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System Flaw commercial shoots up your living room
You know, living rooms (or parlors, for you weirdos out there) are damn boring -- it goes double for outdoor patios. Luckily, System Flaw is attempting to address your home and its surroundings' severe deficiency in fun as one of the first DSi-only games. Utilizing the handheld's built-in ...
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Crystal Bearers dives into Europe February 5
The good news: no Boxing Day shopping trips are in store for European gamers eager to telekinetically grab Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers . The (relatively) bad news: that's because it's coming out more than a month later. Square Enix announced today that Crystal ...
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Shiren the Wanderer turns up in February minus online features
Atlus announced a North American localization of Sega and Chunsoft's Shiren the Wanderer at E3, and hasn't said much about it until now. The company just dated the game for February 9 and released a bunch of screens & art for the punishing roguelike, along with a bit of sad news ...
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Square Enix's new Lufia game is a Lufia II remake
Last week, Square Enix announced a new entry in Taito's long-dormant Lufia (or Estpolis ) series for an unknown platform. As it turns out, it's not entirely new, though enough is being changed that it might as well be. The new Lufia is, in fact, a remake of 1995's Lufia II , redone in 3D ...
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Club Nintendo Japan sending Game & Watches as Platinum gifts
The Game & Watch Collection is a popular catalog item for Club Nintendo , but this year's gift for Japanese gamers who reach Platinum status takes the Game & Watch nostalgia even further. It's a real Game & Watch. Nintendo is producing a new run of the classic handheld Ball, ...
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl surpasses 100 million hours played
Wow, guys, you really like your Super Smash Bros. Brawl , eh? Nintendo Channel data reveals the fighter has spun around in Wii disc drives for a collective 100 million hours and then some. On average, each gamer has put just over 73 total hours in. To put some perspective on the figure, ...
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Get a cheap Personal Trainer: Walking without walking too far
If you hope to save all of your footsteps for entry into Personal Trainer: Walking -- really make them count by having them tabulated by a video game -- this Amazon deal is perfect for you. The game, with two Activity Meters, is Amazon's Deal of the Day for $29.98. You may have to do some ...
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Phalanx headed to WiiWare in Japan
Space shoot 'em up Phalanx will make its way to WiiWare in Japan sometime this winter. It will be based on the Sharp X68000 and not the Super Nintendo iteration, according to GamerBytes (translated from GameWatch ). The game will cost 500 Wii points and currently has no announcement of a ...
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Hands-on: Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain (DS)
Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain is based on a fantasy gamebook of the same name -- essentially Dungeons & Dragons crossed with Choose Your Own Adventure . In my case, the story I managed to weave for myself is the epic tale of an adventurer who wanders into a cave and ...
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Wii-playing police receive slap on the wrist, strict talking to
Look, if people are going to eschew their work day in favor of having a gaming tournament, we're the first to sympathize. In the case of those in the business of protecting our lives from murderers and financial institutions though, we find it hard to offer much solace. So when eleven ...
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New Super Mario Bros Wii launch event in NYC this Saturday
Nintendo is holding a little family-friendly launch fiesta for New Super Marios Bros. Wii this Saturday, November 14, at its flagship store in New York City. The House of Mario will "transform" Rockefeller Plaza into the Mushroom Kingdom, providing demo stations, "costumed characters, ...
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Shaun White Snowboarding World Stage trailer is all big air, winding grinds
Almost every post on Joystiq about Shaun White Snowboarding: World Stage has been met with cries for a new SSX game, but this launch trailer for Ubisoft's upcoming game actually does a good job of mimicking the EA series' over-the-top X-TREME thrills. Sure, there's manufactured virtual ...
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Interview: Wicked Studios president Yves Bordeleau on Dawn of Heroes (DS)
Dawn of Heroes is a tactical RPG from Wicked Studios and Majesco. You'll be able to check it out for yourself when it releases next month, but Majesco was kind enough to offer us a preview build, as long as a brief interview on the with Wicked Studios president (and executive producer on ...
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VC in Brief: Wonder Boy III (SMS) and Cybernoid (C64)
This week's Virtual Console update is quite the doozie, giving us one obscure C64 title and one game we've played a billion times . We don't mean to sound bitter, but we're pretty sure there's a baker's dozen Wonder Boy games littering the lands of the Virtual Console. Check 'em out ...
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Portable GameCube hack brings Sunshine everywhere it goes
The disc drive out back may be a bit precariously placed, but 'Hailrazer"'s portable "NCube" reeks of everything we'd want in a handheld version of the last-gen Nintendo console (except for wireless multiplayer, of course). Engadget spotted the 90-hour-in-the-making portable GameCube over on ...
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European Nintendo downloads: Banana fighting street
Finally , the wait for Fighting Street is over for Europe! We suppose it's timely, given that a new Street Fighter game is in the news now, but ... it's still Fighting Street . The continuation of Tales of Monkey Island should be a bit more welcome, as should the DSiWare Bomberman Blitz .  ...
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New Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles trailer
Capcom has dropped the final Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles trailer, leading up to the game's November 17 release. Rather than shower us with gameplay -- though there is some in there -- Capcom has opted to give gamers plenty of CG and lots of corny text. For example, did you ...
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Easy Piano easing into North America next year
Easy Piano easing into North America next year
nintendo.joystiq.com — Band Hero 's reign as the DS music game with the silliest peripheral in America will soon be over. Valcon Games has announced that it will release Easy Piano , the piano teaching game with the 13-key keyboard attachment, in North America. It'll ... (more) Easy Piano easing into North America next year
Japan receives special Zelda Spirit Tracks stylus with purchase
Japanese purchasers of The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks will receive a transparent quill stylus as a gift when they put down their yen for the game. AndriaSang reports that the stylus will be given out on launch day as an "early buyer bonus," but there's no need to pre-order. If the ...
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Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles cubecraft is sharp around the edges
If your fascination with the characters of the Resident Evil universe extends beyond the confines of each game, then you may like to know that Cubeecraft and Capcom Europe have teamed up to offer some papercraft versions of Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles characters. With little ...
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