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Asian people are so talented.

Does anyone have an account at backloggery.com :( Have been waiting to register for like 6 months.

1st day sales results in Japan for the 3DS put it as #1 system seller of all-time with 400,000 sold or basically the entire Day 1 stock with the second shipment arriving today. It also managed to sell out in about 7 minutes once all the times and math was added up.

To put it in perspective, it beat the former #1 system (Wii) by 30,000 and the DS's opening by almost 200,000 units (230,000). The PSP only got 200,000 after 2 days and the PS3 reached about 83,000 in Day 1.

Only asians can play the piano.

Playing the Dreamcast collection and forgot how awesomely funky Space Channel 5 is.

Also, Crazy Taxi is buggy as fuck. Really don't remember it being that bad on the DC. Could have replaced the music with something less generic as well :(

LG have won an injunction against Sony about technology used in the blu-ray player in the PS3. There will be no new PS3's shipped to Europe for 10 days.

Sony are appealing, bit LG can also ask for the ban to be extended.

The artists behind Metroid Prime series show off more of the canceled concept art from the first game in the series.

The art showed designs for a potential Mother Brain and other characters that were not in the final release of the game. Crocomire was pretty close to being included in the game due to the numerous concept art dealing with the character.

As well as some settings that were removed or changed once the game was released on the Gamecube.

Different types of suits that were not used in any of the Prime games also are shown such as the Galactic Federation super suit.

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http://kotaku.com/#!5772706/metroid-...ing-room-floor

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Serious Sam 3: BFE to have a 16-player online Co-Op mode for Story/Campaign Mode.

The 16-player mode is set to be included with the PS3 and Xbox 360 and not just on PC like most large multiplayer modes tend to.

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The game was said to be cancelled but given how much work is shown in this video, I'm not so sure.

We'll see it in some form or another.

Why does microsoft have to be dumb and make it so you have to be on live to watch .avi's and such on your 360...

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EA and Grasshopper Manufacture set June 7, 2011 as the release date for Shinji Mikami and Suda 51's collaboration game called Shadows of the Dammed.

More info about the game was also revealed including a new take on the light-dark style gameplay and a health recovery system based on drinking alcohol.

RPG-like elements in the game revolve around upgrading weapons with a gem-based system and a storyline influenced by Quentin Tarantino Grindhouse film.

The game is still set to arrive on PS3 and Xbox 360 with no news on a possible PC version or pre-release demo.

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Sega confirms that Sonic 4: Episode 2 will be arriving after stating that they just started working on it ("early development" phase).

Sega also stated they figured out how many episodes to make based on sales and feedback of the first episode and that there will be some changes for Episode 2 based on complaints of the first game as well.

Quick question guys. My dad has a modded 360. I was wondering if it'd be safe if I brought my HD and plugged it into his 360, instead of having to bring everything over every time. He has no internet connected to it, so there's no worry of being caught while playing. I just wanted to be sure that any games and stuff I played offline at his place wouldn't be tracked back to my 360 via the HD

lol What?

You'll be fine as long as you don't play any games that aren't out yet.

Alright, thanks. Just wasn't sure if any info or anything, saying the game was a copy or the console was modded, would be saved onto my HD that'd come back to bite me in the ass when I brought it back to my 360.

I put my friends 120gb HD into my Banned Flashed 360, during a LAN party.
Corrupted all his saves...
We put Smackdown vs Raw 2011 in, had to use a boot disk, then it asked for an update, wouldn't play without it, then it all went corrupt when he pressed yes.

That only happens if the 360 is banned from Live. If it's never been on the net, it should be fine.

This. Have had a friend put his profile/saves from his non-flashed 360 into mine and another friends flashed ones many times and he's never had any problems.

Everybody should not forget to spend five bucks on Pacman CE DX this week.

Nintendo are about to do their GDC keynote speech. I'll let you know if anything good turns up in the first hour as I may be switching it up to Apple's speech after that.

Awesome story about Iwata being introduced to Miyamoto for the first time 25 years ago and Iwata arrogantly believing he was better than anyone else programming games and that would be proven by sales.

Then got spanked, of course.

"Flance".

Iwata talking about multiplayer games, even saying that Call of Duty and XBox Live are leading the way and that's what "social" gaming should be, not through Facebook. Wonder if he's building to a new Nintendo online strategy.

"link"

http://gdc2011.nintendo.com

It is a developer conference though, so don't expect announcements, although there may be a surprise or two.

Kirby was originally called Tinkle Popo when translated to English :'(

Reggie's gonna talk why WiiWare and downloadable DSi was shit and why 3DS will do better. Also some games.

Netflix on 3DS in the summer. Will link with Wii so you can start watching on one and the other can pick up where it left off and stream to both devices at once with one account.

3D movie trailers coming for US, Green Lantern the first film.

Nintendo are going to select content and have their own channel for 3D content, including music videos.

The 3D cameras will also record video.

AT&T hot spots free to use for 3DS owners. Promising lots of demos as well.

Nintendo eShop will have the existing DSi store, Virtual Console (which has GB, GBC, Game Gear and TG16 games, but no GBA) and 3D Classics. Old games remastered in 3D.

Hoping GBA games come on the remastered channel then.

Mario 3DS announced, by the team of Mario Galaxy :heart:

Logo has a tail, reveal why at 3DS (Full Mario 3 remake? :) )

Ocarina of Time is June!

Skyward Sword being shown off now.

Talking about concerns with the industry. One was craftsmanship, basically talking about how people don't go back and redo parts of games to male sure it's as polished as possible.

He's got a point. Even the worst Nintendo game is polished as hell.

Wii does have a lot of games, but a good chunk of it is the same game. Meanwhile, PS3 and 360 games can vary relatively largely from each other

Did he just say quantity is what matters to Sony and Microsoft, just after showing a chart that his company's systems have double the amount of Sony and Microsoft combined?


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He was talking about Nintendo as a game developer, not in terms of Wii as a platform.

Bigging up MS and Sony's premium gaming as well as Nintendo's own, saying that mobile gaming being so cheap might hurt consumers perception of value and grab Angry Birds more than Call of Duty of Mario.

Now saying the first 20 mins of the game are the most important. Fuck yes they are, hate games you have to plough through to get good.