kotaku.com - 29 days ago
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Some games are big sellers. Some games do okay. Some do horrible. And then, there's cat game Sukeban Shacho Rena Wii There was an event for the game at the Yodobashi Camera in Akihabara over the weekend. It featured demo play, a tournament and a dearth of players? There have been rumors ...
Fans campaigning for President Cat
joystiq.com 10/21/2009 — Against all odds, a completely random Japanese Wii game starring a cat blogger has become a hot topic among some fans. Sukeban Shachou Rena Wii , published by Jorudan, stars a cat named Rena, from a popular Japanese blog , as the CEO of Cat Queen ...
Local Gym About to Get a Letter from Nintendo [Ruh Roh]
kotaku.com 8/22/2009 — Looking to buff up or slim down in Tucson? Check out WE-FIT. If you have trouble finding it, it's the gym at 6437 N. Oracle Road - since that name might change in the future. Reader Martin sent us the link, and says the gym has been wallpapering ...
GameStop Brings Forza 3 to PS3 [Ruh Roh]
kotaku.com 8/23/2009 — GameStop occasionally puts out these promo boxes to show customers what they can buy in their stores. Or can't, in this case, because I doubt Microsoft Game Studios is developing anything for the PS3 right now. Says one tipster wit: "Not the first ...
Xbox Live Smashes Mass Banhammer on Pirates [Ruh Roh]
kotaku.com 10/31/2009 — "A small percentage" of Xbox Live users with modded consoles that allowed pirated games to play woke up to find an early treat in their Halloween bag: a banhammer. IGN noticed scuttlebutt about bannings in technical feedback forums and asked ...
Shatner Sends C&D to Studio Over "Shatter" Joke [Ruh Roh]
kotaku.com 8/20/2009 — Captain Kirk set the lawyers to stun when he heard a skin was coming for the PSN game "Shatter," using his likeness and including a remix of Big Bill's "Mr. Tambourine Man" cover. One problem: the news was a joke. Two weeks back, New Zealand site ...
Hero Cop Popped in Video Game Ripoff [Ruh Roh]
kotaku.com 6/20/2009 — A Lawrence, Kan. police officer who earned a medal for rescuing people from burning apartments now faces a 14-count federal indictment in an alleged buy-and-return video game fraud. Ryan Sayler allegedly pocketed just $526 in the scam, an extremely ...
Black Wii coming next month
mcvuk.com 10/20/2009 — Nintendo has confirmed it will launch a limited edition black Wii in the UK and Ireland on Friday, November 6th. The console will hit mainland Europe two weeks later on November 20th. Nintendo senior product manager for Wii Rob Lowe told MCV: Nintendo ...
WiiWare demos make their way to Europe as well
nintendoeverything.com 16 days ago — 16 November, 2009 – Since it launched in May last year, WiiWare has become the source for Wii owners around the world to try some of the most creative ideas from both top developers and independent studios.
From today and for a limited period* you will be able to try some of the best ...
Iwata: "Wii cannot be defined as healthy" —
Computer And Video Games 29 days ago
Nintendo on "urgent mission to recover momentum during holidays" in Japan.
Nintendo top honcho Satoru Iwata has said that Wii's situation in Japan "cannot be defined as healthy". It's probably not as bad as it sounds, they have sold ba-zillions ...
Nintendo Begins WiiWare Game Demo Trial Program —
Gamasutra News 29 days ago
Hoping to stimulate downloadable Wii game sales, Nintendo is beginning a trial program offering downloadable demos for a small number of WiiWare titles, company CEO Satoru Iwata said in an investor Q& A. The program will begin later this month, ...
Miyamoto Talks Zelda Spirit Tracks and Wii —
Kombo.com 29 days ago
During the aforementioned question and answer session with Nintendo EAD General Manager Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario and Zelda (among others) took a little time to speak out about the latter creation. Specifically, he talked a bit about the ...