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When Mega Man 9 made it’s triumphant 8-bit leap onto the virtual console on Monday, the online instruction manual lept onto the VC with it. That manual contained some information about future plans for some rather controversial DLC.…

Square-Enix, a Company that has obviously shown that they LOVE money, has found that the easiest way to make said piles of money is to use Japan’s favorite game machine, the DS. The staggering amount of recent releases of Square-Enix…

Creating a new Intellectual Property is often a big gamble for publishers. The success of a new IP can often hinge on a few review scores and if enough buzz is created from the advertising campaign. For example, Assassin’s Creed…

As I sit in the Minneapolis/St. Paul airport at 5:50 in the morning I ponder back to my childhood. The days when we would pack up the family suburban and travel like a real American family, on the road. These…

When I think back to the history of Apple I look to none other then Oregon Trail. What stood out about Oregon Trail was that we were playing a video game in school. Whenever we would finish our keyboarding exercises…

So with Mario Kart Wii having been out for weeks now, it’s hard to believe the violent backlash crawling throughout the internets about how much the included steering wheel “sucks”. Granted, there isn’t much to it, and as I stated…

Nintendo told us from the very beginning that the Wii was going to be different. Even the working title was Nintendo Revolution. And different it is; but revolution? Not yet.

Yes, Nintendo has officially been successful in bringing in the casual…

The rise in popularity of Nintendo’s last two video game machines, the DS and Wii, has really gotten me thinking about how this meteoric rise in is similar to another video game machine, the Atari 2600. Now I really can’t…

I’m pretty excited about this one. Most of us have had experience with a ‘Tycoon’ style game in the past. My personal experiences were generally good, but there’s no denying they’ve gotten pretty formulaic in recent years. Good thing for…

SCEA’s Managing Director Michael Ephraim has expressed to attendees at a media launch event in Australia that the Wii is a completely different product than the PS3. Ephraim explains:

“We think PS3 is not a product to be compared with Wii,…