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"We recently announced the upcoming release of Mario Super Sluggers," said Marc Franklin, director of public relations at Nintendo, when asked by GamePro on Friday which upcoming Wii titles core gamers should be excited for. "Additionally, we will be announcing several new titles that core gamers will be interested in around the time of E3."
In honor of their 20th anniversary, in the latest issue of Nintendo Power, the writing crew went through 8 Nintendo systems - NES, SNES, Game Boy Color (Game Boy), N64, GameCube, DS and Wii - and picked out the cream of the crop. The writers have picked out the best titles of each system and have listed the top 20 picks in their eyes.
Perth's St John's Shopping Centre recently ran a competition called "Young Jones and the Temple of Lost Treasures" which saw local kiddies chasing around the place getting high street brands seared into their brains... whoops... looking for treasure.
See, loosely tied into the Indiana Jones movie of late.
The winner - according to the shopping centre - was "Young Jamie McNair, 6, from Auchterarder" - crazy name, crazy town. Anyway, fresh-faced young Jamie saw his name "pulled out of the hat by his namesake, and St John's Shopping Centre's Administrator, Jamie Nie!" No freaking way?!
And his prize... "The prize, a Nintendo Gamecube, was won after Jamie completed his treasure hunt entry for Indy's lost items, which were hidden inside retailer windows in the St John's Shopping Centre."
UK chart track shows that MGS4 clearly is the best selling title for each individual console.
usatoday.com writes "Chester Santos has been training his brain for seven years.
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 dementia, such as Sudoku and crosswords; and online tips that claim to train the brain."
Mutants playing hockey? Leather fetishists on the links? These crazy games are the anti-Madden.
There's nothing that draws the ire of hardcore gamers more than sports games. The same slate of games, year in, year out offering little but roster updates and a realistic experience of running around with a ball or a stick. Thankfully, a few oddball developers have created some pretty unique sports games that think out of the (batters) box.
Is Playing Video Games on a Plasma TV Worth the Risk?
How to Avoid Burn-in.
Joe McNeilly of GamesRadar writes: "Game trailers are as vital a part of our cultural landscape as gas stations or fast food. The perfect trailer is a balance of action, sex and drama that leaves the crowd begging for more. Since we at GamesRadar are finely tuned to the appetites of modern audiences, we've chopped together the Best Trailer Ever for your viewing enjoyment. Now if only someone would make the game to go with it!"
After watching the now classic "Wii Fit Underwear girl" many guys are making attempts to convert there semi-entertaining girlfriends into gamer girls. We here at AnalogHype went through a rigorous investigation process but was able to come up with a fool's proof way to turn your girl into a gamer girl.
Consider Her Personality
Think about your girlfriends personality because that plays a huge part in turning them to the dark side. Sadly, not EVERY girl is going to want to share your love for gaming but it wont hurt to try. Right?
Test the Waters
In life, different approaches work on different people and thats no different when it comes to the ladies.
They said it'd never happen on a Nintendo console. Well, it did.
There's been a lot of talk over the past few years about how videogames need to provoke more of an emotional response from gamers, and of how the technology is gradually allowing developers the freedom to evoke those responses. But really, videogames have been expertly tapping into one of our most basic emotions for decades: Fear.
Sometimes, all of that fear is inspired by a single character or creature, and when those characters are realized particularly well, throwing down with them can leave players traumatized - but in a good way. In the following pages, GamesRadar recognizes the baddies that scared them the most - and presents video evidence to prove that those villains are just as creepy as they remember.
Intense tennis matches, a terrorist blasting first person shooter and a fat Italian plumber are but a few of the best games ever made.
Before GameDaily experience Solid Snake's final adventure, they retrace his steps in the Metal Gear franchise.
There might still be a reason you'd want a GameCube. The Game Boy Player, maybe? Quick access to Cubivore without the hassle of the Wii Menu? Holding down papers in a drafty room? If you find yourself in need of Nintendo's newest old system, Amazon is selling them today for $60. It's not the best deal ever, but $60 isn't terrible for something that will run Ikaruga.
You're more likely to be interested in Amazon's other Deal of the Day offering: a Platinum GameCube controller for $17. If you need more controllers for Super Smash Bros. Brawl, this is a good time to stock up. These will no doubt sell out soon to enthusiastic Brawlers!
If digg, N4G and NeoGaf are any indication, the internet was invented solely for gaming Neanderthals to argue about the console wars. "Framerate" this, "exclusive game" that. "Pixel bump shader fliter proxy triple mipmapping" this, "physics porn" that. It's really quite tiring, isn't it? What if GamesRadar told you there was a clear and easy way to predict each victor with 90% accuracy - a way to forever silence the incessant forum-vomiting that is The Console War?
