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#nintendo Nintendo started out as a card maker, making hanafuda playing cards. Nintendo still makes playing cards. Video games, too. More »

These Nintendo playing cards will be hitting Japanese retailers later this Summer. As you can see, there are three different styles of cards to choose from. You can go old-school, hand drawn and CG. I think I’d go with the first sets, and leave the newest artwork out. It’s not that [...]

A claw machine filled to the brim with old-school Famicom games. The best part is, the machine only costs about $1.10 for a play! Where’s the North American equivalent of this one?!

- due out on July 15th in Japan - wifi support for 2 players - Marth is no longer the lead character - you control a recruit in the Knights of Altea - you are the main character - create a character with ‘My Unit’ - customize gender, eye, hair, and face styles - these choices affect conversations with fellow knights - new [...]

Reader The Mock Turtle logged into his Club Nintendo account to do some tidying up, and he noticed something odd for the listing of his Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom listing. Looks like someone behind-the-scenes wasn’t around back in the NES days of gaming! To be fair though, it’s not like either title makes [...]

#clips Cormac Kelly has released this charming short film about everyday people and their World of Warcraft avatars, interviewing a few players while their characters stroll around in the real world. More »

This game is coming out in July, and we hardly know anything about it! I guess we’ll be finding out more rather soon. At least, I’d hope that’s the case!

#ipad This year, eleven Foxconn employees have fallen to their deaths at the company's Shenzhen factory. Sony and Nintendo are investigating the issue. What does Apple's Steve Jobs think? More »

#nintendo Later this month, on June 19, Nintendo will be letting loose on the world (well, Japan) three new colours of the DSi XL: Yellow, Blue and Green. More »

#review Honestly, if you are going to master something, you might as well as well master the bow and arrow. Worked for Robin Hood! More »

Coming to Australia at the start of July.

#rumor According to "a very reliable source", gadget site Gear Live is reporting that Microsoft is set to unveil a nice little surprise during its E3 press conference: the addition of TV streaming service Hulu to Xbox Live. More »

#hd Despite flogging the PS3 as a high definition system, Sony has long been content to ship the device with composite cables. As in, one the worst quality standard definition cables you can get. More »

#teamico Two of the best PlayStation 2 games, Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, are also two of the best candidates for a God of War Collection-style upgrade for the PlayStation 3. How might those high-definition ports look? More »

#lists Homer Simpson is the greatest of the Greatest Characters of the Last 20 Years, according to people have the guts to make such a list. Greater than Harry Potter, but how much greater than Halo's quiet Spartan, Master Chief? More »

#health Though I mostly game in my office chair, little of that is upright against the seatback, with my feet on the floor. A study of kids' gaming postures finds they go to full-on slouch in as little as five minutes. More »

Given the crazy sales and, no doubt, small budget of Ubisoft's Just Dance, it seems obvious that the company would follow up with another Wii dancing game. However, the next game in Ubisoft's dance series isn't a simple Just Dance sequel (though we're sure that'll happen too) -- rather than licensing a few pop hits and a few really embarrassing dance songs from the early '90s, the next game is about ... showtunes.

Dance on Broadway features a selection of 20 songs from Broadway musicals, including "All That Jazz,""Fame" and "Time Warp" (it's just a jump to the left!) The full track list is available after the break.

Ubisoft has announced a June 24 release date for EMEA territories, but none yet for North America. The ESRB rating on the box art would suggest that a North American debut isn't far off.

Canoe.ca, the web home of Canadian newspaper publisher QMI Agency, has revealed a new Wii hockey game on the way from EA, called NHL Slapshot. This new game has two distinguishing features: first, it is controlled with a scaled-down hockey stick peripheral, into which the Wiimote and Nunchuk are placed; second, it features the likeness of Wayne Gretzky, the retired NHL star so famous that even non-Canadians have heard of him.

"The stick peripheral will detect slap shots, wrist shots, body checks (done with a cross-check motion) and poke checks," the article explains, "with the Wiimote's trigger used as a modifier to perform passes, dekes and other moves." Though the game will ship with the hockey stick, it can also be played with a bare Wiimote and Nunchuk or Wiimote alone.

NHL Slapshot will be officially announced by EA on Monday, according to Canoe. However, the blog already spilled pretty much all the details, including the September 7 release date.

I can’t post all the Nintendo Power scans here, but I can at least show off one image. As we said, there are tons of in-game images of Sonic Colors in Nintendo Power. You’ll have to pick up the mag to see for yourself! Thanks to Hero of Legend for the heads [...]

#northamerica The extended Memorial Day weekend bleeds into this week's North American PlayStation Store update, with a list of new additions that's more relaxed than what PlayStation 3 and PSP owners may have come to expect. More »

#rules Few sports implement rule changes as frequently as the NFL, but they're often subtle. This year the league made a major change to its playoff overtime procedure and, as expected, Madden NFL 11 will reflect that. More »

Do you have any idea how tiring it is to be this evil all the time? It's like, we can only keep up this vault-plundering, mustache-twirling, damselnapping, puppy-kicking veneer before it gets a little long in the tooth, you know? We've long been thinking about seeing how the other half lives -- an opportunity that will soon be afforded to us by City of Heroes upcoming, massive content expansion, Going Rogue.

Check out the developer's diary posted above to see the implications of the game's new alignment-switching feature, and to catch a glimpse at the new environments of Praetoria. We think it looks like a fairly renovated version of Paragon City, only with much more moral ambiguity.

Cold Call gives Dark Metal as a reward item, which you can only get from that quest. It allows you to build the new Long Sword Tenebra. You’ll need 5 Dark Metal to make it, and then 6 more to complete the upgraded version. Throughout the quest you’ll have to fight a Great Baggi, [...]