This is a good one. Mr. Miyamoto was caught napping during Koji Kondo’s (big Nintendo composer) speech at the Game Developers’ Conference (GDC) this year. Most people are guessing that poor Shigeru was jet-lagged, see the pic below (click for a larger version).
The floor layout for the new, downsized, exclusive, invitation-only E3 has been revealed to the public. Essentially, there are now only two booth sizes — 20′ x 20′ and 10′ x 10′. The big players this year (the companies that have the larger booths) are:
You can see the full floor plan here
The Mitchell Corporation (who made Polarium for the DS and GBA) has announced that they have three games in the works for release in 2007. One for the Wii, and two for the DS. I thought that Polarium was one of the more clever games for the DS, and I liked it quite a bit. I hope that whatever they’re making for the Wii will be at least as good as Polarium was.
EA recently had an interview with IGN in which they announced a new Wii game that is in the works. EA Playground can supposedly be grouped in the same genre as Wii Sports and Wii Play, essentially “a mix of easy to pick up and incredibly fun playground games. There are some classic favorites in there along with some new twists.”
I must say that I’m a bit reserved about this game right now, I think that EA might just be trying to play off of the Wii- games’ success instead of trying to do something truly original and cool. We’ll see how it turns out, though.
Shigeru Miyamoto, my idol as illustrated by my username, is a candidate in TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people of the year. Below you’ll find a link to vote for Shiggy (preferably giving him 100) — he’s sitting at #9 right now, but let’s see if we can’t get him to #1.
GameTrailers has a new video up with some gameplay from the Japanese version of Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles: Rings of Fate for the DS. Check out the video below:
