Wii Warm Up: Taiko Risk Assessment
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Wii Warm Up Taiko Drum Master was released in the US once, on PlayStation 2. It didn't really go well. Now Namco Bandai has revealed a version for the Wii, and we're wondering if they'll decide to localize it. Or if they should. Well, of course they should, but we mean in terms of financial success.
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High Voltage announces new WiiWare racer
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, WiiWare It would appear that High Voltage made a pretty penny or two from their last WiiWare release, Gyrostarr, as the company has announced they're working on a new game for WiiWare. Titled High Voltage Hot Rod Show, this game will be hitting WiiWare this fall and features a "unique stunt system" that gives players "multiple ways to build boost.
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Ubisoft really wants you to buy Shaun White Snowboarding
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News How do we know? Because they're throwing a lot of money into advertising the game. $10 million, to be exact, all in the hopes that you'll want to hit the virtual slopes with Shaun and the gang.The campaign started last night, where Ubisoft purchased all of the ad space on the season premiere of popular television show South Park.
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First look at Sonic and the Black Knight
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Video And here's the other Sonic game. After this morning's gameplay trailer of Sonic Unleashed achieved the seemingly impossible and impressed us, this Sonic and the Black Knight footage wasn't quite as jaw-dropping.It looks like most other 3D Sonic games since the first Sonic Adventure, in that's it's very fast and very whizzy, and appears to restrict levels of player input.
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Blast Works arrives in Europe tomorrow
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: NewsAccording to an entry for Blast Works on the Nintendo of Europe website, the incredibly cheap and really fun shooter from Budcat will arrive on European retail shelves tomorrow, as the listed date of release is October 17th.We're not sure if the game is going to cost as little across the pond as it does here in North America, but we're hoping it does.
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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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TGS08: The dead rise in latest Chop 'Til You Drop trailer
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: VideoA release date wasn't the only thing concerning Dead Rising: Chop 'Til You Drop to come out of Japan this week. A new trailer for the game, as you can see above, managed to escape the craziness that is TGS08.Within, you'll see a lot of the stuff you've seen before, just, you know, in motion.
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New Wii Channel in the works?
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Rumors, Channels This one is a bit odd.IGN recently published a kind of "What if?" story about connecting the DS and Wii versions of Guitar Hero together, to form some kind of Voltron-like super game. That's all well and good and we'll be the first to say that daydreaming is fun, but there was something curious tucked away within the three pages there.
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TGS08: How do I hunted monster?
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Imports When we saw control diagrams for Monster Hunter 3 on Capcom's TGS page for the game, we rejoiced, because we would finally learn how Capcom adapted their online ARPG into something that can be (optionally) controlled with the Wiimote. But then we saw, to our horror, that the diagrams were labeled with so many complicated characters.
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Wii Warm Up: Investing some time
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Wii Warm UpThis one is easy: how much time do you spend playing Wii in a week? We make sure we get at least one session in each and every week, thanks to Game Night, but maybe you're not chained to a radiator in somebody's basement, forced to blog for hours and hours on end.
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Gawk at Mega Man 9's Hard Mode, other DLC
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Screens, WiiWare Capcom has sent out screens of this week's available Mega Man 9 DLC, including the new Special Stage and the two Hard Modes. We don't know if these screens originate from Hard or Expert Mode, but whatever version of the game this is, it is ridiculous.
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VC Friday: ... Yay?
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, WiiWareFans of nocturnal bowling and derivative puzzle games are well-served in this week's Wii Shop PAL update. One month after Midnight Pool arrived on WiiWare and shook the gaming universe to its very foundations, development stable-mate Midnight Bowling has arrived.
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Bit players hit it big in Castlevania Judgment
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Screens Camilla seems like a minor character in the Castlevania storyline, one of the "other" vampires who appeared as a boss in a few games. She's typically portrayed as a nude, winged woman atop a giant skull. And Golem makes Camilla seem vital -- Golem is nothing more than a vaguely memorable normal enemy! You know, the big guy from Aria of Sorrow who looks like he's made out of logs.
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Wii Warm Up: Holiday wishes
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Wii Warm UpSome among you may be gearing up for the holiday season, and even though no one has any damn money (thank you, catastrophic global economy), that's never stopped us from asking for things before. This year, it may be more hoping than expecting, but by golly, we're gonna ask for things.
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TGS08: Monster Hunter 3 features Classic Controller support, split-screen coop
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Imports, VideoSo, here's some gameplay footage of Monster Hunter 3 (tri-). It's so incredibly gorgeous that we didn't mind typing out Monster Hunter 3 (tri-), which we've just done a second time. It looks pretty far beyond what is expected from a Wii game.
