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Two reviews from N-Sider… Boom Blox Bash Party Help Wanted

Customize a male character and bring him into battle.

“In our ongoing effort to be first to market with new technology, our release of Wand was prior to the launch of Wii Motion Plus and thus, we were unable to confirm compatibility. These types of compatibility problems are unfortunate but fairly common as new technology emerges. After extensive testing we discovered there is a [...]

Extended Menghuo battle footage.

“I think it’s a subject matter barrier. Not everybody wants to get into these super violent worlds and yet here I am making a game about broad axes and decapitation. But I think humour would get more people into games. It’s getting better, it used to be that the games industry had a [...]

“Rock Band never got anybody a date…Never.” - Brad Paisley, Grammy award-winning country music star If only Mr. Paisley would do some research before he made such bold claims. Not only have their been relationships built on Rock Band, there have been marriages as well! We’ve covered numerous stories, including ones that showed off [...]

“We’re consulting for things like Miami Law, consulting localization, actually Miami Law started as straight consulting and then turned into localization. We’ll do that and we’ll do developing, localization, customizing for another publisher, and we also plan on publishing our own stuff too. We’re covering all the bases and not just doing one thing. [...]

Two impressions from C3… Style Savvy Endless Ocean 2

A portion of a RPGFan review… This promotional item, with the definite “Original Soundtrack” surname, only has 13 tracks on it. And here’s the shocker: the best music comes from the lesser-known composers. Full review here (thanks Marl0!)

Flash Liquidizing Ultra Dousing Device Do you know what game that comes from? Come on, it’s an easy one! If you are really stumped, check after the jump for the answer. Stupid game terminology - full article here

“We have huge regard for companies like Playfish; they don’t have high customer acquisition costs and they’re getting users to bite on micro-transactions from the start. So we’re in investment mode, and we’ll be announcing deals with companies that will be of note some time in the near future.” - Electronic Arts COO John Pleasants EA [...]

Public opinion of video games has come miles from where it once was. Things are leagues above the early days, but that doesn’t mean that we don’t have a long road still to pave. We have to stick to our guns, keep trumpeting games, and make it our mission to show what the industry can [...]

GameDaily misses out on what I thought would be an obvious inclusion. Since they didn’t feature it, I will! Direct link here Article here

I have a very quick answer to that. Nintendo’s demo play feature is supposed to kill challenge! Demo play is not for you or I. We are seasoned gamers, and we know how to navigate the Mushroom Kingdom very well by now. Demo play is for those that easily get stuck, and want [...]

Customize a female character and bring her into battle.

A bit from Tim Schaffer talking about his experiences with Lemmy while putting together Brutal Legend… Lemmy was the first one we recorded, and we were all really intimidated and scared of messing it up. He was really quiet at first. We hung out for a while, then he just totally opened up and turned out [...]

I’ll only be posting the details that haven’t already been covered in previous articles… - food choices for Miis from the start: ramen, orange juice, and croquettes - drop food on the floor for Miis to pick up, or deliver it to them by hand - when your Miis need something, a thought bubble will appear. Pop [...]

Looks like someone is a bit down on the Samba de Amigo franchise. I remember when the original Samba de Amigo hit the Dreamcast. I was a tad upset, as I didn’t have the money to purchase the game. I had to wait awhile to build up some funds, and then by the time [...]

Two DS reviews from GamesRadar… Miami Law The Legendary Starfy

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“I think the question we’d ask is, ‘What is the Wii audience looking for, and what would we want to deliver that has emotionally powerful narrative?’ And that probably wouldn’t be exactly the same as everything else we do; we did a DS game and that was already very different from what we’ve done before, [...]

I never thought of the RPG genre like this before. Perhaps it explains why I have such a hard time getting into it. RPGs, for the most part, are a massive undertaking. You aren’t going to breeze through in 6-8 hours. These games take dedication and tons of free time. Spending 40 [...]

Excitebots…not exactly the first game I would think of when trying to come up with a gift for dear-old Dad. Just because I didn’t expect it on the list doesn’t mean that it’s a bad idea. Buying Excitebots for Dad…or in general, is a fantastic idea! Everyone should go out and pick [...]

Posting up this one for Stinky B…. Chicago Cubs: Boos Both the Cubs and Boos are intimidating at first and virtually indestructible. But when the spotlight shines on them, they shy away and freeze up, leaving Mario/other teams to run on ahead to greater things. I know nothing about sports, so I can’t say that I agree with [...]

Check out this intro blurb from developer Armando Marini… For years, my game development choices have been driven by a simple four word rule of thumb of my own making: “Monkeys like shiny things” How sad is it that gamers can be boiled down to just that statement? It’s even worse that it’s almost 100% true. [...]

I don’t know if it has something to do with me getting older, but I can’t take these kind of conversations anymore. It’s all talk about what makes for big sales on games. I’m convinced it’s all a crap shoot. If you don’t have a sequel to a long-running franchise, you better [...]