Whaha: Pokémon – Turn Based Strategy is the game
Although Pokémon is a Role Playing Game in the singleplayer campaign, it's multiplayer consist of Turn Based Strategy.
When comparing the game with other games in this genre there are several remarkable differences.
1. You don't take turns – you decide simultaneous.
2. Asymmetrical as and by na...
Some say its dull i say its brilliance! want to know more than click here.
NiSuTe BBQ Party! Don’t miss out!!
Oh yeah it’s that time of year again where the weather is getting better and better and that calls out for a party again! It’s the NiSuTe BBQ party! So make sure you don’t miss out the next GDE on the 7th of June! If you’re on a special dyed or vegetarian be sure to let us know.
You can E-mail Christel if you have special wishes or questions on: fouchier(at)nisute(dot)com People that also help out on this event are Maikel de Bakker and Kennith van Eijden. To go to the forum section please klik on the picture above.
(PS: if you want to help out by making a salad or anything else please do let Christel know!)
GTA IV: Everyone Has An Opinion
Presenting us with his utmost experienced opinion, John Blyth a “Professional Video Game Player”, attempts to convince gamers and game bloggers alike into rethinking the way we play and write about Grand Theft Auto:
In 2006, a small Texan company by the name of Anascape Ltd. took Nintendo and Microsoft to court,
claiming the pair had infringed on patents Anascape held relating to game controllers (presumably for a "3D controller with vibration" filed in 2000). While Microsoft decided to settle things out of court, Nintendo stuck to their guns, a move which has now cost them $21 million after a Federal jury ruled in Anascape's favour.
The ruling applies to Nintendo's GameCube, Wavebird and Classic controllers (but not the Wii Remote or Nunchuk). Nintendo have said only that they plan to appeal, and that they expect the court to "significantly" reduce the amount of money they have to cough up.
A $260 Loss Per PS3 For Sony?
According to some number-crunching by the Guardian, Sony might actually be losing more money per PlayStation 3 sold than its figures show.
A look at Sony's recently-announced financials show a significantly improved condition for the company's PlayStation business year over year. Sony's game division lost $1.2 billion on the year - last year, though, that number was over $2 billion.
So the company's clearly closing an internal gap. Its own figures, however, seem to show $130 lost on each PS3 it ships. The Guardian, however, points to the profitability of the PSP and continuing strength of the PlayStation 2 to paint a different picture. From its article:
"On Sony's own figures, the games division made a loss of $130 for each PlayStation 3 shipped. Let's assume that it's making pots of money on the PSP and the PlayStation 2: the PS2 is now hugely profitable and still sells more games than anything else. These two platforms could easily have made a profit of $1.2bn in the year. In that case, the total PS3 loss would have been $2.4bn shared between 9.24m PS3 consoles, or $260 per PS3 — including any attached Sony games."
The New Escapist: Zero Punctuation is here!
Have fun viewing!! I know I did!!
Wii are better than most think we are
High Voltage Software Tech Demo shows the Wii is capable of more advanced graphics than most thought possible. Yes, it's just a tech demo, and yes, it's dark, which will make it look better, but still. For the Wii, that all looks pretty good, and a damn sight better than anyone who isn't called Nintendo has managed thus far on the system. I really think the Wii is still powerful enough for more but only time will tell.
Parents don’t worry if your kid plays games
But worry if they don’t! Violence in games sure can be bad if a kid only plays these games for 15 hours or more a week and don’t play any other games at all. Well don’t believe me than look at this report!
NiSuTe helps The Discovery Channel.
Discovery Channel asks NiSuTe how we would like to see a video game program.
Do you have enough of the crappy TV programs that cover video games with reporters who don’t know anything about videogames at all? Well this is your chance to brain wave with the NiSuTe Team. So head down to the NiSuTe forum and let the debate begin. If you’re not a NiSuTe Forum member than mail to maikel(at)nisute.com together with your wanted forum name.
