Do not adjust your set.

This is not a drill.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl is pencilled in for a June 27th release. It’s only been five months, after all. Oh gosh you can taste the sarcasm. However, the Australian release is STILL unconfirmed.

In other news, Nintendo has done their whole release schedule for the foreseeable future, and as much as some of them are not surprises, it’s surprising in itself that some of the games listed in the release schedule have in fact already been released. I spotted a few April 18th’s on here. Seriously.

Highlights:

• Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness (4th July)
• Etrian Odyssey (6th June)
• Wii Fit (Tomorrow: 25th April)
• WiiWare Service (May 20th)
• Everyone’s Nintendo Channel (May 30th)

I was genuinely looking for an ‘Also, cocks.’ on the release schedule. A lot of them are so vague, going into quarters, or occasionally months. Although Iron-Man IS stated as a Spring 2008 release.

Tags: nintendo, wii, ds, super smash brothers, brawl, wii fit, wiiware, nintendo channel

Since when did ASDA start selling video game consoles? I thought they sold bad food and worse clothes. Ah well.

According to ASDA’s head of games (They have a games department?! WTF?!), the pre-orders for the PS3 version of GTA IV are outstripping that of the 360 equivalent by an approximate ratio of three to one. These are just pre-orders on the website though, and doesn’t count the ballsy customers that ask in-store.

I’m an avid 360 supporter, simply because it’s the lesser of two evils. But when I see this, I’m not surprised. GTA IV was a massive thing for PS3 owners, and of course still is. With the lack of decent titles out for the Glossy Black Wonder, of course more people are going to jump on this. Not to mention, it really is the second-best time to get a PS3 (The best of course, being when Metal Gear Solid 4 comes out). The 360’s hardware market is pretty much bordering on practical saturation, and there are a lot more games out for it that actually have some merit to them. Not to mention that Microsoft might also have inadvertently helped the PS3 by advertising the game, since it’s obviously a multi-platform release.

Tags: grandtheft auto, rockstar, take two, asda