Rumour: Windwaker Link in Brawl???

Rumours about a Windwaker Link have been found all over the internet ever since Brawl was announced, well… for all of you folks who have been wanting a Windwaker Link in Smash Bros. for ages now, don’t you go ranting on the nintendo forums just yet, there is still a chance! A leaked photo from what seems to be the japanese version of the game has been floating around the internet for a couple of days now, and you can clearly see Dark Windwaker Link selected as the character! Don’t go jumping for joy either though, this is not a screen from any magazine or official game website, so this could just be a photo done by some random person with some crazy photoshop skills. The picture seems to be taken off of a tv or some kind of monitor, which is what makes it believable. What makes it look as if it’s unbelievable is the fact that there is a character named robot right next to “Toon” Link, also the fact that Sakurai stated that there would be no more clone characters. Ganondorf and Captain Falcon were clone characters, yet, they appear in this player roster. There is always the chance that Sakurai just gave them different move sets, but who knows. Check out the picture below to see what i’m talking about.

Real or Fake? My guess is that it’s probably fake, but it appears that we won’t know until the game gets to Japan in a couple of days, we’ll make sure we give you guys an update on wether or not Windwaker Link made the cut.

Bring on the FPS, please

It’s time for a first-person shooter that focuses on the dynamics of online multi-player death matches to hit the Wii.

Sure, the Smash Bros. and Mario Kart franchises are a blast, but where are the first-person shooters? While Xbox’s Halo 3 — not to mention its long list of other first-person shooters — stretch the competitiveness of gamers across the world, it’s almost undeniable that the best platform for first-person shooters is still the PC. The main reason the PC makes for great first-person shooter gameplay is because of the intuitiveness and ease of using a mouse for aiming. While analog controls get the job done, they just don’t compare to using a mouse.

Now, take a minute and analyze the Wiimote.

In Super Mario Galaxy, the Wiimote acts as a cursor — just like a mouse — and makes for smooth and responsive gameplay. The same is the case for Metroid Prime 3. This game follows suit, allowing for the Wiimote to act more like a mouse than a “traditional” controller. The result in both of these games is phenomenal gameplay that feels easy and natural.

Let’s take a closer look at Metroid Prime 3.

The Wiimote acts just like a mouse does in a PC first-person shooter. Aiming is accurate and smooth, allowing the player unlimited flexibility in his or her controls. The only improvement to make to the gameplay is to have a faster turning radius. Therefore, one must ask the question: if the ease of the Wiimote is such a nice fit for a first-person shooter, then why aren’t there more first-person shooters for the console?

The Metroid universe lends itself to some fast and exciting multi-player options, even if not online, then at least four-player death matches. Imagine the use of things such as the morph ball to gain access to secret areas or the grappling beam to traverse vast landscapes, all the while blowing your competition to tiny blue and red glowing bits of energy.

A good first-person shooter — with online play, of course —could end the arguments that the Wii is only for casual gamers. Developers need to take a page out of the Metroid Prime 3 design book and start making intense first-person shooters that utilize the effectiveness of the Wiimote and nunchuck combo.

Using this technology, there should be no reason why first-person shooters can’t be just as good, if not better, on the Wii than on their more graphically-superior peer-consoles.

Prayers Answered: Rock Band For Wii Announced!

Musically inclined Wii enthusiasts, your prayers have been answered! Electronic Arts finally came out of the woodwork and announced that Rock Band, Guitar Hero’s biggest competition for the 2008 musical crown, will be coming out for the Wii! When trumpeting the resounding success of Guitar Hero 3 late last week, we speculated that the newcomer to the music scene would be making it’s way to the Wii sometime soon. After all, with one of the largest console rates worldwide, it only makes sense for MTV/Harmonix to bring their game to the wonderous, untapped Wii market sometime this year.

No further details on the game have been announced at this moment, but we can only hope that the masses of downloadable songs will somehow be made available for purchase for Wii owners. The poor souls who picked up the severely gimped PlayStatoin 2 version were not only robbed of downloadable content, but the bands phenomenal World Tour mode as well. That unfortunately downgraded port seemed thrown together at best, so here’s to hoping that the developers have used their extra time to work out all the kinks for the Wii version of the game.

So for those about to rock, get ready to salute by picking up your giant box of Rock Band sometime before the end of the year.

[Via Kotaku]

Have A Game On Us!

In order to show everyone how much we appreciate having you as loyal readers, we are having a contest that gives you the opportunity to win The Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess and the Prima Strategy Guide to accompany it. The guide will show you where every single item is in the game, and the earliest possible time you can pick them up. It will become invaluable in your quest to exterminate Ganon.

Each of you can get yourselves five chances to enter. Here’s how.

1. The first way to get yourself an entry is to simply create a comment after your read this. Be sure to give us lots of love, and you get one entry.
2. If you have a blog or a website and you give us a link* and you get another entry. When you leave your comment here, be sure to leave a link to where you gave us a link, otherwise we won’t know about it!
3. If your a member of some forums somewhere (and who isn’t?) give us a link* and you get another entry. Don’t be spammy either. If a forum owner complains that you spammed their board for this contest, your entry will be disqualified. Same as above, you have to tell us where you left the link so we can verify it.
4. Subscribing to our RSS feed will get you an entry.
5. Subscribing to our daily email feed delivery will get you an entry. When you leave your comment, the email you enter must match the one that you used for the daily feed delivery. The links to both our RSS feed and email feed delivery are located in the top right corner of every page.

(*Feel free to mention the contest in your blog posts and forum links, but links should vary. We don’t want everyone linking to this solitary post. For example, you could link to our homepage or your favorite posts, columns, or categories. This feature article by Ilchymis is a great article to link to!)

There you have it, five chances to enter to win a great game and guide to go along with it. The lucky winner will be chosen at random on the first day of March 2008. Something such as this list randomizer will be used, and the drawing will likely even be recorded.

The winner will be contacted via the email address used to leave comments, so it must be valid. If the winner cannot be contacted, or does not reply to the winning notification email within 2 weeks, the prize will be forfeited and another winner will be randomly selected.

Mywiinews.com authors are not eligible for entry.

AND THE WINNER IS….

A couple of days late, I know. So here is what I did. I assigned everyone a number. Those who had more than one entry got more than one number assigned. If you had five entries, you got five numbers. Got me? I then entered the numbers into Random.org. So, who had the winning number? That would be none other than Jeff Delano!

Congratulations Jeff. I will send you an email to finalize things.

Be sure to check back soon everyone. I expect another contest before long!