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TGS08: Klonoa: Video Link to Phantomile
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Imports, Video We didn't really have much doubt that the core gameplay in Klonoa: Door to Phantomile would be preserved in the Wii remake, especially after seeing how closely the environments matched. But it's nice to see this gameplay video from TGS that proves that it's the same Klonoa as ever.
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ESRB rates Metal Slug 2, A Boy and His Blob
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Virtual Console, Video According to two new ESRB listings, camel-riding run-and-gun sensation Metal Slug 2 and the fabulous A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia will be coming to the Virtual Console at some point in the future. Either that, or they'll both hang around on that depressing list of games that get rated and never seem to come out.
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Wii Warm Up: Huzzah
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Wii Warm UpOkay, you guys have probably figured out that a couple of Wii Fanboy staffers are enormous fans of Cave Story. I happen to think that it's completely brilliant, and a better game in terms of presentation, control, music, level design, story, and characterization than just about anything else -- and yes, that includes games that are sold for money.
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TGS08: Sneak through the Tenchu 4 demo
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: VideoYou know, we've been watching Tenchu 4 for a bit now and we're holding out hope that it won't totally suck. Call us optimists or whatever, but we really thing the game can be a solid Wii title. For one, it's Tenchu and our fond memories of the early games keeps us hoping that the franchise will return to its roots again.
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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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Rock Band 2 on Wii given vague release date
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News Now everybody loves Rock Band 2 again for being the game it was always supposed to be featuring (largely) the same content as the PS3 and 360 games, EA has revealed a release date that ... doesn't match up with other versions.That's right: the Sony and Microsoft consoles will be getting their fill of faux-rocking from October 19th, but Wii owners will be left waiting until December some unspecified day.
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Wii Warm Up: No sequel for you
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Wii Warm Up We've got quite a few sequels coming down the pipe: No More Heroes is getting another shot at the big time, and eventually, so is Red Steel. Even Sin & Punishment and Wii Sports are getting sequels! We're pretty excited about most of the sequels on our radar, but sometimes, we get a little bit of do-not-want-itis over a follow-up.
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Sorcery Blade: first trailer of the WiiWare RPG
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Imports, Video, WiiWareHow do you make a cell phone RPG look great? Put it on an actual game system! World Wide Software's Sorcery Blade, a WiiWare version of the Sorcery Sword series, looks quite nice for a downloadable game. Rather than the action-oriented Monster Hunter cash-in we assumed it would be, Sorcery Blade is a "real" turn-based RPG.
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Virtually Overlooked: Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Virtually OverlookedIGN's Matt Casamassina couldn't stop hinting at a new Kid Icarus game before this year's E3. Even after Nintendo's presentation came and went, Kid Icarus-free, the rumors and Casamassina's insistence had us convinced that Nintendo was just going to spring it on us at any moment; an announcement would come over the loudspeaker on the show floor or something.
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We're definitely importing Tatsunoko vs. Capcom
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: VideoThere's just no way around it now. We have to have Tatsunoki vs. Capcom. Why? Just watch the trailer above! The game looks amazing in motion. With the volume of awesome characters in the game, as well as all of those minigames, this game is looking to be the ultimate fighter.
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Mega Man 9 players may have a shot at Fake Man next week
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, WiiWare Mega Man 9 producer Hironobu Takeshita may have revealed the new Robot Master at the end of next week's downloadable Special Stage, or ... he may not have. "His name is Fake Man. He appears on the special stage available in downloadable content.
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What is The Incredible Maze?
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Video, WiiWareWhen we saw a new WiiWare release show up on this morning's list, we were curious about The Incredible Maze. What is it? Well, now we know, thanks to the Nintendo Channel. If we may say so, it doesn't look all that bad. And it's only 500 Points.
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Spoil the first level of The Conduit for yourself
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Video IGN has posted footage of the entire opening level of The Conduit, a generous fifteen minutes of action in which hero Mr. Ford takes down enemy marines, shoots up bipedal "Drudge" warriors, and charges down corridors. Then some more corridors. And then even more corridors.
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TGS08: Marvelous announces Discipline for WiiWare
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Imports, Screens As if they hadn't done enough, Marvelous has revealed another new Wii game: Discipline, a WiiWare "real-time simulation" game directed by Doshin the Giant and Tail of the Sun director Kazutoshi Iida. We have very little information about this game, other than an intricate logo (it is a perfect .
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Retail and download releases for the week of Oct 6th
(via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Virtual Console, WiiWare We could get used to this, folks. Around this time of year, we're bombarded with new games, across all fronts. Well, this week is no different, so we won't waste time yakking it up here, other than to say no dice on Gradius II.
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