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2008 Japanese game retail tallied, tumbled
Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business Has it really come to this? Not even a DS hardware revision could salvage another woeful year for Japanese game retailers. Despite closing on a high note, 2008 marked a 1...
XBLA receiving Hasbro game channel; EA's Scrabble coming to handhelds, consoles
Electronic Arts announced today that Scrabble will make its way to the DS and PSP in March, and to Xbox Live Arcade at a later date. Beginning in spring, XBLA will not only receive the perennial wordsmith board game, but also Boggle, Battleship, Yahtzee, Connect Four, Sorry! and Sorry!Sli...
Yesterday
New games this week: CID the Dummy edition
Still no releases on the 360 or PS3 this week, but it doesn't matter. Why? Because we've got a very special guest: CID the Dummy. Our buddy CID has traveled to us from 1993 -- the last year a game about a crash test dummy would have been relevant -- to land on your Wii, PS2, PSP and PC! CID old buddy, g...
GameStop offering Cosmo, O Mag subscriptions to fitness game buyers
Filed under: Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, Exergaming
Thursday, Jan 1
Best of the Rest: Griffin's Picks of 2008
Filed under: Nintendo DS, PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Meta (about Joystiq) Rock Band 2
Wednesday, Dec 31
Support group time: No 'Zelda' released in 2008
Filed under: Nintendo DS, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo Wii
Monday, Dec 29
ESRB lists Guitar Hero: Modern Hits for DS
Filed under: Nintendo DS, Rhythm Everyone, please, raise an eyebrow and pretend to be surprised. We first heard about Guitar Hero Modern Hits when Activision Blizzard trademarked it in October, but we didn't have any more details. Now, GHMH has resurfaced, this time on the ESRB's website...
New games this week: Hurry Up Hedgehog! edition
Filed under: Nintendo DS, PC, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii You want to know why this is the very best time of the year? Because post-Christmas is the only time a company would have the iridescent, titanium balls to release a game about fast hedgehogs that's in no way related to Sonic the Hedgehog.
Sunday, Dec 28
D3 Pub riding 'Ben 10' wave this holiday
Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii D3 Publisher is boasting to MCV that versions of Ben 10: Protector of Earth for Wii, DS, PSP and PS2 have sold a collective 2.5 million copies worldwide. While not nearly as impressive as Gears of War 2's feat of selling 2 mil...
Japanese hardware sales, Dec. 15 - Dec. 21: Resolute edition
Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business
Thursday, Dec 25
Holidaze 2008: Boxing Day deals, for Canadians only
US readers, are you still here? We figured you might be. There's an accessories deal going on right now until January 10, with at least 10% off all listed items. Highlights include DualShock 3 for $41, Xbox 360 wireless for $37, Wii component cables for $15 and Guitar Hero 3 Les Paul wireless g...
Tuesday, Dec 23
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars 'far bigger' than PSP installments
Filed under: Nintendo DS, Action Speaking to Nintendo Power, the developer of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, Rockstar Leeds, revealed that while the game may be on the small screen, its scope is anything but diminutive. Studio president Gordon Hall uses the two PSP Grand Theft Auto ga...
Monday, Dec 22
Rumor: Deus Ex's Spector working on 'epic' Mickey Mouse project
Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Casual
Saturday, Dec 20
DS screen manufacturer accused of price fixing
We reported back in February that Sharp and Hitachi, two tech industry juggernauts who are responsible for supplying the DS with its LCD screens, were under investigation for their suspected collusion to control the price of said screens. Earlier this week, the Japan Fair Trade Commiss...
Friday, Dec 19
UK authorities bust DS 'flash cart' seller
Gamasutra reports that British police have raided a retailer in Cardiff, Wales, seizing 1,800 "flash carts" for Nintendo DS. The article doesn't mention if the devices were R4DS cards or clones, but does say that the 21-year-old man taken into custody during the raid had been selling the...
