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What The Dickens? An Ebook Reader For The DS!

Posted by Stuart Houghton at 6:20 AM on December 2, 2008

Top tip - don't waste money on expensive electronic books like the Kindle or Sony eReader. Just get 100 Classic Book Collection for the DS and get a library that plays Puzzle Quest!

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Shigeru Miyamoto Didn't Think Wii Music Would Have Immediate Appeal

Posted by Brian Ashcraft at 11:20 PM on December 1, 2008

Wii Music hasn't set the world ablaze. Still, it is an "evergreen title" — to use the proper Nintendo lingo. That, and Shigeru Miyamoto developed it.


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Japanese Cram School Employee Arrested For Nintendo Piracy

Posted by Brian Ashcraft at 8:00 PM on December 1, 2008

Yet, another DS game piracy arrest. A 57 year-old cram school manager has been taken into custody for illegally pirated Nintendo products. He was arrested after complaints from Nintendo.


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Excite Truck Dev Working On 'Top-Secret' Nintendo Title

Posted by Michael McWhertor at 11:20 AM on November 29, 2008

Monster Games, Minnesota-based developer of Excite Truck for the Wii, are hard at work on another Nintendo-published game, one described as "top-secret." Well, aren't they all top-secret, even if they're Excite Truck 2?


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sales

Mario Kart & Wii Fit Get ELSPA Diamond Awards

Posted by Stuart Houghton at 6:40 AM on November 29, 2008

Hey, guess what platform exclusive games have sold over a million copies in the UK recently? Why, it's Mario Kart Wii and Wii Fit, of course.


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Cave Story WiiWare Trailer

Posted by Luke Plunkett at 6:00 AM on November 29, 2008


Well, here it is moving. Looks wonderful. Excuse the sound though, it's a work-in-progress.


real world

The Super Mario Galaxy Cake - King Of All Game Cakes

Posted by Mike Fahey at 7:00 AM on November 28, 2008

There are game cakes, and then there are Game Cakes, the ones that require capital letters, applause, and perhaps a brief moment of teary silence. This Super Mario Galaxy cake is definitely the latter.

Constructed of pure greatness, actual cake, fondant, Rice Krispy squares, fibre optic lighting, and pure love, the cake features several Super Mario Galaxy features and characters, including the under-glass pill-shaped puzzle area and Princess Peach's castle. And then just when you think it couldn't get any better, the damn thing moves. Hit the jump to see the cake in action.

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Frankenreview: Skate It (Wii)

Posted by Mike Fahey at 5:00 AM on November 28, 2008

Combine a sport that requires you to shift your body weight atop a board and a peripheral that requires you to do the same and you've got a match made in heaven, right?

That's what EA is hoping for with Skate It, the Nintendo Wii iteration of their Skate series of skateboarding games. Taking the gameplay of the original and adding support for the Nintendo Wii Balance Board controller, EA had the chance to create the most realistic skateboarding experience to ever come to a home gaming console. Let's ask the assembled video game critics of the world how that all turned out.


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humour

Intestines-On Personal Trainer Cooking (Or Why You Don't Eat Bay Leaves)

Posted by Brian Crecente at 1:00 AM on November 28, 2008

So Nintendo sent me a copy of Personal Trainer Cooking earlier this month and I immediately started messing around with it. See, I love to cook. It's one of the few hobbies I have (next to reading and writing) that I find helps me relax.


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sales

And The Best-Selling DS, PSP Games Of All Time Are...

Posted by Luke Plunkett at 11:00 PM on November 27, 2008

...to be found within a report thrown together by Game Informer magazine, using only the finest of NPD sales data. Within, then, you'll find the five best-selling DS & PSP games (in the US) of all time.


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