Nintendo Media Summit 2010: The Recap Post

Nintendo Media Summit 2010: The Recap Post

The 2010 Nintendo Media Summit has come and gone, and sent a wave of large Nintendo news through the industry. We had hands-on time with some of the Wii’s biggest upcoming titles, screenshots for nearly everything on Nintendo’s 2010 calendar and a huge ol’ sack full of new videos. In ...

IMPRESSIONS: Metal Torrent

IMPRESSIONS: Metal Torrent

Impressions By Aaron Kaluszka, IT Managing Editor February 28, 2010 Discuss it inTalkBack! Bullet hell from Nintendo? Yes, thanks to DSiWare. Metal Torrent is a vertical-scrolling bullet hell shoot-em-up for DSiWare. Reversing course from their latest relaxing release, Endless Ocean, the game was created by Arika, who are also known ...

PODCAST: Radio Free Nintendo: Episode 185

PODCAST: Radio Free Nintendo: Episode 185

Radio Free Nintendo: Episode 185 By Jonathan Metts, Contributing Editor February 28, 2010 Discuss it inTalkBack!-1Comment We celebrate Nintendo’s latest announcements, and you celebrate us, in this packed episode. Episode 185: Yea Us! Download in AAC Format      Subscribe to AAC Feed Download in MP3 Format      Subscribe to MP3 Feed Subscribe ...

New Line Cinema options rights for film adaptation of Heavy Rain

New Line Cinema options rights for film adaptation of Heavy Rain

What if Heavy Rain, which is so often heralded by creator David Cage as “interactive fiction,” was just a bit less interactive? Is the game’s story and cast of vaguely-French-sounding characters strong enough to carry a feature-length film? We might just find out, some day — world wide web super-sleuth ...

Final Fantasy XIV closed beta goes live March 11

Final Fantasy XIV closed beta goes live March 11

If you are anything like us (or our partners over at Massively), you were hurriedly clicking refresh on the official VanaFest 2010 website for news about the now eight-year-old Final Fantasy XI MMO last night. If you were, then you might’ve caught the momentary mention that the first wave of ...

Original Clover soundtrack available for free

Original Clover soundtrack available for free

Presumably doing a tiny early spring cleaning, the team at Binary Tweed have released the complete soundtrack to its original Xbox Live Indie Game Clover. For the low, low price of free, those who download the soundtrack will be treated to a piano assortment composed and recorded by Chris Chillingworth ...

Transformers  Media Reveals ‘War For Cybertron’

Transformers Media Reveals ‘War For Cybertron’

Coming out of the recent DICE Summit, publisher Activision has unloaded a wealth of in-game media from High Moon’s robotic action title Transformers: War For Cybertron. Included in the barrage were screenshots of both the current-gen and Nintendo DS versions, along some footage of the game in motion: Please ...

The Release List  of 2/28 – 3/6: Batter’s Up

The Release List of 2/28 – 3/6: Batter’s Up

As we state goodbye to February and hello to March, it seems the bases are loaded. Highlights If you are looking for a particular system, skip to the PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, Nintendo DS or PSP sections, or just read on through. The retail games are due ...

Remade NES box art nearly as awesome as our childhood memories

Remade NES box art nearly as awesome as our childhood memories

The fruits of a deviantART “art jam” concept pitched by user lerms in late 2009 has finally been revealed, rekindling our love for classic NES promotional design (and how awesomely bad it was). The art jam’s rules were simple: Select a classic title and reimagine its box art, while also ...

Stadium Events sells for $41,300, becomes most costly NES game ever

Stadium Events sells for $41,300, becomes most costly NES game ever

We’re not sure which element of this story is the most newsworthy, so we will lead with this: Some person, somewhere in the world, recently spent $41,300 on an extremely rare NES game. Someone was perusing the eBay auction block, saw Stadium Events (which Nintendo purchased the rights to and ...

Art Style: Rotozoa Hands-On Footage

Art Style: Rotozoa Hands-On Footage

Art Style: Rotozoa Hands-On Footage February 27, 2010 at8:40 PST– Source:Nintendo Discuss it inTalkBack! NWR takes a look at Skip’s upcoming WiiWare game. NWR’s Aaron Kaluszka recently had a chance to take Skip’s Art Style: Rotozoa for a spin at the Nintendo Media Summit. Reminiscent of titles like flOw and ...

Metroid: Other M Intro Cutscene Leaked Online

Metroid: Other M Intro Cutscene Leaked Online

Metroid: Other M Intro Cutscene Leaked Online February 27, 2010 at14:26 PST– Source:The Examiner Discuss it inTalkBack!- 11Comments Nobody was supposed to film any footage of Samus’ next adventure, but hey, this is the internet. The Examiner has posted some leaked footage of Metroid: Other M, recorded at last week’s ...

New Blur trailer meant to be watched with friends

New Blur trailer meant to be watched with friends

If you and your buddies were wondering what the upcoming real-life kart racer (with realistic cars), Blur, has to offer in terms of multiplayer content, the latest trailer for the game was made specifically with y’all in mind. Like Super Mario Kart — the game is often stated to be ...

MLB 2K10 showcases numbers in ‘Stats & Splits’ trailer

MLB 2K10 showcases numbers in ‘Stats & Splits’ trailer

Nothing states “It’s seriously snowing, again?” like a new trailer for MLB 2K10 focusing on the “real language” of baseball. Being pro chair sitters, we are not really able to vouch for the validity of this trailer’s claims about the vernacular of the diamond, but we can make the claim ...

Drive Down “Lara Croft Way” in Derby

Drive Down “Lara Croft Way” in Derby

This strange news item comes from The Escapist. It seems that the Council of Derby (about 20 km west of Nottingham, England), made a misstep when they “went to the public for help in naming two sections of the city’s inner ring road that had just been built.” One ...

Links: Just Before March Roars 2010 Edition

Links: Just Before March Roars 2010 Edition

Image by erjkprunczyk via Flickr I can remember being huge on the Olympics back to 1976 watching gymnastics and pretending to be one of the Romanian gymnasts with a friend of mine. We even made our own banners with the country on it. Then when I went to basketball camp ...

WiiWare game can turn your TV into an aquarium

WiiWare game can turn your TV into an aquarium

Andriasang.com has pointed out a new Japanese WiiWare title that turns your tv into a glorified aquarium. Fortunately, it’s more than just a screensaver (it had better be for 800 Wii Points) and includes a number of different features. Entitled Aqua Living: The Fish You Can Watch On your TV ...