News: Sonic Generations

Sega have announced the development of the next Sonic game, Sonic Generations. To be released on both Xbox 360 and PS3, Sonic Generations will bring both past and present Sonic's together for the ultimate race against time.

Appealing to the generation who grew up with Sonic, Generations is half classic Sonic 2D platforming action, with the unique 3D twist the Sonic 4 introduced us to. Classic Sonic has his trademark spin dash and spin attacks to fight off enemies, and has lush 2D style environments to explore.

Appealing to the younger audience, Generations is half modern 3D sonic, with beautiful 3D environments to explore and Sonic's latest abilities; targeted attacks and jump boosts.

According to Sega:

"Sonic’s universe is thrown into chaos when a mysterious new power creates ‘time holes’ which pull him and his friends back through time.  As a result he encounters some surprises from his past history including Classic Sonic, Sonic as he appeared in 1991.  Modern Sonic and Classic Sonic must defeat this strange new enemy, save their friends, and find out who really is behind this diabolical deed... "


The release announcement trailer looks absolutely stunning and I hope the gameplay is as good as the trailer looks. Sega's recent Sonic releases have been below par so they need to pull a gem out of the hat for this one. Especially because this game is being released to celebrate Sonic's 20th birthday. This needs to be some birthday present for someone as famous as Sonic!


Check out the trailers here and the recent press release here on Sega's website.

Nintendo Announces Wii 2

Nintendo has officially announced that it will be demonstrating a successor to the Wii at this year's E3 Expo in Los Angeles. Apparently it is going to be more powerful than the PS3 or Xbox 360. As a big Nintendo fan I'm excited by this news, but I'm also curious if they are going to continue down the 'everyone a gamer' route that the Wii took or if they are going to mount a serious challenge for Sony and Microsoft. I own a Wii and I think there are some great games on the console, but I had to get an Xbox 360 in order to play some of the more serious titles that I used to play like Resident Evil 5.

Having been introduced to the Fable series of games on Xbox I'm looking forward to a glorious HD Legend of Zelda game on the next console, as I think Fable is the strong competitor to Zelda that there has never been before.

Check out the link on Yahoo! for news on Nintendo's big release.

Rockband Network Downloadable content unavailable

So who's clever idea was it to release an app for the Xbox 360 that doesn't work properly? I've been after a copy of Rockband for some time now because the tracks available to download are far better than rival Guitar Hero offers. Before I got a copy of the game I found an app to download for the Rockband store, and spent ages browsing through and making a list of songs that I wanted.

So when I got a copy of Rockband 3 for my birthday I was straight onto the Rockband Store to download my favourite tracks only to find that all the RBN content is 'unavailable to download'. For three consecutive days this content has been unavailable and it's only today that I did a Google search and discovered that the tracks are there to download IF you load up the Rockband game and go to the music store through the game! But these tracks aren't available through the downloadable music store! What's the point in the downloadable app if you can't actually download any songs through it?

Anyway, I'm going to check the in-game music store later and see if I can actually get hold of some of the tracks for the game. If anyone wants to check the office Rockband forum for more information, I got the news from here.