Finally, A Lightsaber Wii Video Game
When Nintendo was first announced the Wii, I thought to myself: I can’t wait until LucasFilm makes a lightsaber video game. In late 2006, Star Wars fanboys hacked the Wii remote to connect to a computer via bluetooth, giving the Wiimote all the classic Lighsaber sound effects. But the hacked Wiimote was essentially just one of those Master Replica Lightsabers without the cool light-up blade or hilt. Finally LucasArts has announced that they are releasing Star Wars The Clone Wars: Lightsaber Duels for the Wii. Here is the official description:
Now everyone can experience the fun and excitement of a Lightsaber fight. Star Wars The Clone Wars: Lightsaber Duels immerses you in the characters, locations, and epic duels from the all-new Star Wars animated feature film and TV series. Built from the ground-up for Wii, Lightsaber Duels features an intuitive motion-controlled combat system that puts the Lightsaber weapon in your hand. Mastering the Jedi’s distinctive weapon is now within any player’s grasp.
• Fight the most memorable duels from The Clone Wars feature film and TV series.
• Wield your Wii Remote like a Lightsaber and experience first-hand the unique weapon of the Jedi knights with intuitive controls, so no matter what your gaming experience you can become a Lightsaber master.
• Play with your friends as your favorite Clone Wars hero or villain – from familiar characters like Anakin Skywalker and General Grievous to new faces like Ahsoka Tano and Asajj Ventress – each with a unique fighting style and set of skills.
• Exploit your interactive surroundings to defeat your opponent: slice down pillars and Force throw them against your foe.
• Duel your way through significant Clone Wars locations, such as Tatooine and Teth.
“Clone Wars for the Wii is all about lightsaber dueling. It’s about swinging your Wii remote like a Lightsaber and recreating what we know will be classic Lightsaber battles from the movie and the show,” producer Ken Fox told IGN. “We’ve tried to make the lightsaber control as intuitive and fun as possible. It’s not a Lightsaber simulator, but when you swing your Wii remote left to right; your character does the same. You use the thumbstick on the nunchuck to move your character and swing the Wii remote to swing your Lightsaber. The buttons all do cool stuff like use the force, block and dodge, but the focus is really on putting the Wii remote in the players hand and saying ‘This is your Lightsaber!’”
The world premiere trailer for the game will debut exclusively on Spike TV’s “Game Trailers TV with Geoff Keighley” on Friday, June 20th.
Simpson Wedding Watch, Ashlee Edition
The clock is ticking, the event-planners are bustling and maybe, just maybe, a fetus is growing.
After saying their respective farewells to the single life on Thursday nightwhich, aw, ended with the duo recoupling at the Roosevelt HotelAshlee Simpson and Pete Wentz are primed to swap vows sometime Saturday.
Sources once placed the nuptials at a friend's house in the tony beachside town of La Jolla, Calif., but now all signs are pointing to a Valleyfied affair at parents Joe and Tina Simpson's Encino home.
Party preparations started taking place Thursday as Simpson family employees, an SUV full of balloonsand, at one point, Jessica Simpson herselfwere spotted bustling in and out of the Royal Oaks Colony, the gated community where Joe and Tina live.
And, thanks to telephoto lens-toting paparazzi, a tent was spied going up in their spacious backyard.
E! News learned today that a truck from Jackson Shrub Supply (a longtime supplier for the film and TV industry) delivered urns, sod, sandbags and array of foliage, including California ivy, privets (clusters of white flowers), Eugenia (a common ornamental plant that can sprout fresh fruit), ligustrum hedges in planters and ball-shaped topiaries. All is supposed to be picked up Monday morning.
And that's not all the greenerya pair of pickup trucks towing biodiesel generators showed up at 10:54 a.m.
Here's a glimpse of the Royal Oaks action:
Also this morning, another truck delivering sound equipment was admitted through the gate andperhaps in rejection modea blue BMW full of orchids, gardenias and other flower arrangements was seen leaving the area.
Workers from Unique Tabletop Rentals exited the gate at 3:44 p.m., presumably after setting up a host of tables.
Meanwhile, a source said that, if not a wedding, at least a prewedding "gathering," such as a Friday rehearsal dinner, would be taking place at Casa Simpson.
Semi-Pro Bear Kills Trainer
The grizzly bear that comically smacked down Will Ferrell in Semi-Pro fatally mauled its handler on Tuesday.The massive animal, whose named is Rocky, was being put through obedience exercises at the Predators in Action wild animal training center in, ironically, Big Bear, Calif., when it bit 39-year-old Stephan Miller on the neck, according to a spokeswoman for the San Bernadino County Sheriff's Office.
Fellow trainers used pepper spray to separate the 700-pound, 7½-foot male brown bear from its victim and restrain the creature. There were no other injuries reported.
Paramedics arrived soon after but were unable save Miller, who died at the scene.Rocky's handler was a cousin of Predators owner Randy Miller, who could not be reached for comment.It's unclear if the 5-year-old bear attacked Miller or if the bite was accidental, along the lines of the 2003 incident in which a Siberian tiger critically wounded Siegfried & Roy's Roy Horn during his Vegas act. The ursine encounter came during shooting of a promotional video and authorities have taken custody of the footage.Predators in Action, whose stable includes two more grizzlies, lions, tigers, leopards, cougars and wolves employable for film and TV work, states on its website that the facility has had a perfect safety record in the past.Two state agencies, the Department of Fish and Game and Occupational Safety and the Health Administration, are investigating the death, but officials have not yet decided whether to euthanize Rocky.
New Photo: The X Files 2
For kicks, we decided to remove the ghoulies, critters and Sloth Fratellis from this new still for July’s sequel to The X Files. Mundane offices are scary enough (we took out the ancient, macabre fax machine, too). You can question the ethics behind this censorship, but we promise that we did not touch up Moulder and Scully. These two simply do not age, one of the benefits of being slimed, I read somewhere.
The pic first popped up in USA Today, where X Files creator Chris Carter was kind enough to reiterate what those privy to trendy Internet have known since Dakota Fanning grew blond hair and blue eyes: The sequel has nothing to do with A.) aliens and B.) the 1998 film and TV show’s mythology [aliens]. Not that it isn’t a great move for the franchise. Got Carter?
“We spent a lot of time on [the mythology] and wrapped up a lot of threads. We want a stand-alone movie, not a mythology conspiracy one.”
