Archive for March 19th, 2008

The lovely Tron Knotts brought word last month of Capcom letting the community pick the two new outfits that would appear in We Love Golf for the Wii. These two new costumes will be for the two new exclusive characters that have been added for the North American release of We Love Golf. The choices were between Morrigan, Cammy, Rouge (from Power Stone), Roll Caskett (Mega Man Legends), Ashley Graham (RE 4), Frank West (Dead Rising), Balrog, Guy (Final Fight), Ken, Dhalsim and Captain Commando.

The votes have been tallied up and the two new costumes will be Morrigan from the Dark Stalkers series for the new female character and Ken from Street Fighter for the new male character. I like that Morrigan was the winner, but my first choice would have been Cammy. Although, I have to wonder if Camelot, Nintendo or Capcom would have allowed for some cutsie ass cheeks to be shown off in the game. As far as the guys go, Frank West should have won. He’s covered wars, you know.

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If Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars were just a slideshow of concept art on a DVD, there’s a pretty good chance that it would be a successful retail product. Artist Frank Teran’s highly stylized and “campy“ comic book-esque concept art for Red Fly Studio’s upcoming Wii game is simply that cool. Fortunately, there’s what appears to be a pretty slick game behind the art, and we had our first opportunity to see it in action at this EIEIO 2008 in Austin last week.

The Spore Wars follows the adventures of a na

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The debate over Bully: Scholarship Edition continues to rage as concerned teachers, still yet to actually play the game, continue to talk about it based merely off the title, while stating that we in the media and the games industry don’t “get it” — a most ironic statement coming from people who believe Bully is entirely about bullying people.

Mary-Lou Donnelly, head of

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I’m surprised it’s taken this long, but here’s the first “erotic” adventure game for the Wii. Cleaning Squadron Clean Keeper is a rather tame dating sim, but in true Japanese fashion, it just has to be that little bit disturbing. The game features a cleaning section in which you scrub dirty anime girls with a fan, feather duster or a whip (?) while they lounge about in erotic poses.

Yeah … shame they look and sound no older than ten years old.

I don’t know what it is with Japan and the thinly veiled pedophilia, but they do seem to love their games where you can feel up little girls. Now hey, if that’s their bag, then fine, I’m not about to oppress a man’s desire to grope cartoon kids — but boy am I glad that some Japanese stuff stays the Hell in Japan. Seriously, anybody who wouldn’t feel creepy playing this is a very warped individual … wonder if they have review copies going?

Hit the jump for some incredibly … incredibly annoying trailers. You’ve been warned.

source Destructoid

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Hey, do you remember how Europe’s trade-off for having to wait a possible six months for Super Smash Bros. Brawl was the fact that we’d be getting Mario Kart Wii early? Well, think again, because despite the fact that Brawl is way more anticipated than Mario Kart (as confirmed by Reggie himself), it’s been revealed that Europe only gets the game sixteen days ahead of America. This of course means that in just over two weeks, America will have both games, and the PAL territories will still be stuck waiting for a still unannounced Brawl release.

I’d like to know exactly what Nintendo’s problem is, but then again, I guess it’s not worth begrudging my American friends a game with “let’s race!” speech bubbles in place of actual online voice chat and a stupid plastic wheel in place of something interesting. Oh wait, sorry, I forgot that the prevailing attitude is to be grateful every time Nintendo so much as looks in your general direction.

Right, sorry, just had to have a little moment there. It’s not that I’m bitter or anything over the way Nintendo likes to take a huge steaming dump over its European market every other week. It’s not that I’m bloody sick of it on principle alone. What’s that thing writers have? Oh yeah, professional integrity, I have a job to do — Mario Kart Wii is released in America on April 27 and the full press release is after the jump, we are all super excited.

There. Job done.

source Destructoid

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WiiWare has technically existed since the Wii launched in late ‘06, but up until now the service hasn’t actually offered any, you know, games. That’s about to change, at least in Japan, where original titles for download are about to hit in a big way. The latest new title to be announced the service gets my vote for “the sluttiest game of all time” award. Tetris, the one and only, is getting all gussied up for the WiiWare coming out party, and boy does she look sexy.

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Wow. What a good lookin’ Wii. Plain white Wii look boring and dull alongside this colorful World 1-1 scene from Super Mario Bros. Mario cheerfully busts out the side of this hand-painted console, courtesy of some modeling clay and a sh*tton of skill. The tutorial from BeerBellyJoe on instructables states that “some Balls to take apart your Wii” are also required.

It’s not all just looks, though. The grassy knoll Wii base hides an extra USB port, a much needed addition to this console. A nifty LED backlight mushroom changes color to indicate system status. Best of all, a green drain pipe on the other side of the console doubles as a Wii Remote charger.

I appreciate BBJ’s instructions, but there’s no way in hell I could even start to think about building this myself. No worries: Technabob says that Joe will probably put this Wii up for auction on eBay to raise some cash.

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Feel like a sucker for buying an HD DVD player? Well, if you happen to have bought it at Best Buy, you’re in line to get a $50 gift card from the retail giant as part of its pity program for HD DVD owners. OK, I’m kidding about

source Tech news blog

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Yahoo is running radio ads in the San Francisco Bay Area and several other markets in an effort to get more people to use its search engine instead of Google’s.

(Credit: Yahoo)

The radio spots started running in the Bay Area a week ago, stated Raj Gossain, vice president …

source Tech news blog

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