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Filed under: Nintendo Wii, Fighting

“B-b-b-but I don’t live in Japan!” We know, dear reader — despite the fact that a great deal of the world’s population takes up residence in the Land of the Rising Sun, we understand that there are plenty of those who don’t. This second group likely just thinks we’re taunting them with the information that Super Smash Bros., one of the most requested titles for the Virtual Console, will be landing on the service in Japan sometime in early January.
However, take solace in the fact that this might mean that it’ll be hitting North American e-store shelves sometime soon. Let’s just hope that our price for the game doesn’t mimic Japan’s — 1,200 points (as opposed to the usual 1,000 for an N64 game) is ridiculous, and we absolutely would not pay it. Well, maybe we’d pay it, but we definitely wouldn’t feel good about it. […]

Original post by Griffin McElroy

Filed under: Nintendo Wii, Rhythm

The long-fabled capability of the Wii version of Rock Band 2 to download new tracks is regrettably tardy — when the feature was confirmed in October, it was promised to arrive in unison with the Nintendo-fied rhythm title. However, purchasers and holiday recipients of the game have likely already discovered that no DLC is currently available, leading to an onrush of hatespeech on the Rock Band community forums.
Harmonix quickly swooped in to ease the frayed nerves of the inflamed masses — they promised that the content is “in the final testing stages” and will be available “as early in 2009 as possible.” Coming in the first salvo of tunes is the free 20-song pack that Rock Banders enjoyed earlier this year, as well as 30 downloadable tracks from the original Rock Band DLC library. We might be able to find it within ourselves to forgive the […]

Original post by Griffin McElroy

All the Wii guns are functional and make the shooting games more fun but none of the guns are very realistic. This hack uses a more realistic gun to make playing Wii games more fun!
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“Playing shooters with the Wii is an enormous fun but all the guns I could find were so bad; […]

Original post by admin

Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360

Hey there, Canada. We’ve been told Boxing Day is a special day for consumerism for you guys — something like the equivalent of Black Friday here in the US. Our Canadian comrade at X3F thought to remind us, and additionally pointed us towards the sales papers for several major Canadian retailers:

Best Buy
Future Shop
Walmart
Toys R Us

Additionally, we’ve got a list of deals Amazon Canada (after the break). Highlights include $28 off limited editions of Fable 2 and Gears of War 2, $40 off Spore: Galactic Edition, $20 off Grand Theft Auto IV for PS3 and — here’s the kicker — $10 off Legendary The Box! (We’ll take 3, please.) Sale starts 3:00AM ET on Friday, December 26 and ends 2:59AM ET Saturday morning.
… US readers, are you still here? We figured you might be. There’s […]

Original post by Ross Miller

Filed under: Nintendo Wii

A video distribution service is coming to Nintendo Wii, according to Nikkei business daily (via Reuters). Working with ad agency Dentsu, Inc., the service will offer original content in the form of cartoons and “other entertainment programs” and is seen as a “new revenue stream” for the company (read: our large vault of money needs a diving board made from diamonds). Not much else is known at the moment. The service will first launch in Japan early 2009 and overseas later in the year.
Video service coming to Wii, says Nikkei originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Original post by Ross Miller

Filed under: Nintendo Wii

Here’s a little known fact: If industry analysts go too long without foretelling something - anything - they break out in a nasty case of hives. That may be why Lazard Capital Markets’ Colin Sebastian has come forward with his latest prediction, namely that Nintendo will release a new Zelda game for the Wii sometime in 2009.
While anticipating “potentially fewer hit titles” across the board next year, the soothsayer notes to Gamespot that his prophecy for a follow-up to Twilight Princess, as well as a new “Princess Peach adventure,” is little more than guesswork at this point. Traditionally, Nintendo has released just a single principle Zelda title per console cycle, though given that the last game started life on the GameCube gives Sebastian’s prediction a bit more weight, if only slightly. As for us, we gave up trying to read Nintendo’s body language a long time ago, […]

Original post by Jason Dobson

Filed under: Nintendo Wii, Business

That “fat chance” of getting a Wii for the holidays? It’s now officially a very good chance. Gamasutra brings word - backed up by statistics from Video Game Price Charts - that the resale market has been so inundated with systems, those who invested in snapped up a Wii hoping to make a profit from it are lucky to get retail price.
This time last year, Wii systems for offer on resale sites such as eBay were fetching nearly $500; the site now lists hundreds, many of which are going unsold (especially those with starting bids above retail). It seems that Nintendo’s promise of increased production earlier in the year has be fulfilled, as retailers including Walmart.com and Amazon have had the console in stock during December - and for much longer than what had become a matter of seconds for most of this and last year.
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Original post by Randy Nelson

Filed under: Nintendo Wii, Action

One of the most significant criticisms leveled at Wii’s superb and stylistic No More Heroes was that its “open world” wasn’t, well, very open. That’s set to change for the sequel, says creator Goichi “Suda51” Suda.
In an interview on GameSetWatch, Suda51 was asked about his long-time desire to build a true open-world game. He acknowledged that No More Heroes was a step towards realizing his goal, but, as for the sequel, he said to “expect big changes for No More Heroes 2’s open world.” And what of series star, Travis Touchdown, now that there are truly no more heroes in the game’s universe? “Actually, there are still some heroes left,” he teased.
Suda51: ‘Big changes’ in store for No More Heroes 2’s open world originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Original post by Randy Nelson

Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Casual

When it comes to designing games, Warren Spector isn’t known for doing a Mickey Mouse job. But the iconic Disney character may very well be the star of his Junction Point Studios’ current project, confirmed in July as a “collaboration with folks from Disney Feature Animation and Pixar.”
According to a post on Gamasutra, “concept art and information” the site has gotten its eyes on reveal a title codenamed Epic Mickey, which is described as having “a distinctly shadowed, steampunk vibe.” The game is likely the same project Spector and company have been working on since at least June 2007, and which the Deus Ex designer has said would elicit claims by hardcore gamers that he’d “sold out.” In backing up its report, the site references an EGM rumor from March that suggests Junction Point’s project will allow […]

Original post by Randy Nelson

Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360

Last week, Metallica posted the first trailer for Buy Another Guitar Hero: This Time With Metallica Songs Guitar Hero: Metallica on its official site. The quality was dubious but the message was suitably loud and clear: you will “ride the lightning” in 2009. And, by “ride the lightning,” we of course mean “press buttons on a plastic guitar and Metallica songs will happen.”
Activision-Blizzard, having evidently accepted the game’s existence at long last, today released a more watchable version of the teaser. That’s what you’ll see when you press “play” above. What you won’t see is much of the game outside of some in-engine concert footage of the band performing and looking all … Metallica-ic.
A better look at Guitar Hero: Metallica originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of […]

Original post by Randy Nelson