Thank goodness for Nintendo’s Rich Amtower and the company’s Treehouse division. Day two of Game Developers Conference, Dale North arrives from Tokyo in possession of his fancy new lime Nintendo DSi. With the menus in Japanese, it took me ten minutes to figure out how to take a picture. Add another 20 minutes to record [...]
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Covert spy guinea pigs? Sure, why not. A Jerry Bruckheimer film about a team of covert spy guinea pigs? Yes, that’s happening, and it’s called G-Force. Set to hit theaters this July, the film is about a team of specially trained guinea pigs on a mission to cease an evil billionaire whose plans include an [...]
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Nintendo’s keynote this morning at GDC is bringing exciting new news for Final Fantasy fans. Two new Final Fantasy games were announced for WiiWare, Final Fantasy IV: The After Years and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life As A Darklord. The first title actually continues the story after the classic Final Fantasy IV, and was [...]
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When I was 19, my two favorite comic books were Sin City and Hellboy, and my three favorite movies were Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn, Dolemite (link NSFW), and Escape from New York. Knowing that, just envision how amazed I was last year when I heard that Platinum Games was making a game that [...]
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Ah, WiiWare. After a thrilling week with the introduction of BIT. TRIP. BEAT., we’re back to more of the usual Wii fare with Pop’Em Drop’Em SAMEGAME. At least Hudson made this one and not some company like Happyface Games or something of that sort. Fork over your 500 Wii points and you’ll get a puzzle [...]
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My initial reaction to the introduction of the Wii MotionPlus at last year’s E3 was, well, a bit blunt. I believe my exact words were “And the original Wiimote doesn’t do this because why?” Of course, the staff patted me on the head to calm me down, and I forgot about it, but even when [...]
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Somewhere, an overworked brain is crying. The tangram-based Nintendo DS puzzle title, NEVES, will breath new life on WiiWare. Set to hit in the second quarter this year, NEVES Plus looks to be everything you might remember from the DS version, except with a glossy new Egyptian theme and more multiplayer. In case you missed [...]
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Activision’s Nintendo DS and Wii title, Space Camp, is hitting retail in June. Much to my dismay, I’ve learned that Space Camp isn’t the videogame spiritual successor to Space Jam. It does not have Michael Jordan, Marvin the Martian, Bill Murray, or the sport basketball. But it does have an astronaut of sorts — and [...]
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Capcom just announced that MotoGP ’08 for the Wii ships next Tuesday, March 24. According to the little blurb we received with the release information, you can look forward to controlling the motorcycles in the game with the Wii remote — just like ExciteTrucks, except without trucks and the make-believe physics. Way back in the [...]
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Just like with 2D fighting games, there are basically two types of shmup fans: those who love them primarily for the fun of developing the skills required to play them with any modicum of success, and those that are still attached to the genre for reasons of nostalgia. For those in the first category, games [...]
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