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Exclusive: Deca Sports Interview, New Screens
17 years ago

Exclusive: Deca Sports Interview, New Screens

1. How has the Wii’s emphasis on immersive gameplay influencedthe development of Deca Sports?

Quite frankly, I think it’s because of the Wii’s unique controls that we have a …
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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Preview
17 years ago

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Preview

By  •  Wii

Let it be known throughout the galaxy that we love our Star Wars games. So when Activision stopped by recently with a light …
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Computer & Video Games returns to the newsstand

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Future’s gaming legend blasts back with unofficial GTA expose!

03/04/08 – Future, the UK’s leading publisher of video games media, is delighted to announce the return of the Computer & Video Games (CVG) brand to newsstands after a four-year absence.

Reborn as a bi-monthly magazine dedicated to the biggest events in gaming, the first issue of CVG Presents goes on sale Wednesday, 16th April and marks an exciting new dawn for the UK’s longest-established games media brand.

The first issue of CVG Magazine went on sale in 1981 and was published monthly until December 2004, when it went online only as www.cvg.co.uk. The website is now an unmissable part of Future’s GamesRadar web network (www.gamesradar.com), which attracts more than 6.3m unique users a month. The spirit of CVG has always lived on through the website, breaking the biggest games news stories first, as well as offering its own irreverent insight on just about everything else in the industry.

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Check Out The Byron Report For Yourself

Yesterday we reported that the Byron report came out. To crudely  explain 224 pages, basically the UK should rethink the gaming ratting system. Check out yesterdays coverage HERE, and HERE …
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This Months EGM Info and Rumors

In this Issue – SOCOM cover story. – Feature on downloadable games. – Small feature on recycled game ideas. – Previews: 50 Cent II, Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood, GTA …
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Famitsu reviews

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IGN Nintendo Voice Podcast Summary

By  •  Wii, DS

Just a reminder “Nintendo Voice” is the new name for IGN podcast.

Rock Band

– Coming out in June, 63 songs (5 exclusive), offline multiplayer, in stereo
– Missing important features – downloadable content, online – yet, still costs the same
– Basically a port of PS2 version
– Rushing the game

WiiWare

– Launching in Japan tomorrow
– Videos, interface, etc. will be available

Final Okami version in office

– 16 X 9 mode is perfect
– Runs at 30 FPS, sometimes dips
– Good, not better than Twilight Princess
– Better looking on Wii than on PS2

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Mario Kart Wii  Review
17 years ago

Mario Kart Wii Review

This is the first (that I have found) of many Mario Kart Wii reviews. Over the next couple of months we will probably be overtaken by review …
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NEVES WINS CHILDREN’S EXCELLENCE AWARD AND ANNOUNCES PRICE DROP

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New Price Point to Drive Accessibility for Award-Winning Title

CHICAGO, IL – March 19, 2008 – YUKE’S Company of America, subsidiary of Japanese game publisher YUKE’S Company Limited, announced today that NEVES, published by Atlus for the Nintendo DS, has received the highly coveted “Editor’s Choice Award” from the editors at Children’s Technology Review, a leading professional source of unbiased reviews of interactive technology for children. Additionally, YUKE’S announced that the unique puzzle game will receive a reduction in price to $19.99, effective immediately. NEVES is currently available at select retailers nationwide, including Amazon.com and GameStop.com.

“Receiving this award signifies NEVES’ universal playability and educational convention for all ages,” said Shane Takahashi, CEO of YUKE’s Company of America. “NEVES’ new price point will help to reinforce that our intellectually stimulating title reaches a broader audience of casual and hardcore gamers alike.”

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EA Sports Lining Up Eight Wii Titles, New IP

“Coming fresh out of our sku plan reviews of last week, I can tell you we now have eight titles in development for the Wii, testament both to the global …
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BioWare: New RPG Will ‘Revitalize The Love Of The Sonic Friends’

Multiplayer: I think people pretty uniformly love the games you guys make. And I think people pretty uniformly are getting tired of Sonic having so many friends in all of his games. I think that puts you guys and your team in kind of a funny spot. Do you think …

Ray Muzyka, General Manager, BioWare: Which people?

