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Mario Galaxy Officially The Best Game of All Time - Trumps Ocarina of Time

November 17th 2007 19:34
It was bound to happen, and it just did. Miyamoto will be proud that the game which managed to finally knock off The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time from its perch was another one of his creations: Super Mario Galaxy.

Super Mario Galaxy


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Unless the next reviewer gives the game an absurdly low score this game isn't going to be dropping in rank anytime soon.
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1800-55-1800

November 16th 2007 02:58
19% of deaths for people between the age of 12 to 24 is 100% preventable. Suicide is a preventable cause of death through and through and we need to recognize that 19% is too much, even 1% is too much, deaths by suicide should be 0%.

Here I am throwing around numbers, but the most important number is in the title, 1800-55-1800. Thats the phone number that can save lives and anyone who is at that age and does not have the emotional support of friends or family could be saved simply by calling that number.

Isn't this something that everyone should know about?
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Video Games Study

July 4th 2007 13:23
Despite showing that kids who play games during school days did 34% less homework than those who didn't. The other common notion, that kids who play games spend less time with their families and friends was proven false.

There was no significant relationship found between kids playing video games and playing less sports with friends. The research also found that on average boys play about fifty eight minutes on weekdays and an hour and thirty seven minutes on weekends. Girls on the other hand play about forty four minutes a day on weekdays and an hour and four minutes on weekends.

Overall the research found that there was no relationship between a diminished social life and video games. As such kids who play video games aren't social retards just because they do, other factors are probably at play.

The basic conclusion of the research is that while kids who play games spend less time doing homework it doesn't necessarily mean they are social outcasts. In fact there is even the possibility that kids who play games get their homework done faster, so score one for World of Warcraft.

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Wii Midnight Launches

December 2nd 2006 23:49
Heres a list of launch locations for the Wii should you want it *that* badly *that* soon.

VIC / TAS

>> 

e2games

Moonee Ponds>>

Time:              6pm - Midnight>>

Activities:       Giveaways through-out the night for best dressed. Food & drinks supplied>>

> >

EB Games>>

Chadstone>>

Time:              9pm - Midnight>>

Activities:       Play Wii, Dress-up competition and Wii Tennis Tournament plus giveaways>>

> >

JB Hi-Fi>>

lace>laceName>MelbournelaceName> laceType>CitylaceType>lace>>>

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Game Mania>>

Ringwood>>

Time:              10pm - Midnight>>

> >

Tunzagames>>

Shepparton>>

Time:              10pm - Midnight>>

Activites:        Giveaways, game playing>>

> >

Toys R Us>>

Chadstone, Frankston, Highpoint, lace>laceName>KnoxlaceName> laceType>CitylaceType>lace> & Northland>>

> >

EB Games >>

Doncaster, Northland, Chadstone, Dandenong, Frankston Town, Southland, Airport West, Watergardens, Eastland, Ballarat, Fountain Gate, Northgate, Highpoint, Greensborough, Keysborough, Forest Hill, Knox, Eastland, Werribee Plaza, Chirnside Park, Richmond, Midvalley, Melbourne Central, Cranbourne, The Glen, Bendigo, Hobart, Camberwell, Epping Plaza, Elizabeth St, Karingal, Corio, Shepparton, Sunshine Market, Mildura, Launceston, Chapel Street, Waverley Gardens, Geelong, Hobart, Brimbank, The Pines, Rosebud, Brandon Park>>

> >

> >

NSW / ACT>>

> >

The Gamesmen>>

Penhurst, Penrith, lace>Wollongonglace>>>

> >

Toys R Us>>

lace>Bankstownlace>, Campbelltown, Chatswood, Erina, Kotara, Hurstville, Miranda, lace>laceName>MoorelaceName> laceType>ParklaceType>lace>, lace>Parramattalace>, Penrith, Belconnen

 

GamesWizards
Hornsby, Belconnen, Blacktown, Macarthur Square, Broadway, Miranda, Hurstville, Eastgardens, Parramatta, Mt Druitt
 
