Mega Man 9 looks great, sounds great, did we mention looks great?

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Filed under: News, Screens, WiiWare

We’re trying to think of words to describe how we felt when we saw the Mega Man 9 screens in the gallery below, but there’s just too much emotion to articulate. As if the scans weren’t legendary enough with their retro, 8-bit goodness, the screens just make us downright [...]

No Comments »Filed under: NewsPosted on July 4th, 2008

Homebrewer hacks GoldenEye to run on Wii

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Filed under: Homebrew
Sit down if you aren’t and don’t start taking a sip of something before you click the play button on the video above: someone managed to get GoldenEye 007 to run on the Wii. As evidenced above, the title can be emulated on the Wii, but not in perfect form. There [...]

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Even Snake can’t stop Wii in Japan

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Filed under: News, Sales
There was a momentary panic in the Wii Fanboy dungeon a few weeks ago, after news filtered through that PlayStation 3 sales had zipped past the Wii in Japan.
Was this it, we wondered, reading the figures over and over again to check that we weren’t seeing things. Was this Sony [...]

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It’s-a Mario World: Mario’s Many Professions, Part 1 of 2

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Filed under: It’s-a Mario World

Welcome to another edition of It’s-a Mario World, where we seemingly spend more time blathering about Mario games than we do playing them. In last week’s feature debut, we presented a gallery detailing some of the elusive pickups of Mushroom Kingdom history. This week, we begin a two-part catalogue [...]

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Rumor: More Rock Band 2 songs leaked

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Filed under: Rumors

Someone at the Score Hero forums recently got the chance to play test Rock Band 2 and they decided to post the tracks included in their session. A mod at the forum took the post down, but not before someone got the info over to Joystiq. Below, you can find these [...]

No Comments »Filed under: NewsPosted on July 4th, 2008

No Nintendo for GAME — sales are up, but shortages suck

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Filed under: News
Those purple folk at the GAME Group (a prominent games retailer) have released European sales details for the first half of 2008, and it’s looking pretty good. Group sales are up 54 percent, with like-for-like sales up 28.4 percent. Like-for-like is such a dumb term. Reminds us of these things.
Anyway, despite [...]

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Mushroom Men multiply with new screens

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Filed under: News, Screens

Mushrooms are tasty. In fact, Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars should end with some random guy coming in and cooking up a nice mushroom sauce to have with a tender ribeye steak. Will that guy be Les Claypool? Perhaps. Perhaps not. Perhaps we have some new screens for the upcoming [...]

No Comments »Filed under: NewsPosted on July 4th, 2008

Virtually Overlooked: Star Wars (Famicom)

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Filed under: Virtual Console, Virtually Overlooked
Star Wars games aren’t always great. In fact, sometimes they’re Masters of Teras Kasi. Sometimes they’re Super Bombad Racing. They suffer from the same fate as any other licensed game: the developers put the universe before the gameplay, and insert whichever popular genre of game they feel like [...]

No Comments »Filed under: NewsPosted on July 4th, 2008

Sadness website does nothing to dispel vaporware rumors

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Filed under: News

Hold on, what’s all this? A Sadness rumor that actually came true? This can’t be right — and it sort of isn’t. The website is there, and it’s got stuff on it, but the stuff is old and it’s a pretty amateur attempt at a website. It’s just, you would think [...]

No Comments »Filed under: NewsPosted on July 4th, 2008

Unleashing the Force is getting easier

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Filed under: News, Video
IGN took in a preview session of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and found that it hasn’t been abandoned in favor of Clone Wars: Lightsaber Duels, the new hotness in yet-to-be-released lightsaber games. In fact, work is still being put into the controls, to the game’s benefit. The control scheme [...]

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