Facebreaker 
- “Party version of Facebreaker,” but title is misleading (not really minigames) 
- Graphics look great - art style is impressive, moves nicely 
- Gameplay has a lot of promise also, but Matt wasn’t able to play it long 
- Shot from the sideview, still a 3D boxing game 
- Very fast, arcadey 

Skate It 
- Still not a lot of gameplay available in the version Matt + Daemon played 
- Will be a learning curve, but it’ll be a “cool” way to play a skateboarding game - Daemon 
- Programmed intuitively 
- Grinding all about timing 
- Visually not too impressive 
- Framerate needs to be up and running - lag won’t be good for the game 

DS Version of Skate It 
- Developed by Exient 
- Looks very, very good for the DS 
- Draw all tricks on the touch screen, drawings are similar, so you might do a trick by mistake 
- Looks promising 

Order Up! 
- Latest version more polished, somewhat enjoyable 
- Kind of like Cooking Mama/Diner Dash, more control of what you’re doing 
- Won’t blow anyone away, but Matt would rather play it than Cooking Mama 

Cocoto Kart Racing 
- Looks decent, rip-off of Mario Kart 
- Unnecessary game because of Mario Kart 
- One control option works well though if you use it, there isn’t much of a challenge

SPOGS Racing 
- Worst WiiWare game, ugliest game on the Wii 
- No license, but sort of basing it on Pogs game 
- Makes Virtua Racing from 1991 look great 
- Just a tire, not even a car or anything 
- Computer AI is awful (rubber-banding) 

- Two new Harvest Moon games announced (DS and Wii) 
- New stuff on Little King’s Story 

Moon 
- Single-player shooter 
- Good, but not as “wowed” because of Dementium 
- Saw it very early on, but so far not too much exploration 
- Puzzles related around a little droid 
- Not a lot to shoot when enemies showed up - won’t ever be overwhelmed 
- Will be very difficult to play on DS Fat because of the darkness 
- Matt interested in seeing more 

Guitar Hero On Tour 
- Received mixed reviews 
- Selling very well - 300K in first week 
- Amazing for third-party DS game AND with its price 
- Best selling DS game of all time for Activision 
- Craig was teasing about feature in the game that hasn’t been unlocked yet, will know about it in around a week (Craig already knows, we should know during E3) 

Away Shuffle Dungeon 
- Announced for US 
- Did Blue Dragon on 360 
- Surprised Majesco is publishing it 

Reader Questions 
- Mario Tennis will come to the Wii eventually, according to Bozon 
- Ultimate Band will be decent (or High School Musical) for younger audiences interested in music games like Guitar Hero 
- Excite Truck not the only game to offer custom soundtrack (Endless Ocean, too but you couldn’t really create a soundtrack) 
- Funny emails about people asking to pimp their rides, someone who thinks the IGN Nintendo Team partially developed Mario Kart Wii 
- Look forward to (hopefully) Animal Crossing, Pikmin, Monster Hunter, Fatal Frame, any surprises at E3 - Mega Man 9 supposed to be at E3 
- E3 fantasy surprise: Bozon - Miyamoto coming out botomless, Matt - Retro’s serious next big game 
- Matt doesn’t think we’ll see more Metroid at E3 unless it’s a remake of Wii controls for MP1 + MP2 
- The IGN Nintendo team says they’re not ready for E3 - It’s pre-E3 for them right now 
- Matt & Bozon are psyched for Fatal Frame, but one of Matt’s friends said it had a weird framerate - should be fairly hyped 
- Matt will sell his Wii Fit to Craig 
- Matt will have a little fun at the E3 media briefing (it’s the highlight for everyone basically) 
- Wario Land for Wii footage (thoughts) - looks alright, it’s a 2D platformer 
- Kid Icarus or Man Icarus? Man Icarus (Icarus is supposed to be older anyway) 
- IGN Nintendo team hyped for The Dark Knight 
- Know 5-6 at least games for Wii for sure, expect more games though (gimmicky stuff and traditional stuff) 
- Pikmin 3 Party Babyz joke 
- Space Station Tycoon still canceled 
- New peripheral at E3? Bozon thinks they’re bound to, need voice chat and storage solution (not sure if these two will be peripherals) 
- Overall E3 rating hype: Watch out for crazy factor, Nintendo should have some good stuff this year 
- Other franchises that will get the Mega Man 9 deal: Bozon hopes for Castlevania, not too many franchises that would work 
- IGN stream keynotes up to Fran 
- Matt thought Elebits 2 DS would be for the Wii, but Konami still thinking about a Wii version 
- There’ll be a lot of RE5 gameplay 
- Daemon doesn’t like Civilization Revolution for DS, nothing like Advance Wars 
- We’ll never stop getting VC crap 
- More third-party games other than The Conduit need to sell well for them to step up on Wii 
- There will be third-party E3 surprises, but nothing too big 
- Joke about NGamer’s blurb on the unexpected take on a next gen-favorite (Bionic Commando card game for Wii joke) 
- Not too high chances for Crystal Bearers at E3 
- Chrono Trigger port/remake looks just like a SNES game on the DS, won’t be coming to the VC 
- Nothing too much that has blown Matt away graphically that will be at E3 (don’t know anything first-party though) 
- Rygar was delayed again for the Wii, is still supposed to come out 
- If Kid Icarus shows up, that’s a big piece of fan service. Same with Animal Crossing and maybe Pikmin 3 
- Star Wars Force Unleashed: 360 version excites the IGN Nintendo Team the most
- Star Fox Wii at E3: Matt hopes not, Craig wants to see the series continue 
- Soul Bubbles review up, Craig enjoyed it - can only get it at Toys R Us 
- Chances of OLED for next handheld: Not high 
- New handheld this generation? Bozon’s theory: Will be linked with Wii, a bit of internal memory, GB, GBC, backwards compatible with DS, touch and rumble - announcement maybe this year, could come out in 2009