Harvey Norman
Moore Park>>

> >

EB Games>>

Miranda, Tuggerah, Macarthur Square, Charlestown Square, Penrith Plaza, Macquarie Centre, Hurstville, Parramatta, Belconnen, Warringah, Kotara, Bankstown, Woden Plaza, Warrawong, Tuggeranong, Winston Hills, Chatswood, Liverpool, Castle Towers, Erina Fair, Burwood, Carlingford, Tweed Mall, Albury, Hornsby, Wetherill Park, Mt Druitt, Moore Park, Westpoint Black, Greenhills, Eastgardens, Canberra City, Roselands, Dubbo Orana Mall, Coffs Harbour, Sydney Centre, Wollongong, Bondi, Pt Maquarie, Bathurst, Rhodes Waterside, Orange, Warriewood, Bateau Bay, Tamworth, Galeries Victor, Cambelltown, Broadway, Nowra, Lismore, Jesmond, Shellharbour, Glendale, Tweed City, Goulburn, Marrickville, Ballina, Sylvania Waters, Woy Woy, Lavington, Chullora, Broken Hill, Taree>>

> >

QLD

Toys R Us>>

Asphley, Mt Gravatt, Pacific Fair, Townsville>>

> >

EB Games>>

Garden City, Pacific Fair, Sunshine Plaza, Toowoomba, Tea Tree Plaza, Indooroopilly, Strathpine, Cairns, Townsville, Toombul, Carindale, Chermside, Brown Plains, Morayfield, Mt Ommaney, Capalaba, Logan Hyperdome, Cairns Central, Rockhampton, Clifford Gardens, Brisbane City, Kawana, Castletown, Brookside, Sunnybank, Northlakes, Canelands, Bunderberg, Victoria Point, Taigum, Burleigh, Queens Plaza, Beenleigh, Robina, Helensvale, Australia Fair, Wynnum Plaza, Aspley, Stafford City, Peninsula Fair, Smithfield, Noosaville, Runaway Bay, Toowong, Mt Pleasant, Lutwyche>>

> >

SA>>

In2Games>>

Mt Gambier>>

Time:              11:30pm onwards>>

Activities:       10% off all games and peripherals, Wii, launching 12:01am ate Year="2006" Day="7" Month="11">7/11/06ate>>>

> >

Toys R Us>>

Noarlunga, Rundle Mall, Tea Tree>>

> >

EB Games>>

>Marion, Arndale, Golden Grove, Colonnades, Rundle Mall, Hollywood Plaza, West Lakes, Elizabeth, Parabanks.
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> >

NT>>

> >

EB Games>>

Casuarina, lace>Alice Springslace>>>

> >

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Games you Shouldn’t Buy for Your Kids

November 30th 2006 01:23
Well you can tell 90% of these games SHOULDN’T be played by little kids from their titles alone (or not, I mean seriously ‘reservoir dogs’ is obviously a game about cute puppies). But anyways, in the interest of fairness, ethical journalism and all the rest...

Not Recomended for Children:
  • Gangs of London
  • The Sopranos
  • Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
  • Reservoir Dogs
  • Mortal Kombat: Unchained
  • Scarface: The World is Yours
  • The Godfather: Mob Wars
  • Saints Row
  • Dead Rising
  • Just Cause


MediaWise Recommended Games for Children and Teens
  • LEGO Star Wars II - The Original Trilogy
  • Mario Hoops 3 on 3
  • Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz
  • Roboblitz
  • Madden Football '07
  • LocoRoco
  • Dance Factory
  • Brain Age
  • Nancy Drew: Danger by Design
  • Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: The March of the Minis
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Nintendo Fanboy to the Extreme

November 27th 2006 09:46
Hasn’t slept in five days, been waiting for hours for his little old Wii, just find out more about this... character. Check out how his friends are holding back fits of laughter in the background.




Helllll No.
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EA embraces the Mii’s

November 22nd 2006 01:35
SIm Mii
One of the first screenshots of the game, poor quality is due to scan
Electronic Arts, publisher of the über popular best-seller ‘The Sims’ is embracing Nintendo’s Mii concept with the ‘The Sims’ for Wii.