Leipzig announces travel improvements
Games Convention to benefit from more direct flights, train deals and coach services
The organisers of Games Convention in Leipzig have announced new travel options for people planning to attend this year's event, to try and alleviate some of the problems suffered in past years.
Leipziger Messe has arranged six additional charter flights from Amsterdam, Helsinki, London (Luton), Munich, Paris (Le Bourget) and Vienna, departing on August 19 and 20, with return flights available on August 21 and 22.
Additionally German rail operator Deutsche Bahn is offering a special Games Convention ticket, valid from any DB station, at EUR 99 for second class or EUR 159 for first class.
Plans for a direct coach service from over 30 towns in Germany were also revealed, arriving at Leipzig by 10am on the Friday or Saturday, with a variable cost depending on distance - although a minimum of 50 people will need to book on any one route for it go ahead.
Games Convention is taking place from August 21-24, with a press and trade day on August 20. Additional details on travel arrangements will be available in due course on the event website.
Leipzig Officially Moving To Köln
Those of Kotaku were right on the money: the Leipzig Games Convention is moving, and in the process getting a new name: Games Con. From 2009 the show - renamed because it lets them use the popular "GC" acronym even though the Leipzig team refused to relinquish the name "Games Convention" - will be held in the western city of Köln, which will not only increase the number of public visitors but also make it easier for industry types to get to the show. Which is all well and good, but "Leipzig" had a warm ring to it that the cold, teutonic "Köln Games Con" just can't match.
This does mean that NiSuTe Europe will go there for 100% sure because it lies within our 300KM ring! So reporters make yourself know so that we know how big our team will be.
It seems to happen more often now that the games industry is getting a broader audience. And this time isn’t any other than all the others we have seen before. But this doesn’t mean it is less important. But the lack of female gamers makes it harder. Therefore male or female please help these researchers out a bit and if you know more female gamers please let them participate to.
The company's product road map aims to trim flat screens down to 0.4 inches thick by 2012
Hitachi, which already sells the world’s thinnest HDTV, has no plans to stop slimming. This week the company announced a product roadmap that calls for sliming its LCDs from 1.5 inches today to three quarters of an inch in 2009 and to 0.6 inches somewhere between 2010 and 2012.
Plasmas will lag at first, getting to just 1.4 inches next year. But they will eventually overtake LCD, reaching as skinny as 0.4 inch. (Competitors like Pioneer have similar plans.)
Hitachi says that plasma has more capacity for sliming since the screen produces its own light and doesn’t need to have a backlight behind it, as LCDs do. Hitachi also hopes to cut plasma power consumption in half—good news, since a 42-inch plasma currently slurps up to 500 watts
Microsoft doesn’t support 2 360 in one home.
Strangely enough for the past 2 years we were completely free to play our Xboxes on one and the same router. We never had any trouble what so ever, until this week we tried to do so again. Now the one or the other is getting kicked out x-box live. The official statement of the x-box support is:
“Sir the Xbox can only log in from 1 IP address at a time when you hook up 2 Xboxes on your net work the chances are that both Xboxes send out the same IP address and there for this won’t work.”
This is the statement the second line worker gave us on February 13th. We asked if this is the final statement on this and he said yes.
When I told them we did this on a regular base before the update of 4 dec 2007 they told us we were just lucky. Well so here it is Microsoft official statement that they won’t multiple Xbox consoles in one home.
PS if you are someone from this department and you think this isn’t the case please call or mail us. You can find all data on our contact page.
Nintendo Profits Up 96% In Nine Month Results
Officials from Nintendo have released details of the company’s financial results for the nine months ended December 31st, during which time the company has seen net sales increase by 84.7 percent on the same period last year.
Despite significant hardware stock problems for the Wii, and to a lesser extent Nintendo DS, the company saw net sales rise to ¥1.32 trillion ($12.36bn) over the last nine months. Operating income rose by 135.1 percent to ¥394.0 billion ($3.69bn) and net income rose by 96.3 percent to ¥258.9 billion ($2.42bn).