Wednesday, Dec 17
Opinion: Nintendo Fanboy Weekly: Dec 11 - Dec 17
Filed under: Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii First of all, check out some giveaways currently going down at DS Fanboy and Wii Fanboy. Here is your chance at a pair of Tecmo titles, and here is your chance at Animal Crossing: City Folk. Hit up those posts to find out how to enter.
Henry Hatsworth not Layton arrival: coming March 2009
Though we jest about the similarities between the two prim, proper and perfectly portable puzzle-solving gentlemen on the DS, the truth is that Henry Hatsworth has a distinct and delightfully violent streak. His game, Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure, not only features all ma...
Tuesday, Dec 16
DSi Ware launching Dec. 24 in Japan, WarioWare and Brain Age top offerings
Nintendo DSi's answer to WiiWare - called, would you believe, DSi Ware - will launch on December 24, according to IGN. The initial software lineup will include 11 downloadable titles, headlined by the new camera-based Utsusu Made in Wario (WarioWare) and, as promised at the system's ann...
Monday, Dec 15
New games this week: Rise of the Argonauts edition
Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360
Thursday, Dec 11
November NPD: Wii breaks 2m, Gears 2 breaks 1.5m ... what recession?
Filed under: Nintendo DS, PC, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business Despite all the talk of recessions and global economic crises (crisises?), the video game industry once again seems unfazed. According to the NPD Group, North Ame...
Tuesday, Dec 9
Dragon Quest X coming to Wii
Square Enix also revealed the Japanese release date for the upcoming Dragon Quest IX. The Nintendo DS RPG will be in stores on March 28th for 5980 yen. That means the hardcore Japanese fans out there will only have to wait in line for 108 more days. Good luck guys.
Great Giana Sisters! Infamous Super Mario Bros. clone cloned for DS
Now, of all things, the game is being remade for a June 2009 release on Nintendo DS. German publisher dtp entertainment is working with Spellbound Entertainment and Bitfield on the title, which will - in addition to updated graphics - support the DS touchscreen and microphone, although e...
Sunday, Dec 7
Japanese hardware sales, Nov. 24 - Nov. 30: Scholastic pressure edition
DSi: 87,185 1,658 (1.87%) PSP: 55,090 6,136 (10.02%) Wii: 49,848 14,550 (41.22%) PS3: 34,978 17,542 (100.61%) DS Lite: 26,851 8,271 (44.52%) Xbox 360: 11,423 4,051 (26.18%) PS2: 5,628 347 (6.57%) Source: Media Create] See: The very special archives
Thursday, Dec 4
Layton leads Japanese software charts
Professor Layton and The Final Time Journey (DS): 347KWorld Soccer Winning Eleven 2009 (PS3): 168KMachi e Ikouyo: Doubutsu no Mori (Wii): 109KChrono Trigger (DS): 80KYu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX (PSP): 64KKideo Senshi Gundam: Gundam vs. Gundam (PSP): 57KHoshi no Kirby: Ultra Super De...
Wednesday, Dec 3
Press-only Animal Crossing features N-word
What MTV Multiplayer and other outlets have discovered is an isolated matter. Still, since the media serves as a filter through which you receive your news about Nintendo products, Nintendo clearly needs to work harder to prevent the kind of incident highlighted here from happening aga...
Tuesday, Dec 2
New Games This Month: December 2008
Filed under: Nintendo DS, Features, PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360
Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days + NA release confirmed = headline
Though Square Enix has yet to provide a definitive release date for the English version, players can start looking forward to a series first: a multiplayer mode that allows "players to control their favorite Organization XIII members!" Oh, our favorite? Uh, well ... the one with the spiky h...
Call of Duty: World at War tops UK charts
Treyarch's Call of Duty: World at War has climbed to the top of the UK all-format game sales charts, blasting its way through countless soldiers, explosive set pieces and Need For Speed: Undercover, which was in second place for some reason. Resistance 2 grabbed the tenth spot in its debut...
