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Today’s Insanity: Live action Elite Beat Agents

Posted in Games, Geek, Insanity, Jokes, Nintendo, Pranks, Role-playing, Sing-a-longs, tagged , , , , on February 18, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Elite Beat Agents is perhaps one of the best games to ever hit the Nintendo DS system, and if you don’t know yet, the game features three “agents” who act as a sort of urban metrosexual cheerleading squad. Hey, I never said the premise made much sense. In any case, stripped down, the game is [...]

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Today’s funsanity: Wario Land Shake It Youtube video

Posted in Advertising, Cool, Games, Insanity, Internet, Nintendo, tagged , , on September 24, 2008 | 4 Comments »

This youtube vid has to be seen to be believed. The clip is an advert for a new Wii game, Wario Land: Shake It, but…well…you just have to see it. I don’t want to spoil it for you. As a bit of advertising, it’s brilliant, and I must congratulate the team behind this ad!
[Link: YouTube [...]

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Review: Guitar Hero On Tour

Posted in Games, Music, Nintendo, tagged , , , , , on September 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »

So I managed to get my hands on Guitar Hero On Tour for DS, and after some scrapping around with it, I’m ready to review it. When I opened the packaging, I found two sheets of stickers as well, so I set about happily uglifying my DS first. It’s rewarding in some strange way. Anyhow, [...]

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Super Mario Galaxy review

Posted in Games, Nintendo, tagged , , on July 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »

El33tOnline have kindly let me review the brilliant Super Mario Galaxy for Wii. I’m not going to say much more because the full review is up at their site. Enjoy!
For an alternate review, check the Nintendo Australia review.

[Link: El33tOnline]

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Console games extinct by 2020??

Posted in Business, Games, Latest world news, Nintendo, Techno, tagged , , , , on July 28, 2008 | 8 Comments »

Wild Tangent CE, Alex St John, predicted in a talk in Seattle that gaming consoles as a physical box will be extinct by 2020. He substantiates his claim by saying:
shareholders of Sony and Microsoft will no longer tolerate the massive, billion dollar investments that it takes to create proprietary video game consoles.
He further goes on [...]

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Insane LCD blast from the past

Posted in Games, tagged , , , , on July 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »

My previous post made me seacrh around for the old AA battery powered games and I stumbled across this gem —-> Retrogames. There was also hand held empire. and Brainiac(not a pretty site, but got lots of images of the different hand helds which is what ya want).
One of the sections I was browsing was [...]

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Mario 300: This is not Sparta!

Posted in Comedy, Culture, Games, Movies, Nintendo, tagged , , , , , on July 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Found this gem while browsing VG Cats. Made me remember how much I enjoy (a) Mario and (b) 300.
[Link: VG Cats]

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Since we’re in a Nintendo-hating mood this week…

Posted in Games, Nintendo, tagged , , , , , , , on June 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s a list of 100 reasons to hate Nintendo, courtesy of Games Radar. If you feel that Nintendo doesn’t deserve the hate (or if you’re an equal-opportunity hater), here are lists of 100 reasons to hate Xbox, Playstation, and PC gaming. Some of the reasons are quite entertaining, such as “Same sh!t, different Zelda”, “Viva [...]

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Nintendo in 90’s and why the Wii will fail

Posted in Games, Nintendo, Strategy, Techno, tagged , , , on June 3, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Hi
Yes, I know, I’m not into blogging much, but I did find a really interesting article. I’m doing a course called Competitive Strategy and we’re analysing Nintendo’s early dominance of the Video Game industry. Specifically we’re at how they were able to completely take over the market at the beginning by investing more in the [...]

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Obese Wii

Posted in Games, Latest world news, Questions, Techno, tagged , , , , , on May 19, 2008 | 6 Comments »

Child health experts have critized Nintentos Wii Fit game cause they are branding children as “obese”. The best selling game calculates the body mass index (BMI) of each player and then tells them if they are underweight or obese. Dr Penny Gibson of the UK Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health said calling [...]

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