Six Flags and Nintendo Partnership

Six Flags has announced that they plan to expand their partnership with Nintendo in order to provide their theme park guests with a sneak preview of Wii Sports Resort game before the game even hits retail stores. It will be placed in nine different theme parks across America for this weekend until the launch. The following theme parks will contain the game.

• Six Flags Magic Mountain; Valencia, CA
• Six Flags Discovery Kingdom; Vallejo, CA
• Six Flags Great America; Gurnee, IL
• Six Flags Over Texas; Arlington, TX
• Six Flags Fiesta Texas; San Antonio, TX
• Six Flags Over Georgia; Austell, GA
• Six Flags New England; Agawam, MA
• Six Flags America; Largo, MD
• Six Flags St. Louis; Eureka, MO

The game launches July 26th for everybody who isn’t fortunate enough to live near enough to get a crack at this special offer. If you’re unfamiliar with Wii Sports Resort it is similar to Wii Sports with different games such as archery, basketball, and table tennis.The game also contains the new motion plus feature which is designed to make the activities of gamers more precise.

This game won’t cause as much of a stir as the original Wii Sports game, but it is sure to sell a few consoles. Hopefully, Sony and Microsoft are watching this and can learn from the motion plus that is used in the new game. Both companies will have a lot of catching up to do. Nintendo is so far ahead. The only problem Nintendo may encounter is the lack of power in the Wii.

1 vs 100 Suspected Release Date

Either Microsoft mad a mistake, or this was their way of telling us the release date of the full version of 1 vs 100. When you go into the beta of the game it shows the upcoming times for which you can play the game. The beta ends July 10th so one would assume the scheduled times would end at that date. Well it continues and gives time on August 30th. That’s nearly 50 days later. Plenty of time for them to finish and tweak any changes they needed to make from the beta. They wouldn’t release two beta’s.

So if you’ve been dying to play the full version of the game because of the actual physical prize incentives, your time is coming. When the full version comes out, gamers in certain countries are eligible to win some prizes. Whether you have to be really good at the game, or just play it a lot to win, I’m not sure. What do you guys think? August 30th definitely the release date or is this a mistake?

Halo: ODST MSNBC Gameplay

MSNBC has some footage of the upcoming Halo title, Halo: ODST. This was the first footage of the game I’ve seen, and while I didn’t see anything that was too amazing in the multiplayer form, the missions were looking pretty awesome. Check out the video for yourself and tell me what you think.

Halo: ODST Footage

Are you going to be buying this game at midnight? How about the first week? I think I’ll be waiting until after the initial responses to the game before purchasing it, and even then I’ll have to see after the damage Call of Duty 6 and Assassins Creed 2 does to my wallet.

Call of Duty 5: Double EXP Weekend

Good news for any of your Call of Duty 5 gamers out there. I am happy to announce that we have yet another double experience weekend in Call of Duty 5. For those of you unfamiliar with the significance of this, it’s pretty big. You receive twice the experience for everything you do (with the exception of match bonuses) making it so much quicker to level up, especially in the higher slower levels that take 5,000 experience to level up.

The higher the level, the more guns and perks you receive. If you want to take full advantage of this weekend you should focus on games like headquarters and search and destroy. In search and destroy you get 100 points per kill, 50 per assist, and 200 for either arming or disarming the bomb! In headquarters you’ll get 500 for holding the headquarter for 250 seconds, plus another 10 per kill, and 40 for either capturing or destroying the headquarter.

Focus your time on these two gametypes and you should be able to finish your current prestige and move on to the next one. For those of you already in 10th prestige, sorry to say they are only making it easier for those lower than you to catch up to you. Take advantage of this weekend, I’ll be trying to hit my second prestige.

Fable II Knothole Island on Sale

This week, Microsoft is bringing us yet another great deal in the Xbox Live Marketplace. This week you can get the expansion pack of Knothole Island for Fable II for only 560 Microsoft Points. This expansion pack includes several quests and hours of added fun to this hit title.

