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Is This The Best Nintendo 3DS Mockup We’ve Seen, Or The Real Thing?
If this wonderful little piece of machinery isn’t Nintendo’s 3DS, slated to be revealed at E3 later this year, then we damn sure wish it was. Check out the sliding, twisting marvel in all its glory. The pictures come from a Japanese website called, as Google’s translator indicates, Munch Blog, a site about anime, manga,…
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The Nintendo Download: No One Here But Mr. Driller
It’s a slow week in The Nintendo Download, with a couple of educational WiiWare titles, a NEOGEO shooter, several Game & Watch titles, and poor little Mr. Driller taking up the rear. Poor Mr. Driller. He’s potentially the highlight of this week’s Nintendo download, yet he’s buried down at the bottom of a list of…
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How Much DSiWare Have You Purchased In The Past Year?
Nintendo is celebrating the first year of DSiWare today, which gives us the perfect chance to ask our readers this question: how much DSiWare have you purchased? As far as I am concerned, the Nintendo DSi has two selling points over the cheaper Nintendo DS: the cameras, and DSiWare. If neither of those features interest…
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Sony: Hardcore Gamers “Look Down Their Nose” at Motion Control
But, said Sony’s top marketing officer, they look down their nose at Nintendo’s motion control, and that’s why the PlayStation Move is on the scene – to make this kind of thing cool for the core. Speaking to the Financial Times, Peter Dille acknowledged that “the Wii has been wildly successful but at the end…
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Chinatown Wars Accounts for Half of all M-rated DS Sales — All Time
Considering the ESRB lists all of 10 Nintendo DS titles rated M, this isn’t surprising. Still, the publisher of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars bragged the game accounts for more than half of M-rated game sales on that platform. Speaking to MCV, the CEO of Take-Two Interactive addressed Chinatown Wars’ disappointing sales performance by saying…
By Owen Good