Wii Owners, Do You Like Games About Gladiators? [Wii]

Yeah? Then High Voltage Software ’s Tournament of Legends , coming exclusively to the Wii this May, will give you all the ancient Roman one-on-one fighting you so desperately crave. If Sega’s announcement of Tournament of Legends comes as a surprise, realize that it’s the game formerly known as Gladiator A.D. , the previously more brown fighter from the developers of The Conduit. It’s the same team working on the other Wii game announced at the same time, The Grinder . The game feels more mythological and fantastical than I remember it, featuring playable a Minotaur, Gorgon, Stone Golem and Valkyrie among the fighting ranks. Sega says the 3D fighter supports Wii Remote and Nunchuk controls as well as a Classic Controller option. At one time, it was touted as supporting the Wii MotionPlus accessory, but Sega’s update on the game makes no mention of the add-on. We’ll check in with Sega to see if that’s still the plan for the game’s May launch on Wii. Until then, don’t miss our hands-on impressions of Tournament of Legends , which touch on the single-player quest aspects of High Voltage’s fighter, when it was more sepia toned at last year’s E3.

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Wii Owners, Do You Like Games About Gladiators? [Wii]

MTV: Rock Band Network To Be Fully Launched In Early 2010 [Rock Band]

When last we covered details of MTV Games and Harmonix’s ambitious Rock Band Network, we reported that the service would go live in November. It’s not there yet. Today, MTV provided Kotaku an update. The Rock Band Network is a service that allows people to turn listenable music into music that is playable in Rock Band, empowering any musician or fan with the proper rights to expand the Rock Band music library and make some money off sales to gamers of the songs they work on. The Network is currently in closed beta. The November launch of the service on the Xbox 360 that was suggested by Harmonix to Kotaku this past summer isn’t happening. An MTV Games spokesperson broke down the current roll-out plan: “We’re working hard to get the Rock Band Network open public beta release of tools up before the end of the year, with our RBN storefront launching in early 2010. Exact dates still TBD. The tools necessary for bands to start authoring and prepare their content for review are already live on Creators.rockband.com/tools/download . The open beta launch will add access to the currently private website where all of the RBN community activity and peer reviewing of tracks will take place. People who join the Rock Band Network (bands, fans or otherwise) will be able to play and preview any song before it hits the store, so they should stay tuned for the official launch.” So the closed beta continues and it sounds like it will open up to the rest of the public by New Year’s. If you want to buy the songs people are coding, however, you’ll need to wait until 2010. The RBN is planned for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Originally, the 360 version was supposed to launch first. There was no word today about whether that is still the plan. [ PIC ]

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MTV: Rock Band Network To Be Fully Launched In Early 2010 [Rock Band]