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Wii Warm Up: In the middle  (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Wii Warm UpWe've heard some quiet rumblings that Fatal Frame IV might be better if it had a little more action (the whole point of the series notwithstanding). While it's certainly not the voice of the majority, we can't help but wonder if there is a perception that some of the self-proclaimed hardest-core gamers won't be happy with anything short of a frag fest, which means that developers may be looking at either FPS games and other titles built around violence for the core contingent, casual and party games for everyone else, and the titles that are more deeply nuanced are being shelved. | |
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Mega Man 9, 2 coming this September (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Virtual Console, WiiWareBy way of its staff blog, Capcom USA has revealed that Mega Man 9, its retro revival of the classic series, will be available through Nintendo's WiiWare service as soon as this September. Make sure the ceiling is high enough before you jump for joy, lest you hurt your head. | |
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Preorders open for Japanese Wii Music (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Imports Whatever you may think about Wii Music -- and we've heard what pretty much everyone on the Internet thinks about Wii Music, thank you -- there's no denying that it's an important, high-profile release. It's Nintendo's next big Shigeru Miyamoto game, and it's one of the cornerstones of Nintendo's whole Wii strategy. | |
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Tetris Party is Tetris crossed with other stuff (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Video, WiiWare Tetris has had its udders suckled dry down the years, with innumerable spin-offs, follow-ups, and twists on the original formula all taking their turn on its now-withered teat. Tetris DS remains, for this blogger, the definitive Tetris experience, but the Balance Board-compatible Tetris Party is looking extremely promising on the evidence of these first videos. | |
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Fanswag: Top Spin 3 (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Contests / Giveaways It's that time again kiddies. It's time to give you some free swag. Our latest giveaway is highlighting 2K's Top Spin 3 for Wii. We've got two copies of the game to give away to a pair of lucky readers, so prepare to get your comment on. | |
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Don't tap the glass in Hudson's My Aquarium (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Video, Screens, WiiWareBecause you'd probably be scratching your television.As you can tell by the trailer above (and new screens below), Hudson's localized Blue Oasis (at E3 they announced it for North America under the name My Aquarium) doesn't require a rocket scientist to figure out. | |
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Born for Wii: Dark Sector (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Born for Wii Wait for it. Don't leave cover too soon. You're nearly surrounded. Bullets fly in from three directions, ricocheting off the paltry bit of cover protecting your crouched body. A grenade goes off nearby -- too close for comfort. And then it's time to strike back and slaughter another wave of enemy soldiers. | |
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Confirmed: Arkham Asylum not coming to Wii (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News Sorry folks, looks like the new game Batman: Arkham Asylum isn't going to be on Wii. It's purely a PS3 and Xbox 360 affair, as well as for the PC. Sorry to crush your hopes and dreams (we felt you needed the closure of knowing, rather than never mentioning the game again), but the title isn't planned for Wii as of right now. | |
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In the year 20XX, Capcom might release more Mega Man (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Interviews, WiiWare While this is a skip and a hop from being glorious confirmation of more Mega Man, this Comic-Con interview seems to suggest that Capcom is already thinking of follow-ups to Mega Man 9.We can't identify the Capcom developer in the video above, but whoever he is, we like what he's saying -- especially around two-thirds of the way through the video, when our mysterious new hero announces: "Fans will want more Mega Man titles, so I think we'll continue with it, especially after the huge response we're seeing now to Mega Man 9. | |
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VC Friday: Something fishy (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Virtual Console, WiiWare Arguably more a relaxation tool than a game, Hudson's My Aquarium makes its western debut in the latest PAL update today. Its price, just 500 Wii Points, reflects its status as the Endless Ocean of WiiWare; it's definitely a good deal cheaper than the real thing. | |
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Wii Warm Up: Virtually yours (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Virtual Console, Wii Warm Up, WiiWare It's been over a year since we last checked up on your Virtual Console collections, and as the service has a tendency of throwing up new games now and again (even if updates are slower than ever), and there's now also WiiWare to consider, we thought we'd pry again. | |
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Strong Bad freezing? Take your Wii out of widescreen display mode (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, WiiWare We haven't heard much in the way of problems with Telltale's newest episodic game, Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People. One of our incredibly handsome commenters had some other kind of issue, but it's nothing like what ThatVideoGameBlog is reporting. | |
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The Visible Mushroom Man (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Screens This new Mushroom Men screen demonstrates the intuitive and slightly gross "life meter" used in the game. Rather than displaying some life bar, Mushroom Men alerts you to reduced health in a slightly more "natural" manner, namely loss of cap. Pax's mushroom cap is divided into chunks, and a section disappears with each hit taken, revealing more of the brain underneath. | |
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The cost to Brawl just got a lot cheaper (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Sales If you've been waiting for a good chance to purchase one of the Wii's best games, know that Super Smash Bros. Brawl has just received a price cut over at Amazon. Instead of the reasonable sum of $49.99 (seriously, the game is jam-packed with content), you can now subtract a cool $10 from the price, which brings the game down to $39. | |
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Masked heroes emerge in Deca Sports to give you money (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News Hudson has revealed a super-secret society of, uh, people who play sports while masked, hidden away in their sports minigame collection Deca Sports. And if you reveal them in your copy of Deca Sports, you could win a $200 gift card to Dick's Sporting Goods! We suppose that's useful for people who like that particular variety of goods. | |
