Among Hudson Entertainment's titles being presented at last week's Gamers' Day, the company's WiiWare contingent was out in force, showing off toilet repair crews and exploding aliens who lived in pinball machines. Hudson seems to have a habit of juxtaposing logically disparate themes in their games, and the pattern holds true for their forthcoming wintery [...]
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Hudson Entertainment was showing something of a trend at last week's Gamers' Day event. Of all the games on display, nearly all of them were for the Wii, and as our discussion with Hudson's Mike Pepe demonstrated, the "casual" and "family-friendly" flags were flying high. When the Wii intersects with casual, signs frequently point to [...]
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At last week's Gamers' Day event, Hudson Entertainment showed us quite a few games which would represent new entries in some of their most cherished franchises. It wasn't all sequels and remakes, though; Hudson had a few original titles to share with the world as well. One such title was Help Wanted, a new collection [...]
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Hudson Entertainment's Gamers' Day event had a few new titles to show off, but occupying its own corner was a somewhat older face: Deca Sports, Hudson's sport-oriented compilation for the Wii, which launched back in May to a rather frosty reception. Cited as shallow, derivative, and bearing no appeal for "core" gamers, Deca Sports represents [...]
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I think the first time I ever came across fishing inside a video game was when I had to deal with the dreaded "Big the Cat" portion of Sonic Adventure, back on the Dreamcast. I've tried not to let it spoil my impressions of all fishing games going forward, though -- so last night, at [...]
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Visiting with Hudson Entertainment at last night's Gamers' Day, we watched curiously as members of the gaming press used a Wii Balance Board to propel a spherical kitten around a cardboard box. You'd think such an activity would be fairly self-explanatory, wouldn't you? However, what we were witnessing was Hudson's upcoming Wii title, Marble Saga [...]
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Last night, Hudson Entertainment invited gamers and journalists, far and near, to join them for their 2008 Gamers' Day. Cheerful Hudson staff spent the evening hawking their wares, providing hands-on demonstrations of the latest titles Hudson had to offer. We spent some time with quite a number of intriguing new titles, though at least one [...]
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