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SAMURAI WARRIORS 3 SET TO GO INTO BATTLE EXCLUSIVELY ON Wii

By Justin Sharp • March 16, 2010

Nintendo and Tecmo Koei Team Up to Create a New Breed of Warrior

REDMOND, Wash.– Nintendo today announced a unique partnership with Tecmo Koei to publish Samurai Warriors™ 3, the newest title in the Samurai Warriors franchise, exclusively for the Wii™ console.

Launching in North America in fall 2010, Samurai Warriors 3 is an evolution of the Warriors series, featuring an innovative new game mode and a completely fresh storyline.

In addition to a host of new characters and combat and game-play elements, the game also will test players with new tactical and strategic challenges on the battlefield.

Samurai Warriors 3 offers two-player online and offline co-op with enhanced sharing features. The game also uses a special new game mode that offers players unique control of characters never seen before. This game mode is based on the Famicom game Nazo no Murasamejo (The Mysterious Murasame Castle™) inspired by Nintendo video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto.

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Game Developers Conference 2010 Presented on X-Play

By James Higginbotham • March 15, 2010

-Adam Sessler interviews President and CEO of Sony, Jack Tretton to get the latest on the new Sony Motion. -All Access interviews with Super Street Fighter IV’s Producer, Yoshinori Ono. …
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Tantalus Announces Drift Street International for Nintendo DSi, Due Out March 22nd

By James Higginbotham • March 15, 2010

Melbourne-based game developer Tantalus today announced the imminent release of its first ever game for the Nintendo DSi™. Built from the ground up and exclusively for that platform, Drift Street International is the ultimate high-speed, white-knuckle street racing experience. Gamers will slide and boost their tightly tuned performance car around challenging city streets across the US, UK and Japan, in high-intensity midnight races. Drift Street International will be available for download in North America on March 22, with Europe and Australasia to follow.

Tantalus is one of the world’s foremost handheld racing developers, with a string of hits including multiple titles in the Cars and MX vs ATV series, and the now legendary Top Gear
Rally on Game Boy Advance. Despite this impressive pedigree, CEO Tom Crago says Drift Street International represents the company’s greatest achievement yet. “To have Top Gear
published by Nintendo and win a number of Game of the Year awards was a huge rush, but we all feel as though we’ve made something even more special with Drift Street International,” said Crago. “Visually, it stands apart from anything else out there, and in terms of car handling and gameplay it’s in a league of its own.”

Coming This Week (NA)

By James Higginbotham • March 15, 2010

Nintendo Wii: – Build-A-Bear Workshop: Friendship Valley – Family Gameshow – Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon – Hall of Fame: Ultimate Hoops Challenge – Horrible …
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‘Shepherd’s Crossing 2 for Nintendo DSTM’ Reaches Gold Status

By James Higginbotham • March 14, 2010

Graffiti Entertainment, Inc. — a subsidiary of Signature Devices, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: SDVI) — today announced that “Shepherd’s Crossing 2 for the Nintendo DS™,” the full featured and in-depth farming simulation and strategy game, has reached Gold status and will be shipping to North America on March 30, 2010. The cartridges have been ordered from Nintendo of Japan and are in the process of manufacturing. They then will be shipped from Japan to our North American and Canadian warehouses for packaging and then shipped to distributors and retailers.

Shepherd’s Crossing 2 DS is a full featured and in-depth farming simulation and strategy game. At its heart, the game is about the player living in a small town and communicating with the other villagers while raising livestock, harvesting crops, and building a farm.

Happy Weekend!

By James Higginbotham • March 13, 2010

I love the Weekends, A time I can just sit back relax and play some games. I hope everyone out there is having a mighty fine weekend. …
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Green Day, MTV Games, Harmonix and Reprise / Warner Bros. Records Unleash Green Day: Rock Band™ on the World June 8, 2010

By James Higginbotham • March 11, 2010

Editors Note: WOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

New York – March 11, 2010 – Multi-platinum selling and Grammy® Award winning group Green Day, along with Harmonix, the leading developer of music-based games, MTV Games, a part of Viacom’s MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), and Reprise / Warner Bros. Records today announced that Green Day: Rock Band™, the full standalone music video game experience that celebrates Green Day’s historic career and genre-defining albums will launch worldwide June 8, 2010, for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and the Wii™ system from Nintendo.

Green Day: Rock Band allows players to step onto the stage and into the shoes of Green Day, the multi-platinum, Grammy® Award-winning band that jump-started the punk-pop revival and has continued to pave the way for American rock music into the 21st century. Taking on the likenesses of Green Day members Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool, players progress through the story and history of Green Day, gaining access into the band’s media vault, where they can unlock more than 100 collectible images, and more than 40 minutes of rare and unreleased video from interviews, outtakes and performances.

GDC 2010: Madden Team Usage Per State

By James Higginbotham • March 10, 2010

Last night EA Sports showed off a few details of their upcoming games in their EA Sports Opener. Check out more screens and info at the link below–Like how …
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SAM & MAX: BEYOND TIME AND SPACE WII™ AND PC COMES TO RETAIL

By James Higginbotham • March 10, 2010

NEW YORK– March 10, 2010 – Atari, Inc., one of the world’s most recognized videogame publishers announced today that Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space has shipped to retailers in North America through its partnership with Telltale Games. Fans can play this videogame sitcom as their favorite canine and rabbit detective duo on Wii™ and PC. The critically acclaimed franchise’s second season features five full episodes of the unhinged humor, vexing mysteries, and exotic environments audiences have come to expect from the series.

In Sam & Max: Beyond Time & Space the canine gumshoe and hyperkinetic “rabbity thing” explore the surreal and supernatural, venturing out of the confines of their New York City office to intriguing locales like Santa’s North Pole workshop and a bumping zombie dance party as they attempt to solve an epic mystery over the course of several bizarre misadventures. Along the way, the Freelance Police will get a little help from some familiar faces from the series’ first season, including Bosco, Flint Paper, and Stinky!

The game’s very accessible approach is ideal for living room play on the Wii with friends and family. Episodes are the perfect length for the discerning casual player who desires a satisfying gaming experience within a reasonable amount of time. Additionally, the game boasts an innovative, integrated hint system that detects when a player is stuck and provides adjustable levels of assistance, unobtrusively integrated within the game experience.