Daily Gaming Tidbits 05/18/09

• Quake Live players will be getting 6 new playgrounds to romp in. Starting tomorrow, id Software will be releasing a new map each week for the next six weeks.
• Blazing Birds and Gel: Set & Match will be released this Wednesday on XBLA for 800 points each. UPDATE: Blazing Birds is actually 400MP. Sorry for any inconvenience this misinformation might have caused.
• Crytpic’s superhero MMO, Champions Online, will be delayed. Initially it was due out on July 14th. Now, look for it on PC & consoles September 1st.
• Walmart is getting into the used games business. It’s through a third party with a machine similar to the Red Box DVD machines. I won’t go into too much detail here, but Kotaku has a good article on it if you want more info.
• Geoff Keighley said on Twitter that “3d realms just issued a statement that duke forever development is suspended. But 3D Realms remains in business.” I have tried to find the press release but it must be so recent that it isn’t widespread yet. UPDATE: Here is a link to the article on Geoff’s site.
• Nintendo is now offering their 300th Virtual Console, The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, Which is a Nintendo 64 title from the fall of 2000. Look for it to run you 1000WP ($10)
• Remember that Game of the Year Xbox 360 bundle I told you about? Well, it’s now going to be released in Australia too. Look for it around the 28th of May.
• DSIWare is getting Dragon Quest! Dragon Quest Wars will be similar to a board game & will run you 500 points…if you’re in Japan. Yeah, this one hits the Japanese handhelds in June. no word on a domestic release.
• Capcom’s E3 Mystery Game #1 has been revealed by the July issue of Nintendo Power. What is it? Well, it’s Tatsunoko VS Capcom: Ultimate All Stars.
• Sega announced Daisy Fuentes Pilates today. Really? Do we need this game? I never realized she was popular enough to warrant getting her name in the title.
• This week’s Deal of the Week on XBLM is the Hero/Villain pack for Marvel Ultimate Alliance for 560MP.
• echochrome, the abstract puzzler on Sony’s PS3 & PSP will be getting an update that will provide several new features. First, it will now support the EyeToy, letting players take videos of themselves playing & upload it to YouTube. Second, players will now be able to get fan created levels from the Playstation Cloud, basically expediting the lengthy process that is currently in place. Lastly, there will be a puzzle game made added as well. Players will be tasked to guess which map is being displayed on screen. The hitch? You can only see the character’s movements, not the map.

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