Author: Christopher Sasaki

Seattle, WA.

Alex St. John Talks Wii, Casual Games, Blasts Vista

Posted by Christopher Sasaki Categories: Internet, PC

Alex St. John, CEO of online game publisher Wild Tangent, recently talked with Dean Takahashi at Mercury News about casual gaming, Vista, and a little about the Wii, but most of the interview seems to focus on a withering criticism of Vista. St. John has long made his feelings known about the things he feels are broken in the gaming support in Vista, but here …

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Impossible Mission: First Non Virtual Console Game Download

Posted by Christopher Sasaki Categories: Internet, Nintendo, Wii

Infendo today is indicating that the remake of Impossible Mission by System 3 will be coming to the Wii shop channel, rather than by retail disc. Nintendo Power is sourced as claiming the title will head to the Shop channel as well as see a Nintendo DS cartridge version. While the Opera browser for the Wii has lived in the shop channel for a …

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Nintendo Japan Lists 2007 Wii Releases

Posted by Christopher Sasaki Categories: Nintendo, Release Dates, Wii

IGN is reporting that Nintendo of Japan has revealed the Wii lineup for the rest of 2007. Japanese Wii owners can breath a little sigh of relief – high profile titles Mario Galaxy, Super Smash Brothers Brawl, and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption are slated for release in 2007. North American gamers will have to wait for confirmation on these titles, but a Japan release …

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Capcom Drops Over 50 New Devil May Cry Screens

Posted by Christopher Sasaki Categories: Action, CAPCOM, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

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Castlevania Heads To Virtual Console

Posted by Christopher Sasaki Categories: Nintendo, Retro, Virtual Console, Wii

Headlining this week’s Virtual Console releases is the original Castlevania for the NES. At 500 points, gamers can explore the origins of the franchise as it appeared on the Nintendo Entertainment System. Those used to the later entries in the series will find this version somewhat limiting – the exploration elements and many of the control refinements wouldn’t appear until later releases. Instead, gamers will …

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Live Arcade Gets Catan, Centipede

Posted by Christopher Sasaki Categories: Retro, Strategy, Xbox 360, Xbox Live, Xbox Live Arcade, Xbox Live Marketplace

Microsoft continues its string of multiple Live Arcade releases this week, this time with the hugely anticipated Catan along with arcade classics Centipede and Millipede. Catan has had board game geeks waiting eagerly; the Live Arcade version of the classic Settlers of Catan strategy board game will hopefully live up to expectations. The game will sell for 800 points ($10) and features decent single player offerings with a supposedly …

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Parappa PSP Gets US Release

Posted by Christopher Sasaki Categories: Music, PSP, Retro

Sony Computer Entertainment’s re-release of the classic PlayStation title, Parappa The Rapper, is headed to the United States this July. Sony Computer Entertainment America today announced the title’s release. For the most part, the title is a straight-up re-make of the original, with a few changes. First, the graphics have been remade to fit the PSP’s widescreen format display. Second, the company has added …

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Xbox 360 GPU Goes To 65nm This Fall

Posted by Christopher Sasaki Categories: Hardware, Xbox 360

Digitimes indicates that the Xbox 360 GPU could see a die shrinkage to 65nm as early as this fall. “Equipment makers” were sourced at Commercial Times in China, indicating that an engineering version of the GPU has been sent out for test, and that production of the GPU could be started in May. This could mean that customers will see yet another Xbox …

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Microsoft’s Xbox Quarter: Losses Shrink, So Does Revenue

Posted by Christopher Sasaki Categories: Xbox 360

Yesterday, Microsoft reported their quarterly results for the period ending March 31, 2007. Overall, the results were good for the company, moving to record profits based largely on getting Vista and the latest version of Office out the door. Still, for gamers, one thing has stood out – while losses in the Entertainment and Devices Division shrunk, so did revenues.

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Nintendo Acquires Monolith Soft From Bandai

Posted by Christopher Sasaki Categories: Corporate News, Namco, Nintendo, Nintendo DS, Role Playing Games, Wii

It looks like Nintendo is moving to grow support for more traditional Japanese RPGs – while having the new Dragon Quest XI appear on the DS is a pretty big coup, and Square has been supporting Nintendo with Final Fantasy remakes and side stories, it would be nice to see more diversity on Nintendo’s platforms. It was announced today and reported by IGN that …

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