E3 is just around the corner, so it should be no surprise that rumors are beginning to surface regarding Nintendo-related announcements. The latest unconfirmed report is that information on Retro Studios’ new title is coming soon (E3 being the most likely venue for such details.) However, there are some signs that may shed some validity [...]

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“The general reaction of a game critic anytime he finds out he’s being assigned a game based on a movie is something along the lines of, “Great, this is going to be awful. I wonder if there are going to be any nice things to say about this title, or if I’ll just spend three [...]

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“Five months since the Japanese release, more than three months since the US release - what sort of time do you call this, Nintendo? Why do you hate us so Europeans so much?

They’ve finally learned to accept the US, but the rest of the world is unimportant to them (allegedly – gamezine [...]

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Square Enix has recently announced that Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo’s Dungeon, featuring its talismanic cast of Chocobo’s, will be hitting the Wii via Europe (/PAL) in Autumn 2008. The North American version is set to be released a little early on July 8.
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Hats off to Kotaku for these two (the second comes after the break) pictures. Here we have the drum kit for the upcoming Guitar Hero: World Tour. Once you glance at the pics and stats for these bad boys, you’ll probably think they’re better than the Rock Band kit.

Blasphemy? Well… silenced drum pads that are [...]

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Alone in the Dark doesn’t seem to be very popular among our Nordic brothers, as it now appears the Gamereactor Norway review wasn’t just an ugly stain on an otherwise brilliant cloth.

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At 32, he’s not worried about losing his memory. He’s taking advantage of a growing market in “brain fitness” spurred by aging baby boomers.

Teenagers cramming for tests and people worried about “senior moments” can now turn to an explosion of brain-assisting video games, such as Nintendo’s Brain Age; puzzles that are said to ward off [...]

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NGamer writes: “Man alive, is Alone In The Dark dingy. The screens grabbed from our near-finished build are so dark that we had to download a virtual torch desktop application just to see what the hell was going on.
Ironically, it is hell going on. We’re not surprised it’s so hard to see: the game’s set [...]

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Wii Sports is still one of the most played games in my collection. Sure, SSBB is great for a party, but the crazier the party gets, the more everyone leans towards a little Wii bowling. Hudson Soft looks to provide some more sports fun, this summer with the release of DECA Sports. Hudson Soft was [...]

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Video game movies have always had a pretty shoddy reputation, for gamers and pretty much the entire viewing public. There have a few diamonds in the ruff; I mean Mortal Kombat is still the greatest video game-movie adaptation in my mind. What’s so funny is how fans still want to see a movie adaptation of [...]

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