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Japan's latest Club Nintendo prize is absorbent

31 Jul 2010 at 10:30pm
When you see the stuff Japan's Club Nintendo offers its members, you may be prone to drool a bit. Ironically, Nintendo of Japan's loyalty program has something for that now as well.

For 150 points, Club Nintendo is offering the choice of one of these three 25cm x 25cm "towel handkerchiefs." They're part towel and part handkerchief, but at the same time neither, because none of us would dare dry or clean anything with one of these. Since they're currently only available in Japan, of course, we don't even have the opportunity to decline to mop up a spilled soda with one of these cute collectibles.

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Ferrari: The Race Experience steers towards Wii and PSN

31 Jul 2010 at 2:00am
System 3 has announced yet another Ferrari-licensed racing game, Ferrari: The Race Experience, presumably a follow-up to last year's Ferrari Challenge Deluxe. Like System 3's previous efforts, this will be hitting both Wii and PlayStation 3. However, PS3 owners will only be able to find the game on the virtual shelves of the PlayStation Network. Why? System 3 explains that it's become too costly to deal with retail. "The vast amounts of money required in securing a decent in-store presence through co-operative marketing [makes it] easy to see why some games are doomed before they start. By going down a download only route, System 3 is quietly confident that it can service consumer demand directly and efficiently."

While many of System 3's future releases will be exclusive to download platforms, the company did admit that it can't give up on retail altogether. "Obviously we are not moving away fully from boxed product as we are committed to maximising our games across all formats and Wii games, for example, are still only released as physical product."

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Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2011 is about more than just shooting animals

31 Jul 2010 at 1:00am
Shake off that sense of deja vu. We're talking about a different Cabela's game here: Activision has just announced Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2011, the next installment in its iterative series of hunt-em-down-and-sho It's set to stalk retail shelves "late fall" and will be available on the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii and DS systems. Every version sans the DS installment will come packed with the Top Shot Elite controller, a wireless gun peripheral created by the same people at Activision who brought you the Guitar Hero controllers.

Activision is apparently putting a lot of production value into this latest Cabela's title, tapping Brad Santos, screenwriter and creative director, to pen the tale of Cole Rainsford, who has joined his estranged father in the African safari to hunt dangerous animals terrorizing local villages there. See, kids? Hunting is a noble pursuit.

Feel free to track some screens from the upcoming game (and the controller) in our gallery below. If you prefer your game a bit more lively, then head past the break for a teaser trailer.

Gallery: Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2011

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AVCon 2010 in Adelaide

31 Jul 2010 at 8:27am
After being embarrassed by a group of mates dressed up as Naruto characters in a MacDonald’s, something in the air told me it was that time of year again. AVCon, Adelaide?s Anime and Video games Convention, had come again, and this time I was slightly more prepared, and in a much bigger group. Well, five [...]

NOSTALGIC EYES: Unirally

29 Jul 2010 at 11:49am
Unirally: Platform: SNES Developer: DMA Design Released: 1994 (North America), 1995 (PAL regions) I got a bit of a shock when I first met SNES owners who had never heard of this game. ?YOU?VE NEVER HEARD OF UNIRALLY? BUT IT?S A CLASSIC! EVERYONE?S PLAYED IT!? and so on. On further reflection, maybe this game wasn?t as big as I [...]

Nintendo Records Loss In Latest Financials

29 Jul 2010 at 7:11am
Nintendo’s latest financial results for the period April-June 2010 have revealed that the company has lost money. Nintendo recorded a net loss of 25.2 billion yen, with net sales down 25.6% to 188.6 billion yen. The loss of money is attributed to poor performing DS sales with DS hardware sales down 44.7% year on year to [...]

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GoldenEye Trailer & Nintendo Downloads!!!

19 Jul 2010 at 1:02pm
Anyone looking for a major update for WiiWare or the Virtual Console will be disappointed this week, sorry. Well, I’m not sorry because it’s not on me, it’s on Nintendo. Unfortunately, I can’t “officially offer apologies for Nintendo. I should be able to though, they would be some totally kick-ass apologies… “On behalf on Nintendo I [...]

Mario Galaxy 2 Passes The 1 Million Sold Mark!

15 Jul 2010 at 11:13pm
Right, so I still haven’t tried out the Wii2HDMI. I know, there’s really no reason I haven’t except that I’ve been a bit tired. This weekend I should for sure though, so we’ll talk more about it next week. In the meantime, did you know Super Mario Galaxy 2 has sold more than 1 million [...]

Pics and Preview of Wii2HDMI!!

12 Jul 2010 at 9:54pm
During E3 I mentioned the Wii2HDMI peripheral from Neoya, and today I’ve got my hands on the adapter. If you don’t recall, the Wii2HDMI is an adapter that plugs into the Wii’s AV port and allows you to connect to your TV via an HDMI cable. It’s still plugged into a Wii, so if you’re [...]