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Our friends over at Aeropause got to check out a conference call concerning The Bigs 2, which will be hitting the Wii fairly soon. I’m finding myself quite interested in the game. I love sports games that don’t involve realistic interpretations of the sport. That’s why games like NBA Jam and NFL [...]

Liverpool, 25th June 2009: New Concept Gaming’s revolutionary motion sensing peripheral jOG®, compatible with Nintendo Wii™, received top honours at this year’s Big Chip Awards, the North West’s annual awards for digital excellence, winning the overall Grand Prix in addition to recognition for Best Application of Technology and the Big Chip International Award for Innovation. jOG [...]

Creative Director Lennart Sas provides a juicy sample of Overlord II's humor.

Once upon a time, an overlord sought minions.

The minions obey your stylus.

Look closer at patch 1.4 and the changes for Space Marines and Orks.

For those that don’t already know, Michael Jackson has passed away at the age of 50. The game industry both worked with and paid tribute to Michael Jackson plenty of times, which makes this sad happening a reason to look back on all the ways he popped up in gaming. Full article here

Research performed by Interpret… - in April alone, 25 million gamers in the U.S. played a music/singing game. - 29% of these gamers downloaded or streamed a music video in the past three months vs. 15% overall; 45% listened to music via a social network vs. 32% overall. - the typical music/singing gamer buys 67% more CDs and [...]

So Jimmy beats Tiger, even though the MotionPlus is involved. Come on, Tiger…I expected better! More pics here

A portion of a Siliconera interview with Saint producer Chong Ahn… S: We noticed that you might be localizing another Wii shooter called Arcade Shooter: Illvelo… CA: Correct! We will be bringing this quirky title to the North American territories in the near future. Please be sure to look out for it when it hits [...]

A portion of a Destructoid interview with Mike Stemmle, lead designer… D: I’ve heard comments that some screenshots released at E3 look a lot more ‘finished’ than others. Is there some more visual polish to be done or are we seeing the final look of the game? Mike Stemmle, lead designer: One of the blessings and curses [...]

Open Emu: video-glitching with unintended consequences from Dan Winckler on Vimeo. Check out more videos here Link

No word on a North American release at this time. I have no idea how well the first one sold in the states, although there was a lot of buzz for the title. Link

Bit of a spoiler in this video… Direct link here

“I think most of the Robot Chicken writers have multiple consoles, and we’re just as likely to be playing some sunshine-spewing Wii game as we are some grim, apocalyptic first-person shooter” he says. “Personally, I like to mix it up. I finished Fallout 3 and then moved on to Lego Batman, then the latest Tomb [...]

It still hurts, doesn’t it?! I just don’t find RARE’s games are a really good fit for Microsoft’s platform. I bet the latest Banjo-Kazooie game would have sold a lot more on Wii, even if I didn’t think it was very good. Article here (thanks Chicken-n-brisket!)

Nostalgia plays a huge part in Final Fantasy IV: The After Years. The game is trying to pull gamers in based on their past experiences with Final Fantasy IV, as well as the Final Fantasy series as well. Nostalgia also comes into play when discussing the visual flair. With all this retro [...]

Wii Sports Resort’s archery is probably going to be one of the favorites from the game. Now core gamers have an even bigger reason to play this game, and it all has to do with a melon. Nintendo has perched a melon high atop the mountainside, and only those that have perfect archery skills can [...]

We’ve been busy talking all about the sequel to No More Heroes. Korea can’t join in that fun, because the original never saw release in their homeland. Good thing for Korea that CyberFront is stepping in to publish the game. As you can see, Korea will be getting the blood-filled version, and there’s also [...]