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No wonder we couldn’t find Star Fox on the Wii… he’s been in New Zealand working for the Caffeinator! I thinks it’s time for a Nintendo Rep to fly over there and bring our favorite woodland space animal back! Thanks to aaroNiGHTS for the heads up and the pics!

A videogame about what you always wanted to do with your sister's hamster.

PixlBit is starting an ambitious 296 piece special covering the library of the North American Nintendo 64 and I certainly cheer them on. Sometimes, as we look forward, we have to remember where we’ve come from. When they get to Majora’s Mask, I’ll finally have the right to speak up! Intro and 1080° Snowboarding

#kotakutalkradio The outfit responsible for Project Gotham Racing and the forthcoming Blur joined us today to talk racin' with Kotaku Talk Radio. You can download the .mp3 faster than it takes to get two new tires and a splash of gas. More »

Hi everyone, my name is Matt Morton, and I’m the SCEA Producer for Fat Princess on the PS3 and the soon-to-be-released Fat Princess: Fistful of Cake for the PSP.

The entire Fat Princess team loves your response to the recent patch for Fat Princess on the PS3! We love our fans and we are hard at work to make sure Fat Princess is as fun as it can be. We have a very special request for fans of Fat Princess on the PS3 who are living in the Los Angeles / Santa Monica area. We value your input so much that we are looking for a select few to help us test some new features for Fat Princess PS3.

We are looking for people who can give us two hours of their time and let us know what you think. We need people for this Friday, April 2nd in any one of the following sessions:

Requirements for the Playtest are as follows:

• Be at least 18 years or older.
• Be willing to sign a Non Disclosure Agreement, because what you will be testing is a BIG Cake-of-a-secret!
• Be familiar with Fat Princess on the PS3.
• Live in the LA area with reliable transportation to the playtest.

Mastery of the game is NOT a requirement!

For your time and valuable input, we will give you a free copy of God of War III for your PS3 enjoyment!

If you are interested and meet the above requirements, please send an email to FPLAPlaytest@gmail.com with your name, address, contact phone number and your preference of which session you would be willing to join. If you don’t have a session preference, please state “any available session”.

Selected members will be emailed back with a confirmation email with a location and time for check-in.

Seats are VERY limited!

Thank you very much, and we look forward to hearing from you!

Epic Games' Cliffy B gives IGN AU the scoop. First concept art inside!

Epic Games' Cliffy B gives IGN AU the scoop. First concept art inside!

Epic Games' Cliffy B gives IGN AU the scoop. First concept art inside!

M2 Research analyst Billy Pidgeon claims that the Japanese press were "all over" the upcoming 3DS before Nintendo revealed it, forcing an announcement out of the company's headquarters in Japan. In a recent CNBC report, Pidgeon alleges that the media in Japan had "talked with suppliers there and Nintendo just wanted to get out ahead by breaking the news to prevent a leak." This comes in response to the oddly-timed reveal of Nintendo's next handheld device, less than a week before the fourth iteration of its Nintendo DS was set to land on retail shelves.

"Does it clash with the DSi XL? Yes it does," Pidgeon says. He goes on to claim that (even though stock prices for Nintendo jumped following the 3DS announcement), "the corporate parent in Japan may not be acting in the best interest of Nintendo of America." Alright, so, while we're not convinced that those looking to buy a brand new handheld from Nintendo are necessarily the same crowd snatching up a DSi XL, it's also probably not in Nintendo of America's best interests to have console announcements thrust upon it suddenly by the Japanese parent corp. Either way, if it is true, good on you, Japanese press!

[Via Gamasutra]

#nintendo Members of the North American version of Club Nintendo can start blowing those coins they've been saving up on new goods, including two new video games exclusive to the program, a new Game & Watch Collection. More »

This month came in like a lion. An awesome lion with sweet games in its mouth.

This month came in like a lion. An awesome lion with sweet games in its mouth.

This month came in like a lion. An awesome lion with sweet games in its mouth.

This month came in like a lion. An awesome lion with sweet games in its mouth.

Aaron Greenberg, product manager for Xbox Live and Xbox 360, told Edge magazine (excerpted by CVG) to expect a wide variety of games in Project Natal's lineup. Well, actually, the way he puts it, you can't expect it: "I think people will be surprised even in the first year by the variety of experiences you'll get," he said, also noting that the company has "thought out the portfolio years in advance." We'll be able to evaluate the variety of that early lineup at Microsoft's E3 Natal event, according to previous statements made by the company.

