2K Sports makers of most of the American regional games like MLB (Major League Baseball) and NHL (National Hockey League). 2K Sports are the only contenders to EA Sports giants of Sports Games. National Hockey League or better known as Ice Hockey is a popular sport in natural cold countries like Canada, Scandinavia, Russia and northern part of United States. NHL 2K series was started by 2K Sports in the year 2000 and till date have nine games released in the series. Tenth game NHL 2K 10 is under development of Visual Concepts and like the previous games of the NHL series it will be published by 2K Sports.  NHL 2K 10 will be released for the platforms of PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii.  Specialty of the game will be different feature for each version on  different platforms. Genre for the game will be Sports and Hockey. NHL 2K 10 is scheduled to release on September 15, 2009 on all the four consoles. Cover athlete for the game will be All-Star left winger Alexander Ovechkin of Washington Capitals.

Improved Features

Better Graphics: The player looks and styles will be more accurate, realistic pre-game introductions and brighter arenas.

Smarter Hockey: Game will be more authentic in defensive and offensive zones because of improved A.I. multiplayer will be more exciting because of the NHL-caliber playmaking feature.

Online Multiplay: Online teams can be created and you can play in leagues. By joining tournaments you can test yourself against best NHL 2K 10 players in the world

Better Control: with improved controls it will deliver better handling and new defensive moves like stumble shots, and stick lifts you can always get puck on the net.

All these feature will be common for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, Xbox 360 for Wii controls will be different as it will use Wireless input Wii Remote. Get ready for this action packed game with lots of adrenaline.

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Red Steel 2 an upcoming game under the development of Ubisoft Paris. Red Steel 2 is a direct sequel to the 2006 game Red Steel. Just like its sequel Red Steel 2 is a game from First person shooter, where player can use gun and a katana sword alternatively. The game is designed to be played on Nintendo Wii. Red Steel 2 will be published by Ubisoft. Releases dates are not sure but the game may release early in the year 2010. Only playable mode in the game will be single player. Red Steel 2 will use a special game engine developed by Ubisoft known as LyN engine. LyN is designed to act effectively on both old and next generation equally. Other games to use LyN engine are Rabbids Go Home and Beyond Good & Evil 2. LyN specially suits Wii as it helps in maximizing graphic capabilities without limiting the imaginations of the developers using it. In April Ubisoft revealed in a press release that game’s story is based in a high tech, desert bound metropolis. The Swordsman is the name if the main protagonist of the game. He will be a silent character and a member of a clan called “The Protectors”. According to a prequel in the game all the members of the group were killed while saving The Swordsman. As the last surviving Protector, The Swordsman sets off on a revenge for his fallen clan.

Red Steel’s development started in summer of 2008 and on July 28 the same year existence of Red Steel 2 was confirmed by Alain Corre, executive director of Ubisoft. Red Steel will also use Nintendo’s new accessory Wii MotionPlus. It is said by the developers that Wii motion plus create a strong single player experience. Multiplayer was not considered as the part of the game, because Ubisoft believed it would distract player from enjoying the single player in Wii gameplay. Instead of using more realistic graphics, Red Steel will use stylized cel-shaded graphics. Visuals are styled like XIII Ubisoft’s own game released in the year 2003. As the game will release on the family console Wii, it will not include bloodshed in the game. Ubisoft is aiming for ‘T’ rating for Red Steel 2. Red Steel 2 will be played in the First person shooter perspective just like Red Steel. Player can alternate between sword fighting and shooting. At their disposal players will have both gun and katana and they can switch them at any point. As you will progress further in the game you will receive new abilities and weapons, which you can either earn or purchase.

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Mario and Sonic two best-known characters in the gaming world, just imagine the fun when they will come along in a game. This opportunity is under the development of Sega the great Japanese game software and hardware company. Sega is developing a game named Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games. The game will be published jointly by Sega and Nintendo. Genre for the game is Sports and it is completely dedicated to International Olympic Committee because of an exclusive license of International Sports Multimedia. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games will released in late 2009 on the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS. It will serve as the first official video game of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. Basically the game is a collection of events based on the Olympic Winter Games. Two teams in the game will be Sega and Nintendo and you have to compete while posing as one of the team. Designer for the game is Shigeru Miyamoto father of the modern gaming.

Spanish Nintendo magazine Nintendo Acción was the first to mention about the game in January 2009. They reported that the game will be named as Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games. IGN and Eurogamer confirmed the game a few weeks later. IGN also announced that the game will be officially announced in the following month. Dennis Kim licensing and merchandising director for the event, stated that Vancouver 2010 and the IOC will share royalties. These statements were made in the moth February and in the same month Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games was announced. A joint press release by Nintendo and Sega on February 12, 2009 saw the release of the game. The game is under development immediately after the winter Olympics games were announced. Releasing month of October was announced at E3 2009.

