Welcome to another edition of This Week in Geek. This Week in Geek is the one place in all the land that gives you all the need to know information on everything gaming, entertainment, entertainment, and kittens. This edition comes to you late, and I apologize, I have been in Austin, Texas for SXSW. So here is all the news you want, better late than never, right? Right.
Virtual Console Releases:
Summer Games 2. Originally for the Commodore 64. 500 Wii points.
WiiWare Releases:
BIT.TRIP.BEAT. Developed by Aksys Games. 600 Wii points.
Game Releases:
March 16, 2009:
-Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume (DS)
-Men of War (PC)
March 17, 2009:
-Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (DS)
-Tom Clancy's HAWX (PC)
-World in Conflict(PC)
-Grand Ages: Rome (PC)
-Suikoden Tierkreis (DS)
-Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 (PS3)
-Ready 2 Rumble Revolution (Wii)
-Rune Factory Frontier (Wii)
-Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure (DS)
-Resistance: Retribution (PSP)
March 18, 2009:
-The Path (PC)
-Hasbro Family Game Night (X360)
March 19, 2009:
-Runes of Magic (PC)
Rumors:
-Sony's DC Universe Online is starting to take shape and Marvel is taking notice. There could be a Marvel MMO game in the not so distant future. Marvel Entertainment has reached a deal with Gazillion Entertainment to develop the title or titles.
-There may be some new games hitting the PSN soon. According to Kotaku Capcom is on the process of submitting a bunch of their PS1 games to the Playstation Network.
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-A British talk show host let it slip on his twitter that he would be involved in the next Fable game, Fable 3. Well as of now no such games exists.
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The Buzz:
-In a recent slew of articles on MSNBC.com journalists asked in several different pieces what Nintendo needed to do in order to bring back their core audience. In stories written about the upcoming hardcore games being developed by Sega, readers got excited at the prospects of a more adult gaming market. Later, a poll revealed that an overwhelming amount of people want more of these types of games. They also thought that these games could be what could save Nintendo from their projected decline.
Do you think that expanding from their current casual selection of games will help bring Nintendo out of their slump?
Announcements:
-2k has decided to drop the sub-title to the new BioShock game. BioShock 2: Sea of Dreams is now simply BioShock 2. In other news they have also denied rumors there was a possibility of the co-op since multiplayer was confirmed. For more click here.
-E3 is back. The gaming conference that takes place this June is now confirmed to be over 90% full. The LA Conference will be packed with over 40,000 industry people in attendance.
-The website for Wolfenstein is now live. The site is complete with screens, videos, forums, and tons of updates. This week's GTTV will have even more on the upcoming game.
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