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Capcom Directing Arcades at Women and Families

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:00:31 MST

Location, location, location. Capcom President Haruhiro Tsujimoto said that this financial year the company was going to close three Japanese arcades and open eight more in areas that would attract more women and families, instead of the traditional male demographic. Tsujimoto added:

It's all about the location.

While over half of Capcom's business is consoled based, increased arcade earnings could send profitibility to a seven year high. If Capcom is really seriously about attracting a more casual gaming audience, they should put all their coin operated games on DSes, Wiis and Pokémon cards. They sure have helped Nintendo!
Increasing Earnings [Bloomberg via Games Industry] [Image]

Screw Attack's Top Ten Ninjas

Mike Fahey — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:30:47 MDT

I don't think any of the Ninja in Screw Attack's Top Ten Ninja(s) actually deserve to be on the list. Sure, they're all good at doing whatever it is that they do, but come on, top ninja? You can see them! Top be a top ninja you have to start your training early, slipping out of your mother's womb in the dead of night to avoid being detected by the doctor's special "look at the baby in your tummy" device. Amateurs.

Clip: 10 Worst Fighting Games

Kim Phu — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:40:00 MDT

Well, it was bound to happen. Back in the day, there used to be two fighting games for every boy, making the ratio of sucky ones to good ones quite high. Screw Attack's Top 10 Worst Fighting Games covers them all including ones I've tried long and hard to forget. Thanks for bringing back the memories, guys. Kim Phu

Screw Attack's Best and Worst Gaming Peripherals

fdemarco — Sun, 13 May 2007 19:00:00 MDT

Screw Attack's Handsome Tom and Stuttering Craig, the kings of the top ten list, are back with a look at the best and worst gaming periopherals. The list is split in two this time with the first half devoted to the worst and the second half, the five best. Entries in to the worst category include Rob the Robot and the Power glove while the best list is filled with such goodies as the Guitar Hero controller and that highly suspicious, girl friendly peripheral, the Trance Vibrator.

Personally, I'm always a little wary of add ons that only work for one game and one game only. Samba de Amigo anyone? Flynn De Marco

Clip: Ten Games That Fell Off

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:20:04 MDT

While I doubt that anyone will become misty-eyed at remembering Bubsy the Bobcat, I do kind of lament the death of Ecco the Dolphin. What's makes Ecco's franchise demise sadder is developer Appaloosa's follow up, the godawful Jaws Unleashed.

Screw Attack's latest vid highlights these nearly forgotten franchises, wondering what has become of games like Blaster Master, Chrono Chross and Vectorman. And what the hell happened to their #1? It's a shameful list. Michael McWhertor

Screw Attack's Top Ten "Super" Games

fdemarco — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 18:00:00 MDT

Just because a game has "Super" in the title doesn't make it a super game. Screw Attack's handsome Tom and Stuttering Craig examine this phenomenon in their latest video, Top 10 "Super" Games. As they point out, the Super Nintendo was extremely fond of adding "super" into the title of a lot of their games. The list is rather staggering actually and I'm impressed the boys were able to narrow it down to just ten. Hopefully, they will follow this one up with a "Top 10 Worst Super Games" list. As much as I love watching clips from great games, I get much more satisfaction out of laughing and pointing at them. Flynn De Marco

Angry Nintendo Nerd's Best Moments Of 2006

fdemarco — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 12:00:59 MST

Over the last year, The Angry Nintendo Nerd has made us laugh, made us cry and probably offended even the most foul mouthed backwater sailor. Love him or hate him, you have to admire his ability to come out with a seemingly endless stream of expletives without missing a beat.

Here we have a compilation The Nerd's 20 Best Moments of 2006. Try making a drinking game out of it as you watch! Every time he curses, take a drink. I promise you that by about one minute thirty five, you'll be shit faced. Flynn De Marco

!!NSFW!!

The Angry Nintendo Nerd [Screw Attack]

The GameJew Music Video

fdemarco — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 09:00:00 MST

The irrepressible Jonathan Mann A.K.A. GameJew has a seemingly endless number of adventures. He created the Mario Opera, traveled to Africa and even serenaded Nintendo Exec George Harrison at the Wii launch. And that's just scratching the surface of the traveling troubadour's quickly expanding career.

Now he's back with a new music video, Things Are Familiar" featuring all your favorite Mushroom Kingdom pals, although some of them may be hard to recognize. The absolutely terrifying puppets are tempered by a charming song and the earnestness of the performance. I don't know what GameJew's smoking, but whatever it is it must be really good. Flynn De Marco

The GameJew Video Treasury [Screwattack]

Angry Nintendo Nerd Salutes The Wii With Console Puppet Show

fdemarco — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 09:00:06 MST

Everyone's favorite foul mouthed gamer, The Angry Nintendo Nerd, gives us his colorful interpretation of the early console wars in his latest video offering. His innovative puppeteering methods are really the hilight of the show and I think he must have trained with Jim Henson. He takes us from the Atari 2600 all the way to Nintendo 64 giving each system it's own distinct personality. Kermit the Frog, eat your heart out.

Then in a surprising show of calmness and non-cursing, he gives us his opinion on the current next-gen systems. As always, The Angry Nintendo Nerd is NSFW, so put on some headphones to avoid panicked phonecalls to HR. Flynn De Marco

The Angry Nintendo Nerd Oeuvre [ScrewAttack]

Video Games Awesome.

kotaku.com — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 06:00:37 MDT

If I understand correctly the endless phonemical repetitions spraying with spittle from his rubber-lipped word hole, Stuttering Craig over at Screw Attack wants me to call your attention to their newest series, Awesome Video Games. And I will, fully admitting my own lack of tolerance for doofuses — no matter how ironically portrayed — screaming in close-up into the camera for five minutes straight about the amazing megahertzal might of the NES.

But there's a lot of good here... in particular, the Awesome Video Games animation of a Marioesque doppelganger being chased around by a toothy iguana. I love that, and the way the electronic voice burbles, "AWESOME. VIDEO. GAMES. VIDEO. GAMES. AWESOME." And I get a kick out of the reverse anachronism of the series. Why is there a poster of Robert Matthew Van Winkle on the back wall on a show that purports to "preview" such hot new games as Super Mario Brothers? Who knows. But if this was really filmed in 1984, they'd be better off having a poster of Vanilla Ice's alcohol-saturated embryo on the back wall.

I kid, I kid. It's grating, but Awesome Video Games is funny. Florian Eckhardt

Awesome Video Games [Screw Attack]

Madden 07 In The (Ware)House!

Michael McWhertor — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 13:39:09 MDT

At first glance, I mistook these pics for shots of something John Madden was having delivered to his warehouse. Were these thousands upon thousands of aerosol cans of itch relieving Tinactin? Tons and tons of savory Lunchables for John to snack upon while travelling on the Madden Bus? The shipment of crisp twenty dollar bills to pay off the exclusive NFL license?

Sadly, its just a bunch of copies of Madden NFL 07. It's an impressive display and the folks at Screw Attack have exclusive pics of the shipment. Before you can grunt out a "How is this news?", just check out the full pics for the impressive display of the cash cow that is EA's footballer. You will be in awe of the massive shipping capabilities!! Michael McWhertor

Madden '07- Ready To Ship!