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March 19th, 2007

Zelda Goes Online…Soon

Zelda, one of the largest video game franchises stemming back to the original NES, will make its online debut later this year. Phantom Hourglass, the direct sequel to Gamecube title Wind Waker, will be released later this year onto the Nintendo DS. TGDaily.com has the scoop:

“In an interview with Game Informer […]

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March 18th, 2007

Nintendo, GameSpy Team Up for Wii Online

Nintendo has announced that they will continue their relationship with IGN company GameSpy to take the Wii online. Nintendo currently uses the service for the popular Nintendo DS handheld. GameSpy’s technology will enable such features as ranking, friends, and matchmaking in finding opponents or teamates. Here’s the complete press release on the partnership:
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March 17th, 2007

Possible Wii Changes and Upgrades

Joystiq recently reported news from Nintendo’s Takeshi Shimada about the Wii and possible upcoming changes, additions, and upgrades. Here’s what we found out:

Nintendo is considering adding a text-to-speech tool to the console that will allow the Wii to read text aloud. This would be most useful for news as well as emails while users can […]

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March 16th, 2007

PSP Redesign Coming

After rumoms about the PSP went from redesign, to no redesign, to redesign again we held off reporting the news until we knew what what was happening. Kotaku is now reporting that a PSP2 will be coming. E3 is being guessed as the location for the announcement of the redesigned console which is said to […]

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February 26th, 2007

Predictions for Game Developers Conference

Next week the Game Developers Conference will begin and there are expected to be some new announcements. GamePro has some solid news on what will and won’t be happening at the conference.
Topping the list of what I call “almost locks” is Microsoft officially unveiling the Black Xbox 360 (prior coverage here). Halo 3 multiplayer […]

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February 25th, 2007

Gamecube, Games STILL in Production

This week it was announced that Gamecube production had ceased. I haven’t shelled out the money for any new system, yet, and this came as a shock to me. a person wwho absolutely adores their Gamecube. Well as it turns out there is not so much to worry about after all. Here is the quote […]

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February 10th, 2007

Black Xbox 360 Coming?

The authors over at Tweak Town have images of a black Xbox 360 at a Taipei game show. Here is one image from the Tweak Town post:

(via Tweak Town)

No word on whether or not this will market to market or when such a move would hypothetically happen. It would be a logical move for Microsoft […]

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February 8th, 2007

Guitar Hero Coming to Wii; DS too?

Joystiq is reporting that the craze game known as Guitar Hero will be debuting on the Wii platform most likely in early 2008. The announcement however, left open the possibility that the super popular game way move to the portable Nintendo DS. This move would be logical for both Activision, the company behind Guitar Hero, […]

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February 6th, 2007

New Wii Color Variants Coming

The Nintendo Wii will be releasing variants of the console in red and black in the immediate future although no specifics such as dates or quantities were released. This follows most of nintendo recent consoles (think N64 to present) which were offered with varying colors in an attempt to appeal to a broader audience.
I am […]

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February 6th, 2007

No Unreal 3 Engine for Wii

In an interview with Game/Life the Unreal 3 Engine creators talk about their plays for the Wii. Here is an exerpt about it from their interview:
“WN: It’s also tough to ignore the success of the Wii at this point. Do you guys have any plans to be in that space? 

MR: Hey, we’re in that space! Red Steel, Splinter […]

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