Would-be developers will get the chance to make their game concepts known

The London Games Festival, the week long cultural and business celebration of computer and video games that will take place throughout London from Monday 2nd October, has recently unveiled the panelists for the inaugural “Lizards’ Lair” pitching event. The confirmed “lizards” are Peter Molyneux, head of Lionhead Studios, Miles Jacobson, studio director at Sports Interactive and Ian Livingstone, creative director of Eidos.

Held on October 3rd, the “Lizard’s Lair” will see would-be developers pitch
their game concepts to the “lizards” for a chance to win great prizes, including one week’s work experience and possibly, the chance to see their gaming ideas come to life. The event will be held at Visit London’s headquarters and it will be presided by Paul Durrant, director of Dare to be Digital, the premier games creation competition in the UK.
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Wario is back in the video game biz, and this time the tightfisted microgame master is servin’ up some insane party games on Nintendo GameCube. The 200+ hysterical microgames from Wario Ware, Inc.: Mega Microgame$ are making a triumphant return on the big screen, supported by wildly creative multiplayer matches starring Wario’s crazy crew of video game developers. (more…)

You arrive penniless on an idyllic South Pacific island. Scattered around the beach and in various huts are a variety of Pool tables and sub games to pass the time — when you feel you are good enough, enter the Competition hut and start climbing the championship ladder to make your fortune! There are 11 sets of pool rules and no less than 30 very different computer opponents for you to challenge. Earn cash by beating your opponent, and by having side bets on various shots in the game, then spend your cash in the beach shop on pool accessories and other fun stuff. (more…)

What A Year!

At a New York City analyst briefing on April 1, 2004, Nintendo provided an update on some of the new and exciting products on tap for 2004, including new accessories and content for the best-selling Game Boy Advance and Nintendo GameCube (more…)

Last week’s most interesting Nintendo-related news saw a few different analyst-type people predicting that we’d see a new version of the Game Boy Advance before the year is out. Some people jumped into the deep end of the rumor pool and started shouting “PSP killer,” while others pointed to the overseas piracy problems that the current GBA is facing as a reason to update the hardware a third time. (more…)

Custom Robo, the wildly popular action game of mechanized melee from Japan, hits the U.S. in May 2004. Get ready to enter a world of hyper-tech weapons, holosseums, and heavy-barrel battles. Custom Robo puts you in the pilot’s seat of a state-of-the-art war machine in the not-too-distant future where crime and justice duke it out in virtual battlegrounds. (more…)