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Nyko Unveils New Wing Controller, Includes Free Paper Cuts

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 [...]

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Geeks and Otaku Giveaway: YOU’RE WINNER!!

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 [...]

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Virtual Vednesday: Burning Fight

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 [...]

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Just the Links, Ma’am: 6.13.08

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 [...]

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ESRB Ratings Reveal: Archaic Sealed Heat, Virtual Console Imports

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…

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Rated by ESRB: Earthbound is Wii-Bound?

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.

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Earthworm Jim Coming to Virtual Console

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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Genre Breakdown: Beat ‘Em Up

As much as the venerable Michael Bay might enjoy populating his action films with an endless series of car chases and explosions, the core of the action film genre is good ol’ fashioned fisticuffs. The crunching sound of bone and flesh colliding. Ahh, what could be more enjoyable? As a genre, beat ‘em up games [...]

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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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Virtual Console Makes Us Jealous of the French

Europe getting better game releases on Virtual Console than us Yankees? Has the world gone mad?

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