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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 »
