GG Weekly Videogame News 
Trauma Team Gaming Nexus review
"one of the year's best Wii games so far"
gamingnexus.com impressions
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The Monster Hunter 3 weapons calculator
Helps choose the right tool for the job
reign-of-the-rathalos.com editorial
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Nintendo Profits Down. 1st Time Since 2004.
Some analysts even predict that Nintendo is underestimating its own sales
1up.com news
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1up review Alan Wake - B+
"a great, but flawed work that lays the foundation for what could be an absolutely amazing follow-up."
1up.com impressions
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Sin and Punishment 2 review from GC
9/10 Gloriously creative visuals, levels and bosses. Perfect controls. Good range of difficulty levels.
teletext.co.uk impressions
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Force Unleashed was almost a Wookie game
"you'd be able to grab the heads of AT-STs and throw them at stormtroopers"
1up.com news
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Dude Wins a Million Dollars For Gaming.
Got it for playing MBL2K10. That game is so bad he should have gotten $100 million.
gather.com news
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1up is getting a novice to review MH3
Monster Hunter Noob going to tell us how it is
1up.com impressions
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Ubisoft Montpellier making Tin Tin game
Rabbids Go Home/BGE team taking on Spielburg project
livewii.fr news
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Iwata Reportedly Believes Sony Battle Won
Apple the "Enemy of the Future"
timesonline.co.uk news
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Nintendo announces Wii Party
First party game since 2007's Mario Party 8, says Iwata
andriasang.com news
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Nintendo By the Numbers
It's hard to appreciate just how much money Nintendo is making
1up.com news
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We deal with criticism.
A piece on Metacritic and its inner workings.
brainygamer.com editorial
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President Obama Is Nintendo Fanboy
Lashes out at Xbox and Playstation.
huffingtonpost.com news
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Another youth destroyed by Sonic. . .
There were really only two games I played this week. Anybody care to guess?
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That's it, we're stealing that.
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Tell me to get back to rewriting this site so it's not horrible on mobileI've been playing Modern Warfare 2 and Super Street Fighter IV. Halo Reach beta tomorrow. Woooooooooo!
Sorry bro. I guess I haven't.
I won't mind if you still think I'm a loser. I'm use to it.
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Now Playing: Golden Sun Dark Dawn, God of War Ghost of Sparta, and DKC Returns
The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds
while the pessimist fears this is true.
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My weekend was spent with Monster Hunter Tri. Glad I just went for it, because I was very much on the fence about whether or not I wanted to put that much time into one single game or wanted to take on a game with so much to it. It turned out to be an excellent decision. I clocked in 8 hours of gameplay and it was really a reminder of what I liked about video games in the first place. This will likely be the only console game I play for the next several months. Except for. . .
Learning With The PooYoos - Episode 1.
I got this for the boy with my bonus Wii Shop points that I got from Gamestop for the MH preorder. It's as basic as a kid's game gets, but he seemed to enjoy it.
Also, still playing Tekken 6.
Both are great!
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Now Playing: Golden Sun Dark Dawn, God of War Ghost of Sparta, and DKC Returns
Monster Hunter 3 is a game that 5 years ago I would have destroyed it in no more than a few weeks. But right now I just wouldn't be able to put the time into it, and if I did I'd be missing out on many other kick ass games.
Yeah. I feel the same way with games like that. Like Resonance of Fate. Pretty cool but it's really time-consuming. I'm kind of like that with MH Tri and even Dragon-Age. I don't know if I have the time or want to take the time to play these.
I guess that's why I'm enjoying FFXIII more than I thought I would. It's a very accessible game that doesn't take too much commitment. Yet, it has enough depth to be a good JRPG.
This is another reason why I'm more into online shooters and fighting games. And I know my sig says I'm playing SMT Strange Journey, but that's kind of half-truth. It's in my DSi but I'm not really playing it!
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Now Playing: Golden Sun Dark Dawn, God of War Ghost of Sparta, and DKC Returns
What did I play this past week? Just a few scattered hours of FIFA 09 in Manager Mode, at least up until friday night, since saturday morning I took a flash trip for a family wedding. I've spent the last couple days in a drunken stupor, from which I emerged a few hours ago, dumbfounded and lightheaded.
I wonder how did I miss manager mode in FIFA. One of the things that I loved from old FIFA games in PS was the transfer market, and building up a steamrolling team from scratch during the course of a few seasons. Manager mode lets you transfer players, control ticket price, actively scout for promising young players, adjust player contracts, and improve a good number of your team's assets by spending money earned throughout the season. Now I'm itching to get 10.
Also, started playing Soccer Manager. A browser-based free footie managing game. This one is all simulated, and very much on the easy side, as far as footie sims go, nevertheless, it's hella fun to mess around with. Joined a championship with a lot of guys from GAF, and we're having matches regularly.
Genius kid.
Sounds about right with SC, shame it is so short. And as always it is devoid of boss battles.
So young and innocent. But don't worry. He'll eventually get to play Sonic 06 or some similar monstrosity and be cured from his illness forever. Unlike you, who are beyond hope or reason.
Holy crap, saw this at sherdog
Awesome
I think the only Splinter Cell that kind of had a boss battle was the first game, when you have to kill the Georgian dude at his mansion and all his lackeys keep coming at you in waves.
Hey, at least you can finally pick up dead enemies weapons and use them in Conviction! I always thought that was silly for a game that supposed to be ultra-realistic; how you couldn't use any weapons but your own. Like, I just shot this dude with the ONE remaining bullet in my handgun...but I can't use his assault rifle that's laying on the ground right in front of me?!
What's fucking hilarious is how he flys into a sudden fit of rage, but before he punches the kid, he just HAS to remove his shirt first. LOL
If somebody pissed me off enough to just snap and fuck shit up, which has happened a few times with some of the idiots I've run into in life, I just don't worry about my T-shirt. Mostly because I make sure the fights not going to last long enough for a shirt to matter.
....And he placed the shirt down on the desk so well without looking. Excellent work!
It also has some non-story mission sequences to go through which spawn enemies at random every time (I think) and you just go through defeating 10 in each area, or if you aren't stealthy enough and you're discovered they call more as back up and then you have to take out more before proceeding to the next. Those are decent fun and replayable, you can also upgrade your weapons and suit and buy a few new suits with points earned (from any mode), but that's pretty limited, not like BF or MW or anything, and you'll probably just upgrade the guns you like most only and finish that aspect pretty fast aside from just spending excess points whenever. You can also play another mode which has you defending against waves of enemies rather than go through a level, but that doesn't sound appealing to me so I didn't even try it yet, if I do. It sounds like those MW2 levels which I didn't like.
I think these are also both playable in multiplayer alongside the co-op story missions. And maybe there's some kind of adversarial mode, I'm not sure, the matchmaking interface is just so limited and dumb I'll just shelf this and play the co-op when/if someone I know buys it. I tried searching for a match in various game modes and didn't come up with anything, I guess everyone simply plays with friends, if at all, since the scope is so limited, 2 players and all. Very few chances of someone else searching at the same time for the same mode, considering you can't even just start a match and mess around solo until someone joins, you have to be matched to even begin anything.
It would have been great if they included a level editor seeing as it's based on Unreal Engine 3 (heavily tweaked though, clearly, so you can't just import levels or something) as I'm sure that fans would be able to make some great missions with more variety and more entry points rather than almost completely linear paths as in the single player story. That could make the full price worthwhile and keep fans busy until the sequel, with both new fan stories, and just fancy levels for the extra modes and co-op and what not. Missed opportunity imo.
The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds
while the pessimist fears this is true.
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