March 10, 2008 - If you live in Japan or America, you already have access to Wii's most anticipated game, Super Smash Bros. Brawl. The chances are therefore very good that you're already playing with the 35 different fighters across dozens of unique, stylized stages. And Nintendo itself is planning to deliver even more levels your way in the future by way of WiiConnect24 – the publisher will send you a handpicked user-created fight stage per day, every single day. Still, there's one big limitation: you won't be able to save these user-created arenas.
This, dear readers, is where IGN comes in. Introducing Super Smash Bros. World, your one-stop destination for a never-ending stream of user-created Brawl content. Looking for spectacular new user-created Smash Bros. stages? Maybe you'd prefer to upload some of your own creations? We've got you covered. If you've got a Wii, a copy of Smash Bros. Brawl, an SD Card and a PC or Mac, you're in business. Super Smash Bros. World enables you to very quickly upload the stages you've created to the site, and you can just as effortlessly download the soon-to-be-thousands of user-created stages to your PC or Mac, transfer them to an SD Card, pop it into your Wii and get ready to fight.
You can even rate the stages featured on Super Smash Bros. World so that they rise or decline in popularity and status, making the selection process for all users more intuitive.
Even better, you'll be able to download and upload stages compatible with either the U.S. or Japanese versions of the game – just select which build you have, upload or download, and it'll all work seamlessly.
The rest is up to you. IGN invites its Smash Bros.-loving readers to get busy creating stages so that our new hub will be populated by a huge selection of fight arenas, created by the gamers for the gamers, as it were.
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MS claims 42% Next Gen Revenue
Written by fiasco8
Monday, 10 March 2008
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Via Joystiq
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The Xbox 360 is winning the console war, or at least it is according to Microsoft. Speaking to MCV, the vice-president of Microsoft's European Interactive Entertainment division stated that the company was generating 42% of the revenue from the current generation of console and game sales.
The announcement comes at the same time as the price-drop for the 360 SKUs in Europe, which VP Chris Lewis feels was only possible after securing a sizable hold on the market. The market revenue figures are based on sales of consoles, games, peripherals, and online services like Xbox Live, and only figure in the current generation of video games (the continued strong sales of PS2 software, for example, are not included). Worldwide, Microsoft also claims an installed user base of 17.7 million, though no word if that number accounts for red-ringed consoles.
