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It’s A Dead Bird! It’s A Red Plane! It’s Super Scribblenauts!

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment confirms that the adjective-laden follow-up to 5TH Cell’s million-selling Scribblenauts is indeed Super Scribblenauts, due out this fall for the Nintendo DS. A listing for Super Scribblenauts briefly appeared on Amazon.com over the weekend, only to be quickly taken down. Between that and the domain registration for Superscribblenauts.com, we were pretty…

By Mike Fahey Published May 17, 2010

The Nintendo Download Will Totally Blow Your Mind

Remember the pseudo 3D game, Looksley’s Line Up, that everyone thought was a demo for the Nintendo 3DS? It’s on DSiWare today, and Nintendo thinks it will blow your mind. I am eagerly awaiting Looksley’s availability, 500 DSi points in hand, ready to have my mind completely blown. Between that game and the latest in…

By Mike Fahey Published May 17, 2010

The Growing Spectacle of Gaming’s International Spotlight

Last year featured Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Tony Hawk and Stephen Spielberg. This year there will be Cirque du Soleil and perhaps others. Each year in the days leading up to E3’s international gathering of video game makers and publishers in Los Angeles, Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo host press briefings to lay out the year’s…

By Brian Crecente Published May 17, 2010

Capcom: Japan Has No Hope In Hell Unless…

When Osaka-based Capcom isn’t making popular video games, it is doing something else entirely: ragging on the Japanese game industry. Last September at the Tokyo Game Show, Capcom exec and Mega-Man designer Keiji Inafune declared the country’s game industry “finished”. Now it’s Lost Planet 2 producer Jun Takeuchi’s turn. “If the Japanese games industry doesn’t…