http://www.pdpanic.com/wow WOW! FACTOR is a blog about Video Games, Video Games Development, our thoughts about the industry and a lot more. Mon, 07 May 2007 21:10:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Sadness, a Wii game that we were talking about (the one that lost his development team, and we guess, any publisher for that reason) said they found a new publisher (?) "We would like to apologize for rumors and doubts that might have arisen. We want to assure that Nibris ... http://www.pdpanic.com/wow/the-sadness-is-back-again-or-not/ This blog post claims that, The Sadness (Wii) has no longer it's developer team and we aren't going to see anything from NIBRIS team in a long, long time after this. I'm the last surprised person after reading this, I knew this kind of thing will happen with this game ... http://www.pdpanic.com/wow/the-sadness-for-wii-loses-the-grip-and-the-publisher/ Nintendo made the Wiimote with accessories capabilities, but there are just a few companies out there taking advantage of the great world of accessories, the reason; you need to keep developing games for specific accessories, and if the game you developed isn't a success story then your accessory won't make ... http://www.pdpanic.com/wow/densha-de-go-wii-controller-video/ I just read from Cubed3 that at the Nibris forums the people behind The Sadness is answering some questions from time to time about this "when-it's-coming" game. We all know the dangers of announcing a game when it's not even completed at %1; this can result into a lost of ... http://www.pdpanic.com/wow/nibris-sadness-really/ Just two days after we did the Wii/PS3 comparsion that nobody could ever read, because we just opened the doors and people isn't yet reading this blog; Ken Kutaragi, the Playstation creator announced his retirement from Sony. I think it was obvious this would have to happen; Nintendo not just ... http://www.pdpanic.com/wow/ken-kutaragi-ps3-retires-from-sony/ Renegade Kid is an indie developer company that has made it's debut with what appears to be the first Survival Horror game for the Nintendo DS. The screens are totally hot and the trailer online will make you drop your socks; it's lovely to see how coders play with 3D ... http://www.pdpanic.com/wow/the-ward-survival-horror-on-ds/ Nintendo DS and the new Nintendo Wii are the most affordable consoles on the market; they graphics aren't "Next-Gen" or they games being specially developed by a team of 900 developers by six years, and yet, they are selling more consoles in short time than any of their competitors; it's ... http://www.pdpanic.com/wow/here-wii-go/ No more Beautiful Katamari? after being announced it was called off? Katamari Damacy (We love Katamari!) is one of the greatest game for the Playstation 2 console. The game's plot concerns a tiny prince on a mission to rebuild the stars, constellations and Moon, which his father has accidentally destroyed. This ... http://www.pdpanic.com/wow/beautiful-katamari-on-wii-and-ds/ Won $499 USD executing the Linux operating system on a Wii This must be the craziest contest I ever seen! The group of developers behind WiiLi (Wii Linux) challenges any developer to create a LiveCD of linux to be executed on a Nintendo Wii console without breaking the original system security ... http://www.pdpanic.com/wow/linux-on-the-wii-wiili/ F.E.A.R was a different game in many categories; they didn't just made a new resident evil, they went further that. Yesterday I posted at the GameDev community (highly recommended community for any developer!) about what was the "WOW!" factor on some game they played; maybe can be the first time ... http://www.pdpanic.com/wow/fear-artificial-intelligence/ Thanks for all the people who supported WOW! Factor since it's beginning (just 2, thanks guys). The Team Javier Cabrera: web designer with + than 5 years of experience; gamer since NES and still having fun with Megaman. Carlos Cabrera: currently working for a successful Argentinean company that sells loads of games in ... http://www.pdpanic.com/wow/another-post/ Release Date: 06/22/2005 ESRB Rating: Mature Genre: Adventure Publisher: Ubisoft Developer: Ubi Soft Montreal OUR SCORE 7.0 We got a DS no more than a month ago and one of the first games we tried was Chaos Theory for the DS. Having played the Splinter Cell Double Agent for the PlayStation 2 I have to say; ... http://www.pdpanic.com/wow/hello-world/