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Dec
5
Reggie thinks Nintendo will have a strong holiday season. Crazy, huh?
Category: Wii Xbox 360 Playstation 3 | 
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MSNBC continues their talks with the top execs from the big three today with Nintendo President Reggie Fils-Aime. Reggie gives us the good ol’ Nintendo pitch, which comes off a bit better than Microsoft’s "we’re the best" blabber, though it doesn’t pull at the heart strings like Sony’s apologetic underdog act.
MSNBC comes right out […]
Dec
5
EA made more on mobile games than on PSP, PS3 games
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Either EA Mobile is booming or EA is really struggling to push PSP and PS3 games because EA made more money last quarter from their mobile games ($37 million) than from either PSP sales ($21 million) or PS3 sales ($17 million), and if you do the math you can see that EA made a […]
Dec
5
The first person shooter genre has, for a long time, not been known for its wealth of engrossing, plot-heavy games. With the exception of Valve’s Half-Life series, one would be right to think of FPS games as little more than bullet-riddled, guts-or-glory slaughter fests with storyline being little more than a shallow and unnecessary afterthought.
This […]
Dec
5
Free Xbox Live Marketplace content and Silver accounts
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The Xbox 360’s fall update brought another feature to Xbox Live Silver Members. With the PS3 expanding its free online offerings, Microsoft dropped its fees for Xbox 360 Live Gold members. If your a gold member then you have free content currently, but you silver members are going to have to wait another week.
[Via Major […]
Dec
5
Happy Ninja Day: Hands-on with Ninja Reflex for the Wii
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As if there isn’t already enough Ninja related material on deck today, I’ve got more folks!
The fellows over at Electronic Arts decided that Ninja Day wasn’t soon enough. So in the spirit of impatient celebration, they debuted their new game, Ninja Reflex for the Wii and DS, last night at the swanky oh-so-Japanese Kabuki Hotel […]
Dec
5
What the folk? New game content already? Sony’s on the ball with this one.
The PlayStation Blog brings us news from Eric Fong, Associate Producer for the PS3 title Folklore. Fong says that this month we’ll see two new add-on packs for Folklore on the PlayStation Network, and both will include a new costume for either […]
Dec
5
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 HD wins Game of the Year in Narnia
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Wallpaper designer Alchemist Defined has just ruined my day. He (she?) created an absolutely stunning mock-up image of what Sonic the Hedgehog 2 could look like in HD and now I can’t focus on anything else. All I see when I look down at this mound of work on my desk are images of a […]
Dec
5
What’s this? An expert gives parents sensible game buying tips?
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It’s no secret that non-gaming parents need help with videogame purchases for their children. Hell, some parents don’t even like games! There are media groups that offer up their over-opinionated guidance, but most experts prefer to focus on game violence, which often scares non-gaming parents away from the gifts their kids really want. These parents […]
Dec
5
Hey Mr. Thompson: Sarcastic Gamer goes for the satirical jugular once more
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If there’s one thing you can rely on Sarcastic Gamer to do, it’s create an absolutely merciless satire of something or someone in the form of a well spoofed song. Hey Mr. Thompson is the latest offering from those sarcastic ol’ gamers and it’s no exception.
Not a lot else I can add to this one, […]
Dec
5
Last Thursday I hauled my lazy ass to Bungietowne on an invite from the Halo 3 DLC team to try out some of the new maps to be made available in the Heroic Map Pack, up for grabs next week on the Xbox Live Marketplace. Fortunately for me, I hadn’t let slip that I’m easily […]