Archive for March, 2009

Dragon Quest IX Has Wi-Fi Shopping

Tweet The newest bit of info to be listed over at Famitsu says that with the Wi-fi connection you can go shopping for items online. This is an interesting idea and allows for a lot of modification on the server side.  The game may not be coming out for another five months almost but the [...]

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SwitchGames: One man’s trash is another man’s treasure

Tweet What’s the value of a used game? From now on, it’s whatever someone is willing to trade you for it. SwitchGames is a new website with the power to change the way we handle our used game transactions — like we need an excuse to not get ripped off by GameStop! Yesterday I got [...]

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Nintendo Sells 100 Million DSes & DS Lites

Tweet Nintendo announced today that they broke the 100,000,000 barrier with DSes and DS Lites, selling 100 million of the little machines across the world. As a comparison, that’s the number of PS2s that have been sold throughout the PS2′s lifetime, and the PSP just hit the 50 million mark last month. Nintendo was also [...]

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HD Tetris does the impossible

Tweet It sucks the fun out of Tetris. Called “Tetoris“, this version of the classic puzzle renders it mind-numbing and completely dull. In a game where it takes 30 seconds for one block to get to the bottom, good luck completing only one row. It’s faster to build a tower up and fail than it [...]

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British TV man accidentally reveals Fable 3

Tweet British TV presenter and celebrity-man Jonathan Ross has revealed in his Twitter that he “Got asked to do voice in Fable 3 tonight.” Needless to say, in a later update he mentions that he has to “apologize to Peter Molyneux”. Whoops. In any case, it looks like we’ll be seeing a Fable 3 in [...]

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BAFTA winners announced, Mario Galaxy wins Best Game

Tweet EDGE has published the results of the recent British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards today, the winner of “Best Game” being Super Mario Galaxy. A scheduling change meant that some games from 2007 were entered this year, so Mario Galaxy and Call of Duty 4, two of the gems of 2007, swept [...]

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The Behemoth Releases Teaser Artwork For Their Next Game

Tweet Yesterday, The Behemoth developer studios released the first image from their next game, tentatively titled Block-Headed Man Wearing Professor Layton’s Hat Cries At Green Gem While Robot Army Lurks Behind Him*. The name fits very well, as the image you see above from the game depicts a block-headed man wearing Professor Layton‘s Hat while [...]

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April Issue of Game Informer Gives Us First Look at Bioshock 2′s Big Sister

Tweet Although we’ve known about the existence of “Big Sisters” in Bioshock 2 for a little less than a week, (thanks to Bioshock 2′s teaser site) seeing the Big Sister now is still a sight to behold, thanks to the April issue of Game Informer. Who says print is dead? The April issue of GI, [...]

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Ripten Radio Presents: Ripcast Episode 12

Tweet Alright, look — the Ripcast is way too long. It’s so long, in fact, that I bet no one will listen to the whole thing (not that you’d want to). You can take that as a dare if you want, or you can even consider it a threat to your manliness. The fact is [...]

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RipTen Review: Street Fighter IV (PC)

Tweet Street Fighter IV — it’s finally here. Find out just how much ass it kicks as your good friends Rangebar Merani and Sam Naylor assault your eyeballs with a one-two review combo beatdown!

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Game betas: they aren’t supposed to be fun

Tweet Stardock President Brad Wardell has put up a post on his blog regarding the Demigod beta, during which he delivers an interesting piece on the state of PC betas at the moment. They’re “not supposed to be fun,” he says, “they’re supposed to be solving specific problems.”

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Wii-kly Virtual Console and WiiWare Update

Tweet Two more additions to the Virtual Console and WiiWare this Monday. One is a space shooter and the other is a platformer from the 80s. Hit the jump to find out what they are and how many Wii points they’ll run you.

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Video: Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack 1

Tweet [youtube width="510" height="402"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXBszwrjfnM[/youtube] Who’s excited about the new map pack coming out for Call of Duty: World at War this month? I know for a fact that I am. Check out this video of Dan Bunting, Senior Producer of COD: World at War, telling us about the four new maps included in the first [...]

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Fight Night Round 4 Cover Unveiled

Tweet Boxing fans rejoice! The Fight Night Round 4 cover has been unveiled with two of the greatest boxers of all time on it. In response to fan voting on the official Fight Night website, Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson have been chosen to don the cover. It looks as if we’re one step closer [...]

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New Game Releases: 3/7 – 3/14

Tweet This week in new game releases finally brings us the highly anticipated Resident Evil 5 as well as the black and white Wii title, MadWorld. Other notables games include the New Play Control titles of Pikmin and Mario Power Tennis for the Wii, both now with motion controls. Hit the jump for the full [...]

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