Mad World is one of the most highly anticipated games coming to the Wii in 2009. Think Running Man meets Sin City, then put it on the Wii. Yes, it’s in black and white (with tons of blood red). Yes, it’s extremely brutal. And, yes, it looks to be beautifully bloody. You play Jack, a [...]

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Let’s Go To The City? Let’s Not Bother, more like. I’m starting to tire of the same dialogue from the animals gathered around the fountain in the town square - even if Chow Down Meltown does sound like a good name for a bistro. And it’s a bit odd that they all change every [...]

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Let’s Catch comes from Yuji Naka’s Prope - it’s a WiiWare accompaniment to retail title Let’s Tap, though it bears absolutely no resemblance to the box-tapping weird-em-up. It’s available for a slightly-expensive 1000 points on the Japanese WiiWare service and takes up just 91 blocks of your Wii fridge.
It’s a game that’s about throwing [...]

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Well, this week is a huge one for fans of the Wii’s Virtual Console. Phantasy Star IV is making its debut on the VC. While the game has been available in Europe since November, we here in the states can get a taste starting Today, Dec. 22. “The End of the Millennium” marked the final [...]

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EA has done what’s known in the trade as a Roman Bednar, sneakily nodding home a never-saw-that-coming winner in injury time to steal the top slot in the All-Formats Top 40 from Call of Duty: World at War and Mario Kart Wii in third. It’s a moral victory for Nintendo’s mascot, though, as he [...]

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A clear attempt to do something a bit subtle and arty for this Wii sequel to one of the DS’s most underrated games, but for me this just doesn’t work. What kind of boxart has the main character cut in half at the top of the picture? Too much space reserved for the writing [...]

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WayForward Technologies, creator of DS retro cracker Contra 4, has opened the official website for its forthcoming WiiWare title, LIT, which will be released in early 2009. It’s an intriguing blend of survival horror and puzzler, as you have to smash windows and turn on lamps to light your way to the exit of each [...]

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Fun! Fun! Minigolf is perhaps the most convincing argument yet for a Wii storage solution and an upping of the size limit of WiiWare games. In its current state it’s more of a playable demo than a complete game, and at 900 points is really not worth the bother.
I’ll give developer Shin’en - creator [...]

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I don’t necessarily like doing negative lists, but how can you appreciate the good if you don’t remember the bad? There has been a fair share of disappointing games, news, images in 2008. So, let’s get through this together, and I promise the lists for the rest of the year will be positive. It is [...]

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There’s nothing that screams ‘Merry Christmas’ like a video game trailer featuring impaling, smashing, and chainsaws. Sega just recently dropped a brand new MadWorld trailer, and it doesn’t disappoint. In Sega’s latest trailer, we gain a little more understanding of the game’s plot. Like it really needs one.
I’m not sure if I just didn’t do [...]

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