Remember all the people who insist on saying "fishes". Dunno if you get it happens much (or at all) in America, but here in the UK you still get older people stuck in their ways of murdering English (the language, not the people...much).
Wii Play is out in Europe at launch, December 8th.
And just to clarify, it's the remote that comes with the game, not the other way around. Otherwise people buying 3 more controllers would get 3 copies of the game.
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"We've been getting a lot of messages regarding an bogus contest involving many major bands including our own to win tickets for a show including the Goo Goo Dolls in Las Vegas this December.
Please understand that this is not an official Goo Goo Dolls contest and we are not booked for this event.
If anyone contacts you regarding the contest or tries to offer you free tickets or prizes for this alleged event, please report them to the myspace administrators.
Thanks!
The Goo Goo Dolls"
I guessed right. +3/. respect points for me, if such a thing existed of course. Seen the Dolls live? Saw them in Glasgow a few weeks back and they were excellent.
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+15 mod points of Awesome for liking both Al and the Ladies. Just got tickets to see BNL in Glasgow in April and am thoroughly excited!!
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From Al on MySpace: (no, I can't be bothered formatting it)
Hey everybody,
Apparently there is some creep out there pretending to be me, and he has been spamming my MySpace friends list with offers to see me in Las Vegas if people sign up for a lot of garbage online.
Just to be clear, this is definitely NOT ME. This is an IMPOSTOR, and we are looking into having his MySpace account yanked, after which he will hopefully be flogged and tortured.
I'm very sorry if any of you were inconvenienced by this. Really, I don't suck.
Thanks,
Al Yankovic
I never actually got the invite, though I did get a very similar-sounding one supposedly from the Goo Goo Dolls. I guess that was a dud too.
No mod points so I'll just add my weight to the Eurogamer review-loving. The review impressed me enough that I plan to pay for the full season one package once it's available on Telltale's website. You save some money and Telltale get all the cash now and can use it to fund more episodes.
Wow, you're really, really up yourself. I'm not a fanboy, I owned one EWJ game way back on the Mega Drive. I just thought it was sad that you accused the games of being nothing more than a marketing ploy to sell toys - which is completely false.
"Earthworm Jim was just another one of those early-90's games put out in promotion of a toy line"
Please try to back up your random vomits of words with facts in the future.
I work for Gamestation in the UK and this is our returns policy too (on hardware) for 7 days. People seem to appreciate that we understand that you can't always somehow know if you'll like a game before you buy it. And because we devote a lot of time to helping customers we notice if someone has been returning a lot of games and can nip them in the bud before they start using us as a rental place.
"As for Gears Of War. I don't think a 3rd person shooter will have the power to persuade, especially since you'll be able to buy it on the PC."
Not before Xmas you won't. In fact, almost nothing has been said about the PC release for months AFAIK. It will probably still happen, but MS will keep it 360 "exclusive" for a while.
I work for Gamestation, I assure you I buy nothing for RRP;-) Sony and MS may be mortal enemies but they aren't stupid enough to start a price war as long as people are buying games for £50. At work I always point out the high price of games to people considering buying a 360, but also point out the excellent games now available for the system and that the real competition (the PS3, the Wii isn't even fighting the same battle) is much more expensive and will have much more expensive games. People seem to appreciate the honesty and often buy a 360 anyway, and a lot of them recently have gone away considering an additional Wii purchase when the console is released.
Here in the UK we're expecting PS3 games to cost between £49.99 (the RRP of 360 games) and £69.99 (apparently for huge games on Bluray discs). This is the information game retailers have so far. Just for American readers - £49.99 is currently $94.
I honestly think Sony will make themselves Public Enemy #1 here in the UK if they try to sell a game for £70, but they've already shown they don't care about Europe in general anyway.
Thanks for letting me know I wasn't the only techie who uses WMP by choice. I'm always on the look out for something better but right now it suits my needs fine.
For some more solid VC game titles, head to the ESRB rating page at http://www.esrb.org/ratings/search.jsp and select to search for Wii titles. Scroll to the bottom and, you guessed it, there are some rather old titles listed. The list:
Sonic the Hedgehog
Ecco the Dolphin
Golden Axe
Altered Beast
Columns
Toejam & Earl
Ristar
Of course there's no guarantee that these are VC titles but I'd guess it's very likely. Personally I can't wait for GOLDEN AXE - the game so awesome that my mum beat it.
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As a Fifer, I can agree with you.
Every day's a schoolday, as my boss says. Thanks :) I always thought "fish" was like "sheep".
