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A Reporter’s Recollection Of Factor 5

8:00AM Stephen Totilo | The closing of Factor 5 today is sure to affect many developers and gamers. With the studio shuttered, I’d like to share my experiences with it as a gamer and reporter. More »

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EA Showed More Love To PC And DS Last Year

10:00AM Stephen Totilo | One giant games publisher. Ten gaming platforms. Lots of shifting support from 2007 to last year. EA backed some, bailed on others. More »

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Nintendo Addresses Low Output Complaints

1:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Nintendo has it hard. If it makes too many games, people complain. If it makes too few games, people complain. Nintendo cannot win. More »

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The GameCube Made Shigeru Miyamoto ‘Very Sad’

7:40AM Michael McWhertor | Nintendo’s Senior Managing Director Shigeru Miyamoto was not a happy man during the GameCube era. The creator of Link and Mario describes Nintendo’s fourth-generation console entry as a time of “dilemma.” More »

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Wii Is The New PS2, PS3 Is The New…

9:00PM Brian Ashcraft | …GameCube. Website VentureBeat crunched the NPD numbers and has turned up the following results: More »

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A Buyer’s Guide To A Console Generation Past

4:30AM Luke Plunkett | Times are tough, money is tight, and new consoles & games are expensive. But older consoles and games? Much cheaper, and just as good! More »

Wii-mote Originally Designed For GameCube

2:00PM Brian Ashcraft | A Nintendo patent from March 2006 shows that the company originally intended a Wii-mote style device for the GameCube. A patent drawing shows how the Wii Remote could link with the GC. More »

Pikmin, Mario Power Tennis Get New Wii-make Options

8:20AM Michael McWhertor | The latest issue of Famitsu, by way of IGN, reveals new details on Nintendo’s GameCube-to-Wii remakes of Pikmin and Mario Power Tennis. Don’t brush ‘em off! Nintendo’s not just slapping on Wii-mote controls. More »

Wii Versions Of Jungle Beat, Pikmin Aren’t Just Wii-makes

5:40AM Michael McWhertor | The first GameCube to Wii remake from Nintendo to release under the “Play On Wii” label will be 2005’s Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat. (It hits Japan on Dec. 11, with a Aussie release unconfirmed.) Formerly controlled by smacking and clapping near the DK Bongos controller — which I happened to snatch up day one, my judgment still impaired by a five minute play session at E3 — the Wii version will simply use the Wii Remote and Nunchuk to make Kong run, jump and slap. But that’s not all that’s changing, according to a report from Famitsu by way of IGN. More »

There Are A Lot More GameCube Wii Remakes Coming (Pikmin 2, Jungle Beat, etc etc)

10:30PM Luke Plunkett | Yesterday’s announcement that Pikmin would be re-released for the Wii? It was, as you no doubt expected, just the start. Nintendo have big plans for this line, with many, many more games planned. And yesterday, they even announced a few of them. First up is Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat, which will actually be out before Pikmin (on November 11), though with the game eschewing bongo controls in favour of standard (ie nunchuk + Wii Remote) ones it’s hard seeing the point in it all. The other announced GameCube games make a little (OK, a lot) more sense, and are Pikmin 2, Mario Tennis, Metroid Prime 1 & 2 and Chibi Robo. All will ship with updated Wii controls, and all will sell for budget prices. A 16:9 Wind Waker with Wii Remote bow and grapple aiming would be great, Nintendo. Just sayin! First Look: Wii de Asobu Pikmin [IGN] More »