Activision has confirmed another seven songs that will be playable in Guitar Hero III. More Slayer, AFI and The Strokes songs for you to play on your Guitar Hero controller!

Miss Murder (by AFI)
3’s and 7’s (by Queens of the Stone Age)
Raining Blood (by Slayer)
Reptillia (by The Strokes)
Paranoid (as made famous by Black Sabbath)
Cities on Flame (as made famous by Blue Oyster Cult)
Mississippi Queen (as made famous by Mountain)

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Two of the biggest third-party developers, Atari and Ubisoft, have released their Leipzig Games Convention line-up. From August 22th until August 26th we’ll be seeing footage of these games:

Ubisoft Leipzig GC line-up:

* Far Cry 2 (PC, Xbox 360, PS3)
* EndWar (Xbox 360, PS3)
* Haze (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)
* Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 (Wii, DS)
* The Settlers 6: Rise of an Empire (PC)
* Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)
* Splinter Cell: Conviction (Xbox 360, PC)
* Assassin’s Creed (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)
* Games for Everyone

Atari Leipzig GC line-up:

* Alone in the Dark: Near Death Investigation (PC, Xbox 360, PS3)
* The Witcher (PC)
* Eternal Sonata (Xbox 360)
* Ace Combat 6 (Xbox 360)
* Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 (PS2, Wii)
* Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 2 (PS2)
* Asterix at the Olympic Games (Wii)
* My Horse and Me (PC, Wii, DS)

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Chief Executive Officer at Ubisoft Yves Guillemot says that his company will focus more on Nintendo’s Wii to beat its rival Electronic Arts in the videogame market. Electronic Arts’ stocks went up with 19% since mid 2006, Ubisoft’s stocks doubled thanks to the Wii. Red Steel sold very well and so they plan to develop more for the Wii.

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Frank Gibeau spread the word that Electronic Arts is working on The Godfather 2, but he couldn’t tell on which platforms the game will appear. We’ll probably be seeing a PS3 and Xbox 360 version but hopefully a Wii version as well. With games like The Godfather 2, Crysis and Army of Two EA wants to reach adults who want to game.

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Electronic Arts has announced that Medal of Honor Heroes 2 is in development for Sony’s PlayStation Portable and Nintendo’s Wii. The game begins on June 6th 1944 with D-Day and takes you through a wild WO II adventure. Both PSP and Wii version will feature an onlinemode with up to 32 players. As announced the Wii-version will use the Wii Zapper for playing the game as an on-rail shooter, but there’s a traditional singleplayer mode as well. (more…)

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SEGA has announced that they’ll be making games based on the popular Japanese cartoonserie Doraemon for the Nintendo DS and Wii. The first games will probably appear in 2008 for Wii and NDS. The Nintendo DS version of the game will be based on the movie that’s coming out of the popular serie. In the Wii version of the game players will have to compete eachother in various minigames.

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According to Kotaku, Nintendo has boosted the production of Wii videogame consoles. Sunplus Technology, Lite-On and Wistron Corp were linked to Nintendo recently and now rumors say that Nintendo has stimulated the companies that supply their parts to give the production a boost. Nintendo is probably just pissed of all those gamers complaining that they still don’t have a Wii console in their house yet.

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Probably next year, maybe this year WiiWare, a whole new Nintendo Wii Channel, will be launched. A few publishers have announced that they have some games in development for this whole new Wii CHannel. GarageGames, a studio that has a lot of PC games on the marktet, is busy with a few games and Pronto Games is working on Destiny of Zorro for the new WiiWare Channel.

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Normally UK gamers should be playing Mario Party 8 for the Nintendo Wii since yesterday, but Nintendo had to recall all British versions of the game because there’s an error in the game! According to Nintendo the games are being called in because of a production failure, but the truth is that the word ‘Spastic’ is in the game. Ubisoft’s Nintendo DS game Mind Quiz contained the same word and they called the game back in as well.

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A few representatives from important Japanese TV stations say that Nintendo’s Wii is one of the causes for their lower view ratings. In the last twenty years the share of their TV stations has lowered to nine percent and according to these companies game consoles like the Nintendo Wii are responsible for this. They hope that the Olympic Games and the World Championship Soccer will give them more viewers.

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