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Downloadable titles and pricing structure

Thursday, August 7th, 2008 Posted in Games | No Comments »

Pricing of video games is a fairly contentious issue, particularly for us down under. In a country where $100 is the RRP for many video games, Xbox Live Arcade, Playstation Network, and WiiWare/Virtual Console titles seem like a pretty good ...

Nintendo Press Conference

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 Posted in Games | No Comments »

Well, it's the second day, another busy day, and two conferences were held. Here we have a summary of Nintendo's presser, the shortest of the three, and the quickest to the punch. It was very simple, and Nintendo really only ...

Oldskool is so good. Bring on the Megaman.

Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in Games | 1 Comment »

When I first heard that Megaman 9 was coming to WiiWare, and that it would be similar to the originals, I was a little... well, I didn't know what to think. First, I thought about the recent announcement of the ...

WiiWare launches in Oz.

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 Posted in Games | No Comments »

Yep, it's happened. I was hoping it would officially launch with Europe (as was expected), but there were no official word from Nintendo (as has come to be expected). WiiWare was launched today. And yep, I'm gonna get right on it, ...

The release of WiiWare

Saturday, May 17th, 2008 Posted in Games | 1 Comment »

With WiiWare soon to be released across all Wii regions (although Australia, as usual, is yet to be given an official release date), Nintendo is now set to join Sony and Microsoft in the downloadable content race (if that is ...