Videogame publisher THQ has taken what I hope is the first step in a trend that could play well for consumers as well as for console makers with the announcements of their new Destroy All Humans! games coming for the PS3, Xbox360, Wii, and PSP in late ’07 and early ’08.  What they have done is actually take the franchise in two seperate directions in regards to what system they are going for to maximize the use of each systems strengths and to limit the weakneses by not trying to force one game to all of the platforms.  The PS3 and Xbox360 version is entitled “Destroy All Humans!: Path of the Furon” while the PSP and Wii versions will be “Destroy All Humans!: Big Willy Unleashed”.  From what I have seen so far, the Wii/PSP version actually takes place in the 1970′s just before the PS3/360 edition’s events occur.  So if you have the option of playing the Wii version (it is available for the PSP, but was developed with the Wii in mind for controls) as well as one of the others on the PS3/360, you will actually get the entire story, but both will be playable without the others if you had to make a single choice this generation. 

Wii Edition Images – http://media.wii.ign.com/media/947/947059/imgs_1.html
360 Images – http://media.xbox360.ign.com/media/947/947060/imgs_1.html
360 Videos – http://media.xbox360.ign.com/media/947/947060/vids_1.html

More on this promising title as it comes!

Guitar Hero 2…I AM ADDICTED TO THIS GAME ON THE 360!!!  Just wanted to get that out there first.  Now onto the upcoming sequel from 1/2 of the development team that brought you part 2, Red Octane.  They announced and showed the new wireless guitars that will be coming for the Playstation 2, Playstation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii releases of the game.  Read more

More news coming from E3 2007!  This time it’s about the upcoming Nintendo Wii and Sony Playstation 2 title, Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 in the form of a trailer on IGN.com.  Hopefully once I figure out the whole “courting” of game developers and verify that I have the bandwidth for it, I’ll be able to host these videos directly myself.  But until that great day, follow this link to a great preview trailer for what looks like an interesting game !

http://media.wii.ign.com/media/907/907834/vids_1.html

{UPDATED 7-10-07} 

Well, this is an interesting show of how a company (honestly they all do this) kept the secret of a price drop for a product a closely guarded secret up until the last moment in order to garnish the last of the possible people to buy something at full price.  Read more