Monday, Dec 1
Black Friday: Wii crowned, economy still down
Filed under: Culture, Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business Black Friday 2008 will be remembered as a slight, but pleasant bump in a rocky road for retail this holiday. Fitting, then, that Wii and its equally scarce side...
Holidaze 2008: The Best of Cyber Monday
Filed under: Nintendo DS, PC, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360
New games this week: Prince of Persia edition
Well, that's wasn't too hard of a choice, was it? Honestly, if we didn't have Prince of Persia to elevate to that honored slot, we don't know what we'd do. The next closest is probably Destroy All Humans: Path of the Furon or maybe the PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV, which all good citizens ha...
Sunday, Nov 30
Japanese hardware sales, Nov. 17 - Nov. 23: Unwise purchases edition
Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business
Amazon's 2008 Cyber Monday deals
Filed under: Nintendo DS, PC, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Peripherals, Business In case your wallet isn't hurting enough from this weekend (or you simply decided to take the frugal route with Black Friday shopping), Amazon has un...
Thursday, Nov 27
Stay at home: Amazon's incredible Black Friday deals (and Newegg, too)
Filed under: Nintendo DS, Mac, PC, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Peripherals, Business Knowing that we would prefer not to get off the couch (especially with temperatures dropping as they are wont to do this time of year), Newegg and...
Meta-Metareview: The best reviewed games of 2008
With almost all of the big games of '08 now on shelves (we're looking at you, Prince of Persia) or available via Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network, you're left with a lot of choices. Some of them you've already bought; others you've been on the fence over; others you didn't realize wer...
Tuesday, Nov 25
Holidaze 2008: Best of Black Friday
Filed under: Nintendo DS, Features, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360 Note: No, the starred letters in this image don't rearrange to spell out Braid. We don't know what you're talking about. Nothing to see here, move along.
Monday, Nov 17
GTA: Chinatown Wars to feature entire Liberty City
The magazine also offers a few more nifty details, such as the ability to whistle (or, we're guessing, yell irately) into the DS microphone to hail cabs, and that the PDA, GPS, and radio are all touch-screen based. On the topic of selling drugs, Hispana reports that It will be a "good way to ma...
Sunday, Nov 16
Japanese hardware sales, Nov. 3 - Nov. 9: Dear brother edition
Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business To my younger brother and sworn enemy, the DS Lite: The DS Phat Source: Media Create] See: The abandoned archives
Thursday, Nov 13
October NPD: Wii up, Sony down, Fable 2 raking in the gold
Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business October hardware sales in North America were not good for Sony, with all three of its consoles seeing at least an 18% drop, according to this month's NPD report. The Nint...
Chinatown Wars in Feb-April; GTA IV DLC end of Jan, tentatively
Filed under: Nintendo DS Speaking at the BMO Capital Market conference today, Take-Two fitness guru Strauss Zelnick posed some new release dates for the next entries in Rockstar's sprawling crime epic, Grand Theft Auto. All signs point to peace in the streets as we approach Chinatown Wa...
Wednesday, Nov 12
Nintendo Fanboy Weekly: Nov 6 - Nov 12
Filed under: Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii Another week has passed in the Nintendo community and DS Fanboy and Wii Fanboy churned out some great original features. Check out our links below and soak in all from the house that Mario built.
Sunday, Nov 9
Japanese hardware sales, Oct. 27 - Nov 2: Impossible math edition
We were certain that the release of Nintendo's new shutterbug handheld, the DSi, would have a rather volatile effect on the Japanese hardware sales numbers this week -- and as the dastardly text-skippers among you already know, we were quite correct. The usual suspects played a thrillin...
Wednesday, Nov 5
Opinion: Nintendo Fanboy Weekly: Oct 30 - Nov 5
Before you check out the juicy links below, be sure to pop in on our latest giveaways. We're hooking some lucky readers up with MySims Kingdom on the Wii and DS. Here's the DS contest post and here's the Wii contest post. After you enter in each giveaway, head back here and peep the latest from the...
