RPGs: Stop Making Bad First Impressions 
Is Hitman's Next Target Assassin's Creed? 
Why Kotaku Australia Should Never Work With Children... Or Robots 
Three Words I Said To The Man I Defeated In Gears Of War That I'll Never Say Again 
New Doom 3 For Xbox 360 And PlayStation 3 Supports Head-Mounted Displays 
Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land Not only does the latest issue of Nintendo Power have the scoop on Excitebots, it also features the return of the game that sold a million jelly beans, A Boy and his Blob.
Nintendo’s announcement of the existence of Excitebots: Trick Racing—the sequel to Wii launch title Excite Truck—was annoyingly short on details. Consider us detail-free no more, thanks to the latest issue of Nintendo Power.
We’ve already seen the trailer and been properly prepared by Nintendo Power’s own teasing, so the cover treatment given to Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings isn’t exactly a shocker. But we’ll take it!
We already knew that Dead Rising: Chop ‘Til You Drop is lacking in the brain-eating-walking-dead department. But it’s missing more than just zombies — some of it good, some of it very bad.
Agent B from The -Minus World discovered a stack of old Nintendo Power magazines recently, and for some god-awful reason decided to share with us the The Top 10 Most Disturbing Illustrations From Nintendo Power.
The latest issue of Nintendo Power reveals, via cover story, that Sonic the Hedgehog is back! After a painfully long absence, the “Blue Blur” is returning to the Wii with Sonic & The Black Knight which the mag pitches as a “big new Wii-exclusive adventure” in which Sonic “swings cool steel”. Yep, the Sonic drought is over.
We have little info beyond the cover details for Sonic’s third Wii outing, but can imagine a Sonic themed adventure with the compelling gameplay of Red Steel or Dragon Quest Swords will fit the series like a glove. Hey, we’ll take it (begrudgingly) over gunplay any day.
To sum up… :\
Sonic and the Black Knight (Wii) revealed in new Nintendo Power [NeoGAF - thanks, Carlos!]
It can be hard to walk that line between tasteful and tacky when it comes to video game art and memorabilia. But I’m really digging these Nintendo collages by DC-based artist Chris Lange. Each piece is handmade from old Nintendo Power magazines—yes, the art is 100% Nintendo born—and is made to order by request.
$US 250 may seem like a lot to some of our readers, but for a 30″ x 20″ piece of art that is based upon your particular various fetish fanboyisms, it’s not such a bad deal. Personally, I’d love to stick about three of them up in my office/retro gaming room…and in that circumstance, it would start to become a more serious investment. My guess is that a printer-made template and a pile of magazines could make for a fun weekend, even if not a product quite as polished as Lange creates. Hit the jump for a bonus shot.
Another little treat from RetroGameVideos.com. Back in the days when they used to advertise magazine subscriptions on TV comes this seizure inducing commercial for Nintendo Power magazine. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again the eighties may have sucked in a lot of ways, but the video game (and related) commercials are the stuff dreams are made of however twisted those dreams may be. Get the power!
