wii and the DS in higher numbers so more people will be able to buy them.

This is hopefully a good thing as having trouble making enough consoles 2 years or so after you launch one is truly dire. Let's hope Nintendo can keep to their word instead of just tossing out crappy party games every month and alienating the gamers who got them where they are today.

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Article by: Edwin Jones

New Nintendo DSi announced, Guitar hero am cry :(

The new Nintendo DS, or the DSi if you're a Nintendo exec with access to Sony's walkman range of phone's, will have 3.25-inch screens - that's 17 % bigger than the current model. It will also feature a 0.3-megapixel camera. Yes, a whole .3 megapixel!

You'll be able to take pictures with the DSi, save them to a SD card and view them on your TV via the Wii. Yes, as if the plethora of party games that make you look like a spasticated mental patient with tourettes wielding a video remote as the number 78 bus goes by isn't enough of a reason to own a Wii, you can now own one to look at incredible poor images at a low res from the comfort of your own home! The price of such a wondrous feature is steep though, the GBA cartridge slot is being done away with.

Which means no more Guitar Hero DS for you. Yes that's right, no Guitar Hero on the DSi. That's even worse than the...fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiire! I mean, it's not like they've heavily marketed Guitar Hero on the DS or anything, it's not like it's going to be one of the biggest sellers this xmas. Oh, wait.

Disturbingly, Nintendo's own DSi website also tells us to expect a drop in battery life from 19 hours on the DS, to a potential 9 hours on the DSi.

So, that's pretty shit then. The question I'm left asking is, why gimp the DS for such crap features Nintendo?

Article by: Adam Moore