Gameplay of Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games will be same as that of the previous Olympic games. Players will control an on screen character through Olympic events with specific tailored controls for the Wii and DS. Some of the game events in the Wii version can use Balance Board accessory. However it is not compulsory. The game will have all the previous characters and some of the new characters. Two new known characters for the game are Metal Sonic and Donkey Kong. It was announced through Nintendo Channel that the game will have WiiConnect24 capability. Further players can use their Miis in-game. Festival mode is the new feature in the Wii version. It will allow players make their way through entire Olympic games and ceremonies of opening and closing. Multiplayer mode will offer “co-op and competitive gameplay” and for the DS version it will use its wireless capabilities. The DS version however will have “Adventure Tours” allowing players to challenge bosses and accept quests. Wait for October and enjoy the Olympics in your own style.

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Mario a name of the Legend in the gaming world, and Wii is another legend. These two legends are coming together with a game named as New Super Mario Bros. Wii. It is a side scrolling platform video game. The game is developed and published by Nintendo. Main designer for the game is Shigeru Miyamoto, the man behind some of the best games and characters of the gaming world. Some of them are Donkey Kong, Mario, Star Fox, The Legend of Zelda, Nintendogs and Pikmin. The game will be released in Q4 2009 for the console of Wii as a sequel of New super Mario Bros. New Super Mario Bros. Wii was announced at Nintendo’s press conference at E3 2009 for the first time. Most notable point about the game is that it will be the first game in the Super Mario Bros. series with simultaneous multiplayer gameplay in normal levels. The game will support up to four players in the co-op mode of the game.

All the elements of the game will be almost same as that of the New Super Mario Bros. The game will be played in the classic Wii style, with the Wii Wireless Remotes held horizontally. Some movements like picking up other players and spinning are performed by shake of Wii remote and other movements like attacks and jumping are performed by the buttons. There will be four playable characters in the game from the Mario series: Mario as player one, Luigi player two and two Toad characters blue and yellow as player three and four. Players can pick each other and throw them. Once the player is dead, he can resume play if the other player hits a bubble with the dead player inside the bubble. Items will come in blocks from either the blocks or the bubbles floating on the screen. Some of the new items added in the game like Penguin Suit, which will help the player in freezing the enemies, and a Propeller Suit, which allows players to fly. Yoshis similar to the Yoshis found in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island and Super Mario World can be used as fast rides.

New Super Mario Bros. Wii. will feature competitive elements like collecting most coins and points. Rankings will be given at the end of the each level which will also include stats as if coins collected, enemies defeated and total points. It was confirmed by Shigeru Miyamoto that the game will not have an online multiplayer. For the first time on Wii the option of demo play is included. Using the “demo play” players can now pause the game and wait till the game clears the level for them and can resume at any time. The game is developed in return to Shigeru Miyamoto’s desire for a Mario series game with settings of a multiplayer game. Previously he was unable to bring his idea to the completion. But this time hardware from Wii allowed him to bring all the enemies on one screen with a camera that could focus on all the players simultaneously. Koopalings who first appeared in an early Mario game will be the main enemy of the game.

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Wii covered up nearly everything on the soft games i.e. games with less or no violence. Now Nintendo want to promote Wii for the hardcore gamers, one who shares a major part of the gaming world. Games from every genre either are under development or are ready to be release. One such game Dead Space: Extraction a prequel to the 2008 game Dead Space. It will be developed jointly by Visceral Games and Eurocom. Visceral Games also developed Dead Space. Electronic Arts will publish the game. It will release under the genre of Survival horror and Shoot ‘em up. The game will feature two game modes, Single player and 2 player cooperative multiplayer. September 29, 2009 and October 3 are the two releasing dates for North America and Europe respectively. Dead Space was a huge hit and scored well one every chart, same is expected from Dead Space Dead Space: Extraction. It will be exciting to play a survival horror game on the console of soft games.

Events of Dead Space: Extraction will be the oldest in the Dead Space franchise. They will be older then Dead Space and the animated film Dead Space: Downfall, which was released just after Dead Space. Main motive behind developing the film was to explain the events that took place before the game. Dead Space: Extraction will be interesting as you can discover what caused the chaos in Dead Space: Extraction. The game is based in Aegis VII colony and revolves around a group of space of colonists. It shows their fight against the infection of Necromorphs. It will also try to explain the cause of the infection and how it was created when the Red Marker was removed. To make the game more appealing then the previous versions a new female protagonist is introduced to the series.

