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MI This series' first gem was none other than the runaway casual hit Carnival Games. After a poor reception with the gaming press, Carnival Games went on to sell 1.5 million copies worldwide, making it an acclaimed addition to the Wii casual gamer library ...
Fri, Jun 12 | from The Ann Arbor News

Nintendo insists casual is not taking over the market

“For every Carnival Games there is a BioShock and for every Wii Fit there is a Resident Evil 5. Regarding Nintendo's own output, Lowe added that Nintendo remains focused on its core title selection – and that many of its supposedly 'core' titles still ... INTERVIEW: Nintendo CasualGaming.biz
Tue, May 26 | from MCV

INTERVIEW: Nintendo

For every Carnival Games there is a Bioshock and for every Wii Fit there is a Resident Evil 5. What's certain is that many casual games are now becoming 'ever-green' selling consistently over weeks and months, where many hardcore titles may still ...
Mon, May 25 | from CasualGaming.biz

Toy Story Mania! Preview: Attack of the Carnival Games

NY It would be an over-simplification to call this Carnival Games with a Disney skin, but the comparison also isn't entirely off base. The game has a lot of carnival-like mini-games buried in it, but I also saw games akin to some found in Boom Blox and ...
Thu, May 7 | from Kotaku.com

Game Writing is So Bad, It's Not Even Funny

OH - Nathaniel Edwards, Nathaniel Edwards If more people are buying Wii Carnival Games, then less are buying Braid. 2. They help indirectly, because casual games are more likely to expand the gaming audience in general, which should eventually help them become an art form. ...
Sat, Apr 25 | from Blogcritics

NDS Review - 'Carnival Games'

CA It'd take a real ace of a carny to sell Carnival Games for the Nintendo DS. Fortunately, as a game reviewer, that's not my job. I don't speak the lingo, and I'm not nearly loud enough anyway. What I can tell you is to step away from this short and ...
Wed, Mar 11 | from WorthPlaying.com

Take-Two Takes $15 Million Loss For The Quarter, Half-Billion Sales Increase For Year

The company pointed to two other titles, NBA 2K9 and Carnival Games as leaders for the quarter, laying out its fiscal 2009 game plan. That includes two batches of Grand Theft Auto IV downloadable episodes due by October 31, 2009, one of which has already been announced and dated. The company...
Wed, Dec 17 | from Kotaku

Carnival Games: Mini-Golf - review

A portion of a GamingWithChildren review… Are there better golf games on Wii? Definitely. Better mini-golf? Possibly. But is this a good stocking stuffer for the mini-duffer in your life? Full review here
Sat, Dec 13 | from Go Nintendo

Video Game Watchdog » Carnival Games Mini Golf Review

Carnival Games Mini Golf Review. author Posted by: ds date Date: November 26th, 2008 categories Filed under: Console, Games, News, Wii. Carnival Games Mini Golf (Wii) The lowest score wins, right? Read More. Rating 3.00 out of 5 ...
Tue, Nov 25 | from Video Game Watchdog

Carnival Games: Mini-Golf Review [Wii]

Poor controls and a ton of pointless gimmicks make for one frustrating round of Astroturf golf.
Tue, Nov 25 | from GameSpot

GoNintendo » Blog Archive » Carnival Games: Mini Golf - review ...

Carnival Games: Mini Golf - review. A portion of a GameZone review… If the game would have included some more holes, a better motion-sensing control scheme and an overhead camera angle of the holes this would be an easy recommendation ...
Mon, Nov 17 | from Go Nintendo

Review: Quirky Fun Makes Dokapon Kingdom the Perfect Wii Party Game

The game's one glaring oversight is its lack of online multiplayer functionality. In such a multiplayer-centric title, and with the Wii being online-capable, one would almost expect the game to contain some online modes, but they are sadly absent.
Wed, Oct 15 | from Wired

Activision bringing Big League Sports to Wii

Deca Sports, Wii Sports, Carnival Games and all the other minigame collections on Wii had better watch their backs ... or at least join together, forming some kind of bargain bin Voltron to do battle against Big League Sports. Activision is bringing the new minigame collection to the Wii "thi...
Tue, Oct 14 | from Joystiq

Carnival Games DS - review

At thirty bucks, Carnival Games for the DS can add “overpriced” to the laundry list of negative adjectives used to describe it. It’s short and uninteresting with any slight joy of a playing a good mini-game far outweighed by the ...
Fri, Aug 15 | from Go Nintendo

CEO Ben Feder On Turning Things Around At Take-Two [Interview]

Take-Two CEO Ben Feder is not a gamer, unless you're talking Carnival Games. He and Board chairman Strauss Zelnick were brought in as turnaround experts during some very low times at Take-Two. The ">SEC was investigating, the company wasn't profitable, and many people were wondering...
Tue, Jul 15 | from Kotaku

Boom Blox a bust at retail, sells only 60k units

While the myth of third-party Wii software languishing on store shelves has been handily disproven by repeat NPD all-stars like Guitar Hero III (#8 this month), Mario and Sonic: Olympic Games, and even Carnival Games, the ugly truth is that those are the only third-party Wii games to bre...
Mon, Jun 16 | from Joystiq