RADIO TRIVIA: Episode 79: Bits and Bobs

RADIO TRIVIA: Episode 79: Bits and Bobs

Nathan joins the ‘cast for some game music goodness. No crickets. Download in MP3 Format Subscribe to MP3 Feed Subscribe via iTunes (Please rate and review, too!) Did you like the third game? Let your fellow listeners know in TalkBack! Think you have got a better choice? Then send it ...

Super Mario Collection Special Pack Revealed

Super Mario Collection Special Pack Revealed

Kirby’s Epic Yarn and Golden Sun: Dark Dawn accompany the pack on Nintendo’s October Japanese release schedule. Nintendo has revealed October’s game release schedule for Japan, and included in the list is a surprise, Super Mario Collection Special Pack.  The package was revealed at a Nintendo retailer briefing this day ...

REVIEW: Wipeout: The Game Review

REVIEW: Wipeout: The Game Review

Based off of the popular ABC tv show of the same name, Wipeout: The Game for DS is, in essence, a rather easy minigame collection aimed primarily at younger demographics. The game has a lot in common with the tv series, most notably that the main goal of both of ...

Monster Tale Delayed Until 2011

Monster Tale Delayed Until 2011

The next game from the guys who made Henry Hatsworth will not be coming out this year. Majesco confirmed this day that Monster Tale is not coming out until early 2011. Originally slated for a December 2010 release, the game is listed by some retailers as coming out on March ...

PRESS RELEASE: METROID: OTHER M TAKES PLAYERS DEEP INTO THE HEART OF A LEGEND

PRESS RELEASE: METROID: OTHER M TAKES PLAYERS DEEP INTO THE HEART OF A LEGEND

Classic Game Play, Immersive Graphics and Revealing Storyline Power New Metroid Game for Wii REDMOND, Wash., Aug. 31, 2010 – Samus Aran, protagonist of Nintendo’s Metroid™ series, is already known as one of the most iconic heroines in video game history. Now, with the launch of Metroid™: Other M for ...

PRESS RELEASE: Bay Area Men and Women Go Head-to-Head in Professor Layton’s Puzzle Challenge

PRESS RELEASE: Bay Area Men and Women Go Head-to-Head in Professor Layton’s Puzzle Challenge

Nintendo Visits Union Square to Find Out Who’s Better at Solving Puzzles – Ladies or Gents? WHAT:           Nintendo is hosting a puzzle challenge to help celebrate the launch of Professor Layton and the Unwound Future™, a new hand-held game created exclusively for the Nintendo DS™ ...

The Lord Giveth, and UPS Taketh Away

The Lord Giveth, and UPS Taketh Away

Longtime readers might recall when my Xbox 360 died back in December.  I wrote what might be the least dramatic moment-by-moment retelling of a death in human history.  Over a month later, I wrote a follow-up blog post about the absolutely insane events that followed. The short version is as ...

Pants vs. Pants, A Cultural Divide

Pants vs. Pants, A Cultural Divide

A recent preview of Kirby’s Epic Yarn (or Epic Yam, as we like to call it) in Nintendo Power, showcased the story and background behind Kirby’s latest adventure. It turns out that the sorceror Yin-Yarn is out to cause mayhem by turning Dream Land’s inhabitants into Yarn. Kirby, being the ...

PRESS RELEASE: DJ Hero 2 Uncrates 105 of the Hottest Hits and Biggest Anthems Getting Exclusive DJ Hero Remix Treatment for the Best Soundtrack in Entertainment

PRESS RELEASE: DJ Hero 2 Uncrates 105 of the Hottest Hits and Biggest Anthems Getting Exclusive DJ Hero Remix Treatment for the Best Soundtrack in Entertainment

SANTA MONICA, CA – August 26, 2010 – When the party starts on October 19, budding beat chemists, singing sensations and all of their friends will experience over 100 of the biggest tracks from the hottest artists, remixed exclusively for DJ Hero® 2, including Eminem’s “Not Afraid,” Lady Gaga’s “Bad ...

Disney Epic Mickey Collector’s Edition Revealed

Disney Epic Mickey Collector’s Edition Revealed

The $70 package includes the game, a figurine, a behind-the-scenes DVD, and more. Disney Epic Mickey is getting the collector’s edition treatment according to a recent listing by Toys R Us. The package, retailing for $70, includes a copy of Disney Epic Mickey for Wii, a 5-inch Mickey figure, a ...

Win a Copy of PANG: Magical Michael

Win a Copy of PANG: Magical Michael

Rising Star Games has announced a contest where they will give away duplicates of their upcoming Nintendo DS title. Europeanpublisher Rising Star Games is giving away a copy each week, for thenext five weeks, of PANG: Magical Michael for the Nintendo DS. To enter, all you need to do is ...

Media Create Sales: August 16-22

Media Create Sales: August 16-22

Last week saw many games with massive sales increases due to the mid-summer Obon holiday, but this week was quite the opposite. All of the games in this week’s top 20 had decreased sales, whether by a few hundred units or a couple of thousand.  After ruling the roost last ...

Art Academy a Surprising Success in Europe

Art Academy a Surprising Success in Europe

Art Academy has gone beyond and above Nintendo’s expectations. Nintendo’s Art Academy has turned out to be quite a hit in Europe, with the game topping the DS charts for two consecutive weeks thus far. The game also sits at number six in the All Formats Top 40 in the ...

PRESS RELEASE: Rock Band 3 Full Song List Officially Confirmed

PRESS RELEASE: Rock Band 3 Full Song List Officially Confirmed

Cambridge,Mass. – Aug. 25, 2010 – Harmonix, the world’s premier musicvideo game developer and MTV Games, a part of Viacom’s MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), todayconfirmed the entire 83 song on-disc soundtrack for the highly anticipated RockBand™3 music video game, including new tracks from Jimi Hendrix,Avenged Sevenfold, Paramore, The White ...

MTV and Harmonix Reveal the Entire Rock Band 3 Song List

MTV and Harmonix Reveal the Entire Rock Band 3 Song List

Cambridge,Mass. – Aug. 25, 2010 – Harmonix, the world’s premier musicvideo game developer and MTV Games, a part of Viacom’s MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), todayconfirmed the entire 83 song on-disc soundtrack for the highly anticipated RockBand™3 music video game, including new tracks from Jimi Hendrix,Avenged Sevenfold, Paramore, The White ...

IMPRESSIONS: Ivy the Kiwi? Impressions

IMPRESSIONS: Ivy the Kiwi? Impressions

Yuji Naka’s latest game, the oddly-punctuated Ivy the Kiwi?, begins with an egg falling out of the sky into a forest.  Ivy, a red bird, partially hatches from the egg, realizes that her mom is nowhere to be seen, and sets out to find her.  Players must guide Ivy in ...

Gunpei Yokoi Exhibit in Harakuju: "The Man Who Was Called the God of Games"

Gunpei Yokoi Exhibit in Harakuju: "The Man Who Was Called the God of Games"

Over the weekend, I got an email from NWR’s Aaron Kaluszka, who’s been incredible at finding all kinds of awesome Japanese related content for our crew to check out or translate, informing me that there was a Gunpei Yokoi exhibit being held in Harajuku. Interested at the prospect of learning ...