Gaming News — February 19, 2008

It’s Tuesday and I had a snow day! And I still want people to comment on this blog all week I will delete anyone who doesn’t comment all week. I’m only doing this because I feel none of my friends care about me and just use me as a filler for their friends lists. Also, I’m serious about the Question of the Week! I want you guys to know more about me so I want you to ask me any question you can think of and I will answer it on Sunday in a separate blog. Also, today all the GDC coverage will be started with the prefix, “GDC 2008:”, so look out for those.

TODAY’S RELEASES:
US-
-Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (DS)
-Club, The (PC)
-Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors (Wii)
-Mortimer Beckett and the Secrets of Spooky Manor (PC)
-My Horse and Me (PC)
-Pimp My Ride (Wii)
-RHEM 3 (PC)
-Spitfire Heroes: Tales of the Royal Air Force (DS)

UK-
-FIFA Street 3 (DS)

AU-
None.

QUESTION OF THE WEEK:
Ask me any question you want and I will answer ALL of them on Sunday in a separate blog post.
Send these questions to my PM or post them in the comments.

PC NEWS:
-GDC 2008: Havok 5.5 has been announced giving even more power to the developers in matters of a physics engine.
-GDC 2008: Havok has increased control over interactive cloth and destructible objects in games.
-GDC 2008: Quake Live has been announced as a free-to-play game with in-game advertising.
-GDC 2008: Ultizen Games, a Chinese developer, will be showcasing their social game, U-Pal, to North American game studios.
-GDC 2008: Avatar Reality announced today that their Massively Multiplayer Virtual World (MMVW), Blue Mars, will get a sneak preview at GDC.
-GDC 2008: Allegorithmic has unveiled their new texturing tool middleware, Substance.
-Telltale Games has announced that Mike Stemmle, Justin Chin, and Brett Tosti have joined the company.
-A new update has been released for SunAge.
-Fluid Entertainment is interested in getting into children’s MMO development.

PS3 NEWS:
-GDC 2008: Havok 5.5 has been announced giving even more power to the developers in matters of a physics engine.
-GDC 2008: Havok has increased control over interactive cloth and destructible objects in games.
-GDC 2008: Allegorithmic has unveiled their new texturing tool middleware, Substance.
-Sony moved 500,000 units in January of 2008.
-Sony sold about 20% in total market share of software in Japan last month.

PSP NEWS:
-GDC 2008: Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Heroes 2: The Phantom Fortress has been announced.
-Sony moved 500,000 units in January of 2008.
-Sony sold about 20% in total market share of software in Japan last month.

XBOX 360 NEWS:
-GDC 2008: Havok 5.5 has been announced giving even more power to the developers in matters of a physics engine.
-GDC 2008: Havok has increased control over interactive cloth and destructible objects in games.
-GDC 2008: Allegorithmic has unveiled their new texturing tool middleware, Substance.

WII NEWS:
-Nintendo has announced some new Wii Fit details.
-Panasonic says they’re developing a TV that won’t break under pressure from Wii controllers flying out of gamer’s hands.

DS NEWS:
No DS Gaming News today.

See ya tomorrow!
Keep on gaming,
PDB aka gamerpsp360