Nintendo aims to use the Mii concept to sell the Wii to the casual gamer, something that seems to have gotten off to a flying start that is now attracting EA’s attention.

So what does this mean for gamers? Well put simply, if you’re looking for an exclusive spin on ‘The Sims’ you’ll only be getting it on the Nintendo Wii.
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Madden NFL Wii-Xbox 360 Comparison

November 7th 2006 21:36
Many people claim the Wii will lose out due to its lack of graphics power. Nintendo insists that people will buy the Wii simply because its fun and not because of graphics.

Looking at games from the Xbox 360/playstaiton 3 and comparing them to the Nintendo Wii it is obvious the Wii games don’t look as good. However, just how big is the difference? Will you even notice the difference after playing a game from the Wii for more than a half hour?

Why do they review graphics in games? ‘Oh look at the pretty ripple effect’ for instance, yeah, so what? Nice to look at, but just how much will I be concentrating on it while playing the game?

I know for a fact no matter how good a game looks, at some point you cease to tell the difference between appearances. Sure a still shot looks all pretty, but play a game for a bit more than ten or fifteen minutes and you don’t really take note of the great graphics.

Despite what you have just read, I confess graphics comparisons in games is quite fun, even if as shallow as a puddle of water. I took a screenshot (courtesy of IGN) from ‘Madden NFL 2007’ a popular cross-platform game, one screenshot is from the Xbox 360, the other from the Nintendo Wii.

Madden Compare
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The Three Men of Gaming Violence

November 4th 2006 17:33
You have the person who has next to no idea what videogames are and what purpouse they serve and thus think they're 'murder simulators' who spouts out nonesense, then you have the gamer who doesn't know whats going on but just wants to keep his games who also spouts out nonesense, then finally you have that one lone voice of reason who doesn't speak.


We have Jack Thompson, an attorney out to try and ban the sale of violent videogames to minors, then we have Adam Sessler, the gamer who’s convinced Jack Thompson is ignorant and too conservative, and despite having some grounding to his thoughts has nothing to base it on, and finally we have Mark Friedler who is quiet, doesn’t say much but would probably have had the most educated debate with Jack Thompson had he not remained so quiet.

Seeing the video it is obvious that Adam Sessler is not an authority on the matter, it is obvious that Jack Thompson has done his homework and it is apparent Mark Friedler knows what he’s talking about, but just doesn’t talk ENOUGH of it.

While many people claim Jack Thompson is out to ban videogames as a whole (and certainly that may be the case) he also appears to be willing to compromise and simply make it law, like in Britain, as he says it is law not to sell mature rated games to children. Fair enough? Definitely, however Adam Sessler insists that is going against freedom of speech, even arguing the fact Britain does have the equivalent of freedom of expression, ‘no they don’t’ he says.

Why this debate will never reach anywhere is perfectly demonstrated in the video, the gamer is too wrapped up with attacking the lawyer who has his facts straight, the one who can have a bit of a meaningful debate with the lawyer doesn’t talk enough.

I think it is perfectly reasonable to ban the sale of violent games to minors, it isn’t censorship so much so it is making up for where the parents refuse to, like making it law to wear your seatbelts, or to not drive above the speed limit. It makes sense, and can hardly be considered censorship.

But Jack Thompson unfortunately isn’t the calm collected person he is in the video, unfortunately he does have his habits of acting out of hand and suing the wrong people at the wrong time (he has sued a webcomic ‘Penny-Arcade for instance for defamation). Adam Sessler will always be like that, and will have his many and varied supporters, while Mark Friedler will probably never talk enough, or confront Jack Thompson head on as he should since he obviously is on the other end of the spectrum in terms of opinions yet, unlike Adam Sessler, has intelligent things to say.

Since this is the reality, and state of the debate, we can tell for sure it isn’t going to get anywhere. The videogame industry will lose if mature rated games aren’t allowed to be sold to minors.

However it may well be for the best, as Jack Thompson points out in the following video (against an Adam Sessler equivalent Tony Romando) that minors do in fact get influenced by violent media, not adults, but minors. That doesn’t give anyone an authority to ban violent games, but it does give law makers reason to ban its sale and/or exposure to minors.



