The Hottest News (from last week – sorry)
Okay, so last week’s news might not be the best way to start a week, but lots went on last week that I didn’t get a chance to cover. Without further ado, here are the stories that piqued my interest last week:
- Nintendo is doing Karaoke right on the Wii. Joysound will provide online subscriptions to millions of songs rather than individually downloaded tracks. Japan only for now. If this comes to North America, I’ll get tons more use out of my dust collector Wii.
- Speaking of Nintendo, they’ve announced the DSi. Main features include bigger dual touch screens (3.25″), a .3 megapixel camera, and built-in memory. They’ve also removed the GBA cartridge slot to incorporate a sleeker design. Wait, doesn’t Guitar Hero: On Tour require that slot to work?
- Punch-Out!!! for the Wii. You read that right. Punch-Out!!! for the Wii. *drool*
- According to this thread on Rockband.com, there is a SERIOUS bug in Rock Band 2. When playing World Tour with the leader signed in as an Xbox Live member and a second player signed in as a non-Xbox Live member (2 different profiles), many users report losing some or all of their save data between sets. Hasn’t happened to me yet, but I’ll be cautious from here out. 17 pages at time of publishing and no response from Harmonix yet.
Thursday marks the start of the Tokyo Gaming Show, which I intend to follow. I promise to cover as much of it here as I can (truly flakes… I will).