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by Stephen Lunn on February 4, 2010
The latest figures have been released, which show that Nintendo has been way out in front of Microsoft and Sony in the games market for the past 12 months. While Playstation 2 suffered a decrease in h...
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by Stephen Lunn on January 28, 2010
A reminder to all those who have yet to download their WiiWare demos - you have only to the end of the month to get your free minigames. Among the highlights available are Final Fantasy's latest W...
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by Stephen Lunn on November 19, 2009
News that in a few days time we will see the release of the first Super Mario Brothers game in years brought much excitement among fans of the franchise. Would it be a new 3D version of a classic, so...
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by Mike Leaño on March 21, 2009
Itching for Punch-Out!!? Join the club-especially now that Nintendo UK came out with more details on their website. For some strange reason, Nintendo promptly removed the two press releases before an...
Read more of Punch-Out!! Wii details on controls, multiplayer shown
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by Robert Howard on October 18, 2008
I've been sitting on the news, now mostly well known, that a No More Heroes sequel called "Desperate Struggle" is forthcoming at a date unknown (perhaps late 2009). However, more detai...
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by Robert Howard on October 4, 2008
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I'm a recent convert to the Call of Duty cause, although since my port of entry was CoD4 (a spectacular game set in present day), I can still say I've never played a World...
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by Robert Howard on September 19, 2008
Mega Man 9, the retro Mega Man title (recreated exactly as the old NES games were made) coming to WiiWare on October 1st, was reviewed on IGN.com today.
It was well received, with an overall 8.6 sc...
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by Robert Howard on September 17, 2008
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Develop, a European game developer blog, is reporting that nintendo is the world's most profitable company per capita, meaning that each Nintendo employee generates more pr...
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by Robert Howard on September 6, 2008
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One hot item of news from the past week was Tecmo's possible merger with Dynasty Warriors developer Koei. 1up editor James Mielke hates the move, and seems to think it wil...
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by Robert Howard on August 19, 2008
THEY'VE COME FOR BRAINS, YOU'LL GIVE THEM BULLETS.
SEGA Has just announced a brand new, Wii exclusive House of the Dead game! Called House of the Dead Overkill, this is being produced by He...
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by Robert Howard on August 12, 2008
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Some of the popular Nintendo blogs out there are having themselves a real hissy-fit over Gamestop's "Madden 09 Girls Night In" page. I popped on over, expecting...
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by Robert Howard on August 11, 2008
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Destiny's Child creator (a forthcoming WiiWare title as well as being available now on Steam for PC gamers) Luc Bernard has called it quits. Citing the firestorm of bad pre...
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by Robert Howard on July 31, 2008
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Video Games Live, a concert tour featuring classic video game tunes as well as works by the tours conductor and main "pitchman," noted game composers Jack Wall and...
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by Robert Howard on July 29, 2008
In this case, the Picard Facepalm is for various Nintendo outlets that misread something Sony honcho Kaz Hirai said to MCV.com in their exclusive interview with him. The money quote:
"If we...
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by Robert Howard on July 22, 2008
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You'd be hard pressed to find anyone inside the "whinecore" audience who thought Nintendo had anything to offer at E3, despite a bevy of exciting hardwa...
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by Robert Howard on July 15, 2008
E3 is always a big time of year for game industry wonks like myself, so I thought I would share my thoughts on "the other guys," since some of you definitely own the other systems.
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by Robert Howard on June 14, 2008
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Ah, Christian Svensson, you clever dog you. You kidded us all with the nice but perhaps not we expected Spyborgs, but it appears like that was only...
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by Robert Howard on June 10, 2008
Summer is the season for new release surprises, and we sure have one in store for you: Tenchu IV, the next iteration of the popular stealth ninja series, is appearing exclusively on Wii! The above t...
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by Robert Howard on June 8, 2008
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Nintendo blogger extraordinaire Falafelkid (who deserves that title just for this article, really, it's impressive!) tells the tale of Crossbeam Studi...
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by Robert Howard on June 4, 2008
Capcom has been hinting for some time about some sort of third person, action adventure game. Now, let's quickly recap what this generally means to most people:
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by Robert Howard on May 31, 2008
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I have made it no small secret here that I really love light gun games. This is one area in which the Wii can really shine, and has, with a growing library of original titles and ...
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by Robert Howard on May 13, 2008
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Today is Wii Ware day! Finally, original downloadable content is available on the Wii. And things are looking wonderfully promising.
Consider today's launch list...
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by Robert Howard on May 4, 2008
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Lego indiana jones is coming out for all platforms, including Wii, very soon. Of course this continues the very entertaining tradition of Lego based action adventure games.
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by Robert Howard on April 27, 2008
This is interesting. Jeremy Parish over at 1up has launched a pretty devastating salvo at Nintendo regarding Mario Kart Wii. In short: he seems to hate the game. Nintendo fans are abuzz over this beca...
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by Robert Howard on April 27, 2008
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Mario Kart was released to the teeming Nintendo masses last night. Sadly, I wasn't able to participate this time. It's finals week at The Guildhall, and I simply do...
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by Robert Howard on April 21, 2008
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Running like a speeding bullet from the blogosphere is the latest slam on Wii from a games industry hotshot, this time the villain being the president of Epic Games (note: I li...
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by Robert Howard on April 19, 2008
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This has been reported all over the internets, yet it is worth repeating here: Shigeru Miyamoto let slip to 1-Up.com that the Zelda team is back at ...
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by Robert Howard on April 13, 2008
The video game version of speed racer for Wii has been getting some buzz as a nice alternative to Mario Kart, and it hits on May 6th. While it doesn't seem to support a robust online mode, makin...
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by Robert Howard on March 26, 2008
Luc-Bernard is the developer of "Eternity's Child," a WiiWare game that has received much attention due to its outstanding 2D art and the developer's iconoclastic interviews with the...
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by Robert Howard on March 1, 2008
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David Jaffe is at it again! in a farcical conversation about what he'd do if tasked with a Mario game, the man credited with creating God of War...
