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Course: Peach Beach Objective: Collect coins Secondary objective: Avoid Cataquacks Tournament date: 7/1 - 7/10 Link

The pic of Lara on the right is a real-deal promo pic from back in the day. The pic on the left is a fan-made rendition of what Lara looks like now. The original Lara looks like an alien by today’s standards! Link

Bit Boy!! Platform: Wii Rating: Everyone Content descriptors: No Descriptors Rating summary: In this retro-style arcade adventure, players move a small box-shaped character through a series of 2D and 3D mazes. Players must collect all the fruit in each maze while avoiding colorful enemy creatures. Looks like this one will be hitting WiiWare sooner than later! Thanks to KnucklesSonic [...]

That’s the most tasteful way I can think of to title this article. I think you know what the intent of the article is. Article here

Little King’s Story (Wii) - 9.0 Virtua Tennis 2009 (Wii) - 7.0 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Wii) - 5.5 Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor (DS) - 8.0 Mega Man Star Force 3 (DS) - 6.0 Guitar Hero On Tour: Modern Hits (DS) - 7.0 The Bigs 2 (Wii) - 6.0 Dawn of Discovery (DS) - 8.5 Overlord: Minions (DS) - 7.0 Overlord [...]

Wii: The Conduit - 8.5 Punch Out!! - 8.5 Anno: Create a new World - 8.5 Boom Blox: Smash Party - 8.5 Arc Rise Fantasia (Import) - 8.0 Secret Files 2: Puritas Cordis - 7.5 Blast Works - 7.5 Let’s Tap - 7.0 X-Men Origins: Wolverine - 5.5 WiiWare: Swords & Soldiers - 8.5 Crystal Defenders R1 - 8.0 Virtual Console: Pitfall - 5.0 DS: Pokémon Platin - 9.0 Anno: Create a [...]

A portion of a Nintendo Life review… If you’ve never played a Puzzle Bobble game before it’s worth getting, but if you’ve played multiple games in the series this one really won’t do anything special for you. The developers’ decision to keep some of the more questionable gameplay elements from recent games in the series in [...]

“I thought it was the most idiotic thing I’d ever heard of in my life. Why would you make a first-person shooter for the Wii?” Obviously Mr. Sheppard did a full 180 once he actually met with High Voltage and saw The Conduit for himself. “There’s a great energy around this game and around this company, [...]

Seattle, WA – Widely considered to be the John Williams of video games, composer Nobuo Uematsu will attend all three performances of Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy®. Audience members will also have the opportunity to meet Uematsu in person in a separate ticketed post-concert event in the Norcliffe Founders Room. Performances of Distant Worlds: [...]

I haven’t gotten into Final Fantasy IV: The After Years. I am not really into the Final Fantasy series. I know that I’d just try to get into it, and end up getting completely schooled. My mind, or at least mindset, isn’t right for Final Fantasy and games of that type. [...]

A portion of a Nintendo Life review… Even if you’re not a fan you may actually be getting more for your points by purchasing the larger game with triple the amount of puzzles. To be fair though, for 200 points there is a lot worse out there; namely the calculators and clocks. Full review here

Best Buy, Target, Toys “R” Us and Fry’s and check out GameStop here. Best Buy: Nintendo Wii: Boom Blox Bash Party $29.99 The Conduit $49.99 Go Play Circus Star $29.99 Go Play Lumberjacks $29.99 Gold’s GYM Cardio Workout $19.99 Grand Slam Tennis $39.99 Guitar Hero Smash Hits $49.99 (Game Only) Guitar Hero World Tour Band Kit $169.99 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince $49.99 (Available Tuesday) Jillian [...]

“Writers and narrative designers are still relatively new positions on development teams. This means there’s still a level of uncertainty about how best to use and integrate them. I know from talking to lots of fine people in my field that the writing process can often be done too late, without proper access to [...]

A portion of a C3 interview with Adam Tierney and Matt Bozon of WayForward… C3: Are you considering a WiiWare sequel or maybe a stripped-down edition for DSiWare? Adam: DSiWare is very, very interesting to us right now. LIT was a blast to work on, but also kind of exhausting because of the amount of assets and [...]

Earlier in the week we discussed the situation in Australia, which is not very good for those that enjoy video games. Long story short, web content is going to be filtered, including retailers that sell games that are MA15. Consumers will no longer have the choice to purchase what they want online, the [...]

Remember when XSEED said that they had two secret games to announce, one Wii and one DS? Well, perhaps one of those games is yet another Rune Factory title. Rumor has it that Rune Factory 3 is in the works, and it’s 80% complete. This information is said to come from ‘Marvelous Dream’, a [...]

- three playable characters - Madboy (battle skills) - Pixie (platforming skills) - Rex (enhanced senses) - change character at any time by pressing Z - Action-adventure with platforming - Story: in Manhattan a giant drill (the Krank-Tank built by the Krank brothers) appears out of the earth, so Madboy and Pixel take the Kore suit to get to the bottom [...]

Here’s a nice, juicy End of Day thought for you to bite into. Being able to present you guys with this is an absolute pleasure. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed conducting it! I’m off to bed for now gang, see you in a few hours. [...]

I have absolutely no idea what the story behind this video is. All I know is that this one Mii can take a hell of a beating. Direct link here