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Opinion: Impressions: Guitar Hero On Tour: Modern Hits external link

Sat, Jun 27 |  from 4 color rebellion  | More Nintendo DS
While I do enjoy the console editions of the Guitar Hero games (perhaps too much, even), the On Tour offshoot comes across as a blatant cash-in attempt. The whole point of Guitar Hero, and what made it so popular, is that it made regular schmucks like me feel as if we were actually playing the g...

 
 

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The Great Xbox 360 Robbery Comment by: The Swearing Gramps Nominated by: Mr Pappzy lurves Orange Soda Don't worry. Microsoft will get em all back within a year or so. Video Game Question For The Advice Columnist Comment by: Southrncomfortjm Nominated by: NeoStarr
4 hours ago |  from Kotaku  | More Xbox 360

 

PS3 Bundle Includes MGS4, Killzone 2 [PS3] external link

Thumbnail Normally, hardware bundles are a spotty affair. A game you don't really want, or two games, one you kinda want, one you just do not want. But this bundle, on sale at Best Buy next Sunday, looks great! Sent in by a Best Buy employee, and confirmed by other BB employees, it's an 80GB PS3 bundled wit...
6 hours ago |  from Kotaku  | More Metal Gear

 

PS2 original Shadow of Destiny announced for PSP external link

Thumbnail RPG Fan is reporting that a first generation PS2 title comes to the PlayStation Portable in the form of Shadow of Memories (aka Shadow of Destiny in US). Some eight years since its original launch no the PS2 in 2001, Konami is now expanding the game experience by making it portable.
7 hours ago |  from Qj.net  | More PlayStation

 

Patch: Nintendo Wii System Menu 4.1 is Released in Japan external link

Nintendo released a Wii Firmware update, version 4.1 today in Japan. A bug fix to Wii Sports Resort, in which after playing a WiiWare/VC game off the SD card, and then playing Wii Sports Resort afterward, you would be forced to watch the how-to Wii Motion Plus video that normally plays only on...
7 hours ago |  from PS3News  | More Wii

 

How Many Hours People Play Nintendo's Wii Games (Sorry, Donkey Kong) [Nintendo] external link

Thumbnail The following stats are pulled from the usage data shared by more than two million Wii users through the system's Nintendo Channel. For more information about how we calculate these total playtimes, check out this week's earlier Wii stats post)
16 hours ago |  from Kotaku  | More Wii Fit

 

How Many Hours People Play Nintendo's Wii Games (Sorry, Donkey Kong) external link

Thumbnail The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (November 2006) — 46 hours, 9 minutes Mario Kart Wii (April 2008) – 31 hours, 40 minutes Super Mario Galaxy (November 2007) — 27 hours, 37 minutes Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (August 2007) 21 hours, 37 minutes
16 hours ago |  from Kotaku  | More Metroid

 

Frankenreview: The Conduit external link

Thumbnail The Conduit has everything going for it. It's an exclusive first-person shooter for a console that generally only sees second-rate ports. It features a compelling story of conspiracy, betrayal, and alien invasion on the streets of Washington D.C. And it also delivers a robust multiplayer...
Thu, Jul 2 |  from Kotaku  | More Nintendo

 

SouthPeak Delivers Roogoo for Wii and Nintendo DS onto Retail Shelves external link

Roogoo Attack! (DS) Receiving critical acclaim and awards at E3 2009, Roogoo features interactive puzzles and invigorating gameplay.
Thu, Jul 2 |  from IGN  | More Nintendo

 

Risen to be launched on October 2nd external link

Thumbnail Risen will make its international debut on October 02, 2009. The new RPG from the inventors of Gothic, Piranha Bytes, has already entered the Beta phase and is now being honed to perfection. Risen will be available for PC and Xbox 360®, the video game and entertainment system from Microsoft...
Thu, Jul 2 |  from Hq.Com  | More Xbox 360

 

Review: Rock Band Unplugged external link

Thumbnail Portable music games always seem like an odd duck. Guitar Hero On Tour for the Nintendo DS had to create an attachment so you could press down on the usual buttons while "strumming" on the touch screen. But all the PSP has are some buttons and a thumbstick. So how in the world did Harmonix think th...
Tue, Jun 30 |  from GayGamer.net  | More Rock Band

 

Punch-Out!! (Nintendo Wii) external link

Punch Out has been away for so long that many will not even know what it is. Can Next Level Games' new entry into the series make an impact on today's gamers?
Tue, Jun 30 |  from Cubed3  | More Wii

 

WoW: Faction-Change Service in the Works external link

Quote: We wanted to give everyone a very early heads-up that, in response to player requests, we’re developing a new service for World of Warcraft that will allow players to change their faction from Alliance to Horde or Horde to Alliance. There’s still much work to do and many details to ir...
Mon, Jun 29 |  from pheedcontent.com  | More World of Warcraft

 

Spore: Galactic Adventures Review external link

When Will Wright first talked about his plans for Spore, he set expectations so high that no game could've possibly lived up to the hype. Spore was a good game, but instead of doing one or two things really well, it was more like several decent games tossed together. Spore's recent expansion,...
Wed, Jun 24 |  from 1up.com  | More Spore

 

Jack White: learning about music through Guitar Hero is 'depressing'Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Thumbnail Speaking at a press conference for a documentary, both the White Stripes' frontman Jack White and legendary Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page discussed the popularity of music games like Guitar Hero. "It's depressing to have a label come and tell you that [Guitar Hero] is how kids are lea...
Tue, Jun 23 |  from Joystiq  | More Guitar Hero

 

Sony Responds to Activision's Threats to Ditch Playstation [Activision] external link

Thumbnail Indeed Sony announced an impressive line-up of first and third-party PS3 and PSP titles at their annual retailer meet-up Destination Playstation and then spent a bulk of their E3 press conference whipping through triple-A title after triple-A title.
Fri, Jun 19 |  from Kotaku  | More PlayStation

 

Save that cereal box, Let's Tap shipping without Tap Boxes external link

Crispy Gamer This week saw the release of Sega Wii title Let's Tap which takes a novel approach to controlling what's happening on screen. Instead of using the Wii Remote directly, you instead put it on a surface and tap that surface hard enough to register the ...
Wed, Jun 17 |  from Geek.com  | More Sega

 

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Frankenreview: The Conduit [Round Up]

Thumbnail HIgh Voltage an Sega seek to take on the mantle of the Nintendo Wii's signature first-person shooter with The Conduit. Have they succeeded? Let us channel the assembled game critics through The Conduit and see what comes out the other end.
Thu, Jul 2 |  from Kotaku  | More Sega

 

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Gunstar Heroes Micro-Review: The Perfect Shot [Review]

Thumbnail Gunstar Heroes was developed by Treasure, and originally released in 1993. Reviewed version published by Sega, and released on June 10 (XBLA) and June 11 (PSN). Retails for 400 MS Points on Xbox 360, $5 on PlayStation Store. Played Xbox 360 version to completion, tested online co-op.
Tue, Jun 30 |  from Kotaku  | More PlayStation

 
 
 

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