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    World Tour adds Nirvana, Motorhead, The Pixies and more in April

    March 25, 2009 - 9:15am


    April is just around the corner and Guitar Hero: World Tour isn't slowing down, announcing new DLC tracks from five very different rock bands. Returning to the game are Nirvana, Steely Dan, Motörhead and Silversun Pickups -- with two tracks off their new album, prior to its April 14 release -- with World Tour newcomer The Pixies rounding out next month's content.Each downloadable track pack will be priced at 440 on the Xbox Live Marketplace and $5.49 on the PlayStation Store. Individual tracks will be available for 160 on Xbox 360, $1.99 on PlayStation 3 and 200 Wii Points. The entire listing of tracks for the month of April is available after the break.

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    New Staff of Kings trailer promises to make you 'feel more like Indy'

    March 25, 2009 - 2:45am


    Who hasn't pretended to be Indiana Jones when they were a kid? According to this new trailer (after the cut), you can finally get rid of the hat and whip and get the full Indy experience by playing the upcoming Wii version of Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings. The new trailer highlights the various controls made possible by the Wii Remote: punching, rowing, and -- wait for it -- whipping.Hopefully, the team at LucasArts can get the controls right to fully capture the feel of being Indiana Jones. With that ouf of the way, we can focus on pretending to be the second-best Harrison Ford character: Han Solo the president in Air Force One.[Via What They Play]

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    Punch-Out! will support Wii Balance Board

    March 25, 2009 - 2:00am


    This ain't your dad's Punch-Out! No, with Balance Board support, it'll be your mom's Punch-Out!The Italian Nintendo site leaked details on the various control schemes found in the upcoming Wii-make of Nintendo's classic boxing game. The first two modes are as-expected: play with the Wii Remote and Nunchuck to recreate the physical motion of boxing, or play with the Remote on its side to play it NES-style. The third mode documented takes advantage of the Wii Fit Balance Board, allowing players to dodge attacks by shifting their weight. Coupled with the Wii Remote and Nunchuck, this mode should provide quite a workout.[Via IGN]
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    New 'Ace Attorney Investigations' trademark is evidence of Gyakuten Kenji localization

    March 24, 2009 - 7:50pm

    Spencer from Siliconera found a US trademark from Capcom for something called Ace Attorney Investigations. Just for the simple fact that it means more Ace Attorney anything, that is wonderful news. But Spencer conjectures that the trademarked title is intended for Gyakuten Kenji, the Ace Attorney spinoff starring Miles Edgeworth.It's a good guess -- the point-and-click style adventure game focuses on investigating crime scenes with Edgeworth and Detective Gumshoe over courtroom action. It's been over a year since we last had Ace Attorney content, so we'll TAKE THAT without OBJECTIONs when it releases, and we hope Capcom doesn't decide to HOLD IT back. But will we be able to pay way too much for it like Japanese fans?Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

    Scream it! Disney Interactive announces Toy Story Mania!

    March 24, 2009 - 6:50pm

    Disney Interactive Studios has reached back into the Pixar trick bag and plucked Toy Story out for a new game on the Wii titled Toy Story Mania! No, not just Mania. Mania! It's exciting, so you have to yell it. Actually by blogging law we're required to scream it out loud whenever we type it -- kind of awkward since we're working from our local coffee bar today. Toy Story Mania! brings the popular franchise that put Pixar on the mainstream map to the Nintendo Wii. Based on a 3-D theme park attraction of the same name -- along with an exclamation point -- Toy Story Mania! will include shooting-galleries adapted from the 3-D ride as well as new areas starring characters from the franchise. Levels are designed for up to four players with support for both cooperative and competitive multiplayer. Toy Story Mania! will hit the Wii exclusively this fall. We'd tell you more but we're being kicked out of the coffee bar for causing a public disturbance.Permalink | Email this | Comments

    See the accessories included in EA Sports Active

    March 24, 2009 - 4:30pm

    Peripheral gaming is in. Exergaming is in. So, EA Sports Active really should rake in the bucks. It'll support (but won't require) the Wii Fit balance board and to make the package even more attractive, it'll include two peripherals in the box. The leg strap (after the cut) will allow you to attach the Wii Remote to your leg. The game will then keep track of your movement, allowing you to run and jump without feeling too tethered down by a physical object.The resistance band (above) will allow you to do other exercises that work out the upper body -- a rarity in the Wii exercise genre. These two peripherals are small, and really do allow for some freeform movement. Will you be picking them up?