Seemingly transforming into Bizarro Reggie, Greenberg went on to channel the Nintendo promoter's gift of gab as he espoused the wonders of the Natal platform. "The beauty of Natal is that it brings you, male or female, young or old, an experience that everyone can enjoy," he said. "Whether it's gaming experiences or lifestyle experiences, everything we're doing in the design is about thinking of a way anyone can step in front of it and be able to use it in a matter of seconds."

Some of the podcast crew were just laughing about this last night. Wario is so ugly that it’s funny. It’s not to the point of being ugly cute…just really, really ugly!

You can now check out this documentary on the following platforms: Amazon OnDemand, Apple’s iTunes, Hulu, Microsoft’s Xbox Live, Netflix, and Sony’s PlayStation Network.

Apparently, you train it by button mashing.

First Xbox 360 WWII submarine action title set to launch June 15.

This one goes up to 11, or Kratos gives up the ghost.

#videogameviolence There'll be no excuse left for not seeing Specer Halpin's documentary exploration of video game violence, Moral Kombat, as the film will soon be available on every web-enabled device imaginable. More »

#indie By the end of April, Xbox Live's Indie Games channel will see a very unusual first: The service's first sports title licensed by a professional league, and backed with the sponsorship of a major brand. More »

GameStop has leaked information about those official Xbox 360 USB hard drives we've heard about (first rumored and then officially), and they ain't cheap. According to the confusingly similar GameSpot (who saw the prices temporarily listed on GameStop's website), there will be both 8GB and 16GB drives available, the smaller for $39.99 and the larger for $69.99. According to Major Nelson, we'll see them in stores in May.

Of course, the system update will also allow you to use any USB drive (not just the official Xbox-branded ones), but before you get visions of 1TB of storage plugged into your Xbox, remember that there's a 16GB limit on each of two possible devices, so you can have only 32GB total. Fortunately, an unofficial 16GB flash drive is about half of Microsoft's price over on Newegg. You may have to tweak things a little bit, as the official drives are meant to be "plug and play," but it can't be that complicated. The GameStop listing is down for now, but we'll see these drives officially in just over a month or so anyway.

[via Engadget]

Aussie gamers are indeed going to get a chance to play Luminous Arc 2, as the title is slated for release in Australia in the coming months. The title is coming with a $29.95 budget price, and the bonus CD is still included. We’ll get you an official date as soon as word [...]

* Bass Mode - $2 / 160 Microsoft Points / 200 Wii Points Play the game as Bass. Bass can shoot in 7 directions. Some of his abilities differ from Mega Man’s. o Wii - 4/5/10 [...]

This podcast is all just a dream.

I just bought God of War III yesterday and goddamn is that game epic.

The very first boss battle pits you against Poseidon's giant water horse on top of Gaia, the titan, while climbing up Mount Olympus.

Every single thing about the game is huge and the graphics are better than Uncharted 2.

Speaking to Edge, Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg helped explain just why the Xbox will never, ever get its own web browser. According to Greenberg, browsing the web on a television makes for a "poor" experience. Instead, "The real magic," said Greenberg, "is to take those web experiences and optimize them for the living room." He listed the Xbox implementation of Netflix as an example -- the Xbox also has similar Twitter, Last.fm and Facebook apps -- and said that attempting to browse the web on a PS3 is "an absolute nightmare."

Said Greenberg, "No disrespect, there's things I love about the PS3, but that's not one of them." He added that Microsoft wants the Xbox online experience "to be fun and optimized for the living room," and that the company will continue to expand on its applications in order to "get more richness."

Of course, all of this skirts the main issue: Is an Xbox web browser worth dealing with Internet Explorer?

[Via CVG]

Two Wii-based educational projects have received grants in the small east Texas town of Lindale. The Lindale Independent School District Education Foundation has awarded $1,021.40 to Early Childhood Center teachers Cookie Hartley and June Wright, whose "Wii Can Do It!" project aims to use Wii games to teach as "therapy and instructional tools" to "accelerate learning" for preschoolers with disabilities, and Lindale Primary School's Cynthia Peters and Bobbie Williams for "Wii Fit, Wii Moving, and Wii Happy," a more general program about using the Wii to introduce students to technology and build teamwork skills.

The Fund consists of donations from local citizens and businesses. These two grants are part of a total of $13,802.36 awarded in the district, all handed to teachers with surprise novelty checks, Publishers Clearinghouse-style. The only downside is that Wii systems are going to be a bit harder to find in Lindale this week for everyone else.

[Via GamePolitics]