Multiplayer: Which characters?

Muzyka: No, which types of people complain about them?

Multiplayer: It seems like the “Sonic” series, which was beloved when it came out on the Genesis…

Muzyka: [smiling] I still have my signed Genesis, signed by Yuji Naka-san plugged into my TV and it still works and I still play it. It’s fantastic.

Multiplayer: As the series has gone on, people loved it, loved it, loved it, and, when it went to 3D, there was some grumbling. The games have been somewhat maligned by the critics since then. And one of the things you hear is “Oh, every time they make a new ‘Sonic’ game, they’re adding this character or that character. Now there’s Shadow and he’s got a gun… And then [Sonic]’s in love with human women who are bringing him back to life”…

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Hudson talks with NeoGaf

By  •  Wii, DS

Over at NeoGaf they held an open question and answer with Hudson. Here is some of the Nintendo questions that came out of it.

Bomberman WiiWare – Yes. It’s coming. Details are still being finalized. It will be different than Bomberman Live. But it’s still the classic Bomberman, if you catch my drift. It’s probably one of the few classic games we are bring out on Wii Ware, but digital download is really where Bomberman shines.

New Bonk – I tell you what, if you really want to dig into some good dirt on Bonk, then you’ll have to listen in on some recent podcasts I did. I go into detail on Bonk about some interesting things happening behind the scenes. It’s really quite fascinating. With that, I’ll let you treasure hunt!

Super Star Soldier R – Super Star Soldier R for Wii Ware is a unique game. It’s a lot like Pacman Championship edition, in that it’s a time based attack mode, where you prove you can get the highest score. The whole concept originated many years ago on the Hudson Caravan. A traveling showcase Hudson did around Japan where hundreds of thousands of people would come out, meet celebrities, play games, and compete (Bomberman, Star Soldier, etc). One of the original Star Soldier games featured a 5 minute mode, specially designed for competition. And we’d used that to prove who was the best out there. That mode is designed to be very complex, and there are many ways to rake up combo points, so trying to master it requires some testing out of different attack patterns. Anyways, it was hugely popular in Japan, so this updated Wii Ware version was originally planned just for that market. We’re evaluating bring out for the US, since most people have never heard of Star Soldier, or the 5 minute mode or the Hudson Caravan. Or 16-shot. But that’s for another thread.

Bomberman Story DS – No, there’s currently no plans to bring Bomberman Story to the US. When we took a look at Bomberman Land and Bomberman Story, it became clear the Bomberman Land franchise was much more fun, and fit better with US tastes, so we brought that one over. There’s just so much more content in that series, not to mention having the full classic battle mode built in to boot.

Dracula X – As for the classic never-before-released-in-the-US version on the Turbo Duo, no final plans on that yet. But we hear you loud and clear. Neogaf <3 Castlevania X. And so do I.

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April Nintendo Power Summary

By  •  Wii, DS

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Fatal Frame: The Mask of the Lunar Eclipse (Wii, Tecmo/Nintendo)
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness (DS, Nintendo)
New International Track & Field (DS, Konami)
Death Jr.: Root of Evil (Wii, Eidos)
Bleach: Dark Souls (DS, Sega)
Bangai-O (DS, Treasure)
SNK Arcade Classics Vol. 1 (Wii, SNK)
Facebreaker (Wii, EA)
FFCC: My Life As a King (WiiWare, Square Enix)
LostWinds (WiiWare, Frontier)
WiiFit (Wii, Nintendo)

Wii Channels (WiiWare/VC coverage)
Major League Eating (WiiWare)
1080 Snowboarding
Adventures of Lolo 2
Columns III: Revenge of Columns
Lords of Thunder
Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers
Harvest Moon
Operation Wolf

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GamesRadar: Super Smash Bros. Brawl Review

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I don’t know why I do not post many game reviews? Well Brawl is probably a good time to start.

Before we award Brawl the high score it deserves, we …
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X-Play: Wii Fit

Mmm! Morgan Web

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