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Wii Chess is WiiWare Chess in Japan
Filed under: Imports, WiiWare Next week, Wii Chess finally arrives somewhere outside of Europe, not that many people were holding their breath. The Japanese release as World Chess, however, is...
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Zombies!!! board game to eat video game brains
It's time to get the shotgun out of the cupboard, as Twilight Creations announced plans to bring its popular tile-based board game, Zombies!!!, to Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network as well...
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Joystiq hands-on: Halo Interactive Strategy Game
Filed under: Culture, Features, Strategy, Casual, Galleries Interactive level design to the max! The Halo Interactive Strategy Game is a crown of shame, aiming a Christmas-ruining SPNKr at happy...
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Wii is 'most expensive board game on Earth'
Filed under: InterviewsSo says Sega A&R man Darren Williams in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, who also described the console as "the kind of thing that families will play at Christmas, and...
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Beloved toy of our youths coming to WiiWare
Filed under: News, Imports, WiiWareWarning: you are now entering a Wii Fanboy nostalgia zone; if we get wrapped up in jabbering about our wholesome childhoods over the next 200 words, you've been...
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Dokapon Dealdom
Filed under: News, SalesAmazon has had a bunch of Atlus games on sale for the last week or so, but they've temporarily dropped the prices of a few of the company's Nintendo system releases (and a few...
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Want to control the Flood? Play Risk: Halo Wars
Last week, the folks at USAopoly revealed that they had nabbed the Halo license and planned to release a special, themed edition of the board game Risk, soon after the retail release of Halo Wars. Set...
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This Wednesday: FunTown Mahjong melds tiles on XBLA
Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360 After originally being announced last Wednesday, only to be delayed seven days, the ancient Chinese tile game, in the form of FunTown Mahjong, is now available for...
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New Blood Bowl trailer pits rats against lizards
Like you, we've spent a good deal of time in our backyards, wrangling together neighborhood mice and lizards and forcing them to play miniature games of football. Now, a new trailer for the video game...
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Atlus announces Dokapon Journey, delays
Filed under: News Last year, developer Sting announced two new games in their Dokapon board game/RPG series: Dokapon Kingdom for Wii and PS2 and Dokapon Journey! for DS. Atlus picked up Kingdom and...
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Blood Bowl developer: making PS3 version 'a bit risky and expensive'
Filed under: Nintendo DS, PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Microsoft Xbox 360 If you're a PS3-only gamer who happens to be a fan of vintage tabletop gaming, monsters, and football, then you are...
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Trivial Pursuit to allow safer family get-togethers starting March 10
Filed under: Casual If you've had the extreme misfortune to attend a social gathering in which some unsavory individual busts out the unsinister-looking Trivial Pursuit board game, then you're well...
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Mr. Potato Head presents: Hasbro Game Night Achievements
A list of Achievements has made its way online for this month's release of Hasbro's Family Game Night collection of Xbox Live Arcade titles. The list of 70 milestones totals 1400 Gamerscore points,...
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GDC09: Paper prototype of Aperture Science + Left 4 Dead
Game designer Stone Librande works at EA/Maxis as a game designer, and we mean he designs games quite literally. Whenever developers run into problems, they'll bring Stone in to create paper versions...
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Zombies!!! looking for new developer
It appears that Zombies!!! is in search of new brains to develop its video game adaptation. Speaking to Big Download, Zombies!!! license holder Twilight Creations stated it is currently looking for...
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Square Enix announces Dragon Quest Wars for DSiWare
Square Enix has revealed the Dragon Quest Wars whose title was trademarked last month. Anyone expecting some kind of MMO tactics game will be disappointed, because while the new game does feature...
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Panzer General: Allied Assault attacks XBLA this fall (no Dragoon in sight)
Ubisoft announced today that World War II-themed card game Panzer General: Allied Assault is ready to draw from a deck of destruction this fall on XBLA. The game is being developed by Petroglyph and...
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Capcom employee recreates Fable II's Fortune's Tower pub game
This has to be the most endearing display of cross-developer love we've seen during our games writing careers. Capcom's Shawn Baxter (a.k.a. "Snow,") recently posted on the company's community blog...
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First Risk: Factions screens released, surprisingly cartoony
Click to Kitty-size Usually, when playing the physical, real-life version of Risk, we like to pretend that we're bloodthirsty conquerers -- ones capable of forging (and betraying) alliances with hated...
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Hands-on: The Path of Go (XBLA)
Ready to frustrate yourself forever? Learn the game of Go. It's an ancient Chinese game that's over four thousand years old, and games can last up to 16 hours in tournaments. Sounds just perfect for...
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