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Hudson Button Masher Comes To The iPhone
11:00PM Luke Plunkett | I don’t use “button masher” as a cheap label for an antiquated genre. I use it in the most literal sense, because this is an iPhone port of Hudson’s famous Shooting Watches. More »
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It Gets Harder To Press Buttons As You Get Older
10:00PM Brian Ashcraft | J ust ask game developer Hudson’s human mascot Takahashi Meijin. In his prime, he could press a controller button 16 times in a second, earning him the nickname “16 shot.” More »Takahashi Meijin: New Adventure Island Coming, Maybe Star Soldier As Well
9:30PM Luke Plunkett | Hey, it’s Hudson icon, Takahashi Meijin! Otherwise known as Master Higgins. Dude’s in the US at the moment on a promo tour for Hudsons’s Adidas commercial Deca Sports, and yesterday sat in on a big roundtable interview. Most of the stuff discussed you can live without, but for these: Meijin confirms that a new Adventure Island game is in development, to be released via WiiWare. He then almost confirms, with a little help from Hudson USA’s Mike Pepe, the fact they’re also working on a new Star Soldier game, again for the Wii. Wonderful! Interview with Master Higgins [Zentendo] More »Hudson Gets DS Lite Hinge Cracks, Too
8:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Arrrrrrgh! DS Lite hinge cracks know no bounds!! Even Hudson’s human mascot and human turbo switch Takahashi Meijin has been hit with crackage. He blogs: Well, well, the other day my DS Lite got a hinge crack. Didn’t the white DS Lite go on sale in Fall 2006? I’ve used this for the past two years, and then like that, a mysterious crack. Well, Takahashi Meijin was carting around a DS from the faulty batch. Nintendo’s long since fixed that crack problem. Correct? Master Higgins DS Problem [16Shot via my game news flash] More »
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