Well, GamesRadar can't make them quit babbling about 720p and backwards compatibility, but they can offer this observation to those who're willing to sit back and look at the big picture - the white console always wins. Every time, white or grey demolishes the opponent, who's usually draped in black. Maybe it's a light/dark subliminal suggestion, GamesRadar are not sure, but with only one major exception the black console is handed its ass. Obviously GamesRadar are not saying black plastic is the reason these machines lost... it's just a pretty damn startling coincidence.
Video countdowns the Top 10 Goriest Video Games of all time.
In the previous generation of consoles, there were three machines vying for publisher support ? the Playstation 2, the Xbox, and the Gamecube. Looking at releases for the Wii, Xbox 360, and PS3 it appears that most of the top franchises on those consoles have already been released. This article will examine the differences between the PS2 generation top sellers and the Wii generation top sellers, and what these trends bode for the future.
Top 10 lists? So 2008..
The Top 5 game cut-scenes according to Uber games.
Eurogamer writes: "NVIDIA boss Roy Taylor believes the value of consoles means no-one will make PC-exclusive games any more.
Speaking exclusively to Eurogamer, he said he wasn't threatened by the machines from Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo; instead he sees an "exciting future" of co-existence.
"I think we have to face the facts - the value of consoles is such that no-one is going to make a PC-exclusive game in the future. Why would they? Why would they ignore consoles?" said Taylor."
GamingNexus has posted an editorial wondering why Nintendo hasn't created a new franchise in years and why Nintendo fans are content to keep playing the same basic premise over and over again.
Through all the calluses, stiff fingers and bouts of tendinitis, GameDaily chose their favorite video game controllers.
According to sources of the website Kotaku, inside Square Enix, there would be a storm in the air within the buildings of the company.
One month ago, a meeting would be held where Yoïchi Wada, president of Square Enix, would have said to his teams : " stop making games that only they wanted to play."
In other words, if his teams don't stop to create non-mainstream games, job cuts will follow.
VGB writes: Here's the Top 10 10 million selling games. Since the year 2000, there have been few games that sold over 10 million.
The biggest news of the recent Ubidays 2008 press event held last week in Paris turned out to be a teaser trailer for the sequel to 2003?s Beyond Good & Evil. It?s safe to say that no one saw this coming. The original game tanked at the cash register in competition with familiar names and faces released at about the same time including Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and Tom Clancy?s Splinter Cell, so you might expect that Michel Ancel?s cross-platform action-adventure game would be regarded by Ubisoft along the same lines as poison ivy or syphilis.
While Beyond Good & Evil received excellent review scores that ranged from the low eighties to the low nineties (out of 100), if anything, it appears to have been underrated, as the teaser trailer for the sequel led to hundreds of forum posts in all caps that amounted to pretty much the word "yay" and "omg!" repeated ad infinitum. So, given that the main character?s bra cup size appears entirely proportional to her body and the game?s complete lack of machine guns, hookers, and celebrity voiceovers, what exactly did Ancel?s game offer that captured so many hearts and minds?
Let?s take a look.
Sometimes a gamer needs to admit to themselves that the games that EVERYONE puts atop a pedestal as some of the greatest ever weren't REALLY all that good, or at the very least don't hold up worth up so great. So here's an honest, opinionated evaluation of the 5 Greatest RPGs of all time: written while NOT under the influence of blind nostalgia. You may applaud the author for his honesty, or curse his unborn babies for excluding your favorites. Either one is okay, and I encourage EVERY gamer to read this list.
Nintendo has sent out an email to Club Nintendo members saying that all the Stars saved up as part of the company?s loyalty scheme will start to expire at the end of June.
Nintendo Stars can be exchanged for Wii Points although there are only a certain amount of points available on a daily basis. So if you can?t exchange them before June, you could simply lose them.
This person makes a point. From the released MGS4 reviews. Many of the reviewers have downgraded the score, because of the cutscenes. But, isn't the game famous, because of the cutscenes? Read what this person wrote:
~WarTransformsUS~ thinks there should be a whole new genre. MGS4 expresses the new genre. Its a genre, when the game is detailed to have many cutscenes to make the game, "movie like". MGS1 and 2 could fit into this. Also, the new Bourne Game too, as there are also lots of cutscenes for this game. The GTA series could also fit into this, as there are many cutscenes also in those games. I dont think its fair complaint about the cutscenes, if the game is famous from exactly that.
I would call the new genre:
Holic
(Holick, is the way you say it.)
(Holl means Hollywood, and ic, means Epic)
If you want to see the original post, you may have to scroll all the way down the link.
In the latest edition of The Checkpoint, 411's John Curry ranks his top 50 games of all time! From Maniac Mansion for Nintendo to Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion for the Xbox 360, see which games made John's list!