According to the developers there, game will introduce new character, enemies, weapons and environments to the series. Visceral Games are promising that the game will bring new experience to typical rail shooters. They commented on the game as “a guided first person experience”. Two main difference in the game play is inclusion of branching pathways and puzzles. These two will help the game to look more like an adventure game than an arcade style shooter. Dead Space: Extraction will give the players some control over camera. To point at enemy players has to use pointer function of the Wii Remote. In order to perform melee attack you will have to swing the Wii remote and twisting the Wii remote will result in activating the secondary firing mode. Although new features are included Dead Space: Extraction will still have features from the original game that will play an important role in the gameplay. Some of these features are dismemberment, stasis and zero gravity. Kinesis, which was also there in the previous game, also appear from the start of the game. One new feature included in the gameplay is drop in/drop out co-op play. Dead Space: Extraction was under development for a year before it was reveled on 18 February 2009. Lets see how Wii manages to present the game without violence. It is important as the survival horror games like are genrally features a lot of violence.

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Wii is the winner of the race of the best seventh generation console. One of the reason for the success of Wii was its Wireless Remotes that are compatible perfectly with the games released on Wii. Most successful game for this generation is Wii Sports. There are many kind of sports included in Wii Sports, some of them were modified from real life games. Wii’s strategy was clear why get confused in 17 buttons when you can just swing the bat of baseball. After the huge success of Wii sports now Nintendo EAD the name behind Wii Sports is bringing you the sequel of Wii Sports Resort, the sequel of Wii Sports.

Wii Sports Resort will be a game in the genre of sports game. It will release on July 24 and July 26, 2009 respectively in European Association and North America. The game is developed by Nintendo EAD and will be published by Nintendo. It will make use of the Wii Remote, Wii MotionPlus and Nunchuk. Wii Sports Resort is a part of the ongoing series of games known as Wii Series. It will be compatible with Wii MotionPlus. Wii Sports will be sold bundled with a MotionPlus device and an extended Wii Remote Jacket. Both these will be available for the individual sale also. Wii Sports Resort is set in a beach resort island called Wuhu Island. The same island also featured in Wii Fit. There will be twelve games available to play. Those twelve games are as follows:

Power Cruising

Swordplay

Table Tennis

Golf

Cycling

Wakeboarding

Frisbee

Canoeing

Archery

Basketball

Bowling

Air Sports

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Finally, after swapping up the market Wii is getting into the market of hardcore gamers. We all know most of the Wii users are soft gamers. Games released on Wii are violence free. Wii now wants some games, which will have the features of hardcore gaming like serious gunfight and little chaos. First, such will be The Grinder, a first person shooter. High Voltage Software, they are famous for their titles like Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2, The Conduit and High Voltage Hot Rod Show developing the game. Quantum3 an engine which is specially developed by High Voltage Software for Wii will be used in the game. Release dates are not announced by the developers, but you may see the game to be released somewhere in the year 2010. Genre for The Grinder will be Survival Horror and First person shooter. The game will feature single player mode with multiplayer and online multiplayer. It will make use of Nunchuk, Wii Remote and Wii motion plus.

Not much information is released about the plot of the game. The Grinder will be based in a world with monsters like werewolves, zombies and vampires exist. They just don’t exist but they are part of everyday life. A contact named a Book hire an elite team and the job of the team is to keep the population in control. However, a disaster happens and the population of the monsters is suddenly more then that of the humans, from here the game is changed to survival horror. Player will control one of the four separate characters. Each of them will be have their own qualities, you can upgrade these qualities. To defeat the enemies’ player’s have to use different techniques. There will be a large inventory with lots of weapons, some of them will be dual wielding weapons.

Online multiplayer mode will make use of Wii speak. Each and every level of the game can be played in the co-operatives mode. Maximum players supported in the co-op mode are four. All of the four players engaged in the game will have multiple routes. Working on Hunter: The Reckoning High Voltage Software confirmed that The Grinder is inspired from Left 4 Dead. Another inspiration is drawn from grindhouse horror films. The engine used in the game is Quantum3 as developers want to push more and more characters on the screen. One of the major focus on the game will be to develop the game without any loading time. Fighting with Wii Remotes will be fun and dodging the enemies with the help of Wii Remotes will be helpful.

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Team Meat’s Flash game Meat Boy was a hit from the day one itself. After the success of the flash game Team Meat, decide to go for the other professional gaming platforms. On the platforms of Wii and Microsoft Windows Meat Boy will be released as Super Meat Boy as a Platform Game. The game is designed by Tommy Refenes and Edmund McMillen. Release dates are not confirmed but the game may be release until Q4 2009. The game will be released in single player and multiplayer mode. For the multiplayer mode on Wii, the game will be released as a product of WiiWare.

