Category: Games
Released: Nov 19, 2008
Price: $4.99

Description:
From the developers of Raging Thunder and Crash Nitro Kart comes Wave Blazer! It takes a certain kind of person to strap themselves down in what basically amounts to an over-sized arrowhead with a four-thousand horsepower helicopter turbine engine lodged in the back-end. Right about now you need to ask yourself "Am I that kind of person?" Wave Blazer features three single player game modes and a fully stocked online multiplayer versus-mode allowing you to face off against players from all over the world. No matter how fun outrunning the AI might be, nothing beats letting human opposition suck your wake as you leave them behind in a cloud of vapour and humiliation Key features: Online multiplayer Stunning 3D graphics Gut-wrenching action gameplay

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p style="text-align: center;"img style="margin: 0px;" src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module2/78837/deadrisingdance_qjgenth.jpg"/pbrEarlier this year, a href="http://wii.qj.net/tags/capcom/107" id="tag" title="Game Developer"Capcom/a was sued by the MKR Group, the firm handling a href="http://wii.qj.net/tags/george-a--romero/9665" id="tag" title="film director"George A. Romero/a's a href="http://wii.qj.net/tags/zombie/5394" id="tag" title="an undead person"zombie/a films. The lawsuit accused a style="font-style: italic;" title="Xbox 360 - Dead Rising" href="http://xbox360.qj.net/Dead-Rising/cid/544"Dead Rising/a of being too similar to Dawn of the Dead. Just some of the similarities that MKR presented to the court:brolliBoth works are set in a bi-level shopping mall./liliThe mall has a gun shop, in which action takes place./liliThe mall is located in a rural area with the National Guard patrolling its environs./liliBoth works are set in motion by a helicopter that takes the lead characters to a mall besieged by zombies./liliMany of the zombies wear plaid shirts./liliBoth works feature a subtext critique of sensationalistic journalism through their use of tough, cynical journalists with short brown hair and leather jackets as a lead male character./liliBoth works feature the creative use of items such as propane tanks, chainsaws, and vehicles to kill zombies./liliBoth works are a parody of rampant consumerism./liliBoth works use music in the mall for comedic effect./lilispan style="font-style: italic;"Dead Rising/span's use of the word "hell" references the tagline for Dawn of the Dead's release ("When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.")./li/olYes, I know. Some of these "similarities" are a bit too tenuous to draw any irrefutable evidence from, and as far as the judge is concerned, the lawsuit is now ruled to be dismissed. It actually brings to mind Sony's recent a title="Sony slammed for 'copying' Sackboy costumes, explained as coincidence" href="http://www.qj.net/Sony-slammed-for-copying-Sackboy-costumes-explained-as-coincidence/pg/49/aid/126368"statement about similarities and coincidences in span style="font-style: italic;"LittleBigPlanet/span content/a, but moving on...brbrSpecifically, here's Judge Richard Seeborg's verdict:brbrp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"[That MKR] has not identified any similarity between span style="font-style: italic;"Dead Rising/span and any protected element of Dawn of the Dead. Rather, the few similarities MKR has alleged are driven by the wholly unprotectable concept of humans battling zombies in a mall during a zombie outbreak./pbrThe key word here is "protected". And in short: the concept or plot device of zombies in a mall is span style="font-style: italic;"not protected/span by copyright. In fact, as the Judge says, it's span style="font-style: italic;"wholly unprotectable/span - no matter who you are or what you do. So, MKR can't sue Capcom for something that isn't protected.brbrMeanwhile, Capcom may have won the case, but at a rather sour note, the Judge also gave a stinging remark upon discussion of one of the similarities MKR accused of Capcom (i.e. Both works are a parody of rampant consumerism). According to the Judge:brbrp/pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"To the extent that span style="font-style: italic;"Dead Rising/span may be deemed to posses a theme, it is confined to the killing of zombies in the process of attempting to unlock the cause of the zombie infestation. The social commentary MKR draws from Dawn of the Dead, in other words, appears totally absent from the combat focus found in span style="font-style: italic;"Dead Rising/span./pp/pbrOh. Judges are giving game reviews now?brbrhr style="width: 100 ; height: 2px;"brspan style="font-weight: bold;"Related articles:/spanbrulli style="font-style: italic;"a title="MKR Group finally sues Capcom over Dead Rising" href="http://xbox360.qj.net/MKR-Group-finally-sues-Capcom-over-Dead-Rising/pg/49/aid/114615"MKR Group finally sues Capcom over Dead Rising/a/lili style="font-style: italic;"a title="MKR Group and Capcom in legal brouhaha over Dead Rising" href="http://xbox360.qj.net/MKR-Group-and-Capcom-in-legal-brouhaha-over-Dead-Rising/pg/49/aid/113693"MKR Group and Capcom in legal brouhaha over Dead Rising/a/lilia style="font-style: italic;" title="Sony slammed for 'copying' Sackboy costumes, explained as coincidence" href="http://www.qj.net/Sony-slammed-for-copying-Sackboy-costumes-explained-as-coincidence/pg/49/aid/126368"Sony slammed for 'copying' Sackboy costumes, explained as coincidence/abr/li/ulbrbrdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?a=OI9h9wOW"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?a=5cscgJpA"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?d=43" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?a=tijEVXc3"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/qj/wii/~4/4I2sNGol958" height="1" width="1"/

