The elusive Waldo / Wally is coming to WiiWare and DSiWare, so says the Australian Classification board.

The popular book series recently made its way to downloadable PC game (on the Games for Windows marketplace) and also popped up on the iPhone, now it'll be coming to both Wii and DS in 3 separate "Travel Pack" selections. As the iPhone version had 12 maps with multiple scenarios, I imagine this might split them into packs of 4 maps each.

Eh, it's Waldo / Wally. It'll fit right in with the direct control of the two consoles, and hopefully it's cheap enough to warrant a quick purchase. Another example of "make a game, port it to everything".

Source: WHERE'S WALLY? THE FANTASTIC JOURNEY TRAVEL PACK 1

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Perfect Dark is now available for 800 Microsoft Points. Go grab it.

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Do you want 11 minutes of jewel matching action? Gamespot are here to help.

Puzzle Quest 2 is looking great, I'd say it already looks better than Puzzle Chronicles, which Infinite Interactive developed but hasn't been released yet. Artistically it's better than anything Infinite have released, that's for sure.

I played the original game on the DS, so I'll be interested to see how if this one will work me over on a digital platform, heck I still need to go back and finish Gyromancer.

What say you reader? Ready for more Puzzle Quest? Do you have 30+ hours to kill on your console?

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Independent developer and publisher, IllFonic, have announced that they plan to bring PC shooter Nexuiz to consoles.

Nexuiz has been an open source project on the PC which startd in 2005, and was based on a heavily altered Quake 1 engine, which was available through GNU licensing. The game has made tremendous strides since its release from the original developer Alientrap Software, now IllFonic plan to bring it to consoles. Their plans seem similar to that of Babo: Invasion on Xbox Live Arcade last year, but Nexuiz will be coming to both XBLA and PSN.

This new version will contain a new art direction for the series but will keep the same fast paced style of the PC game. It now joins a very large list of upcoming shooters on XBLA - which already includes Monday Night Combat, Lead & Gold, Quake Arena Arcade, DOOM II and Blacklight: Tango Down just to name a few. Will this hold up against the competition, or fall on its face like Cellfactor did?

Source: IllFONIC BRINGS UNDERGROUND ARENA FPS, NEXUIZ TO CONSOLE GAMERS

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[GamerBytes editor Ryan Langley examines February 2010's PlayStation Network debuts and continuing successes, with charts and leaderboard data, to find out what digital PSN titles are doing well at the start of the year.]

Back in 2008 February was the launching pad for several big titles - Flower, Noby Noby Boy and NHL 3-On-3 Arcade, but this year it's very quiet - Greed Corp and Fret Nice.

Can either of them stand up against last years titles, and how are older titles doing right now? We take a look at the PlayStation Network Top 10 for North America as well as Leaderboard statistics for a selection of popular titles to see how well games are selling on the service.

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It appears that some Joystiq sleuths popped up over to the South by Southwest Screenburn Arcade to take a look at the Twisted Pixel booth, and low and behond - Michael Wilford was showing off the first footage of Comic Jumper in action.

Looks quite good at the moment - certainly looks like 'Splosion Man with guns. The gunplay actually reminds me of the upcoming XBLA game Shank.

According to Joystiq they'll be getting some direct feed footage later this week, so keep a look out.

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Popular PSN publisher Creat Games have revealed their latest addition to the PlayStation Network library - Wakeboarding HD, bringing the water sport into the next generation.

From the press release:

Wakeboarding HD drops players into 20 top-velocity, water-filled levels to maneuver through tracks, perform high-flying tricks, collect bonuses and avoid dangers from exploding mines to bloodthirsty sharks. Show your skills and transform the South Pacific paradise resort into an action-packed extreme playground.

The game will retail for $14.99USD and €14.99, and will be available this week in Europe and next week in North America.

Source: PSNStores.com

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We've seen the opening scene of Shank over and over now, but now Klei have saved us with footage of some of the later levels, and a new boss encounter.

It's still some ways away from being finished, but it's still looks pretty sweet. This versus The Dishwasher 2 is going to be pretty hardcore fight at the year's end.

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Limbo is a strange game - a platformer set in a striking black-and-white world where you're on the search for your lost sister. It's been in development for years, but now we can get a glimpse of the game for the Xbox Live Arcade. Not a whole lot is shown, but it's piqued my interest at least.

