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Wouldn’t it be nice to have one of those gold carts in your possession? I’d love to have one…because I’d sell it in a heartbeat. I may be a huge Nintendo fan, but I think a cool $25,000 is a little more important! I know that I’d regret it some day down [...]

“It’s going to be an issue but it comes down to how we deal with it. It’s too early to say what those issues might be. There are two possible routes. You can opt to design a system around commonality so you have efficiency when you grow out your game design across platforms, or [...]

A portion of an MCVUK interview with Warner Bros President Martin Tremblay… MCV: Used games are a hot topic at the moment; non-specialist retailers are entering the space and the category continues to grows. What is Warner Bros’ stance on this matter? MT: We will look to do whatever is best for a game in the marketplace. [...]

Direct link here As of right now, there is no date set for North America. Final testing is being performed on the game, and the developer has told us that they’ll shoot us an email when a North American release date is confirmed. PR email

A portion of a GamesRadar review… You’ll love * Gratifying combat options * Robot customization * Downloadable challenges You’ll hate * Horrible checkpoints * Repetitive, linear levels * A story only fans care about Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Autobots/Decepticons [...]

“The trajectory is undeniable and we’re beginning to feel that. Even with the difficult economy – finance and automotive were especially hard hit – we’re still seeing investments and new brands coming online, and multimillion deals like our Dr Pepper example. I think what this recession has done for marketing is forced people to be [...]

A pair of features from GameeDaily… When Fan Boys Film Video Game Yearbook Awards

Episode 2 is now on iTunes! Listen as Jeff Green, guest host Dana Jongewaard and I interview Visceral GM Glen Schofield about the renaming of the studio, and what Visceral will bring to the games they create. Grab the show here

Marvelous’ planned releases in Japan until Q3 2010… Wii 6 Wiiware 2 DS 10 PSP 9 PS3 2 360 2 Marvelous’ planned releases in North America until Q3 2010… Wii 4 (170k to be shipped) DS 1 (8k) PSP 1 (20k) PS3 1 (20k) 360 1 (40k) We are also hearing that Marvelous may be bringing one of their Wii titles over to the 360 and PS3, but [...]

Extreme Escape: 9 hour 9 People 9 doors is due out sometime this Winter in Japan. Link and Link

A review and preview from the guys over at GamePro… Bit.Trip Core preview Overlord: Dark Legend review

“The lines are blurry. One of the things that THQ has tried to do is innovate — sometimes successfully, sometimes not. We wanted to see ‘is there an audience out there that will play something completely different on the Wii?’. Commercially, we were not pleased with how it was received, but again, [...]

“This time around, wanted to see us go with cute. Because of Koakuma Ageha or the ‘gal’-style or whatever, we tried it.” - DQ creator Yuji Hori I’m sure you recognize the style of the girl above, as it’s quite the rage in Japan right now. I bet we look at this game 10 [...]

“Our whole strategy on this is to be available on every platform that we can be available on. We believe for consumer adoption to be high, you need to have it so that the consumer doesn’t have to worry about how it works. It should just work on everything.” - Zip.ca CEO Curt Millar Our [...]

Remember a long time ago when we posted a huge list of rumored games? All of the games on that list turned out to be 100% spot-on…with the exception of Brutal Legend. When our friends at 1up presented Tim Schaffer with the discussion of a rumored Wii version of Brutal Legend, his response lead many [...]

The Conduit (Wii) $49.99 Tiger PGA Wii MotionPlus $59.99 The Conduit is still on the list, as is Tiger Woods. Good news for both games, although we pretty much expected Tiger Woods on Wii to do extremely well. Can’t wait to see the numbers for these games! GameStop email

Now we have two adventurers riding this dragon. I bet we end up seeing two more people put into this bit of art before the game is revealed. We’re getting close to the end, gang…start making your find guesses! Link

A game apparatus includes: a plurality of operation controllers to be operated by separate players; obtained partial area storage locations for storing a partial area obtained by each player as an obtained partial area; a partial area choice mechanism for allowing each player to choose a partial area in turns; a single-player-mode game execution mechanism [...]

・Rune Factory 3 (DS) - main character can transform - 2009 release - 80% completed Link and Link

Source: The NPD Group/Retail Track, Wedbush Morgan Securities estimates. 1. Guitar Hero (Activision Blizzard) $ 992 million 2. Mario Brothers (Nintendo) $ 761 million 3. Rock Band (Electronic Arts) $ 662 million 4. Call Of Duty (Activision Blizzard) $ 446 million [...]

As we told you awhile back, The Idolm@ster: Dearly Stars will have a few DSi-specific features for those that are playing on one of Nintendo’s new handhelds. In the DSi version only, players will be able to use the DSi camera to scan QR codes in order to unlock new goodies. You can [...]

Is Brawl a great game? I think many people will answer with a ‘yes’, but that will be quickly followed by a ‘but…’. The game isn’t perfect, which is perhaps why a very dedicated group of Brawl fans have actually gone out of their way to tweak the game to their own specifications. The [...]