Sony's John Koller has yet to confirm whether or no the next iteration of the PlayStation Portable will have a UMD drive, but he's quite bullish about digital distribution on PSP nonetheless. Today, he told MTV Multiplayer that the company is planning to redouble their efforts on creating and obtaining a catalog of downloadable PSP [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 2, 2009
"Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen," the rare, tactical RPG said to have sold only 25,000 copies for the Super Nintendo, has today arrived on the Nintendo Wii's Virtual Console service for 800 Wii Points, or $8. Originally published by Enix, "March of the Black Queen" was re-released for the Sony PlayStation by Atlus [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 23, 2009
Retro gem "The Last Ninja" today leads the charge of Commodore 64 titles to the Nintendo Wii's Virtual Console service. Priced at 500 Wii Points, you can find the chiptune-filled adventure right next to fellow martial arts title "International Karate," and the split-screen racer "Pitstop II." All three titles are currently published under a 2006 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 28, 2008
Knowing full well Nyko's pathological hatred of wires from our E3 tour, we weren't entirely surprised when we received word that the hardware manufacturer was preparing to debut a new wireless controller for the Nintendo Wii. Dubbed "Wing," the battery-powered wireless device will connect via dongle to the Wii Remote, and present an ergonomic, larger [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Time's up, fellow geeks! It's time to decide who deserves Wii Points in order to worry about their hard drive space, making you "geeks and otaku" just like Laurent Fischer said. In the last two weeks, we've gotten a handful of stories from a few of our more dedicated and worrisome readers, each trying to [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 25, 2008
If you've ever desired to be transported to a 2-D world where you spend your days and nights beating up thugs, bashing through backdrop scenery and procuring tasty barbecued meats from the most unlikely of places, then go track down a copy of Final Fight. But if you've already played the seminal beat 'em up; worked [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 13, 2008
Your daily smörgåsbord of the very best gaming has to offer. Updated repeatedly when it suits our diabolical purpose. Enthusiast: Won't help you steal high-priced gasoline: Syphon Filter 3 on PSN (PlayStation.Blog) Mod chips gain legal precedent in UK, jury still out on mod dip (Team Xecuter via GameSpot) This week's Virtual Console lineup rocks for Europe, why the hell don't we [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Reluctant would-be importers rejoice! That stronghold of early awareness, the ESRB, has rated several titles our Japanese gaming rivals have enjoyed for years, including the ridiculous platformer BioMiracle Bokutte Upa, side-scrolling shooter Gley Lancer, and Hironobu Sakaguchi's potent portable RPG Archaic Sealed Heat for the Nintendo DS. Also, City Connection and some more Alex Kidd...
Continue reading...Friday, May 2, 2008
Several sources are independently reporting that the quirky, beloved SNES role-playing game EarthBound has been rated for Wii by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board, and is thus liable to appear on Virtual Console sometime in the near future.
Continue reading...Monday, April 21, 2008
Even if this is all Interplay meant when they said they were reviving their old franchises, we could do worse than this. The recently-revived publisher has announced that four classic titles are coming to the Wii on Virtual Console, namely, Earthworm Jim, Earthworm Jim 2, Boogerman, and Clayfighter.
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