Nintendork Posted September 27, 2006 Posted September 27, 2006 Site is now up --- Skip to ** if you're not interested in a rundown/advert of this month's Edge. Just opened up this month's Edge (now priced at the ridiculous £4.50) Nothing fantastic for Nintendorks. I recommend subscribing.. £9.99 for 3 issues and a free shirt. Motorstorm got the cover, there's a feature on that. Also a feature on console launches dispelling myths, the new John Woo game, Brothers in Arms and a retro feature on ToeJam and Earl. Reviews on the DS games: Deep Labyrinth and Scurge Hive. Plus a preview of the poor looking Tingle RPG which will no doubt work in some way with the Wii version of Twilight Princess. Not much Nintendo coverage this month but Next month is a Wii special. Also there's a videogame job supplement. (Sponsored by EA) ** Onto the point of this thread.. Nintendo took out a double page spread with the word Wii. http://wiimoveyou.co.uk/ isn't currently up.. should be tonight or at least by tomorrow when Edge goes on sale. Should clear up the UK launch details and stuff once and for all.. or failing that just regurgitate everything we already know. Either way that appears to be the official Wii hub site. Nintendo is preparing an all-out web assault to promote its Wii console, out on 8 December, allocating a significant portion of its £10m marketing budget online. Using the slogan 'Wii Move You', the Japanese gaming giant is set to take full advantage Sony's decision to hold the PlayStation 3 launch back until the New Year. "We're just in the final stages of putting our media plan together for Wii, but in terms of online our spend is way more than anything we've done before,"... Wasn't the 10 million actually Euros? that's a school boy error.. and I thought it was 11 million too.
Ramar Posted September 27, 2006 Posted September 27, 2006 Also there's a videogame job supplement. (Sponsored by EA) Might be worth remembering to pick it up this month. Cheers for that.
Hero-of-Time Posted September 27, 2006 Posted September 27, 2006 a retro feature on ToeJam and Earl. Awesome. Im still hoping that T & E will be out on release day of the Wii via the VC.
Nintendork Posted September 27, 2006 Author Posted September 27, 2006 Yeah I must admit, despite being sponsored by EA.. there is some great advice. It details every UK and some international degrees.. has some profiles on types of jobs so you know what to specialise in. But at £3000 a year and the industry paying low level team members little to nothing it's hard to see them as value for money unless you consider yourself either the next Will Wright or you love games hard enough that money isn't an issue. I'm certainly going to give it a serious look, I'm kinda into art design physics and computers, ticks some of the boxes I suppose.
ZeldaFreak Posted September 27, 2006 Posted September 27, 2006 Yeah I must admit, despite being sponsored by EA.. there is some great advice. It details every UK and some international degrees.. has some profiles on types of jobs so you know what to specialise in. But at £3000 a year and the industry paying low level team members little to nothing it's hard to see them as value for money unless you consider yourself either the next Will Wright or you love games hard enough that money isn't an issue. I'm certainly going to give it a serious look, I'm kinda into art design physics and computers, ticks some of the boxes I suppose. where did you get £3000 from you mean the studying costs for a degree, well thats quite good when the you compare the average minimum salary job over 30 years employment considering both jobs pay increases ocur at the same rate then your takling roughly £100k better off over your lifetime before taxes are taken off if you assume most companies are looking for a computer science degree then your talking around the £25k per year before taxes. Yeah on the money front you pay it back at a minimal amount when your earning over £15k per annum
mike-zim Posted September 27, 2006 Posted September 27, 2006 i think video games rock. i have a degree in thinking video games rock and it cost me nothing, they still wont give me a job though. damn you nintendo.
Ashley Posted September 27, 2006 Posted September 27, 2006 Any chance of a scan of the advert? The one that just says "Wii"?
Nintendork Posted September 27, 2006 Author Posted September 27, 2006 Wii wiimoveyou.co.uk white background, wii signature font all round in pale grey. double page spread.. not hard to imagine honestly. ZeldaFreak, point taken but last 10's of thousands of computer graduates couldn't get jobs in their fields because the industry is flooded with these graduates. It is a serious problem.. the UK games industry is hardly huge. I'm not saying they're bad value for money (look at arcaeology) but it's hardly the best. Which is why I think anyone who enjoys games should think long and hard about whether they'd enjoy the some what slow and repetitive task of making them.
demonmike04 Posted September 27, 2006 Posted September 27, 2006 Website's still not up..shite. Chances are it'l be tommorow then, as I doubt many NOE UK staff work after 5.
AshMat Posted September 27, 2006 Posted September 27, 2006 heads shouldn't have an apostrophe in it... site's not up yet, keep checking
ZeldaFreak Posted September 28, 2006 Posted September 28, 2006 Wiiwiimoveyou.co.uk white background, wii signature font all round in pale grey. double page spread.. not hard to imagine honestly. ZeldaFreak, point taken but last 10's of thousands of computer graduates couldn't get jobs in their fields because the industry is flooded with these graduates. It is a serious problem.. the UK games industry is hardly huge. I'm not saying they're bad value for money (look at arcaeology) but it's hardly the best. Which is why I think anyone who enjoys games should think long and hard about whether they'd enjoy the some what slow and repetitive task of making them. Point taken, as well howver I am intending to work in America/Japan maybe then set up a studio up back here
LazyBoy Posted September 28, 2006 Posted September 28, 2006 Point taken, as well howver I am intending to work in America/Japan maybe then set up a studio up back here You've got quite a bit of work ahead of you. You know what you're gonna make and what for yet?
ZeldaFreak Posted September 28, 2006 Posted September 28, 2006 I know what I want to make and for what systms, I had an idea for a game for the Wii which will literally change the way you play RPGs. Carn't really go into more specifics you never know when your idea will be stolen. Yeah I know I have lots of work to do, this semester my assignment for programming module 1, is snake the more I get extra credit for making it stand out from every other student
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