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GOG in the machine: Broken Sword 2 points, clicks
Classic PC game download service Good Old Games (GOG.com) has added, well ... another classic PC game to its DRM-free lineup. This week marks the arrival of Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror, the second adventure for the undaunted George Stobbart and his catty companion, Nicole Collard. We don't know how much you normally pay to become embroiled in nebulous conspiracies bent on unleashing ancient Mayan gods, but $5.99 seems like a deal.GOG will also be releasing the franchise's first foray into three dee, Broken Sword 3: The Sleeping Dragon, at a later stage. That's the one where you push a lot of boxes.
Ubisoft resurrecting Broken Sword on DS and Wii next year
Remember that rumor we ran awhile back about Broken Sword coming to the Wii? Well, the game showed up on Nintendo's massive list of Q1 games and it's all confirmed: the game will be releasing on the DS and Wii in March of next year. So, what else do we know?Well, based on the title Broken Sword: Shadows of the Templars (Director's Cut), we can say that it's a port of the original game. This is both bad and good, as it's another port coming to the Wii, but a port of a very good game. Considering the original released in 1996, we're wondering what kind of updates we can look forward to. Any other fans out there looking forward to this?
Ubisoft bringing Broken Sword to Wii, DS March 2009
Who says adventure games are dead? Well, Sierra for one. LucasArts for another. But not Ubisoft, oh no, as the company just dropped a press release confirming plans to bring Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars, the first in Charles Cecil's landmark adventure game series, to the Wii and DS in March 2009. Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars has been ported to numerous platforms since its original PC release in 1996, including the PlayStation and GBA. Ubisoft describes this latest version, however, as 'The Director's Cut,' promising a new narrative "interwoven with the first story," as well as new puzzles designed to take advantage of each platform's affinity for waggle and touching. Even more interesting, the game's more than decade old graphics have also been retouched, including new facial animation by Watchmen artist Dave Gibbons. Consider us pointed, and our wallets collectively clicked.
Nintendo unleashes full Q1 schedule
Nintendo's carrier pigeon just landed on our windowsill with a complete list of Wii releases for Q1 2009. We do actually know most of these dates already (so yeah, maybe the mushroom cloud is a bit excessive), but there's still the occasional scrap of new news buried within.Those Tenchu and Little King's Story dates are fresh to us, and there's also confirmation of the first Play on Wii "New Play Control" games, Pikmin and Mario Power Tennis. For the record, "New Play Control" is a bit of a rubbish name for the series. In our humble opinion, obviously.Make the jump for the full line-up, and remember you can click on a game's name to bring up screens (where available)!%Gallery-22964%
Rumor: Broken Sword to get resurrected on Wii? [update]
Update: Looks like someone managed to find the listing on USK's site and take a screen grab (head past the break to see it).Gamefront noticed a listing on the Germany's rating classification website, USK, that showed a new Broken Sword game for the Wii and DS. Our own search of USK's website only turned up a rating from 2002 for Broken Sword on the GBA, however. Even when searching under the Wii and DS system, we found no classification for an Ubisoft-published game. Personally, we hope the game is in the works. We love the genre and playing a new Broken Sword doesn't sound like too bad a time. What about you all?
Broken Sword dev continues to mercilessly tease us
Evidence of a Broken Sword game for the DS is mounting. First, there was a petition posted by Revolution Software designer Tony Warriner to register player interest (which, predictably enough, was sky high). Then, a Broken Sword game cropped up in the database of the rarely wrong GameStop. And now, Revolution Managing Director Charles Cecil has dropped some heavy-handed hints about such a title.Speaking to Videogamer.com, Cecil admitted that the petition was "really inspirational," and that the DS was "an ideal platform" for the point and click genre. His final comment on the matter was far more suggestive, however: "I just wish that we were having this interview in about a month's time," he told VideoGamer.com's Wesley Yin-Poole. "Then you'd be asking me much more direct questions!" Hmm.Even though Broken Sword for the DS remains a rumor, we're struggling to think of other ways in which Revolution can hint at the game without, you know, announcing it. Petition posted by developer? Check. Appearance of Broken Sword in GameStop records? Check. And now Cecil's comments? Frankly, you don't have to be a heavily pixellated, world-saving law graduate called George to figure out where this might be going.
GameStop predicts EndWar, Broken Sword
According to the online store of games retail monolith GameStop, the DS is going to be home to two new Ubisoft-published series entries next year. EndWar (or, as it appears in GameStop's database, End war) is one of those Tom Clancy things, a near-futuristic real-time strategy game about missile defense. Broken Sword is a well-known adventure game series, and one that has seen entries on Nintendo handhelds before. Developer Revolution Software has expressed interest in creating a 2D Broken Sword game on the DS in the past.Just the simple fact that these are Ubisoft-published series makes DS versions eminently likely-- especially the Tom Clancy's game, part of a brand that is eagerly ported to every available console (yes, including the N-Gage). But retailer listings are still a little too tenuous to call the existence of these games anything but rumor.[Via Siliconera]
