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Just the Links, Ma’am: 6.20.08

Your daily smörgåsbord of the very best gaming has to offer. Enthusiast: Guitar Hero: World Tour details revealed at (IGN) LittleBigPlanet will have some semblance of story, feature user-policing for adult content (PS3 Fanboy) “On September 2nd, shovel talks. You dig. Monsters die,” and Atlus sets you to work building dungeons in Master of the Monster Lair for Nintendo [...]

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Virtual Console Games are Glorified ROMs and HTML Files?

While GameCyte currently has no (legal) way to confirm this, there’s a report over at the 1Emulation forums that, having figured out how to decrypt the outer wrapper, the homebrew community has discovered that the Nintendo Wii’s Virtual Console games are simply run-of-the-mill ROMs, easily playable on PC emulators, and their documentation is a collection [...]

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Boom Blox Shows No Love For Wiimote Headtracking

Sadly, it looks like Steven Spielberg’s video game-directorial debut Boom Blox will not be shipping with Johnny Chung Lee’s famous Wiimote headtracking feature after all. Speaking at the 2008 Nintendo Media Summit, the game’s senior producer, Ahmer Rahimi, confirmed that Boom Blox would lack the feature.

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