Basics of the game will be same as that of the Flash version. Player will seek the role of a small-animated cube of meat who must save his girlfriend Band-Aid Girl from the evil Dr. Fetus. There will be more than 100 unlockable content in the game. Other then single player mode there will be versus mode, multiplayer co-op mode and the most exciting a four player party mode. Multiplayer mode of the game will also feature playable characters from other independent games. In order to unlock these characters player must have to collect Band-Aids in the single player mode of the game. The four player party mode is the most awaited and exciting of all the modes, according to the developers.

Wii has proved itself as the best console of the seventh generation selling over more than 30 million pieces. The reason was the games on Wii are violence free and parents have no problem allowing there children to play games on Wii. Super Meat Boy is an example of typical Wii game without violence and lots of fun. Nintendo requested the game on WiiWare in order to promote the online play on Wii. Nintendo was impressed by the success of previous Meat Boy title and Team Meat’s Flash Game Aether. The developers explained that the game will be a big throw back to a lot of super hardcore Nintendo titles like Mega Man, Ghosts ‘n Goblins and the Japanese version of Super Mario Bros. 2. The plot of the game looks like a mash-up of every videogame story from early 90s. First unlockable character of the multiplayer mode was announced by Team Meat in early April 2009, the character will be the protagonist from Braid. Later in May 2009 in an interview with TWGNews, Alex Neuse and Mcmillen of Gaijin Games announced about their second unlockable player. It will be commander Trip from the Bit Trip series. Get ready for the ultimate meat boy to get you off your seat and wait until the year’s end.

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Mushroom kingdom Fusion is a non-profit fan-made game. It is based on most famous gaming character series Super Mario Bros. The game will be released under the genre of Platforming video game on the platform of Microsoft Windows. The game is crossed over with elements like characters and settings from a multitude of other video games. It will be released under Freeware license. Mushroom kingdom Fusion will use the engine, which is used by many non-profit game makers – Game Maker. Game’s development gets started in 2008. That time developers were using a per-built game engine Game Maker 7. The name suggested that time was Super Mario Fusion. Developers for the game called themselves as The Fusion Team. Aspect ratio for the game is 4:3.

Primary game mechanics of the game are drawn from Super Mario All-Stars version of Super Mario Bros. 2., Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3, and from Super Mario World. Standard Mario enemies will return to the game like alien creatures, human Soldiers, Demonic Beings. Music from the game is will feature some exclusive tracks from Halo series as well as usual Mario series music. Mushroom kingdom Fusion will feature several weapons used by the Covenant races in Halo. Many guise and abilities of certain characters from the Mega Man universe.

Characters featured in Mushroom Kingdom Fusion are the most famous characters like Mario and Luigi. As the game is crossover Mario and Luigi will be joined by many characters from many other famous video game franchises like Sonic the Hedgehog. As well as Wario Land Metroid, and Ninja Gaiden. Total characters of the game is not defined as the list is expanding ever day. Basic design of the game is influenced by video game franchises Doom, Sonic, Mega Man and other Nintendo titles. Some other features of the game are inspired form Castlevania, Ghosts ‘n Goblin and Metal Slug. Other game titles which are unclear include Cosmo’s Cosmic Adventure and R-Type E.V.O.: Search for Eden.

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Puchi Puchi Virus is upcoming game for Nintendo DS. It is under development of not so famous California based company Nippon Ichi in association with KeysFactory. The game will be published by Jaleco in Japan and for America, its NIS. Genre of the game is Puzzle video game and it will be available in 1 or 2 player modes. Media release for the game will be in the form of Nintendo DS Game Card.

Story of the game starts on a planet, which looks like Earth. It is affected by a deadly viral outbreak. Whoever is infected turns into a weird monster. These infected monsters have got pun for names, like Flying Panduh, a Panda with a jetpack, a frying pan and with dislike to country music. The outbreak is worsened by everyday, Doctor Kevin and his two assistants decide to fight the disease. There only hope is their newly invented vaccine, made up of pure awesome.

Main characters of the game are:

Dr. Kevin – he is the main character of the game and serves as the protagonist of the game. He is a genius and spends most of his time working in his lab. He is very kind, noble and weird. His company includes a hottie and a chicken.

Honeydew – She is hot, smart and quiet most important of all she is Kevin’s Assistant. She is speaks her mind if she thinks it’s important. She loves to cook even tough she is bad at it.

George the Chicken – he is the third and most ridiculous character of the Kevin’s group. George claims she is a girl, but nobody believes him. Kevin and Honeydew even suspect she might be infected with the Puchirus.

Main Feature of the gameplay is to link geometric viruses together to erase them before they turn into stones. You have to create links by linking three viruses together into a triangle; and then ‘popping’ this triangle to remove the viruses. If you overlap two triangles and then pop the first triangle created, you will be able to create Combos. Puchi Puchi Virus features whooping 102 levels within the game. Each level will have different objective like a certain number of combos, a certain score, etc within a limit of time.

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