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Excitebots details and boxart

“Get your friends together and grab your Wii Wheel (TM) accessories for action-packed raucous racing. ExciteBots: Trick Racing takes the big-air thrills and simple …
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G4 presents new investigative series ‘G4 Underground’ premiering Sunday, March 29th

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LOS ANGELES, March 2, 2009 – “G4 Underground,” G4’s new documentary series, goes inside compelling and controversial issues and reveals the raw reality behind some of today’s most talked about pop culture trends. Subjects include real life superheroes, urban spelunkering, ninja schools and “brain ‘roids.” Hosted by Morgan Webb (“X-Play”), “G4 Underground” will premiere Sunday, March 29 at 9:00PM PT/ET

“’G4 Underground’ brings in-depth news reporting to the ‘digital generation,’” said Neal Tiles, President, G4. “The series digs deep into subjects that are often overlooked or misrepresented in the mainstream media but are important to the tech-savvy, gaming-obsessed G4 viewer.”

Each episode of “G4 Underground” covers two diverse topics and offers an engaging “slice of life” glimpse into these worlds. The stories are presented in the first person through extensive interviews and encourage the audience to come to their own conclusions based on the realities.

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8th Annual NAViGaTR Awards Winners

Creative/Technical Categories
Animation in a Game Cinema – Dead Space – WINNER

Animation in a Game Cinema – Devil May Cry 4

Animation in a Game Cinema – Gears of War 2

Animation in a Game Cinema – Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

Animation in a Game Cinema – Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

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Mark Hoppus Of Blink 182 A Nintendo Fan

Excerpts taken from Mark’s twitter.

Nintendo dsi. I want one. I wish we lived in Japan. When +44 toured there I lost my wallet on the bullet …
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Rumor: Resident Evil 2 Wii-make Coming?

During a Q&A segment at the Resident Evil 5 Wondercon panel, Capcom was asked by an enthusiastic fan about a possible Resident Evil 2 remake.
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Mad World Developers: “Create gameplay situations and cause user reactions that we think are over-the-top, but don’t ever aim to get laughs!”

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Our team developed MADWORLD here in Japan, and almost all of the staff were Japanese. I was constantly worried with the question of how my Japanese team …
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UK software sales (Week ending 2/18)

– 1 KILLZONE 2 GUERRILLA GAMES SONY COMPUTER ENT. SONY COMPUTER ENT. – 2 HALO WARS ENSEMBLE STUDIOS MICROSOFT MICROSOFT 1 3 STREET FIGHTER IV CAPCOM CAPCOM CAPCOM 2 4 …
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Wii software playtime stats for March

Animal Crossing: City Folk (Released November 2008) Current Rank: #5 Last Month’s Rank: #8

Average time played per player: As of 3/1: 34 hours, 47 minutes (up 417 minutes) As …
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Rock Band gives Wii owners 14 new downloadable tracks including music from Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimmy Eat World and No Doubt

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Cambridge, Mass. – March 2, 2009 – Harmonix and MTV Games announced today the addition of fourteen tracks to the Rock Band® Music Store catalog of downloadable content for Wii™ home videogame console from Nintendo, including tracks from electric blues artists Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble as well as alternative bands Jimmy Eat World and No Doubt.

All ten tracks from Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble’s debut album Texas Flood (1983) will be made available in the Wii Rock Band Music Store. Tracks include the popular studio cuts of “Pride and Joy,” “Texas Flood” and “Rude Mood,”as well as “Love Struck Baby,” “Tell Me,” “Testify,” “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” “Dirty Pool,” “I’m Cryin” and “Lenny.”

In addition, the lineup will also include “New” from the alternative rock pioneers of No Doubt. The track is featured on the band’s album Return of Saturn (2000). As previously announced, the aforementioned tracks from No Doubt and Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble will also be available to Rock Band owners of Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system this week.

Wii owners can also look forward to three tracks from alternative band Jimmy Eat World including “Lucky Denver Mint” from the band’s 1999 album Clarity, “Futures” (Futures, 2004) and “Sweetness” from the band’s 2001 album Bleed American. The tracks come from the Rock Band Music Store catalog of downloadable content just released last week to owners of Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION 3 system.

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Coming This Week! (Europe and Japan)

Europe:

Nintendo Wii: – AC/DC LIVE: Rock Band Track Pack – Bigfoot: Collision Course – New Play Control! Mario Power Tennis – Professor Heinz Wolff’s Gravity

Nintendo DS:

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