Archive for August, 2009

WB Interactive announces Touchmaster 3 and Game Party 3

WB Interactive announces Touchmaster 3 and Game Party 3

London – August 13, 2009 – Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announces TouchMaster 3, a puzzle compilation game for Nintendo DS™ and Game Party 3, a social party game for the Wii™ system. TouchMaster and Game Party are multi-million unit selling franchise additions to the company’s casual and family line-up scheduled to launch in Autumn 2009. [...]

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We Sing – Coming to Wii this Christmas

We Sing – Coming to Wii this Christmas

Karlstad, Sweden: Nordic Games Publishing AB today proudly announces We Sing, the first singing game to utilise four microphones, allowing four players to sing at the same time. We Sing will be released in time for the festive season, exclusively for the Wii. It’s not going to be a quiet Christmas day. Now the whole [...]

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Flipnote Studio is Now Out in North America

Flipnote Studio is Now Out in North America

FLIPNOTE STUDIO FOR NINTENDO DSI GIVES PLAYERS THE TOOLS TO BECOME ANIMATORS Free Downloadable Application Lets Users Share Creations REDMOND, Wash., Aug. 12, 2009 – At one time or another, just about everyone has created an animated cartoon using nothing more than a pad of paper and some hand-drawn stick figures. Nintendo now brings these [...]

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Madden 10 Wii Reviews

Madden 10 Wii Reviews

NintendoWorldReport – 90 While you’re still playing a regular old game of football, the variety of ways that you can play that game is grand and makes this a terrific title for casual football fans of any age. Sports Illustrated – 85 As EA Sports continues to develop and fine-tune the “All-Play” concept on the [...]

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Jenny McCarthy & Ubisoft bring you “Your Shape”

Jenny McCarthy & Ubisoft bring you “Your Shape”

August 13, 2009 – SAN FRANCISCO, USA – Ubisoft today announced that it has partnered with actress, comedienne, host and best-selling author Jenny McCarthy for Your Shape featuring Jenny McCarthy, a ground-breaking new fitness title that leverages the technological advances of an entirely new, revolutionary camera for the Wii system from Nintendo. Scheduled to be [...]

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Active Life: Extreme Challenge – Released + Gameplay

Active Life: Extreme Challenge – Released + Gameplay

7 Videos in the playlist video above ACTIVE LIFE: Extreme Challenge is the follow up to the successful Active Life: Outdoor Challenge game/mat bundle. Leveraging the ‘active gaming’ trend, Active Life games use a mat controller along with the Wii Remote to incorporate the player’s entire body into the gameplay. ACTIVE LIFE: Extreme Challenge kicks [...]

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Monster Hunter 3 is Japan’s best selling 3rd party Wii game

Monster Hunter 3 is Japan’s best selling 3rd party Wii game

Sinobi posted a list of the top ten third-party games on the Wii in Japan in terms of sales. At the top of the list, based on Enterbrain sales numbers acquired early by Sinobi, sits Capcom’s Monster Hunter 3, with 720,000 copies sold. Despite the best-seller status, we doubt Capcom is pleased with these sales [...]

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Nintendo: Free Metroid for VC

Nintendo: Free Metroid for VC

Nintendo has announced a Metroid giveaway via the European Club Nintendo. The platform holder is giving away 5,000 downloads of the original Metroid on Virtual Console to gamers who pick up Metroid Prime Trilogy. Nintendo: “To qualify for the promotion, players must be one of the first lucky 5000 who register their copy of Metroid [...]

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The Conduit – Custom Stage Texture Hack

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Red Steel 2 – Are You Ninja Enough?

This video was released TODAY (August 13th, 2009) by Ubisoft. In the video it states that something will become available on the website redsteel2.com on August 19th, 2009. It’s unclear if “Are You Ninja Enough” is an online game, new footage, etc… I find it odd that they would be promoting the game so early, [...]

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Wii Biicycle?

Wii Biicycle?

In the above advert it appears to be Nintendo’s newest peripheral, a bicycle accessory for your Nintendo Wii. It is unclear if this any tie-in with Nintendo’s recent “horse riding” patent. What’s your take on this peripheral? Share

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Capcom Teams with Nintendo

Capcom Teams with Nintendo

Capcom will be working with Nintendo for the overseas release of Monster Hunter 2, which hit Japan last week and sold over 500,000 units in its first two days. Nintendo will make use of its experience in selling Pokemon to promote the Capcom title. In Japan, Capcom will be giving the Wii one of its [...]

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Nintendo of Canada’s Matt Ryan on Wii Sports Resort and Wii MotionPlus

Nintendo of Canada’s Matt Ryan on Wii Sports Resort and Wii MotionPlus

Above: Matt Ryan shooting the crap out of that bullseye Matt Ryan, Senior Supervisor of Communications and Advertising for Nintendo of Canada, not surprisingly happens to be a huge fan of the game and was happy to share his thoughts with TorontoThumbs.com. What is surprising, however, is that his sentiments for the archery game echo [...]

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Spyborgs Releases One Week Early, New Screens and Webisodes

Spyborgs Releases One Week Early, New Screens and Webisodes

Capcom has announced that its upcoming Wii-brawler, Spyborgs, will be released a week earlier than previously thought. Spyborgs will now be released on September 22nd across North America. In celebration of this new date, Capcom has released some new screenshots and their first webisode. Share

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The Wii Will Soon Play DLC Straight Off A 32GB SD Card

The Wii Will Soon Play DLC Straight Off A 32GB SD Card

This means that if you want to download in-game content – like songs for Guitar Hero – you can just store them on an SD card, leave it in the Wii, and the game can load the data straight off it. Straight-up booting off the SD card is available: – easier downloads – larger expansions [...]

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