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During Satoru Iwata's keynote at the 2009 Game Developer's Conference, the Nintendo CEO announced two new WiiWare titles: one that we already knew about, Final Fantasy IV: The After Years, and one we didn't: My Life as a Darklord: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, the sequel to last year's My Life as a King. Also announced by Iwata is that the Final Fantasy series will make its way to the Virtual Console.
You can view the rest of the happenings during Iwata's keynote here.
Within the past several years, Square Enix has been on the ball with remakes of their classic Final Fantasy games. And rumors of a remake for the huge and popular Final Fantasy 7 have been been buzzing around the net.
Square Enix president Yoichi Wada explains how there has been a remake boom lately, "The price of games is high, and consumers tend to be wary of buying games they are unfamiliar with".
That's an interesting reason for the increase of remake talk, but SE fans hope they do...
Square Enix has put up a new site for Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King and it has a lot of content to enjoy. It requires a sign-in so you can access the site as a member. Once you are inside of the website, you will be able to download stuff for free, send messages to the developers of the game, and play a new mini-game. According to the website, more information and content will be revealed once a certain number of people visit the website. Signing up to become a member i...
"Australians did not have to wait long after their overseas cousins for Nintendo's WiiWare service, with the first downloadable games available on the Wii Shop Channel from today.
Whereas Nintendo's Virtual Console service allows consumers to download classic games from systems like the SNES, N64 and Megadrive, WiiWare offers brand new titles and is an opportunity for video game developers to create innovative new games."
After first launching in Japan, and two weeks ago reaching North American shores, WiiWare, Nintendo's new development platform now makes its way to European shores, bring it six games available at launch, with all of the games drawing from Nintendo of Europe's released list of launch window games.
The six titles made available for European WiiWare are the following:
Cult favorite SNES RPG Earthbound is one of the games constantly clamored for by fans for release on the Virtual Console. Perhaps, they'll get their wish.
It was discovered today that Earthbound has been rated by the ESRB for the Wii, with an E rating.
The question is, now, will it be the next Super Mario RPG/Shining Force II, or will it be one of the 200+ games available on the Virtual Console and actually release?
Only time will tell.
In other news, another game rated by the ES...
Hi folks, Nintendo just let out the big one.
From Ge-maga via IGN, a live-blog of a live-blog of Nintendo's Japanese Fall Press Conference has let loose the megaton.
Here are the notables (Thanks evilmax17 at CAG for list compiling. Thanks!):
Fire Emblem DS
Mario Baseball Wii - Super Mario Stadium Baseball
7,800,000 VC downloads (JPN? Worldwide?)
Pokemon Ranch: Wii Ware, can upload Pokémon from DS to be raised on the Wii.
Dr. Mario: Wii Ware
Nintendo Wii Ware with three screens
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