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Might & Magic Becomes DS Puzzle RPG
Ubisoft does Puzzle Quest with Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes, a manga-styled puzzle role-playing game hybrid coming to the Nintendo DS this August. Developed by Capybara, the developers behind the recently revealed PSN rainbow puking game Critter Crunch, Clash of Heroes is a role-playing game set in the Might & Magic universe that replaces…
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Hasbro Family Game Night 2: Game Harder
EA is delivering a second round of Hasbro board and puzzle game goodness to the Nintendo Wii this fall with Hasbro Family Game Night 2. Building on the success of their first game night outing, Hasbro and EA are bringing five new old games to the Wii in Family Game Night 2. Headlining or perhaps…
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Spore Hero Emerges From The Murky Depths
EA has dropped a new trailer, new screens, and new information on the Spore universe’s expansion onto Nintendo systems, Spore Hero and Spore Hero Arena. Rather than allow us to play music on a plastic facsimile of a Spore creature as I had hoped, both Spore Hero for the Nintendo Wii and Spore Hero Arena…
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Nintendo Celebrates A Year Of WiiWare
Nintendo celebrates the first year of WiiWare titles, highlighting some of the platforms big releases while looking forward to even greater games to come. Nintendo says that WiiWare removes the economic barriers from console game development, and the past year in WiiWare releases certainly holds true to their claim. Of the 81 WiiWare titles currently…
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Blizzard Trumps Nintendo In Develop 100
Develop has released their yearly guide to the 100 most bankable game development studios in the world, with Blizzard Entertainment jumping 46 spots from last year to take Nintendo down a notch. While last year’s top developer Nintendo still performed admirable, Blizzard Entertainment pulled ahead this year to score the top spot in the Develop…
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The Nintendo Download: The Family That Pirates Together Stays Together
There’s enough booty for the whole family this week in the Nintendo Download, with handheld soccer, a Sega shooter, and a plundering party game up for grabs. Aksys releases another game in the adorable Family line for WiiWare this week with Family Pirate Party, a pirate -themed board game by Guilty Gear developer Arc System…
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Another Rushmore — Console Only
About a month back everyone argued the concept of a theoretical gaming Mt. Rushmore. A man who ran a store in Battle Creek, Mich., soon wrote me to say he’d commissioned just such a work. NewAge Arcade (a gaming store, but no longer operational) had this mural, depicting four characters singularly identifiable with each of…
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Punch-Out!! Documentary Ad Walks the Dog
Mac is back, sweeping up smack packs in this documentary-style ad that may seem inspired, but is definitely brilliant. Doc’s aphorisms aren’t any more decipherable in live action, sorry to say. He also mispronounces correctly pronounces the hell out of Pissin’ Hurricane Piston Hondo. I missed the memo on that one. But is anyone else…
By Owen Good
