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Rumor: EA Sports’ New Title is a Wii Football Trainer
Earlier this month, EA Canada’s community manager tweeted that the company would announce a new sports title in January. Rumor now has it the game is an (American) football-based trainer with NFL branding. Destructoid, citing unnamed sources, says the game is “NFL Trainer” and will put players through football-inspired workouts and drills. There’s talk it…
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Which NES Classic is Truest to Fighting Style: Kung Fu, or Karate Champ?
A third-degree black belt in American Karate, with experience in five other martial arts, assessed the NES’ Kung Fu and Karate Champ to determine which 2D 8-bit game most accurately presents its eponymous fighting style. Multiplayergames got the real-life karate master, John, to look at the titles – both ports of Data East classics that…
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Tabloid’s Most Outrageous Claim Ever: Wii Boxing is “Dangerously Lifelike”
Hey, you know what makes a domestic violence arrest funny and lighthearted? Wii Boxing. At least according to one supermarket tabloid’s interpretation of what went down between Charlie Sheen and Brooke Mueller. This just in from the Weekly World News – a Tooth Fairy gazette that straight-faced writes about stuff like Bat Boy and alien…
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A Modest Proposal For Holiday YouTube Videos
Every year, I always end up seeing this home video on YouTube as everybody gets into the holiday spirit. I’m sick of it. I want to nominate another video clip in its stead. Now obviously, you’re not going to get the exact same reaction from another pair of fresh-faced youngsters opening up their first major…
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Here’s Nintendo’s Enviro-Friendly Game Case [Update]
The TIE Fighter-Wing looking “green” game cases have been out for Xbox 360 since most November releases. Go Nintendo has an image of what they’ll look like for Wii games, beginning with Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers. As you can see, it keeps the octagonal hexagonal circular hub-and-spoke design on the right side,…
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Reviews
Style Savvy Review: Dressing Miss Michael
Join Kotaku’s tallest, broadest, and hairiest regular contributor as I explore the world of retail fashion design with Nintendo’s Style Savvy for the Nintendo DS. Style Savvy is a game marketed at girls that’s all about fashion – putting together outfits, running your own boutique, and maybe even making waves on the runway scene. The…
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Pac-Man Still Beats Mario for Most-Famous Crown
One year older, and about two dozen or so titles fewer, Pac-Man still retains the “most recognizable” title among video game characters in the United States, according to the upcoming edition of the Guinness Book of World Records. The book, which in recent years has trended strongly toward video game records (and, according to us…
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The Magic Obelisk: Game Arts’ First Original Title In 10 Years
Grandia and Lunar developer Game Arts delivers its first original title in over a decade to WiiWare next week, with The Magic Obelisk, an action-adventure game about the deep bonds formed between tree spirit and light spirit. Lukas is a tree spirit who wants to use his power to transform into a tree to help…
By Mike Fahey