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    April DSiWare for Japan: More like Appril

    March 24, 2009 - 2:30pm

    Nintendo wants small non-game apps on DSiWare, and it is leading by example, as evidenced by the lineup it has announced for April in Japan: just two of the six downloads announced for April 1 are games! Luckily, the announced apps sound pretty interesting.

    • Nintendo DSi Clock (200 Points): A clock app in two varieties: Famicom Mario Type and Animal Crossing Type. The Mario version lets you jump and hit coins, and the Animal Crossing version lets players create a new town tune that is played on the hour.
    • Chotto Magic Taizen: Suki Kirai Hakkenki (200 Points): This magic trick from Master of Illusion uses the mic to determine how someone feels about you.
    • Kuru Kuru Action Kuru Pachi 6 (500 Points): A puzzle game about rotating numbered pieces to line up matching pairs.
    • Band Bros. Radio including Photo Stand (500 Points): A photo-viewing app featuring Barbara the Bat from Band Bros. -- and a music player for songs created in Band Bros. DX by both players and staff!
    • Kakonde Keshite Wakugumi no Jikan (500 Points): A puzzle game about surrounding pieces of an opposing color with pieces of your color by moving them around the screen.
    • Ganbaru Watashi no Osaifu Ouendan (500 Points): Literally "My Wallet Cheer Squad," this budgeting app allows players to export data as a CSV file for use in PC money management software.

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    Rock Band Wiikly: The Who, The Who, and more The Who

    March 24, 2009 - 1:01pm


    Hey, guess what's available at the Rock Band store? Oh, you can read headlines. Well then, yeah, tons of The Who available to you this week, along with a handful of non-The Who tracks. There are 12 new tracks total, so let's get to it!Tracks from The Who (200 Wii Points each)

    • "Amazing Journey" - The Who
    • "Behind Blue Eyes" - The Who
    • "Eminence Front" - The Who
    • "Going Mobile" - The Who
    • "Leaving Here" - The Who
    • "Real Good Looking Boy" - The Who
    • "Sea and Sand" - The Who
    • "Who Are You" - The Who

    Individual tracks (200 Wii Points each)

    • "All I Want" - The Offspring
    • "The Kids Aren't Alright" - The Offspring
    • "Losing My Religion" - REM
    • "The Way That It Shows" - Richard Thompson

    As usual, you can skip past the break to preview each track.
    [All tracks are original master recordings]

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    VC/WiiWare Tuesday: Smorgasbord Gaming

    March 24, 2009 - 1:00pm

    Welcome to Bizarro World! Yesterday, North American Wii owners got two great Japanese games on the Virtual Console, and a WiiWare game. This week, Nintendo stiffs Japan on the VC entirely, and offers two less-than-thrilling WiiWare games. In fact, the most noteworthy release of the week is a shogi game based on a manga.Silver Star, the company behind some of the existing WiiWare board games, brought its board-game simulating expertise to the manga/drama property Hachi-One Diver. The art does not seem to be from the manga -- from the look of it, Silver Star brought its board game expertise to art as well. The other game this week is Major League Eating, which came out in North America back in July.

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    DSi surpasses 2 million sales mark in Japan

    March 24, 2009 - 12:03pm


    It's been roughly five months since the Nintendo DSi launch in Japan (144 days, actually) and the updated handheld has been selling like gangbusters. Famitsu (via VG247) is reporting the landmark number of 2 million units, a figure that amounts to roughly 14,000 units being sold per day in the country since its launch. To put that in some perspective, the DSi has been outselling the now totally boring DS Lite at roughly 7:1 on a daily basis in the country since its launch last November. 100k every week in Japan -- on average, no less! Our hats are off to you Nintendo, patiently awaiting some soup. You see there's this recession thing you might've heard of. We're not doing so hot ...[Via VG247]Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments