Slashdot: GamesNews for nerds, stuff that mattersWorld's First Custom Firmware For Wii Released- July 17, 2008 Croakyvoice writes "Waninkoko has released the world's first custom firmware for the Nintendo Wii, which is installed using the twilight hack; among its features is the ability to allow writeable DVDs to be read in emulators. From the readme: 'The Custom Firmware installs as IOS249 and it does not modify any other IOS so it is secure to install and has been made to be used ONLY with homebrew software. This is a custom IOS, an IOS modified to add some new features not available in the official...http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotGames/~3/338329544/article.pl Spore Creatures Now Outnumber Known Earth Species- July 16, 2008 GBC writes "AFP is reporting that, as of a week ago, the number of creatures in the "Spore" database exceeded the number of known species on Earth. They are created using 'Creature Creator,' which is available in a free (with limited parts) or paid download at the Spore website. Will Wright seems extremely happy with the progress so far: 'We hit 100K in 22 hours and a million by the end of the first week. The numbers are just blowing us away.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotGames/~3/337310154/article.pl First Real Gameplay Video of New Prince of Persia Game- July 15, 2008 An anonymous reader writes "After all the screenshot leaks and poor screenshot videos, here's finally the first official game play video of Prince of Persia:Next Generation. It was released at E3 just some hours ago. Wow, I just love their new artistic direction, this game will be a killer!"Read more of this story at Slashdot.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotGames/~3/336218193/article.pl World's First 2GB Graphics Card Is Here- July 15, 2008 An anonymous reader writes "TUL Corporation's PCS HD4850 is the world's first graphics card to offer on-board 2gig video memory. The card is based on RV770 core chip, with 800 stream processors and 2GB of GDDR3 high-speed memory." That's more memory than I've had in any computer prior to this year — for a video card.Read more of this story at Slashdot.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotGames/~3/336189922/article.pl Final Fantasy XIII Is Coming To Xbox 360- July 15, 2008 An anonymous reader writes "In a stunning change, Square-Enix announced today at Microsoft's E3 press conference that its next iteration in the Final Fantasy series is also coming to Xbox 360." And I just rationalized the PS3 purchase by telling myself that the next FF will require it.Read more of this story at Slashdot.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotGames/~3/336093305/article.pl |