Remember all the people who insist on saying "fishes". Dunno if you get it happens much (or at all) in America, but here in the UK you still get older people stuck in their ways of murdering English (the language, not the people...much).
Wii Play is out in Europe at launch, December 8th.
And just to clarify, it's the remote that comes with the game, not the other way around. Otherwise people buying 3 more controllers would get 3 copies of the game.
Power to you, AC. Bananas suffer from a distinct lack of headline space on /. :(
You're unlikely to get a gig like that every day.
"We've been getting a lot of messages regarding an bogus contest involving many major bands including our own to win tickets for a show including the Goo Goo Dolls in Las Vegas this December. Please understand that this is not an official Goo Goo Dolls contest and we are not booked for this event. If anyone contacts you regarding the contest or tries to offer you free tickets or prizes for this alleged event, please report them to the myspace administrators. Thanks! The Goo Goo Dolls"
/. respect points for me, if such a thing existed of course. Seen the Dolls live? Saw them in Glasgow a few weeks back and they were excellent.
I guessed right. +3
+15 mod points of Awesome for liking both Al and the Ladies. Just got tickets to see BNL in Glasgow in April and am thoroughly excited!!
From Al on MySpace: (no, I can't be bothered formatting it)
Hey everybody, Apparently there is some creep out there pretending to be me, and he has been spamming my MySpace friends list with offers to see me in Las Vegas if people sign up for a lot of garbage online. Just to be clear, this is definitely NOT ME. This is an IMPOSTOR, and we are looking into having his MySpace account yanked, after which he will hopefully be flogged and tortured. I'm very sorry if any of you were inconvenienced by this. Really, I don't suck. Thanks, Al Yankovic
I never actually got the invite, though I did get a very similar-sounding one supposedly from the Goo Goo Dolls. I guess that was a dud too.
No mod points so I'll just add my weight to the Eurogamer review-loving. The review impressed me enough that I plan to pay for the full season one package once it's available on Telltale's website. You save some money and Telltale get all the cash now and can use it to fund more episodes.
I'm nothing if not persistant. Well and a fanboy/asshat, of course.
Awww come on. Let's be friends.
Wow, you're really, really up yourself. I'm not a fanboy, I owned one EWJ game way back on the Mega Drive. I just thought it was sad that you accused the games of being nothing more than a marketing ploy to sell toys - which is completely false.
"Earthworm Jim was just another one of those early-90's games put out in promotion of a toy line" Please try to back up your random vomits of words with facts in the future.
This was already covered by /. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/04/151323 6 9 days ago.
I work for Gamestation in the UK and this is our returns policy too (on hardware) for 7 days. People seem to appreciate that we understand that you can't always somehow know if you'll like a game before you buy it. And because we devote a lot of time to helping customers we notice if someone has been returning a lot of games and can nip them in the bud before they start using us as a rental place.
"As for Gears Of War. I don't think a 3rd person shooter will have the power to persuade, especially since you'll be able to buy it on the PC." Not before Xmas you won't. In fact, almost nothing has been said about the PC release for months AFAIK. It will probably still happen, but MS will keep it 360 "exclusive" for a while.
I would imagine that most Slashdotters are used to being "innovative" with their wrists.
Not on the PS2.
I work for Gamestation, I assure you I buy nothing for RRP ;-) Sony and MS may be mortal enemies but they aren't stupid enough to start a price war as long as people are buying games for £50. At work I always point out the high price of games to people considering buying a 360, but also point out the excellent games now available for the system and that the real competition (the PS3, the Wii isn't even fighting the same battle) is much more expensive and will have much more expensive games. People seem to appreciate the honesty and often buy a 360 anyway, and a lot of them recently have gone away considering an additional Wii purchase when the console is released.
Here in the UK we're expecting PS3 games to cost between £49.99 (the RRP of 360 games) and £69.99 (apparently for huge games on Bluray discs). This is the information game retailers have so far. Just for American readers - £49.99 is currently $94.
I honestly think Sony will make themselves Public Enemy #1 here in the UK if they try to sell a game for £70, but they've already shown they don't care about Europe in general anyway.
Your comment could *almost* have been "funny" if your use of a racial slur didn't show you to be a jerk.
Thanks for letting me know I wasn't the only techie who uses WMP by choice. I'm always on the look out for something better but right now it suits my needs fine.
I find it noteworthy, for me this is huge news! One of my favourite developers making a game for what is right now my favourite console.
I must admit I've never played it, but it's one on the list I would definitely be interested in picking up as long as the VC games are cheap enough.
Of course there's no guarantee that these are VC titles but I'd guess it's very likely. Personally I can't wait for GOLDEN AXE - the game so awesome that my mum beat it.