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Archive for February 6th, 2008

Professor Layton Hands-On

Curious Village

Only you can help Professor Layton solve the mystery of Baron Reinhold’s will.
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In the recent tradition of offbeat, narrative Nintendo DS adventure games like Hotel Dusk and Phoenix Wright, ubiquitous Japanese developer Level 5 has a charming new game heading to stores called Professor Layton and the Curious Village. It’s been out […]


Q&A: Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata

TOKYO–When the NPD Group released its year-end game-sales figures earlier this month, a gaggle of analysts sifted through them, drawing differing conclusions and issuing varying prognostications. However, one thing everyone could agree on was that 2007 was Nintendo’s year. “Nintendo has certainly been the belle of the hardware ball this year, capturing the top two […]


Samurai Warriors: Katana Review

The Dynasty/Samurai Warriors franchise is about as polarizing as you get. Either you love the series’ completely mindless hacking and slashing, or you hate it, not least of all because every entry is essentially the exact same game. This time, Koei decided to mix things up a bit by applying its tried-and-true formula of button-mashing, […]


Japan to get silver PS3, cheaper games

Japanese PlayStation 3s will soon be going silver–and the metallic colour doesn’t come as a major surprise following similar variants for the slimline PlayStation 2, original PS2, and PlayStation Portable. It also follows two other colours available for the PS3 in Japan, clear black and ceramic white–the latter of which was first introduced to Japan […]


Lost Planet, Assault Heroes follow-ups rated

The Entertainment Software Rating Board continues to break news of unannounced games, as this week the board updated its ratings database with assessments for new installments of Capcom’s PC and Xbox 360 action game Lost Planet and Vivendi Games’ Xbox Live Arcade cooperative shooter Assault Heroes.

Lost Planet Colonies had previously been trademarked by Capcom and […]

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