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Goldeneye 007 To Get Golden Controller
Here's a reason to dust off your Wii: When GoldenEye 007 comes out in November, you'll have the option of buying it with a golden Classic Controller Pro. You can see it in the picture above. It's a beauty, right? No word yet on the price, but seriously, when has James Bond ever cared about spending money -- just charge it to British Intelligence. Read on to see video.
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30 million Wiis sold in the US
If you went out this week to pick up a Wii, congratulations! You're part of history. Nintendo just announced that the Wii has now exceeded 30 million units sold in the US, forty-five months after its launch. To celebrate the occasion, Nintendo released some rare sales data, disclosing not only the top ten Nintendo-published Wii games (as of the end of June), but the top ten third-party games ...read more
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Call of Duty: Black Ops coming to DS
Activision’s announced that Call of Duty: Black Ops for the DS, an n-Space-developed stand-alone title, will release on November 9, next to its home console and PC versions. Mirroring the myriad modes that the flagship Black Ops game features, the DS entry will have a six-player multiplayer mode and a two-player cooperative mode, in addition to Arcade and Challenge game types. All of this ...read more
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Kmart selling Wii for $180 this week
A trusted tipster sent us this image, which appears to reveal that Kmart is knocking $20 off the usual $200 price of the Wii this week. According to the fine print in the image (full size), the deal runs from today through August 2. At the time of this writing, both the white and black Wii bundles on Kmart's website were still listed at $200, so it's unclear if this is an in-store only ...read more
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Nintendo wants to see games use the 3DS motion controls
In a recent interview with Wired, 3DS Producer Hideki Konno outlined a few of the under-hyped features of the 3DS. Konno thinks players will, in the near future, see 3DS titles that focus on Wii MotionPlus-style controls instead of the system’s titular 3D graphics. The 3DS hardware features both a gyroscope and accelerometer for precisely tracking the user’s motions—a feature that has gone ...read more
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Activision's Amrich: DJ Hero sales now up to 1.2 million units
Activision's DJ Hero may not have had the strong start the company would have hoped for, but it's apparently gained significant momentum since its October launch. In an editorial piece defending the performance of Bizarre's recent racer, Blur, Activision social media guy Dan Amrich talked up DJ Hero's longterm success -- which has now yielded sales of 1.2 million units. As you might recall, it ...read more
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NPDs: Red Dead Redemption, Nintendo take the lead
The delayed NPD numbers for the month of May have at last arrived and, on the software front, they’ve confirmed what everyone already knew: people really like Red Dead Redemption. Released in North America on May 18, the westerner sold over 1.5 million copies on the PS3 and 360 combined in the month, with both versions trumping the Wii-exclusive Super Mario Galaxy 2, which released five days ...read more
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Fils-Aime: No 3DS in 2010
Best throw those hopes for a 2010 Nintendo 3DS launch that rumor earlier in the week gave right out the window; while demoing the new Donkey Kong on Jimmy Fallon last night (video below), Nintendo of America boss man Reggie Fils-Aime gave the 3D-enabled handheld a 2011 launch window. The earlier rumor originated from a UK retail source and Fallon is a US show, granted, but it seems unlikely ...read more
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Time ranks Virtual Boy, Farmville among top 50 worst inventions
We rarely, if ever, write rebuttals to stories posted on the esteemed, list-friendly publication known as Time, but we've got more than a few bones to pick with its recently posted "50 Worst Inventions" list. Around every turn, the list seems to get it wrong. For instance: FarmVille? There are 70 million people who'd disagree with that one. And Virtual Boy? The world's first fully-3D game ...read more
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Super Mario Bros. X trailer takes us to a special place
Hey Nintendo, pay attention: If you really want to find a direct line into the nostalgia centers of our brain, you could learn a few lessons from Super Mario Bros. X. The recently updated game borrows elements from the entire Super Mario franchise (not to mention a few other Nintendo properties), allows for co-op play, has some kind of time distortion gameplay mechanic, includes a level editor ...read more
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