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    Casting call looking for 'Punch-Out!!' lookalikes

    March 31, 2009 - 7:00am


    Craigslist provides another bit of strange, gaming-related news, this time with EDP Casting sending out a casting call for Punch-Out!! lookalikes. The post is looking for New York natives to fill the boxing gloves of Piston Honda, King Hippo, Great Tiger and, of course, Little Mac. The listing doesn't specify what the casting call is for but we'd like to dream the entire classic NES title would be put to music and run on Broadway -- with the help of Andrew Lloyd Webber, of course. If you think you've got the chops to jump into Mac's pink sweatsuit, make sure to take note that EDP is looking for someone with "real fire" in their eyes. So, you really have to want the part ... or at least undergo some experimental surgery. [Via GoNintendo]Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

    Amazon: Tuesday Gold Box is all Wii deals [Update]

    March 31, 2009 - 3:00am


    Update: The All Wii Gold Box event is now over.We don't mean to alarm you at such an early hour but ... Amazon is holding an All Wii Gold Box event today, March 31. Beginning at 3 a.m. EDT (12 a.m. PDT), Amazon will offer savings on six different Nintendo Wii titles. Time sensitive promotions (a.k.a. Lightning Deals) begin at 9 a.m. EDT (6 a.m. PDT).Today's Gold Box Deal: Wii Music, priced at $29.98 (40% Off) and the downloadable PC game, Airport Mania: First Flight for 98 cents.Amazon has updated the Gold Box page with the following hints for today's Lightning Deals (and we take a wild stab in the dark at what it could be):

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    PES 2009 trailer includes footage of 'digital soccer'

    March 31, 2009 - 1:00am

    Whether you're a fan or not, soccer is the world's most popular sport. So, for a console that has seen a lot of success from sports games, the Wii is probably going to see some frantic action in the sales department for Pro Evolution Soccer 2009! Well, maybe we're getting ahead of ourselves. Joking aside, the latest trailer and word around the campfire points to Konami hitting the nail on the head with another great installment of the soccer franchise for the Wii. Interested? Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 is in stores now.Permalink | Email this | Comments

    GDC09: G.I. Joe impressions

    March 30, 2009 - 11:00pm

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    It's always troubling when you're not allowed to actually play a game due out within a couple months. Such was the case with our GDC demo of EA's G.I. Joe: the Game. Sure, we could pretty much gather everything we needed to know about the canonical sequel to the film (yep, we guess COBRA isn't defeated) from watching two people play it, but, c'mon.So, here's what we saw while being fed dozens of bullet points. Two Joes (out of a total 12) run forward through (in this case) desert and snow-covered environments. The play mechanics actually weren't as brutally simple as we'd expected -- there's a melee attack and charged melee attack that add to the "fire" button. Players can strafe, concentrating fire on the same enemy as your partner kills them faster (oh really?) ... and it looks like an up-rezzed PS2 or Xbox game. Still, there were bits that should please G.I. Joe diehards -- but those couldn't get us over the fact that this isn't a PSN/XBLA title and is, in fact, a (likely much more expensive) retail release on PS3 and Xbox 360. (It's coming out for everything, by the way.)

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    Waninkoko's Wii USB loader demoed

    March 30, 2009 - 10:00pm


    Following a significant Wii menu update from Nintendo, Waninkoko has revealed footage of its new USB Loader software in action. Using any USB storage device in combination with the software allows gamers to play their "legal game backup collection." While the software isn't currently available, a pre-release version has ironically been leaked but is said to be unusable for the time being. However, footage of the software in action (found after the break) shows the current release does work. Of course, as our sister site Engadget notes, we are inching up on April Fool's Day so the entire thing could really be too good to be true. But all signs from forum crawlers point to Waninkoko's software as the real deal. [Via Engadget]

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    GDC09: Boom Blox Bash Party hands-on

    March 30, 2009 - 9:00pm

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    A couple of years back, Steven Spielberg picked up the phone and called EA. After absolutely no time on hold, he told (insert random executive here) all about his idea for a Wii game about throwing blocks at other blocks. Although it had received similar proposals in the past -- mostly from third-graders -- the mega-publisher immediately drafted up a contract and made Steve a bona-fide game designer. That, dear readers, is how the original -- and now classic -- Boom Blox came to be. Well, more or less.Mr. Spielberg is once again credited on the sequel, Boom Blox Bash Party, though we're pretty sure he didn't have to go to similar extremes to get it made. Anyway, for whatever reason, the dev team decided to build a new level editor -- the same one that's in the game for players to use -- and design all its levels with the thing. Oh, and set it underwater and in outer space, for starters.

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    GDC09: Gameloft's DSiWare plans include popstar, soccer simulators

    March 30, 2009 - 7:30pm


    Even though Nintendo has been tight-lipped about its DSiWare plans, Gameloft showed us a couple titles it has coming to the system during GDC last week.Although Gameloft wouldn't show us Assassin's Creed or its other iPhone titles, it did showcase two titles currently underway for Nintendo's new DS revision. Wannabe pop stars will have a chance to climb the social ladder in the adventure/mini-game American Popstar: Road to Celebrity, while footy fans will get to flex their sports-sim muscle in Real Soccer 2009. The ESRB also lists both titles as rated for the Nintendo DS, which either means the pair will see a retail release for non-DSi adopters or that it's an overlap measure on the ESRB's side. Either way, mobile pop stars and cellular soccer players are coming to the DS ... um, yay?Permalink | Email this | Comments

    VC in Brief: Super Punch-Out!! (SNES)

    March 30, 2009 - 6:30pm

    Super Punch-Out!! (SNES, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)We say: download it!Super Punch-Out!! is one of the great classics to grace the SNES. There's really no excuse one can provide for not having this (outside of not owning a Wii, being dead, or hating everything that is good and decent), so scrounge up eight bucks and enjoy.
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    Drill Sergeant Mindstrong brings all the fun of math to boot camp

    March 30, 2009 - 5:30pm

    Confirmed: XSEED's Drill Sergeant Mindstrong is not Marvelous's Discipline. It lacks the subtly beautiful illustration, prison-escape plot, and freaky alien Wiimote analogue. Mindstrong substitutes an ugly cartoon drill sergeant and ape-armed avatars for all of those things.Drill Sergeant Mindstrong puts players into a brain-training boot camp, divided into "Focus Training" and "Basic Training" modes. In either mode, performing well increases a player's rank, and performing poorly increases the drill sergeant's anger level. When he can't stand your failures anymore, he will "embarrass players by making them do punishments right there on the spot." Maybe it automatically notifies friends that you're playing Drill Sergeant Mindstrong.The game is scheduled to come out on WiiWare next month.
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    This Week in the Nintendo Channel: A new demo blooms

    March 30, 2009 - 4:30pm

    After last week's super-megatons, we half expected to find some more crazy surprises on the Nintendo Channel today. Unfortunately, nothing available qualifies as a crazy surprise, unless you missed the addition of the Rhythm Heaven demo to the lineup last week. It looks like a permanent fixture, like the Brain Age and Flash Focus demos!We were pleasantly surprised to find that the one debut demo today is something in which we have genuine interest: Gardening Mama. The list of demos and new videos is available after the break.

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