Wednesday, Oct 29
Opinion: Nintendo Fanboy Weekly: Oct 23 - Oct 29
Well, folks, we've got plenty of goodies for you this week. First of all, on DS Fanboy and Wii Fanboy, we've got reviews for a ton of games. On top of that, you'll find our regular weekly and bi-weekly pieces, all organized via the tried-and-true bullet point format. Enjoy!
Sunday, Oct 26
Japanese hardware sales, Oct. 13 - Oct. 19: The Britening edition
As we're sure you, dearest readers, already know, Sony had a killer week in the hardware sales arena (the PS3's diminishing sales notwithstanding) thanks to the release of the scanlinetastic PSP-3000 (or, as it has been cleverly monikered, the PSP Brite). Observing this radical increa...
Thursday, Oct 23
Opinion: Nintendo Fanboy Weekly: Oct 16 - Oct 22
Filed under: Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii First of all, check out our latest giveaways. On DS Fanboy, we're giving away one copy of Kirby Super Star Ultra. On Wii Fanboy, one lucky person will walk away with a free copy of SimCity Creator. Best of luck to you all!
Sunday, Oct 19
Japanese hardware sales, Oct. 6 - Oct. 12: Hooverville edition
Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business
Friday, Oct 17
WRUP knows its real roots
Filed under: Retro, Meta (about Joystiq) We return to the roots of Joystiq's WRUP series, celebrating one of the best examples of a "missing link" between handheld and home consoles. Nintendo's Virtual Boy wasn't exactly sure which one it was supposed to be; 13 years later, we're still no...
Sunday, Oct 12
Japanese hardware sales, Sept . 29 - Oct. 5: Tomorrowland edition
Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business
Japanese hardware sales, Sept . 29 - Oct. 5: Tomorrowland edition
DS Lite: 42,385 15,462 (26.73%) PSP: 26,045 374 (1.46%) Wii: 25,330 984 (3.74%) PS2: 8,618 1,230 (12.49%) Xbox 360: 8,271 3,020 (26.75%) PS3: 7,232 1,043 (12.60%) Source: Media Create] See: The time-sensitive archivesPermalink | Email this | Comments
Thursday, Oct 9
Flower, Sun and Rain DS remake coming to NA in 2009
Filed under: Nintendo DS, Adventure, Puzzle If you're itching a "murder and mystery in paradise" kind of game, you need look no further, but you will have to wait. Marvelous and XSEED have announced (via press release) that the DS remake of Suda51's Flower, Sun and Rain is coming to North Am...
Nintendo Fanboy Weekly: Oct 2 - Oct 8
Before we get into all of the tasty links, check out our two latest giveaways. On DS Fanboy, we're giving away a copy of Mystery Case Files: Millionheir. On Wii Fanboy, we're hooking up one lucky reader with a copy of Wario Land: Shake It! Head on over and check out those posts for details on how t...
Monday, Oct 6
New Games This Month: October 2008
OK, video game publishers, we know we said we weren't complaining about the torrent of new releases last month, but now, we totally are. Do you know how long this features takes to write now? Do you know how broke we're going to be by month's end? (Answer key: Too long; very.)