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/37567?ns=guardianpageName=UK+news%3A+Wife%27s+call+saves+sailor+after+nights+on+liferaftch=UK+newsc3=The+Guardianc4=UK+news%2CSpain+%28News%29%2CWorld+newsc5=Not+commercially+usefulc6=Giles+Tremlettc7=2008_11_22c8=1122256c9=articlec10=GUc11=UK+newsc12=Spainc13=c14=h2=GU%2FUK+news%2FSpain" width="1" height="1" //divpA British sailor survived on a liferaft for three nights in a storm-tossed sea without food or drinking water after his boat sank off Spain's Balearic Islands./ppJayesh Patel, 43, said he had a miraculous escape from the 44ft (13-metre) yacht Umbalika as it went down at night after taking on water near Mallorca. He and a Belgian colleague were thrown into the sea before they struggled aboard their liferaft and begun a three-day battle against fear, hunger, thirst and the storms that continued to lash the Mediterranean Sea./pp"It was a very, very frightening experience. There were 40-50mph winds, waves of two to three metres," he said. "We had no food. /pp"The boat went down so fast - in a matter of minutes. We didn't have time to grab anything. We made a Mayday call but for some reason it didn't get through."/ppPatel, an experienced yachtsman with a commercial captain's licence, said he was putting out the Mayday call when it became clear that the water was about to fill up the cabin on the Umbalika. "I had to swim out along the cabin roof," he said. /ppWhen he had finally fought his way out, he was forced up to the surface and found himself beside the man who had been helping him sail the boat towards mainland Spain. They grabbed a liferaft before jumping ship but had no time to find flares, food, water or extra clothes. /pp"We were in the sea for about 15 to 20 minutes because we had problems getting the liferaft inflated," said Patel./ppPatel said he realised that it would take a while before rescue services were warned. "We were due in [mainland] Spain on the Thursday and I didn't think anyone would raise the alarm for at least 20 hours when we hadn't arrived," he said./ppAttempts to attract a passing helicopter failed and Patel tried to propel the liferaft to a nearby island. The men also tried to row using a pair of trainers as oars./ppOn the third night Patel began to get worried as winds were driving them away from the area where passing ships might find them. He began dreaming about food and water./ppHis wife Louise, who lives in London, became worried when he had not called to say he had arrived safely./pp"No one was aware of the problem until the sailor's wife dialled 999," a spokeswoman for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency said yesterday. "They were eventually rescued after four days and three nights in the liferaft and after an air-sea search covering 20,000 sq km."/ppMrs Patel raised the alarm on November 13. The men were rescued two days later. /ppHer husband was barely able to move his legs when the Spanish rescue ship pulled alongside. Once on board the vessel,he dragged himself up to the bridge so he could call and let his family, including his two children Balram, 15, and Ulrika, 12, know that he was safe./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/spain"Spain/a/li/ul/divdiv class="guRssAdvert"a href="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/click.ng/richmedia=yessite=Newscountry=(none)spacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227321420780112202420450257"img src="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/image.ng/richmedia=yessite=Newscountry=(none)spacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227321420780112202420450257" border="0" //a/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a