http://zdnet.blogsome.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:37:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Like a jacket that’s leopard print on the inside and tweed on the outside, that’s party animal or professorial as the occasion demands, Izuna 2’s box art is reversible.  Flip over the game’s box art and gamers will find a pretty little portrait of the game’s pink-haired protagonist, perfect for a bedroom wall or ... http://zdnet.blogsome.com/2008/06/20/izuna-2-to-feature-reversible-box-art-izuna-2-the-unemployed-ninja-returns/ To go along with the new animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars movie coming out this summer, LucasArts has created two new Clone Wars games that have nothing to do with the crappy last-gen Clone Wars games. Lightsaber Duels for the Wii and Jedi Alliance on the DS promise all kinds of motion ... http://zdnet.blogsome.com/2008/06/19/star-wars-clone-wars-games-detailed-star-wars-the-clone-wars-jedi-alliance/ Nintendo’s director of public relations Marc Franklin has said that core gamers should expect great things from the company at E3. “We will be announcing several new titles that core gamers will be interested in around the time of E3,” he told GamePro recently. Speculation has run rampant about Nintendo’s release schedule near ... http://zdnet.blogsome.com/2008/06/19/nintendo-several-new-titles-for-core-gamers-at-e3-nintendo-ds/ D3Publisher has confirmed that it will release a DS game based on the Shaun the Sheep TV show before the year is out. The company, who previously distributed PS3/360 title Dark Sector and Puzzle Quest, will be working closely with Aardman Animation to authentically bring the personality and humour of the series ... http://zdnet.blogsome.com/2008/06/18/get-shaun-the-sheep-on-your-ds-shaun-the-sheep/ Fact - people love ninjas. Another fact - people love getting free stuff. Obvious conclusion? Winning a free ninja could be one of the greatest things to ever happen in the history of the universe. Best of all, it could happen to you. We recently had an exclusive first look at Ninjatown, ... http://zdnet.blogsome.com/2008/06/18/win-a-gamesradar-ninja-ninjatown/ Proving you don’t need to make more Star Wars movies to keep the merchandising vehicle moving, Titan Books has confirmed that The Force Unleashed will receive both an official novelisation and comic book adaptation in the next couple of months. From August 22, Star Wars fans - or anyone, for that ... http://zdnet.blogsome.com/2008/06/17/the-force-unleashed-gets-comic-novel-adaptation-star-wars-force-unleashed/ A large number of Team Ninja employees are reported to have left Tecmo following Itagaki’s walkout earlier this month, according to rumours. It is reported that “as many as three dozen” Team Ninja employees have done a runner and, to make things worse for Tecmo, also plan to take the company ... http://zdnet.blogsome.com/2008/06/17/dozens-follow-itagaki-in-tecmo-walk-out-ninja-gaiden-dragon-sword/ Yes, folks – it’s that special time of year again. The 26th annual Golden Joysticks game awards are upon us, and the shortlist of games that have been selected by the community to go up for the final voting contest has just been announced on the official site. Now all you ... http://zdnet.blogsome.com/2008/06/16/golden-joysticks-shortlist-going-live-nintendo-ds/ Activision is remaining tight-lipped regarding rumors today that Neversoft has been taken off the Tony Hawk’s franchise. The rumours suggest that the Neversoft-created series is now in the hands of new developer Robomodo, who has already disclosed that it’s working on an as-yet unnamed game for Activision. But Activision on the matter that it “does ... http://zdnet.blogsome.com/2008/06/13/activision-cagey-on-tony-hawk-changeover-report-tony-hawks-proving-ground/ Electronic Arts has been hit with a lawsuit for what the plaintiffs describe as the publisher’s “blatantly anticompetitive conduct” in the football gaming genre. According to the San Jose Business Journal, EA’s move to tie up exclusive licenses with US football associations for games based on the sport is at the heart ... http://zdnet.blogsome.com/2008/06/13/ea-sued-over-football-exclusivity-madden-nfl-09/