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Layton Returns to Japan, Again
Japanese publisher Level-5 announced this week that yet another new game in the Professor Layton series of Nintendo DS puzzley adventure games is in the works. Titled ...
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Japan Review Check: New SMB, Assassin's, Left 4 Dead 2
Some highlighted reviews from this week's issue of Famitsu magazine in Japan, covering all the games coming out next week in that country:
- New Super Mario Bros. Wii ...
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DSi LL Sells 103K in Japan in Two Days
The new, fat DSi isn't having quite the splash of its slim cousin, but sales from its first two days in Japan are impressive regardless. Kotaku reports that according to ...
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DSi XL Photo Gallery and Video Preview
On Monday, 1UP got a brand-new DSi XL (or rather, DSi LL, as it's imported from Japan) in the office, and after the shock wore off from the sheer size of it, we got to ...
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Former Pandemic Employees Take Out a Printer Office Space-Style
Be warned: The video above features a song with some language that I might describe as "saucy," and certainly qualifies as not safe for work.
With Pandemic ...
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Mario Karts, Blobs, and Bit.Trips Round Out Nintendo Downloads
Thursday of this week is turkey day in the U.S., and Nintendo's accompanying downloads definitely bring plenty of goods for us to digest with a total of 13 new downloads. ...
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Nintendo of America's Denise Kaigler Leaving Company
Nintendo of America's vice president of corporate affairs, Denise Kaigler, has announced that she's leaving her role at the company to spend more time with her family.
The ...
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Metroid Prime May Come Back to DS
The Metroid Prime series isn't dead yet, according to an Official Nintendo Magazine interview with Metroid head Kensuke Tanabe. "We are always planning to make new ...
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Halo: Reach to Premiere at VGAs, Nominees Revealed
Spike revealed their list of nominees for the 2009 Video Game Awards today, and voting is now open on the official VGA website. More importantly, however, they also ...
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A Postmortem on Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey has finally been confirmed by Atlus for a March US release, but that's...well, in March. In Japan the game's been out for nearly two ...
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Lufia Series Returns to DS
Following up their teaser announcement on Famitsu.com last week, Square Enix released the first official details today on Estpolis: The Lands Cursed by the Gods , a ...
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EA Closing Down Mercenaries Developer Pandemic Studios
Rumors begin circulating earlier today that EA would be shutting down Pandemic Studios, the developer behind Mercenaries , Full Spectrum Warrior , Star Wars: Battlefront , and ...
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Game Night with Assassin's Creed 2 Coming Soon
Live TV by Ustream
Time : Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 5 p.m. PST Location : Watch the embedded video player above.
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Demos Available on Week's Nintendo Downloads
We reported recently on Nintendo's plan to offer demos, and this week the first of them are surfacing on the system. WiiWare this week features Pokemon Rumble for 1,500 ...
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1UP's 2009 Holiday Gift Guide
1UP's 2009 Holiday Gift Guide
Holiday gaming gift suggestions for that special someone on your shopping list.
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By 1UP Staff , 11/14/2009
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More Evidence the Video Games Industry isn't So Recession-Proof
As if Electronic Arts' announcement earlier this week that they'd be cutting 1,500 jobs wasn't proof enough, here's a handy visual reference for just how not ...
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This Week in 1UP Reviews, 11/13/09
Most games moved out of the way this week, but we couldn't let it go by without recapping what is likely to be the biggest-selling game release week of the year. Next week looks ...
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Japan Review Check: Ratchet, Jak, Wizardry
Ratchet (the Japan Groucho Marx-eyebrow version) is back, and it's clear that gamers over there love 'im, too.
Famitsu magazine gave Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in ...
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Sgt. Frog Gets An RPG
Namco Bandai Games announced in Japan today that their Tales Studio development team is working on an original RPG starring characters from Sgt. Frog (aka Keroro Gunso ...
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EA Culling Development Slate, Refocusing on Established IPs
In addition to their announcement that they'll be cutting a staggering 1,500 jobs as part of a cost-restructuring plan, Electronic Arts has also announced that they'll be ...
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Excitebike World Rally Revs Up Nintendo Downloads
Just as promised, this week's downloadable games from Nintendo are headed up by Excitebike World Rally , the retro sequel that features online multiplayer and ...
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Penny Arcade Launches 2009 Child's Play Charity Drive
It's that time of year again, folks. Penny Arcade has announced the official start of the 2009 Child's Play charity drive, where throughout the holiday season gamers (or ...
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Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Confirmed For North America
These days, you can pretty much guarantee that any new Shin Megami Tensei game will eventually make its way to North America. Such is the case with Shin Megami Tensei: ...
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Kojima Reflects on Snatcher, Adventure Games
Hideo Kojima might be best known these days for Metal Gear Solid and his ability to heavily confuse gamers with his stories, but 20 years ago, he was just another schlub in ...
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Nintendo Profits Dive 52 Percent in First Fiscal Half
Nintendo has announced they've posted 69.49 billion yen ($772 million) in profits during the first half of the fiscal year spanning April to September, a whopping 52 percent drop ...
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Iwata Says DSi LL Meant to Be a Spectator Handheld
Usually new iterations of popular portable devices get smaller (anyone remember the Game Boy Micro?), but Nintendo is bucking tradition with the DSi LL -- a new version of ...
