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Blip Festival goes to Tokyo! →
Blip Festival organizers have just announced an additional venue for the annual chiptune festival: TOKYO. On September 4, and 5, Koenji High will host the inaugural Blip Festival Tokyo show, featuring awesome Blip Fest stalwarts like Bit Shifter, Hally, and Nullsleep, as well as Nintendo legend Hirokazu “Hip” Tanaka (here’s the Balloon Fight music to let you know why...
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MapleStory DSi bundle, Girls Generation...
While we’re enjoying the Nintendo DSi XL and speculation about the Nintendo 3DS in the States, South Korea won’t receive the standard Nintendo DSi until April 15th, when it releases there in White, Black, Blue, and Pink.
To make sure the system’s launch is a hit, Nintendo and Nexon are releasing a DS adaptation of super-popular Korean MMO MapleStory at the same time. Check out...
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NitroGrafx: TG-16/PCE emulation on DS →
Nitrografx, a a DS-based port of the Game Boy Advance PCEAdvance emulator, is the work of Fredrik “Flubba” Olsson, whose website proudly displays the use of his PocketNES emulator in official GBA collections by Hudson, Jaleco, and Atlus. First released on March 19, The latest version of the PC Engine/Turbografx-16 emulator even adds support for CD-ROM games!
Between this and the...
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Nintendo and Sega games
A funny discussion between Game Developer editor-in-chief Brandon Sheffield and Robert Pelloni (Bob of Bob’s Game fame) about the latter’s favorite games:
Brandon: A lot of Nintendo games on that list.
Bob: A lot of Nintendo games? I wish they still made [games like those].
Brandon: I don’t think anyone is ever going to again.
Bob: I don’t think so.
Brandon: I really...
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I choose you, dad: Letters to an absent father
Artist Maré Odomo posted a set of touching Pokémon-themed comics titled Letters to an Absent Father. The strips focus on the anime series’s hero, Ash Ketchum, as he writes brief but heartbreaking notes to his estranged dad.
Though his father was referenced in the show’s second episode and suggested to be a Pokémon trainer, he never appears on the program, and it’s assumed he...
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If you're at PAX East...
If you’re at PAX East, why are you spending your precious time there at our silly site? You should be running to the 2 Player Productions booth by the main theater, where you can buy some great chip music albums and other junk.
Our friends from Attract Mode are in the same booth selling their video game culture-y wares and a selection of Meat Bun shirts! Don’t forget to grab a Game...
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@Play on Wii-ren the Wanderer →
John Harris, whose @Play column and playthrough diaries of the original Shiren the Wanderer game likely converted a quarter of the roguelike series’s fanbase, has a thorough article on the franchise’s recent Wii release in the U.S.
He discusses the game’s strengths, weaknesses, and changes from previous entries, also touching on Atlus’s decision to advertise the game...
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Nintendo 3DS mock-up/concept collection
Whenever Nintendo announces a mystery device with a new gimmick, dozens of speculative mock-ups pop up for the hardware, some awful, others majestic/hilarious.
We’re collecting all the fan-created Nintendo 3DS mock-ups we can find, building an archive of crazy/creative ideas gamers come up with for the 3D system. Please send in or link us to any new concept Nintendo 3DSes you come across,...
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Amazon offering $20 games credit with Super Mario... →
Amazon is offering a steal of deal, in which you’ll receive $20 off future game purchases if you preorder Super Mario Galaxy 2. If you frequently buy games from the online retailer, that credit will come in handy!
Other current Amazon sales relevant to your interests:
Nintendo Power subscription for $9.98
MadWorld for $7.69
A Boy and His Blob for $15.47
No More Heroes 2 for $34.99
See...
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WatchLove Plus+ system bundle teased in DSi XL/LL Japanese commercial. The clip begins like another advertisement Nintendo ran last month, illustrating the differences between the standard DSi and DSi XL/LL in terms Love Plus fans will understand: “Because the screen is big, Manaka is big. Rinko is big. Nene is big.”
This week’s Famitsu has a feature on Love Plus+, which is...
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WatchMy first WarioWare DIY microgame!
FYI: I’ve reviewed WarioWare DIY over at Joystiq. I thought it was totally boss, and I hope real game designer types don’t hate the game and decide I’m an idiot.
There was a lot of stuff I wanted to say but couldn’t really get in there, but basically, it’s not only a fun thing to make fun things with, it’s also a pretty...
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Cave Story WiiWare's jacked up music
I’ve heard a lot of grievances about the (optional) new music in the Cave Story WiiWare remake ever since it released yesterday, but I chalked it off to nitpicking, unappeasable fans of the original game just finding anything they can to complain about.
As it turns out, though, there are some serious issues with the audio not playing as intended. Yann van der Cruyssen (Knytt Stories), who...
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Nintendo 3DS game concepts from the THIRD...
As gaming blogs and Twitter users send themselves into a tizzy with reports about the Nintendo 3DS’s possible hardware features (analog stick?!) and release (second half of 2010?!), it’s important to not forget the most essential factor of the upcoming 3D-capable system: the games.
Naturally, the best way to take advantage of this new gaming technology is to shoehorn old concepts...
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Reminder: PAX 09 DVD giveaway →
For those that need the reminder, we’re giving away several box sets of the PAX 2009 DVDs produced by our cronies at 2 Player Productions. The collections, each of which includes six DVDs and over 10 hours of filmed content from last year’s Penny Arcade Expo, is valued at $40.
All you need to do to enter is leave substantive comments in any of our posts published between this...
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WarioWare DIY: Personal microgames and video game...
snap·shot, noun 1: a casual photograph made typically by an amateur with a small handheld camera 2: an impression or view of something brief or transitory <a snapshot of life back then>
The brilliance of WarioWare D.I.Y. is it gives gamers the power to create video game snapshots, not just in the sense of brief video game experience, but also personal, perhaps clumsy interactive scenes.
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