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There’s an intersting news item that shouldn’t take anyone by surprise. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said that *shock* Wii Music has underperformed to their expectations.

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…are not on this blog. Instead, they will be in the March 2009 issue of GamePro. Yeah, I know what you’re thinking, “But Paul, nobody reads GamePro!” Well you’d be wrong, GamePro is an amazing magazine (please hire me).

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I don’t write about Nintendo that much and for good reason, there’s not a whole lot of interesting Nintendo news. I know that the Wii is the top selling console and all that, but seriously there’s not a whole lot of interesting news about games. Almost everyone I know that has a Wii gets bored of it and complains about the lack of games. Well here’s some news: Nintendo has admitted that they expect to see a drop in profits due to the recession.

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Indiana Jones was due to have a multi-platform adventure in Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings, but it looks like those plans seem to have been canceled for the PS3 and the Xbox 360. The good news for Wii and PSP owners is that the Indiana Jones game seems to be still coming out on those systems. It also might appear on the PS2. Before you rejoice too much, this really isn’t a good sign for the game. It’s never a good sign when plans are scaled back like this. Still, the trailer looks pretty good even though it doesn’t seem to show any actual game play.

Indiana Jones hasn’t had a very good reputation when it comes to games, so this thing is either going to rock or completely suck.

It’s been awhile since I posted any Rock Band news that was worth a damn, but today is different. Harmonix has stated that there will be no new Rock Band game in ‘09. Why? Well do we really need one? The last game was a slight upgrade with new songs. Harmonix said, “…the annual cycle places limits on the choices you can make as a developer.” Well no crap. Would you rather have a slight update every year or a really damned cool game that gives you enough reason to drop 60 bucks every few years? It’s not like new songs don’t come out every single week. So spend about 60 bucks on DLC and that’s your personal Rock Band 3.

Don’t get scared though, it doesn’t mean that we’ll never see a Rock Band 3. It’s just not officially in development right now.

Thanks to: 1up.com

Any user of the Sony PS3’s or Nintendo Wii’s web browser will tell you that while it is a really nice option to surf the web through the system, it can be a bit difficult at times to navigate through sites like YouTube. The mega-huge video sharing site has realized this, so YouTube has launched a Beta test of it’s console friendly version of it’s service.

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Well Christmas is here and hopefully you got some good presents this year, because you totally deserved them. Now I want to hear if you got any video game related presents. Was it the year you finally got a Wii? Or moved into the world of the big boys with the 360 or PS3? Or was it just some games?

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Wired recently published their list of the top ten most disappointing games of ‘08. There weren’t many surprises on the list, except for maybe Dead Space. I wouldn’t say it was disappointing so much as it didn’t really end up living up to the horror aspect. There’s also the atrocious lack of Wii Music, but maybe they hadn’t anticipated that one as much as the other games on the list.

Here’s the list in full, but you have to go to the site to read their reasoning behind their picks:

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News broke that a Seaman spin-off game might possibly make it’s way onto iPhones in the U.S. Personally, I hail any kind of Seaman news as good news, but it’s still not enough. I demand a Seaman sequel, maybe call it something like, “Seaman 2: More Seaman in Your Face” or “Seaman 2: Seaman Unleashed” to appeal to the younger crowd who enjoy things being extreme and unleashed.

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Update: Looks like this deal is a fake. Thanks internet, for making me look like an asshole.

Now I haven’t changed my anti-Wii stance (Which is I don’t want one, but I don’t necessarily dislike them. They’re just not for me.), but I know a hell of a deal when I see one and this is one hell of a crazy ass deal. Sam’s Club will have the “Wii Family Bundle” during the day after Thanksgiving known as, “Black Friday.”

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I’m sure that this year will be another stellar year for Nintendo Wii sales and for good reason, it’s a low cost system that has an enormous appeal to the general, non-gaming public.

I don’t want one. Why? Well, the fact that there’s almost no games for the system doesn’t really help it’s case. Many of the “games” currently available aren’t very appeal for someone in my situation (i.e. a being an incredibly sexy man). I don’t want to pretend to exercise nor I don’t want to pretend to play an play an instrument that requires the level of skill an infant possesses. Most importantly, the only appealing thing about the Wii for me is the long list of older games that I can get for free off the internet via the mighty powers of piracy.

So save yourself the trouble, just send me a two hundred dollar check. Thanks.

While looking around for gaming news to either make fun of or bitch about, I stumbled across the track listing for Wii Music after being told it’s extremely eclectic by friend Shawn. He’s right, the list looks like it was assembled by a schizophrenic with a taste for songs you didn’t like since the third grade:

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Mega Man 9 recently came out and I thought I’d give the demo a spin. How could I not? The game was made to look, sound, and play just like a classic NES game! I downloaded the demo on my PS3 to spite my crappy Xbox 360. Speaking of which, I need to complain for a moment that downloading and playing demos on the PS3 is needlessly difficult. Why do I have to download it and then install it again?

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Capcom wasn’t fooling around when they created their Megaman 9 press kits. To celebrate the release of Megaman 9, which was done in a totally classic NES style, they created an old school NES looking case for the game disc as well as a box complete with bad Mega-Man art to emulate the original game’s terrible art.

Damn it all, why wouldn’t they do a limited release of something like this for the general public? I’m thinking Capcom missed an opportunity to make some nostallgia based bank off of Mega Man fans. Now the only place you’ll find these things are on eBay. Lame Capcom, lame. I think that the only thing that Capcom could do to make it up to us fans is by sending me one of these things. I think we could all agree that it would help make up for this slight to the fans.

I hope you’re prepared, because my impressions of Star Was: The Force Unleashed are so unleashed that they make Toby Keith’s Unleashed album look so leashed in comparison.

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