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Muramasa: The Demon Official Website
Ignition Entertainment ramps up the hype on Wii exclusive Muramasa: The Demon Blade, launching a brand new website complete with wallpapers, character bios, and everything a shiny new website needs to thrive and flourish. Ignition sure does up a nice video game website. I loved what they did for The King of Fighters XII, and…
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Xbox 360 Triumphs Over PS2 In Nielsen Ratings
Microsoft claims victory over the PlayStation, as the latest Nielsen ratings indicate that the Xbox 360 is the first current-generation console to top the PS2 in terms of minutes played per month. According to the graph provided by the Niesen website, which we explored earlier in terms of Wii usuage, the Xbox 360 actually came…
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Games That Don’t Exist, But Should: Humping Robot
This is, officially, hump-a-Wii day. First up was the patented hobby-horse-humper to which we all just went o_O. Last night, Robot Chicken put out this – Humping Robot on the Wii. It doesn’t exist, but I’d rather play it. I just … lose it when the … oh I can’t spoil that. Seventeen seconds –…
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Gaming Before Chemo, A Child’s Escape
His parents can recite the days from memory. What parent couldn’t, for such watershed trauma in the life of a boy and his family. On September 4, 2008, they found out he had a tumor in his brain. He was in the intensive care unit, often screaming in pain, until September 13, when he was…
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Guitar Hero 5 Wii’s Roadie Battle Preview: Bring On the DS
The last time I previewed a Guitar Hero game, I was drawn to the Wii version because it attracted a less-competitive crowd of music fan. Now I’m drawn to it to kick some ass. I’ve heard people criticize Guitar Hero games in the past for being too much of a video game and not enough…
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Iwata: Nintendo Doesn’t Think Its E3 Presser Went So Hot
In the company’s quarterly financial results briefing, Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata confessed that, yeah, internally no one believes that Nintendo’s E3 2009 briefing was anything to shout about, either. Says Iwata: As for the media briefing at E3, of course we had many internal discussions after that. Honestly speaking, none of us at Nintendo thought…
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Humorous How-to Tackles NES Installation
As anyone who’s ever tangled with an RF switcher knows, hooking up consoles in the old days was more plug and less play. Helpfully the gang at Shamoozal have put together this step-by-step look at rigging up your Nintendo Entertainment System. It’s done in the style of the old Disney explainers with Goofy as the…
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Mario was Put in Punch-Out Without Permission
The latest “Iwata Asks” bull session regards Punch-Out!!! – the NES original, not the Wii sequel – and it’s quite revealing. Especially when designer Makoto Wada (pictured) pipes up. Wada-san, who came aboard Nintendo right around the time the Punch-Out!!! port for the NES was being created, spills two interesting details. The first is that…
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Today’s Punishment: The Nintendo Cereal System
Even though it’s only 30 seconds, and you’ll probably make it all the way through, today’s punishment is having that obnoxious goddamn "NIN-TEN-DO!!!!" stuck in your head for the rest of the day. That, plus watching a knockoff cast of “Head of the Class” dance their way through World 1-1 got me to bail at…
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Hey, Spidey’s Pink in VC Shinobi
Revenge of Shinobi, for Genesis, went through a tortured history thanks to someone’s decision to make the Hulk, Batman, Spider-Man, etc. into bosses, without paying to license them. Eventually, Sega was able to license Spider-Man for the game. But now that it’s on the NIntendo Virtual Console, pretty good bet that deal has expired or…
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The First Game Dedicated Entirely To Sushi
City Interactive makes a bold claim while introducing its upcoming Nintendo DS game, Sushi Academy, the “The first-ever video game dedicated entirely to sushi.” Bold words! I’m pretty sure I’ve played a sushi-themed puzzle game or two in my lifetime, but if they mean the first-ever video game dedicated to the preparation to sushi…well who…
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Tying Together Dead Space Extraction’s Story
How does a development team create a whole new story for a prequel like Dead Space Extraction for the Wii while maintaining ties to established fiction? If only there was some sort of video explanation… Ooo, convenient. Running parallel to the events in the Dead Space comic book series and the animated feature, Dead Space…
By Mike Fahey