Seems like the pro-choice side of the whole debate (Adam Sessler etc) wants to blame parents, and yes, probably parents should be better educated at what their children play. But if and when they don’t or refuse to take care of their children the law should take over and make it that much harder for kids to get these games. For instance you don’t see liquor shops selling to kids, doesn’t mean kids can’t drink alcohol. Sure it might be seen as obscene, a health hazard etc, and as such the law doesn’t allow children to drink alcohol (under 15 I believe) it won’t stop parents from buying the alcohol and letting their kids to drink it with full knowledge of the fact. No one can stop that, in the same way no one can stop parents getting violent games for kids. But this is another story altogether, doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be banned to begin with. As the pro-choice also argues (somewhat ambiguous to the concept of ‘parents fault) is that these violent games aren’t meant for kids to begin with. If they aren’t, why not legislate against kids playing and/or buying them? Hence the loop starts and parents are blamed again.

Then we move to the conservative (Jack Thompson) side of the thing, sometimes he’s calm and collected, and suggests good ideas such as banning sales of Mature rated games to kids, but other times he goes nuts and says they are murder simulators and that they should be banned all together, or he goes around claiming to be an expert (in the second video he is introduced as such) and then goes and doesn’t claim to be an expert (as he humbly says in the first video here). Now this is where the problem comes in, this news is distributed on the internet, and the gaming community, who quite frankly is not as ‘mature’ as it’s cut out to be by reading user comments, leaps onto this moment of anger Thompson has unleashed and the debate takes another lap.

That is all you can pretty much say about the people who argue in this debate, there is an end to it, certainly not one of censorship, but also certainly not one of pure liberalism, however it won’t ever be reached under the current situation.

Who is it to say what a mature game is? I hazard to say Nintendo is the most mature game development company on the planet, it has games suitable for all ages, and games suitable for adults only. Not because these games are violent in nature, but
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62 Wii games before 2007

November 2nd 2006 07:46
Release date of Wii: 19th of November 2006 in the USA and 7th of December 2006 in Australia, all games listed below will be released before 1st of January 2007.

Unlike the GameCube which had a slow start, Nintendo seems to have no intention on slowing down game development and releases on the Wii with 62 titles set to be released within the launch window and before 2007 comes around. Lots of third party titles and first party Nintendo titles.

Keep in mind however that the Nintendo Wii can run all GameCube games straight from the disk so you can add all those to the launch line up.

Here they are:
  • The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
  • Wii Sports
  • Excite Truck
  • Call of Duty 3
  • Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
  • Rapala Tournament Fishing
  • Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam
  • World Series of Poker: Tournament of Champions
  • Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2
  • Trauma Center: Second Opinion
  • Madden NFL 07
  • Need for Speed Carbon
  • Happy Feet
  • Rampage: Total Destruction
  • The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
  • The Ant Bully
  • Elebits
  • Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz
  • Metal Slug Anthology
  • Super Swing Golf
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender
  • Cars
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab
  • Far Cry: Vengeance
  • Red Steel
  • GT Pro Series
  • Monster 4x4 World Circuit
  • Rayman Raving Rabbids
  • Open Season
  • Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent
  • Ice Age 2: The Meltdown

These are the mainstream games, there will also be virtual console (VC) games released that you can download to your Wii console. These games are from a few generations ago and contain games such as Super Mario 64. VC titles available by the end of 2006 includes:

Nintendo Entertainment System

  • Mario Bros.
  • The Legend of Zelda
  • Donkey Kong
  • Donkey Kong Jr.
  • Ice Hockey
  • Pinball
  • Soccer
  • Tennis
  • Urban Champion
  • Wario's Woods
  • Baseball
  • Solomon's Key
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
  • F-Zero
  • SimCity
Nintendo 64
  • Super Mario 64
SEGA Genesis
  • Sonic the Hedgehog
  • Altered Beast
  • Golden Axe
  • Columns
  • Ecco the Dolphin
  • Gunstar Heroes
  • Space Harrier II
  • Toe Jam & Earl
  • Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine
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