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These Kids Are Having Too Much Fun Playing Klonoa
Namco Bandai‘s TV spot for the upcoming Wii remake of Klonoa features two children getting much more out of the game than you and I ever could. Now don’t get me wrong…I love me some Klonoa. It’s right up there with Pandemonium on my list of 2.5D rail platformers. I just don’t remember any moments…
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Weekly Nintendo Download: The DSi Invasion
It’s a brand new week and everything has change, as DSiWare joins the weekly Nintendo update, with 6 tiny titles joining Equilibrio on WiiWare and Uncharted Waters: New Horizons on the Virtual Console. While the ball puzzler Equilibrio from DK-Games (500 points) sounds inviting, and the swashbuckling exploration of Uncharted Waters: New Horizons for the…
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Your DSiWare Block Sizes
For those who are holding in their hands Nintendo’s newest handheld, you might be wondering just how much DSiWare you can stick on it. Nintendo Everything has an early list of DSiWare file sizes. Remember that on the DSi, the 256MB of memory translates to 1024 blocks. And of that, 96 are taken up by…
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Power Glove Adds Functionality; Still Not Necessarily Useful
In this, the 20th anniversary year of the Nintendo Power Glove, modder Matt Mechtley tricks it out with an accelerometer and bluetooth. But he still has to code some games to take advantage of it. Power Glove 20th Anniversary Edition — Build Video from Matt Mechtley on Vimeo. Writes Matt: It’s been 20 years now…
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Hearsay: Wii Fit Plus Dated in Europe?
If Nintendo’s exergaming success hacks you off, might want to stop here. A screen shot from a game shop out in Amsterdam says “Wii Fit Plus” is on the way mid-November. Perhaps more importantly, the Wii Motion Plus controller, and a Wii Sports 2 Resort, bundled with the controller, have drop dates of July 10.…
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Sony Gets Chippy on Eve of DSi Release
As the weekend shopkeeper I’m not on most PR primary distribution lists. So the “Statement from Sony PlayStation on PSP and Competitive Landscape,” isn’t in my hands as I type this. But it’s out there. Oh, is it out there. Here’s the text of the release, republished on both Engadget and Wired, and attributed to…
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Reggie Fils-Aime Comments on “Bob’s Game”
Despite a stonewall of no-comments from Nintendo, and increasingly bizarre behavior by amateur developer Robert Pelloni, MTV Multiplayer’s Stephen Totilo stuck with the story of “Bob’s Game,” Pelloni’s DS title that Nintendo declined to support. Thursday, Totilo finally got an official response on the matter from Reggie Fils-Aime, president of Nintendo of America. For those…
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Iwata Plays … WarioWare: Snapped
Playing WarioWare: Snapped makes you look like a total fool, which is why it puts together a slideshow of your silly pantomimes at the end of the game. Yes, that means you, Mr. Nintendo President. Check out Satoru Iwata playing singleplayer pattycake the DSiware title. The nosepicking microgame isn’t showed, but he does have to…
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Star Fox Creator Won’t Do a Barrel Roll on Wii
Q-Games prez Dylan Cuthbert also is the creator of three Star Fox games for Nintendo, but he’s not interested in doing one for the Wii. He also says Star Fox fans like furries. Cuthbert sounds like he wants no part of a new Star Fox title for the Wii. “It’d be a big project, like…
By Owen Good