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Welcome to 2000: DVD video playback enabled via homebrew (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Homebrew Homebrewer Erant has created a program that allows the Wii to read DVDs. It comes bundled with a media player program that lets you play DVD movies as well as view video files stored on an SD card, without any hardware modifications. You still need to be able to run homebrew on your Wii, but that's done easily enough. | |
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Metareview: Madden NFL 09 All-Play (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Metareview This year's Madden NFL 09 All-Play on the Wii has gotten a lot of buzz. The title has tried to cater to the Wii's casual crowd. Yet, it also attempts to keep its hardcore audience and not alienate them with all kinds of casual additions. It's a tough line to toe. | |
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Wii Sports Boxing workout equivalent to the real thing? (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News You know as well as we do that, with some games, you can really break a sweat while playing Wii. Some student researchers from Cleveland University have found out that, at least in Wii Sports Boxing, your workout with Wii is equivalent to that of real, traditional exercise (they aren't the first to conduct tests, though). | |
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Save your VC games to the 'Wii hard drive' (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Fan stuff, Rumors, Peripherals And by "Wii hard drive" we actually mean "portable air conditioner." This image emerged from the bowels of the internet earlier today, purporting to be a Nintendo-designed hard drive for the Wii. The pranksters responsible for this didn't count on the razor-sharp observational skills of one JC Fletcher, who located this familiar-looking air conditioner at Amazon Japan. | |
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Want to watch DVDs on your Wii? Let us show you how (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: How-tos, Walkthroughs, Homebrew, Features So, you want to watch your favorite movie or television show on your Wii? It's not as hard as you would think! Thanks to the recent developments in the homebrew community, you only need a few simple files and you're ready to rock some DVDs on your console. | |
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Capcom's Judd on VC Bionic Commando: Nintendo 'told us no' (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Virtual ConsoleIn this interview with 1UP, Capcom's Ben Judd tells the fascinating story of his start as the first Western-born producer at Capcom Japan and the origins of the new Bionic Commando games. But we don't care about that. (Professionally, anyway. | |
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MadWorld, indeed: the backlash begins (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News Britain's most hysterical newspaper and preferred litter tray liner the Daily Mail has caught wind of MadWorld -- and it wants us to know all about it. For our children's safety. THINK OF THE CHILDREN.In a piece entitled "Parents horrified as most violent video game ever to launch on 'family friendly' Wii," the newspaper illogically huffs and puffs about the forthcoming Platinum Games project, which it claims has "shocked anti-violence pressure groups. | |
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Mario pushes Olympic gold medalist to victory (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Fan stuff That up there is Kosuke Kitajima of Japan. He's just won a gold medal for swimming the breaststroke extremely quickly in that ongoing sporting event you may have heard about. Congratulations are in order then, but what's his secret? Strict 5am starts? Hours of training a day? A controlled diet? All three, we'd imagine, but also: Mario. | |
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Nintendo registers mysterious trademark for 'Piktura' (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Rumors Siliconera spotted an unidentified Japanese trademark application from Nintendo, registered in June. The trademark is for the title "Piktura." Of course, it could be absolutely anything, from some kind of EyeToy-style webcam to a WiiWare game that makes jigsaw puzzles out of pictures on an SD card to some internal technology that consumers will never know about and which won't show up in Nintendo hardware for ten years. | |
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All eight Mega Man 9 boss sprites revealed (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, WiiWare Normally used only for the purpose of gauging exactly how sedentary a gamer's lifestyle is, Xbox 360 Achievements have finally proven their value to the rest of the world -- even the non-360-owning portion -- thanks to Capcom. The icons associated with the Mega Man 9 achievements just happen to be black-and-white renditions of character sprites from the game, including all eight bosses! If partial greyscale sprites are all we can get for now, we'll take 'em! And hastily make a Mega Man 2-style character select screen out of them!As for the achievements themselves, they "reveal" secrets like the fact that Dr. | |
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GOTY 2008: Celebrity Sports Showdown (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, ScreensClick image for more ludicrous, I-can't-believe-they-actually-did-this screens. When we took on this job, we never quite expected to be commenting on a picture of country music star Keith Urban skiing, but we'll do our best. So that's Keith Urban skiing, and this is Celebrity Sports Showdown, the latest Wii project in EA Sports' "Freestyle" sub-brand. | |
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Nintendo: VC announcements are our turf (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Virtual Console Seeking some kind of explanation or justification for the disparity between VC releases as announced by publishers -- which would have given us Mega Man, Samurai Shodown II, and Ys Book I & II -- and the actual releases (two games that aren't any of those), GoNintendo's RMC contacted Nintendo. | |
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Homebrew app Ocarina makes cheating that much easier (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: HomebrewYou've got to love the Homebrew community. They're constantly trying to cut corners and this latest app, Ocarina, is no different. Instead of spending time inputting button commands in-game, you can simply inject them, Game Genie or Action Replay-style, into the game. | |
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Wii Music dated for US? (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Rumors Yesterday, NCSX opened preorders for Japanese copies of Wii Music, which is officially coming out October 16. We haven't gotten an official US date beyond 'Holiday 2008,' but two retailers seem to have agreed upon a potential date: November 3. Both Amazon and GameStop are taking preorders for the multiplayer musical toy thing, to ship (as of now, anyway) on that projected release date. | |
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Revolutionary: Special Effects (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Revolutionary This week, graphics professionals and enthusiasts flocked to SIGGRAPH to share and discuss the latest technologies and techniques for making gorgeous computer graphics. The focus of the convention is mainly offline rendering (the stuff that we see in print, movies, and television that's too complex to be rendered in real time), but as computers and game consoles become more powerful, many of these methods and effects make their way into the realm of realtime rendering. | |
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