TGS08: No More Heroes: Desperate Struggle trailer update
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Video Not even sure if we can hold it together long enough to write some intelligent commentary about this announcement. Marvelous said that they'd reveal a game from a charismatic game creator at this year's TGS; they've revealed the creator to be Suda 51, and the game to be a sequel to No More Heroes, the best Wii game ever.

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2 months ago 

Nintendo Fanboy Weekly - Oct 2 - Oct 8
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Meta 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 to enter.

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2 months ago 

Boingz catapults onto WiiWare later this month
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Video, Screens, WiiWare Relax, it's not more Ubisoft shovelware. Boingz is a WiiWare puzzler/platformer from Ninja Bee and Real Networks, and one we have (shamefully) yet to discuss here. So let's correct that now!Boingz are armless creatures lost on an alien world, and it's your job to help them navigate 30 levels and locate magical gates that will take our stretchable friends home.

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2 months ago 

Wii Warm Up: Your favorite reveal
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Wii Warm Up There was a ton of stuff to come from Nintendo's big news day last week. What we're wondering is what your favorite item was? Were you stoked about a certain game more than any others? Are you thrilled to hear about Club Nintendo coming to the States? Was the Nintendo DSi

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2 months ago 

Little King's Very Cute Little Trailer
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: VideoWe're completely dying of charm here. The TGS trailer for Cing's Little King's Story has dialed the quirky adorableness to levels that are potentially hazardous to human sanity. Look at Howser the Bullknight and his faithful companion, Pancho! One of the job classes is "Carefree Adult!"Seriously, every aspect of this game has been designed by Science to melt hearts and fill the air with joyous laughter.

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2 months ago 

Dead Rising port to feast on Japanese brains next year
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News The latest issue of Famitsu has spilled the beans on a release date for Capcom's latest Wii port, Dead Rising: Chop 'Til you Drop. The game is slated for a February 2009 release in the region, meaning that those of us in North America, and you fine Europeans, will have to wait a bit longer than that to get our hands on the game.

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2 months ago 

Tetris Party gets physical
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Peripherals, Video, WiiWare Tetris Party is out soon, which means we get to dust off our Balance Boards and play Tetris the way Tetris was always supposed to be played: by leaning and squatting. Tetris Party producer and cool hat-wearer Tony Tran has generously demoed the Balance Board mode, which looks straightforward enough: you lean to steer your tetrominoes across the screen, and squat to rotate them.

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2 months ago 

Zero Punctuation force chokes The Force Unleashed
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Reviews, Video It's been a while since master of misanthropy Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw was featured on these pages, but now he's back, in full sneering mode, with a scathing review of the colossally popular Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. Like many of us, Yahtzee hoped the Wii's motion-sensing capabilities would open the door to a whole new galaxy of light saber swish-a-thons that worked, only to be disappointed.

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2 months ago 

Go Baroque without spending a lot
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: SalesSales on Atlus games have become more common in this hardware generation, but it still feels special and a little bit transgressive to buy an Atlus-published game for less than it cost at release. Of course, novelty is hardly sufficient reason to buy Sting's Baroque, but there's also the fact that it's a pretty good game -- and some people may be starved for a Wii RPG experience by now.

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2 months ago 

Revolutionary: Go Go Bionic
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: How-tos, Tech stuff, Video, Homebrew, Features, Revolutionary "Let me tell you about the game I played when I was still young..." Growing up, I was familiar with the name Bionic Commando, although I'd never played it for myself. I've had lots of conversations with friends about old games, and they'd reminisced about some game with a guy that swung around on a grappling arm.

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2 months ago 

Rumor: Rogue Squadron compilation locking X-foils in attack position
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Rumors According to the latest issue of EGM, which just arrived in our mail box, Wii owners could be seeing Rogue Squadron make a return to a Nintendo console, as Q from the Rumor Mill is reporting that Lucasarts has licensed out the Rogue Squadron series of games.

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2 months ago 

We Ski & Snowboard & look at screenshots
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: ScreensFamily Ski: World Ski & Snowboard looks cute and fun, sure -- mostly because it looks a lot like We Ski. In fact, it pretty much is We Ski, just with the option of turning the Balance Board sideways and some new levels, and yet we're oddly compelled by these screenshots.

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2 months ago 

Strong Bad Episode 3: Featuring Homsar as the theremin
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Video, Screens Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People is in its third episode, getting cooler as they go; therefore we expect the people which it is for to be more attractive. The latest episode, Baddest of the Bands, features Strong Bad trying to earn some money by putting together a band and entering them in a competition.

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2 months ago 

Director talks up Muramasa: Demon Blade
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Interviews When it was announced that Oboro Muramasa Youtouden was headed to North America (under the name Muramasa: Demon Blade), we got all kinds of excited. Not only does the game have a wonderful style all its own, it also looks like a great 2D experience in a world crowded with 3D games.

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2 months ago 

Target to sell exclusive version of Shaun White Snowboarding
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News For those of you interested in Ubisoft's upcoming snowboarding game, Shaun White Snowboarding, know that retailer Target will be offering exclusive versions of the games for sale, with added content. What kind of content? Well, for one, the game will have Target Mountain included, which we imagine is a new mountain to snowboard down chock full of Target ads.

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2 months ago 

Arc Rise Fantasia and its hammerhead turtle in screens
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Screens At first, as we looked through the screenshots of Arc Rise Fantasia, we were struck by the preponderance of colorful visual effects. Almost every screen contains some kind of prismatic wake or soft, ethereal glow or magical fire or what have you. We were going to talk about how it looks like Image Epoch is enjoying working on a platform with a bit more graphical capabilities than the DS, which allows them to do this kind of stuff.

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2 months ago 

Australia may join the MadWorld after all
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News Sega currently has no plans to release MadWorld in Japan or anywhere in Europe at the moment, faced with game content ratings boards that are less lenient toward violence than the American ESRB. Despite the apparent (and ironic) prudence in the choice of regions, Sega is going to try to get MadWorld released in what may be the region least friendly to violent games: Australia.

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