Posts tagged order 
Order!!, WiiWare's retro king simulator, explained
We introduced Order!! yesterday, the upcoming WiiWare title that puts the player in the role of a 16-bit RPG's king. AndriaSang's preview of Poisoft's game helpfully gives us more details about the gameplay, which diverges significantly from My Life as a King (and also Little King's Story -- by the ...
Three new regal, musical, puzzling WiiWare games announced for Japan
Three different companies have announced new WiiWare games for Japan all at once, so we've decided to collect them all here. They're all completely different, but they get lumped together for us by virtue of the proximity of their announcements and release dates -- all are coming out in May or June....
Harry Potter and the Gallery of Screenshots
We were taken aback by these screens of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. They look fantastic. It could be using prerendered backgrounds to display these artistic views of Hogwarts, but whatever it is, it's working. Whenever Harry is walking around the (strangely empty) building, it's bre...
Rumor: Wii mic to increase wizardly immersion
It's all a bit hushed and secretive, but reports out of GDC say that the new Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix game will use the upcoming Wii microphone attachment in some fashion-- the most obvious use we've heard is incanting spells. People are under non-disclosure agreements about som...
Amazon angers Wii waiters
Amazon.com pulled some shenanigans with the Wii on Sunday, angering a lot of gamers who had camped out on Amazon's Wii order page from Saturday night until Sunday afternoon, hitting refresh every couple of seconds. Amazon had previously touted (via the order page) that the Wii would be available for...
Sell your soul to pre-order a British PS3
U.K. online retailer Play.com has made the PS3 available for pre-order in a bundle with three games, pushing the price up to £549.99 which, for a game console, is very near the "I'd have to sell my soul to get one" boundary. The real cheek is that the company doesn't guarantee that they'll be ...
