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by Robert Howard on July 16, 2008
"Winers." So all is said and done at Nintendo's E3 presser. Here were my thoughts: Great on the hardware end, below average on software. Animal Crossing was something we all knew about,...
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by Robert Howard on July 15, 2008
We are mere hours away from Nintendo's big press conference- and we already had one small dissapointment: no Kid Icarus at E3. However, any sadness over that vanished when the Motion Plus add on...
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by Robert Howard on July 10, 2008
It's almost E3, and a action adventure Kid Icarus game, new IP, and other Nintendo surprises are all dancing in our heads. Almost every year, Nintendo comes out a winner at this conference,...
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by Robert Howard on July 10, 2008
Toot toot! Hear that sound? That's the hype train for High Voltage Software's The Conduit gaining steam and picking up more passengers. Here's the latest footage: In addition, IGN.com...
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by Robert Howard on July 05, 2008
The PAL version has better boxart. Ah, Red Steel, the early pariah of the Wii. Hyped up powerfully, it fell prey to high expectations. Honestly, had it been released now, we'd be thrilled to see...
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by Robert Howard on June 29, 2008
Nintendo fans have been hoping for some exciting new Castlevania content for the console scene for some time. We've had many handheld iterations, almost too many to count in fact, so it has been...
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by Robert Howard on June 23, 2008
I'm long overdue for blogging about this title, Nintendo published and Namco made Mario Super Sluggers. This is, hopefully, the last of the "Mario" titles for at least a few months, but...
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by Robert Howard on June 23, 2008
Image from Allposters.com Guitar Hero III and Battle of the Bands aren't the only rockers in town, as Harmonix's Rock Band hits store shelves this week for Wii. What sets this game apart from...
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by Robert Howard on June 17, 2008
I've been chewing this over for a little while now. I think the deal with Wii is that a subset of people desperately want the system to magically change into a different experience. We see this...
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by Robert Howard on May 25, 2008
Image from IGN.com I bit the bullet and finally gave No More Heroes a rental. I'm going to have a much longer critical analysis on my personal blog, but for the purposes of House of Nintendo,...
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by Robert Howard on May 18, 2008
This video has been circulating the internets, and Wii fans are buzzing. It's a pretty looking FPS type game with lots of the sort of stuff that we're used to seeing on other systems:...
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by Robert Howard on May 09, 2008
Image from VGChartz.com Image from VGChartz.com Image from VGChartz.com When Nintendo announced the Zapper, people were skeptical of what is essentially a plastic shell (I agree, actually, that the...
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by Robert Howard on May 05, 2008
Image from http://www.thatvideogameblog.com A new blog has burst on the scene that has some excellent articles, which is "That Videogame Blog." I enjoyed their recently published "Wii...
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by Robert Howard on May 03, 2008
Image from nintendowiifanboy.com The chart above, prepared by a site called GameFunk, was compiled using data from GameRankings.com. It begs the question: is the Wii library terrible, or is something...
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by Robert Howard on April 27, 2008
I know all of you are pumped for Mario Kart (so am I!), but another title has hit Wii that has people lining up to take sides. That game is Rawthrills developed and Konami published Target: Terror,...
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by Robert Howard on April 12, 2008
Image from IGN.com With so many big Wii titles already released (with one big exception), one can wonder what is left to look forward to? Let's take a look at some exciting titles coming out for...
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by Robert Howard on April 05, 2008
Iimage from IGN.com. The game is Destineer's hit sports game, Winter Sports: The Ultimate Challenge IGN.com reviewed yet another Destineer published game, in this case Kawasaki Jet Ski. It scored...
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by Robert Howard on April 01, 2008
They had me for about 5 seconds. When I saw "World Premiere Legend of Zelda Trailer" on IGN.com this morning, my eyes bugged out. THEY FINALLY DID IT, I thought, and the heart rate went up,...
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by Robert Howard on March 23, 2008
Image from thatvideogameblog.com We're on a third party supporting binge here at House of Nintendo. Why? It's because we believe that third party support for Wii is dodgy because of...
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by Robert Howard on March 21, 2008
Image from blog.dirkschuetze.de Ugh. I hate to make these posts. But in a lightning like flash, I've noticed that I've let almost 6 full days slip by in between posts here at the House! Maybe...
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by Robert Howard on March 13, 2008
Image from Gamebump.com In the early days of the Wii, gamers were dissapointed to hear that while they were getting an exclusive Resident Evil game, it was going to be a light gun shooter. However,...
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