Games

Konami has announced Castlevania Judgment for Wii. This time around it will be a 3D fighter with characters from 22 years of the series (so far the line up includes Simon Belmont, Alucard, Dracula, Maria Renard, and Shanoa). The game will be produced by Koji Igarashi and manga artist Takeshi Obata will do character designs in an “anime style.” It’ll use the Wii Remote and Nunchuk capabilities, environmental elements will be available to the player as weapons, and monsters to complicate things. Nintendo WiFi will be used for head to head online play and the game can connect to Castevania: Order of Eccelsia on the DS for unlockable bonus gameplay.

Square Enix has announced that Chrono Trigger will be remastered for the Nintendo DS and released in North America this holiday season. The first time the game will be available on a handheld, it will maintain the original’s “elements and spirit” while using the dual screen and Touch Screen of the DS.

Activision’s Quantum of Solace video game will also tie into previous Bond movie Casino Royale, including the construction site chase and collapsing Venetian house scenes. Co-design director Jeremy Luyties says, "It really gave us an opportunity to create a completely different Bond experience. Now we have this really cool element that gets to kick in, and we allow things where we're rocking the camera back and forth, making you feel dizzy, making you feel sick and really bringing in, like, a nice breath of fresh air from the action and the combat and stuff." The game will release this fall for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, and PC.