March 2010 News

Game & Watch & Ultra Hand & Mario posters available from Club Nintendo

Published: March 31, 2010

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Nintendo has added the next round of rewards to its North American Club Nintendo store, for those of you eager to burn off your fake money. The WiiWare game Grill-Off with Ultra Hand is now available for real , priced at just 80 Coins. If you prefer to spend way more Coins, the second volume of Nintendo’s Game & Watch Collectio n for DS is now available — for 800 Coins, 200 more than the price of the original


Submerge yourself into Naval Assault: The Killing Tide

Published: March 31, 2010

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click to DIVE into our gallery You’re probably sitting around watching a rerun of The Hunt for Red October on cable right now, wondering aloud, “When are we going to see another decent submarine game?” You’re even practicing your Sean Connery accent, which is good because, come this June, you’ll have a chance to use it. 505 Games, who recently wowed us with both Backbreaker and Naughty Bear , are releasing Naval Assault: The Killing Tide on June 15 exclusively on the Xbox 360, just in time for a Submarine Summer


Zeno Clash delayed on XBLA until April

Published: March 31, 2010

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If you’re sick of being mired in a world that always makes way too much sense, we’re sorry to report that Zeno Clash:Ultimate Edition , ACE Team’s bizarre first-person shooter/brawler, has been held up from its debut on XBLA, originally slated for … right now


Interview: Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands’ Michael McIntyre

Published: March 31, 2010

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Positioned as a new sequel to fan favorite Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time , Ubisoft Montreal’s Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands is a clear return to tradition.


THQ Core Games VP teases fighting game and motion game for E3

Published: March 31, 2010

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Danny Bilson – executive vice president of “Core Games” at rebounding publisher THQ – recently told CVG that his “fighting group is actually taking on the management of another game that we’re going to announce at E3 that has a certain amount of melee combat in it …


UFC not banning fighters who sign up for EA’s MMA after all

Published: March 31, 2010

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UFC prez Dana White previously said he’d blacklist any fighter who signed up for EA’s upcoming mixed martial arts game, EA Sports MMA . And now, Kotaku reports that White is willing to play nice with defectors who chose to be in EA’s game — despite his remaining distaste for the game’s publisher.


Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions swings into stores this September

Published: March 31, 2010

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Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions will get its amazing, noir web-slinging on this September. The game’s story, written by Marvel’s Dan Slott, finds four different wall-crawlers working across parallel universes to put together the Tablet of Order and Chaos, which sounds like a rejected item name from the Zelda universe.


This Wednesday: Mega Man 10 available now on XBLA

Published: March 31, 2010

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Just a quick reminder: Mega Man 10 has finally made its way to Xbox Live Arcade. You download the game — right now — for the price of 800 ($10). Also, don’t worry if the last entry in the series, Mega Man 9 , made you throw your controller into the blender in a fit of blind fury.


Nintendo accounts for nearly 25% of GameStop’s new product purchased in fiscal 2009

Published: March 31, 2010

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Of the many, many games that GameStop sold in 2009 (not to mention the millions of dollars it made ), we were left wondering where the lion’s share of the game retail juggernaut’s capital went in terms of product that the company was actually buying for its stores. And in a recent SEC filing for the last financial year, the company an unsurprising leader: Nintendo took the top spot, with 23 percent of GameStop’s “new product purchases” in fiscal year 2009. Sony trailed in second place by only five less points at 17 percent, while MIcrosoft, EA, and Activision picked up 12, 12, and 11 percent (respectively).


Print your own copy of the unofficial Advance Wars board game

Published: March 31, 2010

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This is one of those cases where we really want to share something magical with you, but fear the tremendous weight the Joystiq Biomass carries will crush the life out of the magical thing in question. Still, though we don’t want to bring Nintendo’s attention to this, we couldn’t not share this incredible, homemade Advance Wars board game with you — especially since you can print out all the assets and start playing it with your fellow tabletop enthusiasts immediately


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