Sunday, Oct 5
Japanese hardware sales, Sept. 22 - Sept. 28: Candidacy edition
DS Lite: 57,847 3,395 (5.54%) Wii: 26,314 3,607 (12.06%) PSP: 25,671 3,003 (10.47%) Xbox 360: 11,291 2,486 (18.04%) PS2: 9,848 2,128 (27.56%) PS3: 8,275 119 (1.46%) Source: Media Create] See: www.archives.funRead | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Sunday, Sep 28
Japanese hardware sales, Sept. 15 - Sept. 21: Warhammered edition [update]
Update: You're incredibly fired.] DS Lite: 61,242 2,617 (4.10%) Wii: 29,921 235 (0.79%) PSP: 28,674 1,482 (4.91%) Xbox 360: 13,777 14,411 (51.12%) PS3: 8,156 103 (1.28%) PS2: 7,720 51 (0.67%) Source: Media Create] See: The recently widowed archivesPermalink | Email this | Comments
Wednesday, Sep 24
Opinion: Nintendo Fanboy Weekly: Sep 18 - Sep 24
Filed under: Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii First up, we're giving away a copy of Mega Man 9 on WiiWare. Hit up the original contest post by clicking on the image above or hitting this link. Now that we have that out of the way, let's get to the good stuff: links!
Thursday, Sep 4
Opinion: Nintendo Fanboy Weekly: Aug 28 - Sep 3
We've got some great features and other original content that went down on the Nintendo Fanboys over the past week. Below, you'll find some great content to jam into your eyeballs from the world of Nintendo, so skip this unimportant text and hit the links below to check out our best stuff fro...
Wednesday, Aug 20
Opinion: Nintendo Fanboy Weekly: Aug 14 - Aug 20
Wha? What is this? Well, to offer you a more streamlined recap of the goings-on in the Nintendo world, we've combined the DS Lite and Wii Fanboy Weekly recaps into one powerhouse, now dubbed Nintendo Fanboy Weekly. Hopefully, you'll like the new approach.
Wednesday, Jul 9
Opinion: Zero Punctuation whips it good with Lego Indy
Filed under: Culture, Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Adventure
Friday, Jul 4
Opinion: DS Fanboy Lite: June 28 - July 4
Filed under: Nintendo DS Community DS Fanswag: Space Invaders Extreme, Arkanoid, and a paddle to play 'em with Because we had to start a Space Invaders giveaway today. How could we not?Homebrew paint application adds Guitar Hero controller support
Friday, Jun 20
This Week in Review wants to rock (ROCK!)
Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360 A multi-instrument Guitar Hero World Tour means only one thing: more plastic controllers strewn about our living room. So goes the life of the virtual rocker. Check out all of our impressions and reviews from t...
Thursday, Jun 19
Today in Joystiq: June 19, 2008
uery A week with Spore Creature Creator: Day Three Counting Rupees: Bust Blox Metareview -- Don King Presents Prizefighter (Xbox 360) Off the Grid reviews Power Grid X3F Week in Review: June 13, 2008 - June 19, 2008 Wii Wheel + Balance Board = racing simulator
Friday, Jun 13
Opinion: DS Fanboy Lite: June 7 - June 13
Filed under: Nintendo DS How do you play?Show and Tell: Don't throw that Game Boy away Instead, make an awesome case! Features Trauma Center: Hands-on the Knife 2 Yes, okay, we like Shiren. You should, too. News of note Wet your wireless whistle at new Nintendo DS Centers
Sunday, Jun 8
This Week in Review is Captivated
Filed under: Nintendo DS, PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360 The biggest event of this past week was Capcom's Captivate event, where they showed off a handful of games from the surprisingly good Neopets Adventures to the expectedly-good Bionic Commando....
Friday, Apr 25
Opinion: DS Fanboy Lite: Apr. 19 - Apr. 25
We added a new feature this week at DS Fanboy: an index of all of our game reviews to date, which we'll update every week as needed with our latest reviews. Anytime you need to find it, you can just click on the "Reviews" button on the upper right of the DS Fanboy homepage, as seen here. That's not a...
Friday, Apr 11
Opinion: Today in Joystiq: April 11, 2008
Filed under: Nintendo DS A reader-submitted (via IGN) from January 2004, brought back to our attention by DS Fanboy in light of today's DS revision rumor. We gotta say, they were oh so close to the final design. (Fingers crossed for the "DS Evn Liter" announcement.) Check out the highlights f...
