It's Friday night, I'm home alone and I'm reading about the Famicom Disk System whilst wearing a pink Kirby hat. Life is grand.
If manufactured very, very cheaply
When the Wii was released we saw countless cheap knock-offs flood the market – remember the Vii? – and now it looks like Move is about to receive its own sincerest form of flattery in the form of the "i-dong". (Really, we're not making these names up.)
Query: Is it polite to add legendary Japanese game developers as friends on Facebook? Discuss.
Here's something we didn't see coming: Sackboy is about to get his own PSN-exclusive title, called Sackboy's Prehistoric Moves, and it's only playable with Move.
Another week, another bundle
Nintendo's already released or announced limited edition Wii consoles in red and black, but if you bet on the next package announced being red you just lost your chips.
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All things wise and wonderful
One lament accompanied 2008’s lacklustre Sonic Unleashed more loudly than others – "why can’t Sega ditch the werehog and make the daytime stages into a complete game?" A few years later and in rushes Sonic Colours with all the usual fanfare and expectation around a new 3D Sonic game, except this time – hold on to your spiky hats – it’s true.
Better late than never
It's been a long old wait for European gamers to get their green fingers on Flowerworks as it's been out in North America for nearly a year, but publisher Nocturnal has just let us know the wait is nearly over, with the game sprouting up next week.
Robotic room raiders, 3D video and sports injury prevention are just three amazing, strictly unofficial uses for Kinect since its launch, but not one of them has done anything to advance the art of shadow puppetry. That injustice is corrected here today.
Simple #FF from me today - @MartinHouseCH, my local children's hospice doing such vital work for ill children and their families.
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