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Is this what inspired Kirby's Epic Yarn? screenshot

I’ve been chatting to Nintendo this week about Kirby’s Epic Yarn, and was informed that the inspiration for the game came from a stop-motion motion picture. I wasn’t told what the movie was, and for some reason it was implied that developer Feel-Good didn’t want to tell anybody.

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Hands-on: Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions screenshot

When it comes to super heroes, the most successful are able to recreate the element of the “everyman.” While nearly all of us want to be Superman, Batman, Wolverine or, uh, Mr. Fantastic (was that just me?), those guys aren’t necessarily relatable. That’s part of Spider-Man’s charm; Peter Parker taps into the young, awkward teen in all of us. Being able to be him and do his spidery things has always been a fun part of his games, for it lets us get a little closer to that fantasy.

And that’s one of the neat things about Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions — it lets us play as not only one Spider-Man, but four different Spider-Men. There’s quite a bit of variety here, and it’s nice to see that Activision and Beenox are bringing something different to the different Spidey identities.

I’ve played around with the game for a bit, so swing after the jump for my impressions.

Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions

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Dave Mustaine brings 'ass kicking' to Guitar Hero screenshot

Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine wants to kick your ass. Well, not literally, but with the original track he wrote for the upcoming Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock.

The song “Sudden Death” (spoiler alert!) plays during the game’s final battle, a face-off with the demigod of rock. It’s a finger-blistering number written specifically for the game, the intention to push the Guitar Hero player’s skills to the limit. Mustaine is proud of the track, which he wrote based on a script and game illustrations provided to him by Neversoft.

How he describes the song: it starts off scary, then it stops, then it picks up pace at the end. That’s like going into a record store and saying “I’m looking for this song I heard on the radio. It goes ‘dummy dum dum dum’ on the bass, and then the drums come in and it’s all like ‘widdly-wah, widdly-wah’ on the guitar right before the singer states ‘can you feel my raging heat, come down with it girl.’ Do you’ve that one?”

Check the video above to hear the track, see the note chart in action, and marvel at the fact that Mustaine has had the same haircut for over 25 years.

source Destructoid

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Kirby's Epic Yarn designed to 'appeal to everyone' screenshot

Nintendo’s E3 2010 press conference was hailed by many (myself included) as a true message that Nintendo hadn’t forgotten the so-called “core” gamer. One of the huge highlights was Kirby’s Epic Yarn, and while chatting to Nintendo about the game, I asked if that title, and others, were designed for people like us.

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Review: Ufouria: The Saga screenshot

If you’re a Wii owner,

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Kirby's Epic Yarn inspired by stop-motion movie screenshot

A new Kirby game for the Wii has existed in rumor form for years, but when Kirby’s Epic Yarn was announced at E3 2010, nobody could have expected that the titular pink lump was going to become a titular pink length of thread. How on Earth did that come about?

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11-year-old's Mario collection is bigger than yours screenshot

When Oscar Bown was five-years-old, he fell in love with a plumber. It’s then, in 2004, that Oscar starting collecting memorabilia from Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. series. Six years later, he’s literally buried under the stuff.

“Today his collection has over 1000 very special items collected from all over the world,” states his dad, Mark.

He’s not exaggerating, either. Oscar and his father recently posted a video on YouTube that’s nearly five minutes long, and features some of the coolest Mario merchandise available. Oscar’s favorites, his father tells us, are his Mario Kart 64 action figures. And like Scrooge McDuck basking in his riches, check our gallery to see Oscar under a large pile of his Mario treasures.


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source Destructoid

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Wii remote vibrating sex aids: It had to happen screenshot

With the volume of soccer moms who own a Wii, it kind of stands to reason that a range of dildo attachments would come sooner or later. What you’re looking at is not an innocent attachment that merely looks like a sexual aid — it is a sexual aid.

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Amazon has Wii deals all day long screenshot

Amazon.com is running another of their Gold Box promotions out of the videogame department today. All day long, you’ll be able to pick up a copy of Tony Hawk Ride

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Cabela's North American Adventures actually looks great screenshot

See, it looks

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