Friday, Mar 28
Opinion: DS Fanboy Lite: Mar. 22 - Mar. 28
Filed under: Nintendo DS Have you noticed? We've been giving away a ton of stuff lately! This week, it's amazingly cute cases. Next week? THE WORLD. Or, y'know, probably some games. For now, we're giving away links to the best DS Fanboy's had to offer in the past seven days.
Tuesday, Mar 4
Which publisher gets the best review scores?
Filed under: Nintendo DS, Hacks, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360 Ah, review scores. Besides letting us skip all that long, boring text that actually describes a game's high and low points, it also allows for some excellent statistical analysis and fanboy-...
Monday, Feb 18
Today in Joystiq: February 18, 2008
Fallout 3 to get simultaneous release on PS3, Xbox 360, PC N+ coming to Xbox Live Arcade Wednesday Microsoft on HD DVD: No announcements right now First early footage of Samba de Amigo for Wii Magic: The Gathering-based games coming to PC, Mac, Xbox Live
Tuesday, Jan 15
Wii Worms not getting online multiplayer
Worms: A Space Oddity for Wii will not include online multiplayer like developer Team17 had previously announced. ShackNews confirmed the info with THQ and the publisher put some great spin on the situation saying, "Worms: A Space Oddity is a social gaming experience that is best enjoye...
Tuesday, Jan 1
Opinion: Best of the Rest: Griffin's Picks of 2007
Filed under: Nintendo DS, Features, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360 Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition (Wii) Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl (DS) Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords (DS) The Bigs (Xbox 360) Crackdown (Xbox 360)
Saturday, Jul 21
How To: DIY Nintendo DS Lite rumble pak
Got an old Pokemon Pinball cart laying around? Then you, friend, have a one-way ticket to frugal gaming fun ... with rumble! Xyzzy has just posted a tutorial on Instructables on how to build a rumble pak that fits smoothly into your DS lite GBA slot. Yes, Nintendo released a smaller version of th...
Monday, Jun 25
Pokemon takes Wii online in US
A few more online Wii titles are coming on the horizon: Battalion Wars, Super Mario Strikers and potentially Metroid Prime and Smash Bros. Brawl. Notice anything missing? Various third-party developers have claimed that Nintendo early on had not provided code for online play, but we kno...
Wednesday, Jun 6
Opinion: Today in Joystiq: June 6, 2007
Filed under: Nintendo DS To even have the option of purchasing this limited edition Pikachu DS Lite, you have to submit an application at one of Japan's five Pokemon Centers between now and July 1. The winner will be notified by postcard and yes, we expect this to sell out; DS Fanboy has a pict...
Thursday, May 24
Joystiq Podcast 008 - Sony Gamer's Day edition
Filed under: Nintendo DS, PC, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Podcasts, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360After a short break marred by technical difficulties, Ludwig rejoins the podcast to go over the Halo 3 beta, the StarCraft 2 announcement, and Guitar Hero III. Song....
Friday, May 4
Weekly Webcomic Wrapup: comical review edition
Filed under: Culture, Nintendo DS, Online, RPGs, Polls Jeremy Parish from 1UP is known for adding a little flair to his reviews. Like turning them into full-fledged comics and rhyme. Such is the case here with Pokemon Diamond and Pearl. Almost, at least -- Parish eventually scrapped the ide...
Monday, Apr 2
E for All expo ticket prices set
Though mention of Gamepro's E for All Expo may prompt you to envision a discreet gathering of drug dealers or a wild party where people bash each other over the head with giant foam letters, the truth is that entertainment will be the only thing being distributed. With Nintendo acting as a "f...
Monday, Mar 12
Podcast: SXSW: Game Perverts
Bob Sabiston's Nintendo DS animation project -- this is a homebrew kit that Bob began developing after sending Nintendo a letter explaining that he was a fairly decent programmer and engineer (he is - he wrote the rotoscoping software used for the animation in Richard Linklater's A Scan...
