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Sony Confirms Wii Price Drop?
Nintendo hasn’t confirmed a Wii $199.99 price drop yet, but seems like Sony has, as an anonymous tipster sends us an alleged price comparison chart from a Best Buy event going on in Missouri. Kansas City, Missouri, to be exact, where a Sony representative was instructing store representatives on the relative values of the three…
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Putting Up Airballs — and Making Them — in NBA 2K10
2K Sports‘ NBA game, like its NHL counterpart, comes to the Wii for the first time with this year’s edition. This trailer gives a look at the motion controls which, for the most part, seem reasonably intuitive. The jump shot’s a no brainer – Wiimote and nunchuk up, flip the ‘mote, splash, as Kobe Bryant…
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New DSi Colours Announced for Europe
Due Oct. 23, Europe will get metallic blue, light blue and red, preloaded with Flipnote Studio and Facebook. Also, buying one and taking it to the Nintendo DSi Shop over the Wi-Fi Connection will get 1,000 free DSi points. The points offer is good from the date of release until March 2010. There was also…
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Suda Clarifies What No More No More Heroes Means
When Goichi Suda said last month that No More Heroes 2 would be the last of the series on Wii, he didn’t mean that was its end with Nintendo. Suda expects a “Wii 2”, and NMH to continue on that. Although, speaking to 1Up, Suda also made clear that “I’ve finished the story for Travis…
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The Nintendo Download: You, Me, And The Cubes
There’s tennis, a last ninja, a little strategy, and a shot of MySims in this week’s Nintendo Download, but once you get past those it’s just Me, You, and the Cubes. You, Me, and The Cubes is a puzzle game for WiiWare from Kenji Eno of D and Enemy Zero fame. Shake your Wii remote…
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Rare: “We’re Long Past the Stage” where Goldeneye Deal is Feasible
The long, sad tale of bringing the groundbreaking shooter Goldeneye to Nintendo’s Virtual Console, or Xbox Live Arcade, appears to have ended long ago, with a whimper. Addressing a reader question about Goldeneye ever getting an agreement between Nintendo and Microsoft, releasing it to current generation consoles, Rare said, alas, no. That was some time…
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‘Special Announcement’ Teased on Scribblenauts’ Facebook Page
What is it? Who knows? That’s why the verb “tease” was used in the headline. “Get your rooster hats ready! We have a very special announcement coming very soon …” says the page. DSiWare? iPhone? Pure conjecture. Also, this seems like as good a place as any to mention this. Reader Soniking points out that…
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Nintendo Allegedly Confirms Wii Price Cut, Effective Sept. 27
Nintendojo has reported that Nintendo, in a conference call with retailers, confirmed that the Wii’s price will be cut to $199, effective Sunday, Sept. 27. Nintendojo says one of its staffers was on the line during this call. I’ve emailed our Nintendo of America PR contact to ask if they’d like to add anything. Likely,…
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Frankenreview: Scribblenauts
Your vocabulary is your power in Scribblenauts, 5th Cell’s innovative new puzzle game for the Nintendo DS in which write makes might. We’ve been enthralled by the concept of Scribblenauts since we first received word of the game in December of last year. Your goal is simple: help Maxwell collect the Starite in each level…
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Target Circular Adds Fuel To The Wii Price Drop Fire
An anonymous tipster sends us this picture of an alleged Target circular for the week of September 27th, joining Wal-Mart and Toys R Us on the $199.99 Wii price drop bandwagon. Sure it’s blurry and only a partial picture of the full page, but the information in this picture coincides with the information we’ve seen…
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Konami Reflects On DSiWare
Konami throws its hat into the DSiWare ring with Reflection, a puzzle platformer from Intrinsic Games that has the player controlling one character twice over. Reflection stars Kirra, a young adventurer tasked with retrieving the pieces of a broken magical mirror that has ripped reality in two. Kirra herself is split in two as well,…
By Mike Fahey