TGZ: "Ok I haven?t posted about Ebay much lately but Nintendo Canada is clearing out a warehouse and somehow stumbled upon $20,000 worth of sealed retro Nintendo games and threw them on Ebay for the United Way. So, I?m sure no one here will be able to even afford to bid on one of these auctions, but they?re full of fantastic sealed games and it?s unlike anything you?ll ever see again. NintendoAge has apparently called Nintendo Canada about this and confirmed that the auctions are indeed straight from Nintendo, despite the new Ebay account (After all, how often does Nintendo sell it?s own games on Ebay? They?d make a killing with Wii Fit). Anyway I?m sure sealed collectors are simultaneously overjoyed and dying because these lots are huge finds yet will likely drain their bank accounts."
Check out the Nintendo World Champions NES cart!
VG Chartz' Louie July writes:
"Vgchartz.com, the most comprehensive Videogaming charts in the world, has announced cooperation with N-Zone, the biggest German Nintendo magazine.
The cooperation will feature a monthly special called ?N-Zone chart show?. Powered by VGchartz.com, N-Zone, selling up to 100.000 units of their magazine each month, now introduces one successful game series in every issue. VGchartz.com will also provide a two page Wii sales analysis for the magazine.
We interviewed Christoph Krauss, N-Zone editor, about the magazine and the deal."
There are many frustrating moments in gaming and to say that these ten are the ?top ten? for everybody would be foolish. These are the top ten that have irked GameShark over the past few years and they are in no particular order. The reason for that is that they all suck. Yep?each and every one of them. One doesn?t rate worse than the other because they are all horrible to have to deal with and as such they are all number one on the list. So, think of it more like ?GameShark's personal top ten in no particular order.? Your moments will undoubtedly be different but hopefully you can relate.
Atlantis. The Holy Grail. That episode of Star Trek where Captain Picard dresses in drag and does the macarena. They are things lost forever to the cruel winds of time, and yet they continue to capture the imaginations of successive generations. Gaming has its own graveyard of historical curios: half-born ideas and ill-fated projects that fell to the red pen of a corporate accountant. They?re called vaporware, and it looks like the Wii is on the cusp of its first two vaporware titles: the elusive Project H.A.M.M.E.R. and the mysterious Sadness.
But as GamesRadar patiently wait to hear the final fate of those two titles, they decided to cast a tearful eye over past Nintendo games that were coldly struck down before they ever had the chance to fill a gamer?s day with sunshine, to place a smile on the face of a child. These, friends, are the games that never were.
Nintendo's purple lunch box served up a stack of great games (which are all backwards compatible on Wii). Here's GameDaily's list for the top 25 games you should enjoy (or enjoy again).
Sarcastic Gamer - "The post-Mario Kart lineup for the Wii is looking rather thin. The console?s immediate future seems devoid of any significant titles. Nintendo deserves some credit for the strength of its recent releases, which I?m sure will carry them through to another stellar month. Titles such as Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Boom Blox are certainly more impressive than recent exclusives for the PS3 and 360. That will probably change when Metal Gear Solid 4 and Ninja Gaiden II are released."
Video goes over all of the Sonic games from the very first to Sonic the Hedgehog. The Sonic series has been going from the 1991 till present.
X-Play's Top 10 Guilty Pleasure Games as presented by Morgan Webb and Adam Sessler.
Dick Ward from XboxFocus.com writes:
"As gamers we often fail to see the bigger picture, the world outside of gaming. Since we take our games so seriously and play them so passionately, we tend to completely write off people that don?t game, and with good reason. It?s difficult to talk to them, they don?t understand why our Shotgun Spree was so great, they get creeped out when we talk about ?Little Sisters?, and don?t even try telling them about your recent accomplishment of being a Master Romancer for Flutterscotches. We know they think we?re weird, but some people honest to god believe that we?re stone cold killers in training."
Experience the first Metal Gear Solid's entire storyline in gameplay, codecs and cutscenes. The full recap of the story adds up to about six hours of footage.
This article collects comments from numerous Japanese developers that have gone on record to say that Japan has fallen behind Western developers recently. The author asserts that because Japanese gamers don't like guns, they never embraced FPS games. And since FPS games pushed graphics technology, the Japanese missed out on the graphical revolution of the mid nineties for cultural reasons. Now as more and more PC devs are switching to consoles, Japanese devs, who have little experience with PC gaming, struggle to compete.
The article cites several Japanese developers' criticisms of Japanese trends in game design, but ends on a positive note by showing how Hideo Kojima's latest game, Metal Gear Solid 4 will incorporate many of the technologies that have made Western games successful, offering a ray of hope for fans of Japanese game design.
Nintendo has contested a ?149.1 million fine it was stung with in 2002 for price fixing, calling the penalty "unfair" and "shocking".
The fine was handed out by the European Union, when Nintendo and several distributors were found guilty of artificially raising the prices of its games and consoles between 1991-1998. No surprise if you were a core SNES or N64 fan from the early days.
