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Harley Quinn's Revenge Is Batman: Arkham City's Bad New Ending At Nintendo’s Spring Media Summit, Mario Kart Wii dominated the available couches, with a half-dozen demo stations, twelve Wii Wheels and an opportunity to go hands-on with the game’s online multiplayer modes. It was our first chance to spend time with the Wii entry in the series, now well into its second decade.
Don’t confuse old Brave Highmountain here with your regular, run-of-the-mill World of Warcraft figures. Those things are for the Average Joe and his Average Toy Shelf. This thing, like last year’s Illidan Stormrage, is deluxe. A deluxe Tauren Hunter, to be precise, which has a tonne of detail, and will most likely sell like hotcakes when its released in December. World of Warcraft Deluxe Collector Figure: Series 3 [Action-Figure]
The ESRB is not perfect. Not at all. Some games that might appear “For Everyone” ain’t, well, For Everyone. Website GamePro Family has a look at E rated games that aren’t necessarily E. Tongue planted firmly in cheek.
Peekaboo need your help (so long as “you” are a games developer). The world’s #1 seller of fad, celebrity-endorsed “pole dancing as fitness” products, would like someone to help them make a pole dancing fitness game for the Wii. Complete with – I presume/hope- a floor-to-roof dance pole peripheral. Sounds like a joke, but no, no joke. It’s even got a precedent, with Peekaboo’s DDR-inspired “Bedroom Boogie” kit (less dancing, more…yes) already on the market. Fingers crossed they’re allowed to call it Wii Strip. Peekaboo Pole Dancing concept game for the Wii [Tech Digest, via Go Nintendo]
Pre-ordered Okami Wii? You’re in luck. Capcom is sending out handmade thank you cards with exclusive Okami stamps and made from recycled fibres and embedded with seeds to those who pre-ordered the game via the Capcom Store. You can plant these thank you cards and sage plants will grow! This is the thank you card that keeps on giving. Or growing, rather. Thanks for the love [Capcom Blog]
So this kid, he likes Nintendo. And one day, he finds himself in an underground car park, with an RC car and around a gagillion empty wine bottles lying around. What’s he do? He does what any of us would do, and combines the lot to belt out possibly the most wonderful rendition of the Mario theme you’ll ever need to hear. [via Boing-Boing]
Where do Hong Kong gamers go when they want to play some Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G? McDonald’s. With burger, fries and WiFi, it’s got all you need for a MH meet-up. It’s such a popular gamer destination that Hong Kong game mag Gamestation lists all the 24-hour McDonald’s in the city for Monster Hunting. According to Spencer at game blog Siliconera:
Ah, Grand Theft Auto IV. We love you, we do. We’re just not so taken by your undesirable modifications or hefty price tag. Once just the problem of Australian gamers, New Zealand has been caught in the storm as well.
So readers, where will you be buying your copy of GTA IV? Give your top recommendations here, and we’ll get the word out.
I feel kind of dirty, encouraging people not to support the local economy, but really, it’s hard to be positive when the unmodified game is selling for half the price elsewhere.
This isn’t confirmed, and we’re going to have to wait until Media Create releases the “official” numbers, but apparently Mario Kart Wii moved 300,000 copies on launch day. To put things in perspective, Mario Kart DS did 160,000 at launch, while Mario Kart Double Dash did 180,000 on its first day. Rumored Launch Numbers [Shinobi]
Not to be outdone by the PS3 Store redesign, the PC/PSP Store has also had a quick facelift. Those looking for radical improvements (like the ditching of the download tool) to the way things are done will be disappointed, as the improvements are purely cosmetic, but hey, since the store worked just fine before that’s hardly the single biggest issue facing the world today.
