Despite the ridiculously over-covered scandal involving Tiger Woods’ personal life, EA Sports has stayed true to its words by continuing its relationship with the golfer, announcing that Tiger’s latest golfing title, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11, will release June 8 on the Wii, PS3, Xbox 360 and and iPhone.
The game will feature “one of the most prestigious tournaments in golf,” The Ryder Cup, which is said to be one of the last great sporting events to be founded in prestige rather than prize money. The Ryder Cup is a competition hosted by Ryder Cup Europe LLP and the PGA of America that brings together the best American and European golfers in a team competition format. Accordingly, Tiger Woods will represent the U.S. team and Rory McIlroy will represent Europeans. McIlroy is a pro golfer hailing from Northern Ireland and currently ranked 9th according to the Official World Golf Rankings.
Players will be able to choose from the U.S. or European squad and participate in the various competition formats – foursomes where players hit alternate shots, fourballs, and singles, which traditionally bring the biennial event to a close with players going head to head. When playing The Ryder Cup mode offline, you will have the option to swap matches. Team play will not only be available offline, but online with the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions.
The Wii version will support Motion Plus much like last year’s PGA Tour title, and will feature an Advanced Plus swing difficulty that reads rotation and swing angle while the Tour Pro swing mechanic assesses rotation, swing plane and point of contact.
The game is also going to support Sony’s upcoming Motion Controller for the PS3, but as the title is scheduled to launch on June 8 and the Motion Controller isn’t scheduled to launch until this fall, we’re not sure if the game will already have Motion Controller support built in or if it will arrive in another retail version or DLC.
Revolt is a twin-stick shooter (or twin-thumbs if you’re a stickler for accuracy) featuring some of the best graphics yet on the iPhone. Gameplay appears pretty solid for this type of genre and the feature list is very promising. Perhaps most impressive is that Revolt was made by only two people over 10 months of time.
If you happen to own a PS3 or Xbox 360 and are looking for great media-streaming software, then TVersity is a worthy option. It’s fast, stable and free, my three favorite words when it comes to media-streaming. While it doesn’t support as many formats as Java PS3 Media Server, it does benefit from having a simple design, making it more accessible for your average consumer.
TVersity has just been updated to a new beta version and with it comes some pretty cool new features.
Completely new off-screen browser, based on Google Chromium: runs out of process for increased stability and solves all the known issues with premium content (it used to occasionally fail to start on some systems).
Premium content site are now defined in an external file (osb.xml), advanced users can easily add their sites.
List of supported websites can now be updated without requiring a new release, so expect many new sites to be added and pushed to you from now on. (Advanced users should send us their additions since from time to time we overwrite your osb.xml automatically).
Update and expand YouTube support to include subscriptions, favorites and playlists by user (in addition to user video uploads which were previously supported). Also support adding YouTube content by search queries (replaces the “by tag” category which YouTube has obsoleted).
EA Mobile has released some new screenshots showing off the previously HD-console based parkour game, Mirror’s Edge, running (no pun intended) on the iPhone. How does it look? Not bad, really. The texturing for the game’s protagonist, Faith Connors, is a little blocky, but overall, the images capture the essence of the original version.
Though the company’s web page on the game doesn’t speak about the controls, it does promise that you will be able to “Run, slide, zip and jump between rooftops to elude your enemies [and] Burn through 14 immersive 3D levels flooded with realistic sound effects and phenomenal music.”
A small group of loyal King’s Quest fans have been toiling away on a fan-made sequel to the classic adventure series for eight years. Eight years! At one point, Vivendi, the IP rights holder, got all uppity and made an attempt to shut the project down, but an agreement was reached that allowed the team to continue working on the project. Known as “The Silver Lining”, the team hoped to release the game, for free of course, at some point in 2010.
Unfortunately, Activision recently came into possession of the King’s Quest IP and are now acting like big, throbbing dicks. That’s a technical term, look it up. Activision has demanded that all materials relating to King’s Quest be removed from The Silver Lining Website, in effect destroying eight years of dedication and labor…and for what? They weren’t going to make any money from this project. The Silver Lining was made for fans by fans. No threat whatsoever to Activision’s license.
A sad turn of events that makes Activision the Darth Vader of the gaming industry, at least until the next corporate snafu comes along and pisses me off.
In 2005, Phoenix Online Studios received a Cease & Desist letter from Vivendi Universal, the owners of the King’s Quest IP, in regards to our work on The Silver Lining. We complied with the request, and over the months that followed, we were able to work out a non-commercial fan license with Vivendi that allowed us to continue our work on the game.
We have spent a lot of time recently reworking the material of The Silver Lining into episodic releases, with the first out of a planned five episodes completed, and submitted for review, and had hoped we would be able to bring our game to you, the fans, in the Spring of 2010.
Recently, however, ownership of the Sierra IP changed hands and became the property of Activision. After talks and negotiations in the last few months between ourselves and Activision, they have reached the decision that they are not interested in granting a non-commercial license to The Silver Lining, and have asked that we cease production and take down all related materials on our website.
As before, we must and will comply with this decision, as much as we may wish we could do otherwise.
We cannot say enough how much we appreciate the support we have had over these years from our fans. Without you, we would never have gotten this far. There would be no game to develop, and no one to develop it for. You have been amazing and steadfast, and we will always remember that and appreciate it more than we can say.
Sadly, after eight years of dedicated work and even more dedicated fans, The Silver Lining project is closing down.
What the future holds for us, as individuals or a team, we cannot say. We have an amazing development team, however, filled with talented and hard-working individuals, and we hope the teamwork and rapport we’ve developed won’t go to waste. We hope that when we do know what the future holds for us, our fans will be there to enjoy what we can give them still.
Again, thank you all so much for everything. This has been a long and crazy road, full of more twists than we could’ve anticipated, but more triumphs and wonderful memories than we could’ve ever hoped for. And for that, to all of you and to everyone on our team, we will always be grateful.
Square Enix has just released remakes of Final Fantasy I & II on the iPhone and iPod Touch today, making your portable gaming selection a little nicer.
The titles are available for download for about $9 each, or for you Europeans, €6.99/£5.49 according to Square’s press release.
You can find more information on the titles at Square’s official website for the games. And to celebrate the release of Final Fantasy I & II, Square is offering a discount until March 3 on the following titles:
CRYSTAL DEFENDERS
Usually €5.99 now €4.99
VANGUARD STORM
Usually €3.99 now €2.99
SLIDING HEROES
Usually €2.39 now €0.79
HILLS AND RIVERS REMAIN
Usually €5.49 now €3.99
SONG SUMMONER: The Unsung Heroes – Encore
Usually €7.99 now €5.99
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