Game Releases For The Week Of 6/25: The Darkness, Pokemon, And Transformers

Posted by Chris Pereira Categories: Nintendo DS, Nintendo Gamecube, PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Portable/Mobile, PSP, Release Dates, Wii, Xbox, Xbox 360

Some big name titles are hitting this week, including the much anticipated The Darkness for both Xbox 360 and PS3. Transformers is bound to be a big seller by virtue of its name and the number of platforms that it’s coming out on. And Pokemon Battle Revolution for Wii is going to sell a scientifically accurate 1,432,345^100, or in other words, a metric crapton.

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GameSpy Powers Wii Online

Posted by Christopher Sasaki Categories: Corporate News, Internet, Wii

GameSpy announced that they have developed a middleware solution to provide online gaming support for the Nintendo Wii. According to GameSpy, their tools will allow friend lists, online rankings and matchmaking for the Wii. As previously announced, the first game to utilize online Wi-Fi gaming for the Wii will be Pokemon Battle Revolution, shipping on June 25. GameSpy’s press release indicates that the game will have online support similar to existing DS titles, which would seem to indicate that the friend code structure used on the handheld (and in the Japanese release of Battle Revolution) will be used again. Whether third-parties (or Nintendo) can move away from the friend code structure in the future is unclear.

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