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This Week in 1UP Reviews, 10/30/09
It's appropriate that Halloween is tomorrow, because we're approaching the scariest time of the year for game reviewers: November. Despite some delays from publishers, this year ...
Nintendo Reveals New DSi
After not responding to our story earlier this week about a rumored new DS with a larger screen, early this morning Nintendo quietly updated their official Japanese site ...
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Rise to Heaven: Five Years of Nintendo DS
Rise to Heaven: Five Years of Nintendo DS
The Nintendo DS Shocked the World, First by Succeeding, Then By Changing the Way Popular Games Are Made
By John Constantine
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Location of the Next Grand Theft Auto Game Hinted at in Manual
Once you make your way through The Ballad of Gay Tony , the story of Grand Theft Auto 4 will essentially be complete. You can still go back and visit, sure, but you ...
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Kojima Praises His Fellow Love-Sim Maker
Hideo Kojima has a problem -- apparently his staff is playing gal-games on the sly. "All everyone talks about is their 'girlfriends,'" the famous game director said in ...
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Majesco Bringing Ghostwire to U.S. DSi's in Late 2010
Majesco announced today that they've picked up the rights to publish Ghostwire , one of the first DSi-only games, in the U.S. next year.
If Ghostwire has slipped under ...
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New DSi With Larger Screen Reportedly Releasing in Japan This Year
Another year, another new DS model to stuff in someone's stocking? According to the Japanese Nikkei news service ( via Kotaku), Nintendo plans to announce a new DSi model with a ...
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Zombies Ate My Neighbors, Monkey Island, and More on Nintendo Downloads
Let's see: Pirates, a haunted mansion, flesh-hungry corpses, scantily-clad barbarians, and -- most terrifying of all -- sudoku. Yep, it's Nintendo's downloads for the week ...
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Nintendo Planning DSi Speak Channel?
Could Nintendo be planning on launching a voice chat application for the DSi soon? Sure seems that way, as Nintendo themselves slipped a mention of a "DSi Speak" channel on ...
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Japanese Game Devs Sound Off on TGS
We've already discussed a bit about what visitors to last month's Tokyo Game Show liked the most about the yearly event. What about the developers, though, the folks ...
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Australia's OFLC Rates Ubisoft's "Ghost Recon: Predator"
It looks like the next game in the Ghost Recon series has officially been named, but it's not officially coming from Ubisoft: Australia's OFLC ratings board has posted a ...
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Japan Review Check: Tekken 6, Final Fantasy Gaiden
As reported earlier , Japan's Famitsu magazine gave a 40/40 score to the Xbox 360 version of Bayonetta , the 12th game in the history of the mag to achieve the feat and ...
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September NPDs: PS3 the Top Console, ODST Debuts Big
The PlayStation 3's domination of console sales this month surprised absolutely no one -- not even Microsoft -- but its success shouldn't be overlooked simply because it ...
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Madden NFL 10
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Top 5 Video Game Smokers
Top 5 Video Game Smokers
Never gonna give you up. Never gonna let you down.
By Scott Sharkey
Somehow or other I ended up as the last ...
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Need For Speed Nitro Launching Two Weeks Early
Unlike several other games we could mention, Need for Speed: Nitro is definitely not getting delayed into 2010. In fact, it's actually jumping ahead a couple weeks, with ...
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Full Band Hero Setlist Revealed
Guitar Hero 5 and The Beatles: Rock Band are already out the gate, but we're still only partway through this season's onslaught of rhythm games. Next on the docket is ...
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Peter Moore Says Core Videogame Business Model is a "Burning Platform"
Despite the heat that's been leveled at the PSP Go, EA Sports president Peter Moore seems to believe the direction it's taking -- abandoning physical media in favor of ...
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Nintendo Downloads Feature LostWinds Sequel, Rygar
This week's Nintendo downloads include the sequel to one of the first breakout hits on WiiWare, the return of a beloved action title on Virtual Console, and nearly half-a-dozen ...
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Blur Appearing in Lego Rock Band
We've known for a while now that Iggy Pop is lending his shirtless likeness to Lego Rock Band , and it was revealed just last week that a blocky David Bowie is also ...
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nVidia Powering Nintendo's Next-Gen DS?
Not long after a rumor emerged that ATI had already won the rights to supply Microsoft with the graphics processor for the next-gen Xbox, rival nVidia now has their own ...
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RPG Maker Comes to Nintendo DS
Enterbrain formally announced a Nintendo DS installment in the long-running RPG Maker series this week. Called RPG Tsukuru DS , the title's due out January 28 in Japan ...
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Scribblenauts Devs Working On XBLA Game
With Scribblenauts now on the market, developer 5th Cell is moving on to new projects. The studio told Gamasutra that they are now developing a game for Xbox Live ...
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Harvest Moon Returns to DS Again
The ability to raise alpacas is not the only new feature in Harvest Moon: Twin Villages , announced by Marvelous Entertainment over in Japan this week. Oh, no, no, no. You ...
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Super Robot Taisen Gets New DS Sequel
Maybe it's not in the running for Game of the Year, but it might be a lock for Longest Title of the Year. Today Namco Bandai Games announced (deep breath) Super Robot ...
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