Thats right, Europe has finally got it's hands on a release date for the most anticipated game EVER, super Smash Bros. Brawl. Although the Japanese and Americans already have it, and most people have it on Freeloader, Nintendo has finally decided to give us European folk a release date. And that day is...27th of June 2008! (Which is 1 month, and 28 days away from the date of writing, stat fans!) This may seem like a ridiculously long time away, considering that it has already been released everywhere else, but it's well worth the wait, as I have been one of the lucky few to have played the EU version, and it's truly amazing! ^_^

I just hope that we get some sort consolidation for waiting so long!

For more information about the current 2008 release schedule for Wii and DS, Click Here.

Midway has tonight said that it plans to unveil a new next-gen Mortal Kombat game, incorporating the Unreal Engine.

Midway said that it was planning a "next-gen" Mortal Kombat instalment in a financial call last October, but has since been withdrawn and cagey on the game.

The Chicago studio responsible for the series was one of many Midway teams to be handed the Unreal Engine 3 in 2005.

The newest addition to the Star Wars game library, Force Unleashed, has today been dated by LucasArts.

September 19th sees the release in Europe, just 3 days after it's American release on the 16th, and 2 days after its Austrailan, on the 17th.

It was originaly due for a Novemeber 2007 release, so a release 11 months later shows that LucasArts want this game to be absolutely perfect. It's labelmate, Mercaneries 2, is also due for a release in September.

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed puts players in the sinister black leather boots of Darth Vader's secret apprentice, and is set in the era between The Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope.

It's the first current-generation game to come out of LucasArts' revamped internal studios, and features some pretty exciting new technologies: the Euphoria animation engine (also used to make you walk like a drunk in GTA IV), and Digital Molecular Matter, a material physics system that blew us away when we saw it back in 2006.

Joining the internally-developed 360/PS3 game will be a version for Wii, PS2 and PSP by Krome Studios, and a DS game by n-Space. All will be based on the same storyline.

Not content with leaving no console format untouched, LucasArts is putting a blockbuster-movie-sized promotional push behind the game, with a full line of Hasbro toys and action figures, and no less than four book publishing partners. Make no mistake, Mr Lucas is betting the farm on this one.

Trademark spotters (The people who started speculation of Dreamcast 2), have recently spotted a filing for "Sonic Unleashed", earlier in march. Which, in turn was followed by This Video, and the screens below.

The website, Sonic Stadium has also posted pictures and info, saying you will also be able to play as a werewolf (Zelda??!!), and it would introduce a(nother) new character to the series. I just hope its not Small the Dog.

Also, German Sega site, Sega Magazin has posted images of 'Werewolf Sonic', and some concept art of the world exploding. Other Post, along with news that it will appear on 360 and Wii, It will be officially announced in May, with a release in November.



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MTV Games, Harmonix, and EA Games, have all confirmed that a Wii version of Rockband is soon to released, as promised by John Riccitiello in February.

It will be available in the US in June, with the bundle - game, drums, microphone, wireless guitar - suggested to retail for USD 169.99 (about £100), but there is no news of a European release just yet.

However, there is just one way EA managed to screw it up. There will be NO online play, and NO downloadable songs, as the 360 and PS3 versions have had new songs every week. EA's lame excuse was that 'Wii's online has not yet been proven' which is strange, as EA Sports has included online play for a number of titles, such a Madden '08. Instead, it has 4-player Multiplayer, stating that:
"The Wii version still contains the robust four-player band experience and all the fun at the core of other versions of Rock Band, however, because the Wii's online capabilities and potential have yet to be fully realised, we wanted to wait before we explored online functionality for Rock Band to ensure that players get the high-quality of online performance they've come to expect."

The Wii version is set to have a total of 63 songs for you and your non-online mates to rock out to.

*Fireworks, drumrolls and lots of music!*

Party time, people! Its something you've all been waiting for, the one thing you've all been dreaming about, the only thing that has dominated recent news and discussion...

