2008 is coming to a close, and 2009 is right around the corner. 2008 has brought us some fantastic games: No More Heroes, Brawl, Mario Kart, just to name a few. 2009 seems to be gearing up to be just as good….or maybe better: The Conduit, Mad World, just to name a few. I hope everyone is having a good and safe new years.

Site Note: Sorry for the slow posting  today, Justin and I have been very busy. I traveled back home today, and I am safe and sound getting ready to head out for the New Years celebrations. Justin has been hard at work on making pureninendo better. One of the things is already up and live. Check out the menu bar at the top of the site, six tabs over, and you will see a little surprise. This is just one of many things we have planned for 2009. Trust me, this stuff is going to melt some faces off. Also sometime this week keep an eye out for our predictions for 2009, and see how will we did with our 2008 predictions. I think I won!

Happy New Year from the Purenintendo Staff!

Videos

Fred Willard Holiday Cooking Special
2008 Most Viewed Video Ranking: Top 30 – 21
2008 Most Viewed Video Ranking: Top 20 – 19
2008 Most Viewed Video Ranking: Top 10
Wii Speak Channel Info Video
My Fitness Coach Info Video
Blue Dragon Plus Video 2
Developer’s Voice: Ninjatown
Clone Wars DS Saga TV Spot
Age of Empires: Mythologies Video 4
Elebits: The Adventures of Kai and Zero Video
Soul Bubbles Bird Mask Video
Wario Land: Shake It! Tips 3
FIFA Soccer 09 All-Play Video 3
Maboshi’s Arcade Info Video
Pool Revolution Info Video
Digest Video

Demos

Personal Trainer: Cooking Mac & Cheese Demo (Expires 1/04)
Mystery P.I. – Portrait of a Theif (Expires 1/11)
Elebits: The Adventures of Kai and Zero (Expires 1/11)
Spectrobes: Beyond the Portals (Expires 1/4)
Dragonball: Origins Demo (Expires 1/4)
Ninjatown Demo (Expires 1/4)

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1 (1) – World of Goo
2 (2) – Tetris Party
3 (3) – My Aquarium
4 (5) – Dr Mario Online Rx
5 (4) – Target Toss Pro: Bags
6 (N) – Fun! Fun! Minigolf
7 (N) – Tiki Towers
8 (7) – Defend your Castle
9 (14) – My Pokémon Ranch
10 (9) – Mega Man 9
11 (6) – Brain Challenge
12 (10) – Midnight Bowling
13 (12) – Bomberman Blast
14 (15) – Wild West Guns
15 (13) – TV Show King
16 (19) – Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King
17 (17) – Frat Party Games – Pong Toss
18 (8) – Space Invaders Get Even
19 (16) – Sudoku Challenge
20 (11) – Strong Bad Episode 5 – 8-Bit Is Enough

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Poor Bob, trapped in his dungeon for 100 days or until Nintendo notices him, and now it seems like someone is trying to shut him down.

About a week ago I was contacted by a representative of a hacker-for-hire organization. They said that someone was attempting to hire them to take my site down, but they refused the job because they support me. My site is now being DDoS’d from a known commercial botnet and my servers are being scanned by another known hacker-for-hire group.

For some reason I have to blame Soney on this one. Maybe they are made that he didn’t make this great game for the PSP. Ha Ha there is my last fan boy punch for the year of 2008.

Bob’s Site HERE

“I’m super psyched we got Slayer in there. Slayer’s got to be part of any heavy metal video game. There had been some issues with their lyrics. That gets into a whole slew of stuff like, ‘Microsoft won’t do it if this lyrical content is in there.’ There’s all this bulls@$% you have to deal with, but we stood up for Slayer, and we finally got Slayer cleared like a week ago.” – Lars Ulrich, Metallica

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We found out something interesting yesterday about this weird Commander Viral capaign, and you can check it out HERE. Now today another interesting pic has apeared on the website. What can this game be?

Have you ever thought about what would go into making the “Perfect Game?” Will the LA Times has and they have put together a list of details they think would make the “Perfect” game. Do you like their list? What would you add, or take away from the list?

- The portability of God of War: Chains of Olympus
- The control setup of Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Mario Super Sluggers
- The chess-like qualities of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2
- The puzzles of Professor Layton and the Curious Village
- The simplicity of Boom Blox
- The stunning cut-screens of Devil May Cry 4
- The fun of Lego Indiana Jones
- The white-knuckle racing excitement of GRID and Burnout Paradise
- The re-playability of Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution
- The chills and thrills of Dead Space
- The overall wonder of Fallout 3
- The cuteness and creativity of Little Big Planet
- The complete package of Resistance 2
- The button-mashing action of Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
- The originality of Air Traffic Chaos
- The intense war games of Call of Duty: World at War
- The originality of Mirror’s Edge
- The bar-raising open worlds of Grand Theft Auto IV

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I think what’s happening, not just here in the United States but in other countries as well, is that there’s some percentage of gamers — and no one quite knows what the percentage is, different surveys have put it at different percentages — but for some percentage of gamers, it seems to become an obsession. Other things in their life get neglected, sometimes even their health gets neglected, their grades start to suffer, relationships start to suffer, and so it starts to bear all the behavioral hallmarks of an addition. And so I think that’s why the term has emerged. Of course, the term itself is controversial, because there are some, particularly in academia, who say that addiction signifies something that has to do with a chemical change. A dependency to a chemical. But we do have other behaviors that are recognized as addictions, the most common example to bear would be gambling addiction. – Dr. David Walsh of the National Institute on Media and the Family

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