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[Sister site GamerBytes' editor Ryan Langley examines February 2010's Xbox Live Arcade debuts and continuing successes, with charts and leaderboard data, for a look at how XBLA titles are performing.]

February has always been a strange period for the Xbox Live Arcade - in previous years, it was the birthing ground of popular titles like 3-on-3 NHL Arcade and less likely titles like Discs Of Tron. There have been successes and failures, but much has changed since last year.

For 2010 we've seen publishers try something a little different -- we had 6 new titles this February, 5 which have a Metacritic of over 79. This included the release of Zoe Mode and OneBigGame's Chime, an inexpensive charity game, as well as the release of Introversion's Darwinia+ and The Odd Gentlemen's P.B Winterbottom..

We’ll see how they’ve done in this analysis, as well as look at the new Top 20 lists released by the Major Nelson blog:

Continue reading "In-Depth: Xbox Live Arcade Sales Analysis, February 2010" »

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The news may have leaked out a little early, but now it's confirmed -- Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse will be coming to the PlayStation Network, and it's coming very soon.

Starting April 15th you'll be able to buy the first episode of the third Sam & Max season on PSN, or you'll be able to pre-order the full season for a slightly cheaper fee. This has worked previously on the PC via Telltale's website, but now Telltale are able to continue with this on consoles. I'm sure they wish they could have done the same for the Wallace & Gromit series on the Xbox Live Arcade.

The season will start April 15th, but in the meantime check out this Quick Look from Giant Bomb.

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Organizers of the 2010 Game Developers Conference, the world's largest industry-only event dedicated to the advancement of interactive entertainment, has announced an all-time record of 18,250 game industry professionals attending San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center for the March 9th-13th event.

Surpassing last year's total of 17,000 attendees, the event - created by the UBM Techweb Game Network, as is this website - brought together experienced game developers, publishers, deal makers, industry aspirants and working press for more than 400 lectures, panels, summits, tutorials and roundtable discussions.

Offering a full five days of content, the event also hosted an extensive Exposition floor, featuring the biggest firms in the games space alongside the Career Pavilion and associated Game Career Seminar.

Also presented were the 12th Annual Independent Games Festival, the 10th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards, Game Connection America, and more opportunities for networking, discussing business, sharing knowledge, and meeting with equally-devoted fellow developers.

Following the success of the show, organizers of the Game Developers Conference have announced that GDC 2011 will return to the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco from Monday, February 28 to Friday, March 4, 2011, with a call for lecture submissions to open this Summer.

Continue reading "GDC Sees Record Attendance, Reveals 2011 Dates" »

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But you already knew that didn't you?

While you're waiting for the game to come out on Wednesday (and for only 800MSP), you can check out the first 10 minutes of the game in the video above, thanks to Xbox Evolved.

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If you've ever complained about the lack of Virtual Console content, now is the time to pipe down - Castlevania: Rondo Of Blood is now out for 900 Nintendo Points. Go get it.

On the WiiWare front this week we've got Rage Of The Gladiator, the first person fighting game which supports the Wii Motion Plus, and Triple Shot Sports, an iPhone sports port, for 500 Points.

For DSiWare we've got 4 titles - Battle of Giants™: Dinosaurs – Fight For Survival for 800 Points, Gameloft's Zoo Frenzy for 500 Points, Teyon's 101 MiniGolf World for 500 Points and finally Car Jack Streets from Tag Games, an enhanced port of their original mobile phone title - Car Jack Streets is essentially classic GTA on the go. Might be the one to grab this week.

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Earlier last week we pointed you to some off-screen video of Clash Of Heroes, now we've got the official trailer to gander at.

Art wise the game has taken a huge overhaul to the original DS game, and the influence of Critter Crunch's HD artwork is clearly seen. Let's hope the game will get the recognition it should on these digital platforms.

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Smudged Cat Games and Valcon have announced a new Xbox Live Arcade title - Shuggy: A Vampire In Distress.

Originally a XNA title set for the Xbox Live Indie Games space, Smudged Cat Games decided to try and shop the game around for the Xbox Live Arcade space - Valcon picked them up, and now they're on their way to the XBLA.

Shuggy is a 2D platform puzzler, which according to the developers webpage will contain over 100 levels and include cooperative modes. Gamespot had a look at the game at GDC, which you can see above.

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