VC Friday: Neo Geo duo (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Virtual ConsoleThis week's muscle-bound PAL Virtual Console update comes exclusively from SNK's sleek, black beast of a console.Art of Fighting 2 makes its worldwide Virtual Console debut, though if you own a PlayStation 2, Art of Fighting Anthology is available cheaply, and should be coming to the Wii .
Bon Jovi and others confirmed for Rock Band 2 (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News
Soft rock god and midget Bon Jovi is amongst the latest group of artists confirmed to appear in Rock Band 2. Game Informer magazine identified seven new tracks from the instrument fest, finally confirming what we all suspected: that the "leaked" video from earlier in the week was a fake.
Friday Video: Power Pad hack is music to our ears (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Friday VideoSeth Sternberger is responsible for the awesome video above, which brings back memories of Big, for some odd reason. It's just pure awesome. The specifics of how he completed this are a tad bit of a mystery, but Seth has some musical chops. Not only did he complete this, but he's also part of the chiptune outfit 8 Bit Weapon.
EA gearing up for more Blox-type games (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Rumors
According to new job postings from EA Los Angeles, the Boom Blox team is looking to beef up its roster of artists and designers. The text in the job listing suggests that, if not a sequel, a new game in the vein of Boom Blox is on the way.The listings seek designers and producers to "bring accessible, quick-to-the-fun games for all ages to the Nintendo Wii!" and specifically recommends experience with physics-based gameplay.
WRUP: Dungeon crawling Chocobo edition (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: What are you playing?
This week saw the long wait for Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon come to an end. Square Enix fans, Chocobo fans and dungeon crawling fans alike all have something new and fun to play. The critics seemed to like it, is what we're saying.
MLB Power Pros is back for the 2008 season (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Screens
With the advent of the Wii, baseball fans are throwing in realism for rock-em-sock-em chibi sports games, complete with big heads, big bats and little (or in this case, completely absent) legs. It was a joyous affair when 2K Sports first hit the airwaves with details of the MLB Power Pros series, and now the rugged little chaps have stepped up to the plate for the next season of quasi-baseball fun in MLB Power Pros 2008.
Alien Crush site goes live, offers up loads of content (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Nintendo Wi-Fi, Controller, Video, Screens
Hudson has just launched the official Japanese site for upcoming WiiWare title, Alien Crush Returns. Within the site, you'll find a lot of content, including a nice video, along with several screens. Also, if you have some knowledge on translating Japanese, you can find some nice control explanations right here.
E308: Marvelous and XSEED's lineup is full of charm (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News
We've been nothing but impressed by how drop-dead gorgeous Rune Factory Frontier looks, so we're more than happy to know that good old Marvelous will be showing the game at next week's E3 conference. Hopefully we'll find out whether the game is as pretty in motion as it is in screens, and more importantly, if the gameplay matches up to its lovely graphics.
The force is with the Wiimote (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, PeripheralsThe DS gets a lightsaber controller (well, stylus, but it's like a controller as you control stuff with it .. whatever) so why is the Wiimote left out in the cold, cold night without bright neon colors and thwong sounds?Useless Wii attachments might be the butt of several chortling jokes, but Star Wars nerds (this blogger included) can't help but think this lightsaber is kinda badass.
Tecmo spritzes out a Spray announcement (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News
Tecmo has taken a break from hemorrhaging employees to work on a game. Spray is a brand new game to be shown at E3, about a prince who must save his village ... by spraying various liquids on its buildings and streets? We aren't sure how that makes any damn sense, but according to the press release announcing the game, Prince Ray has control of two "liquid spraying spirits" who enable him to spray enemies and other stuff with "water, oil, goo, and other liquids.
Dokapon treasure hunters may find real gold (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Imports
Dokapon Kingdom is all about acquiring as much money as possible before the end of the game. Sting is cleverly extending Dokapon's pecuniary theme into the game's promotion by offering buyers money. Specifically, gold coins. The Dokatto Kinka! Present Campaign (Thudding Gold Coin Present Campaign) offers gold coins to people who respond to a survey on Sting's mobile phone site.
Rumor: Punch-Out Wii to be unveiled at E3 (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Rumors
Ding Ding! Some potentially huuuuge news this morning from the pages of Brit magazine NGamer -- apparently, E3 will see Nintendo uppercutting its competition with a new edition of Punch-Out!! for the Wii. Not only that, but the mag reckons Punch Out!! Wii will ship with Balance Board support to let us float like a butterfly dodge and weave, and that we'll be using the Wii Remote and Nunchuk to sting like a bee punch.
Another Week in Japan: Hardware and software numbers 6/30-7/6 (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Another Week in ...
The first thing we noticed upon scanning through last week's top thirty games was that Shiren the Wanderer 3 was missing, to our disappointment. The second thing we noticed was that Tales of Symphonia dropped 100,000 copies from its debut week's sales.
Nintendo E3 2008 press conference: Let's play bingo (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Features
DS Lite redesign
Mega Man 9
That pesky storage problem
More Mario sports
DLC
A new Wii peripheral
Link returns
Even more Fit
What comes after FFIV?
Pikmin, baby, yeah!
Dragon Quest IX
Layton sequels
Fanboys love Reggie
New Wii colors
Balance Board games
Guitar Hero for everyone
More language trainers
Chrono Trigger
Pokémon Platinum
DS Novel to US
Wii Music
Captain Rainbow
Spore Creatures
Animal Crossing Wii
Kid Icarus
Tuesday can't get here soon enough.
AMR Racing brightens up the Balance Board (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Fan stuff
If the cold, hard, infinitely white surface of the Balance Board has you too scared to jump back on the Wii FIt bandwagon, a solution has been found. AMR Racing has thrown together a few snazzy little cover designs, so if you're gonna be staring at the Balance Board while doing pushups, you may as well stare at a Hoochie Mama.
We want to believe in We Move: Pain vs. Pleasure (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Rumors, Video, WiiWare
It's probably an outright hoax -- nay, almost definitely complete nonsense ... right? Whether you're a believer or a skeptic, the shocking media and disturbing atmosphere for the enigmatic We Move: Pain vs. Pleasure is simply too intense to ignore.
And it shall be called ... Bomberman Blast (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, WiiWare
Has Hudson really not used the name Bomberman Blast before? Seems like a pretty obvious choice -- but the genius of Bomberman cannot be quantified with words, so we assume Hudson knows exactly the right thing to do at exactly the right time. They simply said: "Let there be Bomberman Blast.
Konami none too pleased with Rock Band, files patent suit (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News
Konami is pretty upset. They recently filed a patent suit against Harmonix, MTV and their parent company, Viacom. Apparently, a little game called Rock Band (you've probably never heard of it) violated patents Konami had filed in 2002 and 2003. The suit seeks to block Harmonix from using Konami's "inventions" and also get compensation in the form of lots of money from the company.
Wii Warm Up: DuYu NuYu? (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Wii Warm Up
Finally, Data Design Interactive has gotten the message, and added the single feature to their Wii offerings that audiences have been clamoring for since Ninjabread Man: knockoff Mii creation. And the NuYu system looks pretty okay! It's easily one of the better things this particular company has done.
Crazy Mini Golf is deadly serious (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Video
The first gameplay footage of Crazy Mini Golf is in, and it isn't nearly as crazy as Data Design would have us believe. Sure, there's a few loops and tunnels here and there, but where's the emotion? The random strangers running back and forth with arms flailing wildly? Straitjacket as far as the eye can see? Yes, we're afraid Crazy Mini Golf is less crazy than your local Scientology clinic.
