January 2010
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Tower of Shadow, Last Window, & Magic Obelisk...
Three studios put out attractive wallpapers for their games this week, and I’ve collected them here in case you missed them. So, if you’re desperate to find something new to decorate your desktop, here you go!
Hudson released this Tower of Shadow image as a reward for completing a Flash demo of the game’s controls. NeoGAFfer Agnates posted the full wallpaper here, though, so...
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Tecmo's upside-down DSiWare shmup
Tecmo will toss two odd titles onto Japan’s DSiWare shop next week: Huh? The DS Is Upside Down? Reverse Shooting, and Huh? The DS Is Upside Down? Upside Down Drops. The latter is a puzzler and doesn’t interest me, but if you want to learn about it, head here.
Now, Reverse Shooting, this is some strange shiz. It features graphics from Tecmo’s Star Force series, which is...
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Music from Metroid: Other M. This tender piano...
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“Thanks to your support, Mr. Jin, pre-orders for WiZman’s World have...”
– An apparent email from Jaleco CEO Takayasu Kato to My Game Flash blogger Jin regarding Etrian Odyssey III’s one-month delay to early April.
Before you get all outraged at this guy’s gloating, keep in mind that he has the unenviable job of selling WiZman’s World, a game whose most...
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Monkey Kong →
Mike Meyer created this tribute to the Game Boy Donkey Kong for a Mini Ludum Dare game design competition. It’s not a full game given the time-limited development, but it’s got a really nice backflip mechanic and a really awesome level structure in which the level updates one half at a time like Pac-Man Championship Edition.
I would really like Meyer to continue working on this, but...
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“Colour Television” by J. Arthur...
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Yaoi console wars (NSFW, naturally) →
Sankaku Complex posted scans from a manga about the video game console wars, depicting its combatants as three male students at Game Hard Academy. The above shot, cropped to remove the naughty bits, shows the PlayStation 3 on the bottom left, the Xbox 360 riding on top of him, and the Wii watching from a nearby window, waggling furiously. That’s the console wars for you.
How do the...
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Is 3D Space Tank a follow-up to X?
Some time in the coming weeks, Q-Games will put out the third game from its DSiWare space trilogy, 3D Space Tank, probably showing up in Europe first. Nintendo and Q-Games haven’t disclosed much about the game beyond what you can surmise from its title, but GamerBytes notes this will likely release as X-Scape when in the U.S.
When Nintendo listed X-Scape in its early 2010 line-up a few...
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DSiWare news out the god damn yin-yang
I loathe putting together these round-up posts because they require so much effort and no one bothers to read through them, but someone has to cover these DSiWare items, right? Sure, Nintendo Life and Go Nintendo mention this junk from time to time, but I’m kind of focused on building the audience for this site. Anyway…
This trailer for Burning Puzzle Flame Tail presents a...
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“In the case of Bonk, everything has personality, from the main character to the...”
– Bob Mackey argues the merits of the Bonk series. If you want to try a Bonk game (and you should, they’re adorable), you can download all three of the Turbografx-16 games, and the futuristic cute-em-up spinoff Air Zonk, on the Wii Virtual Console, or you can set up a Japanese PSN account and...
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Preorder Infinite Space for $28 →
I just wanted to give you guys a heads-up that preorders for Infinite Space, Platinum Games and Nudemaker’s sci-fi RPG based on Arthur C. Clarke’s novel Childhood’s End, is now priced at $27.99 at Amazon, a slight discount from its list price of $35. The expected ship date is March 31st.
While you’re at Amazon, it’s worth noting that the online retailer also marked...
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