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Punch-Out!! Developer Envisions, Wants Sequel

11:30AM Michael McWhertor | Unsurprisingly, the developer of the critically acclaimed Wii re-imagining of Nintendo’s Punch-Out!! would like to make a sequel. Yes, Next Level Games enjoys steady work and continued paychecks apparently. But the proposed ideas for a sequel are what’s interesting. More »
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Nintendo Breaks Its Silence About Silence

3:40AM Stephen Totilo | Nintendo’s lead characters are rare among modern gaming heros in that they seldom talk out loud. But rarer still is a Nintendo game that does include recorded speech. Punch-Out Wii did, and its creators explained why. More »
Features

Punch-Out Devs Talk Graphics, Difficulty And Nixed Princess Peach Idea

4:00AM Stephen Totilo | Few Wii games have been designed to please long-time Nintendo fans as much as the recent Wii Punch-Out!! Developers on the game recently explained to Kotaku just how the game came together, who did what, and what got left out. More »
Hands On

Punch-Out!! Review: Call It A Comeback

6:40AM Michael McWhertor | Nintendo revitalises Punch-Out!! after a 15-year-long break with the Wii re-imagining of the NES original. Little Mac and Doc Louis return, as does the original Punch-Out!! cast, for a decidedly old-school, but carefully updated homage. More »
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Wii Punch-Out!! Has Classic NES Controls Too

8:20AM Michael McWhertor | Nintendo hit us with an update on a handful of Wii and Nintendo DS games today, including fresh details on the Wii version of Punch-Out!!. Perhaps most exciting is unwavering confirmation of “classic” NES-style controls. More »