Its the brand spankin' new FragMental.co.uk website!

*More fireworks and clapping ensue.*

I've been working my socks off to try and get this out today, pausing only for Top Gear (duh) and for brief trips to the toilet. I'm really pleased to be able to finally get this out and off my shoulders, and now I will be working at improving it and adding new functionality, though it will be quite slowly and bit by bit.

The new website comes complete with a new design and layout, created for us by the wonderful Firebird! I re-coded the website from scratch, hopefully making it much more secure, easier to use and faster. No functionality from the old site has been lost, only it is now a lot easier to see and do things. There are a couple of new features, too, such as rating reviews, commenting reviews, editing/deleting friendcodes, Wii friendcodes (which I'm sure a lot of you will be pleased about), deleting reviews (no editing yet, I'm still working on that) and a few more that I can't remember right now.

By the way guys, I have to say a big thanks to a guy known as Lord Ri, for his great help with quite a bit of the site. If it weren't for him, FragMental probably wouldn't be what it is, so big round of applause for him and Firebird.

I'm sure there will be a few bugs hiding here and there, and if you find any, please report them ASAP so I can try and get them fixed. You can e-mail them to me if its during the day and I'm not around at admin@fragmental.co.uk.

So thanks very much for your patience, and I hope you enjoy the new site!

*Even more fireworks, clapping and the cutting of a ribbon.*

As many of you know, we are getting treated to a new site sometime soon, and I decided that someone needed to put it on the site news, and that person is me.

Although I'm not anyone important in the site hierarchy, I think that we should all chip in with ideas for the new site, by visiting the fragmental suggestions page.

With the release of this new site, i hope it will help attract new members, as I would really hate to see this place go down, like DSCommunity, a site that will be remembered forever in our hearts. (Although I wonder whatever happened to GamerPlex?)

eagly says:
I'd just like to take this opportunity to thank you all for being patient and sticking with us. I know its been a long time but the site is so near to being ready for release. It will be released some time this week unless I come down with a serious illness or die.

It would be nice if everyone could continue to post suggestions as after the site is released I will still be adding to it to give everyone a better experience.

So, yeah. Thanks, and here's to hoping you'll all like the new site when it comes out!

As you know, Matt and I are going camping, along with MJ and Paul (another friend.) We'll be gone over the weekend, from Friday to Monday, with no internet access.

So I thought it'd be a good idea if we appointed someone to look after the place whilst we were gone. I spoke with Matt about it and he said it was a good idea. And so we decided that good ol' Rev should fill that role.

We picked Rev because he is quite mature, and seems like he wouldn't be afraid to issue punishments. :) It was difficult deciding though, since there are so many cool people here. But Rev did seem to be the most sensible, and since this is the first time we'll leave FragMental in somebody elses hands, we wanted to play-it-safe. (Aks is going to crucify me for this...)

So congrats to you, Rev!

I'm asking everyone else to please be nice to Rev, and make it easier for him by cooperating (not that you wouldn't do that anyway.) I don't really expect Rev to have to do that much, really. But it's just better if we do have someone who has the power to do something if something happens.

Rev will gain his new found powers once I can get Matt to do some witchcraft with the forums and promote Rev. I would do it myself, but I don't wanna mess it up. :P

Avast ye!

We're currently running a competition to make us a brand new banner. The deadline for entries is July the 1st (this Sunday,) so we should be getting those last few in.

On July 2nd, i'll set up a poll so we can all vote on the banners. I'm not sure how long the poll will be open, however.

Once we have a winner, we'll put the new banner up!

There have been a few quite nice entries so far!

http://www.fragmental.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=177

Rev has won the first FragMental MKDS Tourney!

Congrats to him, he is the pround winner of 150 Frags.

Hopefully the next tourney will run smoother, but I rekon this one was alright. If you have any suggestions, please post them!