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25 May 2009Swedish-developed Ghostwire will let you use the DSi’s camera to hunt ghosts in the real world through augmented-reality gaming, developer A Different Game announced today. window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; In the adventure title, gamers will use the DSi as a portal to the astral plane to find and collect ghosts that exist all around them. The [...]
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22 May 2009window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; Just announced by Nintendo for a late August release: Metroid Prime Trilogy, a three-pack set bringing together the first two GameCube Metroid chapters remade with true widescreen and Wii-mote control support, alongside Corruption, the third game in the series already available on Wii, for the cost of one game. Keep your eyes [...]
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21 May 2009Go to the Mii Channel. Press A. Press B. Press 1. Press and hold 2. Nintendo sent Kotaku copies of Personal Trainer: Walking yesterday, and while we think we don’t need that much training to walk (left foot and then right foot, yes?), we are in fact learning things. window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; We have learned, [...]
THQ knows that if you’re going to deliver a Wii to Buckingham Palace to promote your new game no ordinary console will do, so they had one gold plated. The shiny Nintendo console was delivered to Buckingham Palace today as part of a marketing stunt meant to promote BIG Family Games, the latest title in [...]
In: Culture|Gaming News|Nintendo
21 May 2009A new perspective and a new style manages to make Shy-guys as gnarled and horrifying as maybe we should have seen them all along. Art by Winona Nelson, concept artist at Giants, MDK and Armed and Dangerous developer Planet Moon. Nelson offers offers prints for sale here, but released this image in ultra hi-res for [...]
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20 May 2009In June, videogame crapvendor Innex will start distributing this Retro Adapter by Komodo, a $20 (projected) dongle that will let you plug in and use your NES, Super Nintendno, or Nintendo 64 controllers on the Nintendo Wii, perfect for all those Virtual Console games.
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19 May 2009A new year brings one thing: More Dragon Ball. You know what that means? More Bulma. The Xbox 360 and the PS3 are getting a Dragon Ball Z title called Raging Blast that appears to be a sequel to Dragon Ball Z Sparking! The Nintendo Wii is getting a Dragonball action game, which doesn’t appear [...]
In: Gaming News|Indie|Nintendo
19 May 2009Somewhere in between WiiWare debut favorite LostWinds (for its vulnerable directly-controlled character and 2D platforming), Crayon Physics (for its elaborately pieced together machinery), iPhone scribbler Trace — and, as always, a tip of the hat to the visionary Harold and the Purple Crayon — Danish indies PressPlay have revealed the first video for their self-published [...]