Round Up

Another little news round up for you today starting with some new FREE tracks for Guitar Hero III that are now available to celebrate St Patrick's day. The Dropkick Murphy’s Track Pack contains "Famous for Nothing", "Flannigan's Ball" and "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ya". I tried these last night and can report that apart from one of these (can't remember which) they are just a touch repetitive and uninteresting to play. Still, at least they're free.

The Xbox 360 officially drops in price today with a premium version now costing just £189.99 on Amazon.co.uk and the Elite at £249.99. Having been outsold by the PS3 in both January and February, Sony have had something to gloat over. So then, a considered move from Microsoft or is the excessive heat from their console starting to make them sweat?

Nintendo has been briefing studios on what it says is the increased flexibility of WiiWare (or Wii Software as it will be known here), from cheaper development through to more flexible pricing compared to the Xbox LIVE Arcade. One WiiWare developer who surprisingly wished to remain anonymous said, "Frankly, we're not looking at making games for Xbox Live Arcade because the service is full of shit," and pointed towards the service's number of retro remakes. I'd love to see what game this guy is actually producing and I'd like to suggest creating something non shit shaped. If the XBLA really is drowning beneath this torrent of feces, a game of the quality you say you're producing should go faster than shit off a shovel were it released on the XBLA, which is handy as according to this guy we'll be needing something to dig ourselves out with. Incidentally why do us Europeans need the name change from WiiWare to Wii Software? Do Nintendo think we're more easily confused over here and need it spelling out?

Talking about the Xbox LIVE Arcade you may have heard that Capcom were struggling to fit both Street Fighter II HD Remix and Bionic Commando into the 150Mb limit set by Microsoft. Both of these games have now been given the go ahead to be released without the file size constraint meaning the game will be identical on all formats.

European Nintendo VC releases this week are:
Super R-Type - SNES - 800 Wii Points (good but very very difficult)
Operation Wolf - NES - 500 Wii Points (you can only play this with the pad making it a pretty dire version)

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