Hurry up and download this in the Xbox Live Marketplace. The deal is for this week only. You save 240 Microsoft Points which is about $2.50. Anybody already download this have anything good or bad to say about it? How about the new expansion pack? Do you think that looks any good?

China Bans Gold Farming

China’s latest set of laws are going to hurt their economy even greater in this economic depression. Their latest set of seemingly pointless laws include one to make online gold farming illegal. What this means is that you can’t sell virtual items obtained in games for anything other than the games virtual currency. This means you can’t buy or sell gold in games such as Runescape or World of Warcraft, and makes games like Entropia questionable where the entire point of the game is to make money.

It has been estimated that each year between $200 million and $1 billion a year is made through gold farming across the globe and that 85% of these gold farmers can be found in China. These laws may be meant to protect the rights of these gaming companies who clearly prohibit the selling of their virtual items. There was no mention as to whether account selling of these types of games was allowed. Loophole?

Anybody out there a gold farmer from China who is going to be affected by this? I’ve seen some pretty big gold farming sites in the past, and it’s clearly a very easy, profitable little business. If you’re not living in China, now would be your time to dive into the market. All these previous customers are going to be looking for a new place to buy their gold.

Silver Players Can Try 1 vs 100

This weekend only Xbox Live members using the free silver service will be able to try out the beta for 1 vs 100 for free. You aren’t able to experience Xbox Live very often except on the free gold weekends. Be Sure to take advantage of this oppertunity. Just log into live, download the beta, and then play it to your hearts content.

1 vs 100 is a game based off of the hit tv gameshow 1 vs 100. This is one of the first games that your Xbox Live Avatar will actually be in the game. Make sure you check out the possible clothing downloads so that you can fully prepare your avatar for public eyes.

Pokemon Gold and Silver Remakes for DS

Classic Pokemon versions Gold and Silver are being remade for the Nintendo DS. The release date has finally been announced for September 12th. The remakes are being released in Japan, no word yet as to whether the games will be released outside of Japan yet. It will probably be released just like all of the other version have been.

A game for a bit younger audience, but this is definitely a bigger launch for this fall. If you’re a fan of Pokemon this is going to excite you all. Whether the game will be exactly the same as the originals from the GameBoy Color or they will add in some new guys was unclear.

Finally, Recon Armor

Ever since the introduction of an armor that not everybody could get, it has been the most coveted item in the game. It has been begged for, it has encouraged users to spend hundreds of hours creating custom maps or game ideas, it has created those picture chain letters through sending a photo claiming you’ll get it by sending it to 25 others, and even caused a friend of my to follow and team kill a creator around all game, just to get the armor.

Finally, I see that Bungie is giving us a clear way of getting the Recon Armor. On July 7th (Bungie Day) we can play the creators of the game in some special playlists that feature 32 new map varients. How exactly you get it, they didn’t say. I’m guessing it has something to do with not only playing with one of the creators, but probably killing one.

If you want to get Recon Armor to show off in front of your friends, you’ll have 24 hours to try and unlock it. If you see a masterchief with a flaming helmet, you’re playing with a creator. Get excited, because I’m sure Recon has something to do with playing with a creator.

Popular Activision Titles to Mobile Phones

Activision and Glu Mobile announced a  partnership yesterday that will allow Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Tony Hawk: Ride, Guitar Hero 5, Blur, and Crash: Mutant Island to mobile phones. The iPhone is not among the mobile phones that will be getting the games, despite it being the obvious best fit phone to suit the games. If you own an Android, Blackberry, BREW, J2ME, or Windows Mobile phone then you will be able to purchase these games once they release.

How exactly are gamers supposed to play a game like Call of Duty on a mobile phone? Even with a touch screen it wouldn’t be very realistic to just point to shoot. A game like Guitar Hero 5 would be a better match with some sort of bluetooth DS type handheld buttons.

If you are an iPhone owner, don’t rule out these games coming for sure. Activision has expressed great interest in developing games for the iPhone already. Glu Mobile is only creating for these limited phones, but another company could receive the rights to create and publish versions for the iPhone as well. Expect these versions to launch around a month after the console versions of these games come out.