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GameCyte’s Top Otaku Spends Prize, Makes Video Review

Thursday, August 7, 2008

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GameCyte’s Top Otaku Spends Prize, Makes Video Review

While you’re working on your entry for our latest giveaway, we thought we’d give you a little update on our previous contest. Last month, we awarded a reader by the name of Seaniccus a prize of 4000 Wii Points for his decidedly geeky entry in our Geeks & Otaku Giveaway. Seaniccus created a retro casemod for [...]

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Geeks and Otaku Giveaway: YOU’RE WINNER!!

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

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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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Wii Points Giveaway: Last Chance!

Monday, July 7, 2008

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Wii Points Giveaway: Last Chance!

Don’t forget, folks — today is your last chance to win a handful of free Wii Points! In case you missed it, click on over to this post, where we invite you to share your finest “geeks and otaku” moment for a shot at glory/infamy and a chance to win a mess of Wii Points [...]

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WiiWare Wednesday: Block Breaker Deluxe

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

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WiiWare Wednesday: Block Breaker Deluxe

Here’s a fun experiment you can do at home! Go to Google and search for Arkanoid. You should see some five-dozen free online flash games, each one implementing one or two new wrinkles into the classic brickout-with-powerups archetype. Now, open each one of those games in a new tab, and attempt to play every one [...]

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WiiWare Wednesday: Toki Tori

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

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WiiWare Wednesday: Toki Tori

For my inaugural weekly WiiWare Wednesday weview review, I took a crack at Toki Tori, a puzzle-platformer developed and published by Two Tribes. The game is actually an re-imagining of Toki Tori for the Game Boy Color, Two Tribes’ first game ever released. The original version sold poorly, perhaps due to its release coming after gamers [...]

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WiiWare Launches, Wii Shop Theme Gets Stuck in Heads

Monday, May 12, 2008

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WiiWare Launches, Wii Shop Theme Gets Stuck in Heads

Time to start rationing out your blocks of memory, Nintendo fans — WiiWare, a new addition to the Wii Shop Channel, has gone live with six new games. WiiWare will augment Nintendo’s existing online marketplace with original content, in addition to the re-released retro classics still available in the “virtual console” section.

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