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Suda 51 thinking about reiterations of Michigan and Killer 7

WHAT’S THAT!? Yeah, news that is about shake your trousers! Suda Goichi, in a recent interview with Electronic Theater, has expressed an interest in revisiting both Michigan: Report From Hell and Killer 7. Please, nobody say anything to make this man mad or he might revoke this.

“… I think that it would be very interesting to create something like Michigan again in the future — it could be really good,” says Suda. “I still talk to Sakurai-san, who is the president of Spike Games which was the publisher of Michigan. They’re also interested in making a game like that again in the future.”

I don’t know about playing through a viewfinder of the camera, but Killer 7 was one of the craziest and most inventive games last generation, so let’s do it! There have been lots of rumors about a Wii version, so lets see if we see any news in the coming months…

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Netflix has a question on a survey about it’s service…on the DS!?

A poll from Netflix has a very odd question that points towards maybe it’s service expanding to the Nintendo DS, or just some thought into the prospect. Don’t believe me and can’t read the image above? Here’s exactly what the question says:

Imagine that Netflix offers its subscribers the ability to instantly watch movies and & TV episodes on their Nintendo DS. The selection available to instantly watch includes some new releases, lots of classics and TV episodes. There are no advertisements or trailers, and movies start in as little as 30 seconds. You can fast-forward, rewind, and pause or watch again. The movies & TV episodes you instantly watch are included in your Netflix membership at no additional fee.

So the service that’s on almost all platforms about now, just bite-sized. What do you guys think? I can’t imagine that they’d be able to get the whole thing running in a way that would allow videos to be streamed in a non-choppy manner, let alone at a high enough quality for people to be satisfied. I must say though, it would be damn cool if they could do it, and I would be more than stoked to hear them doing something of the sort.

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Reggie doesn’t believe Apple’s a threat

In an interview with Forbes, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime reiterates many things, one of those being that Apple in the mobile sector is no problem with them at all, because they’re just no competition!

There’s been no data to suggest an encroachment on our business. The iPhone has been out on the marketplace for just a couple of years. In the last two years we’ve set two records on our DS business, last year selling over 11.2 million units. So there’s been no evidence that we’ve lost any business to that competitor.

Yeah we’re gonna have to agree with that. The iPhone and iPod touch are out there for the quickie games, that provide you entertainment for short little bursts. While it has the capacity to do “real” and longer games, that’s just not the audience that it caters do. This is why Apple is of now real competition to the DS line.

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Super Mario furniture is very questionable

Please, don’t make a comment asking me about the title if you didn’t get it. Anyhow, this is one of the better pieces of Mario or just gaming furniture that I’ve seen. It comes from Neatorama reader Dennis whose girlfriend, not surprisingly enough, made painted them all up.

Kudos to Dennis’ girlfriend on the shelves, and man he is one lucky man.

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UK Sales Charts for the Week Ending 3/6/10: The “We called it, Bad Company 2 took #1″ Edition

Yep, last week we totally called it. Battlefield: Bad Company 2, being released last week, has taken the number one spot away from Heavy Rain. Lucky for us, Just Dance moved up from 3rd to 2nd place, with some AvP moving down, FIFA 10 moving up along with GTA IV (we still don’t know why that’s up there), and Wii games.

POS.		TITLE	PUBLISHER	LAST WEEK
1		BATTLEFIELD: BAD COMPANY 2	EA GAMES	-
2		JUST DANCE	UBISOFT	3
3		ALIENS VS PREDATOR	SEGA	2
4		HEAVY RAIN	SONY COMPUTER ENT.	1
5		SONIC & SEGA ALL-STARS RACING	SEGA	8
6		WII FIT PLUS	NINTENDO	4
7		CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 2	ACTIVISION	5
8		WII SPORTS RESORT	NINTENDO	6
9		FIFA 10	EA SPORTS	10
10		NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. WII	NINTENDO	7
11		BIOSHOCK 2	2K GAMES	9
12		MARIO & SONIC AT OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES	SEGA	11
13	-	FORZA MOTORSPORT 3	MICROSOFT	13
14		ASSASSIN’S CREED II	UBISOFT	-
15		JAMES CAMERON’S AVATAR: THE GAME	UBISOFT	16
16		GRAND THEFT AUTO IV	PLATINUM	18
17	-	MARIO KART WII	NINTENDO	17
18		LEGO BATMAN: THE VIDEOGAME	WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE	14
19		UNCHARTED 2: AMONG THIEVES	SONY COMPUTER ENT.	-
20		NAPOLEON: TOTAL WAR	SEGA	12

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Nintendo Downloads for the Week of 3/8/10

It looks like this week for downloads across Nintendo platforms is offering a little dose of fantasy for all of those who would like to indulge themselves in it. Max & the Magic Marker imagines if your own artistic creation turned against you, there’s some Final Fantasy 2, which has fantasy in the title so that automatically makes the list, and them some Dracula hitting both the DSiWare and WiiWare. I’m also going to start rating weeks based on releases. So this week we’re giving them an:

8/10

WiiWare

Max & the Magic Marker
Publisher: Press Play
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) – Comic Mischief
Price: 1,000 Wii Points™
Description: One day Max gets a mysterious marker in the mail. Not knowing better, the first thing he draws is a wacky, purple monster. As soon as the marker leaves the paper, the monster comes to life and jumps off the paper and into another drawing. With the monster on the loose and messing with Max’s drawings, Max has no choice but to go after it. Armed with the magic marker, you must help Max track the monster through 15 inventive and challenging levels. You’ll need more than good will and quick reflexes to tackle the challenges ahead. Draw freely inside the game to help Max defeat enemies, overcome obstacles and solve puzzles. As you draw stairs, seesaws, balloons, surfboards and whatever else you can think of, your creations will interact with the physical environment, making every session unique.

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Barack Obama is a huge fan of Modern Warfare 2

When our president, Barack Obama, isn’t jeering for change, reform, and the market (you know sometimes it goes up, and sometimes…it goes down), he’s spending his free time playing Modern Warfare 2, obviously.

Or it could just be some clever person with his gamertag set to Barack Obama, and just playing sound clips in the lobby and in games.

But that would make too much sense.

Posted by Keenan "SuperMario290" in PC, Videos, Xbox 360 | 0 comments

People are really taking advantage of how awesome Bad Company 2 is

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is out, and people are all over the online doing this and that, ranting and raving about how good the game is (oh wait, are those servers up yet?). Well here are two videos of people taking advantage of explosives, and using them to thwart the other their own team. I say it’s only a matter of time before buildings are flying through the air because of explosives.

Posted by Keenan "SuperMario290" in PC, PS3, Xbox 360 | 1 comment

New Fallout 3: New Vegas screens; this game just keeps on getting better, and better

Yup, GamesThirst is providing us with a whole plethora of new screenshots for Fallout 3: New Vegas, and as is to be expected, the game looks a lot like it’s predecessor. A lot of it is recycled graphics, but honestly I can put that all aside because of one simple fact: It’s mother-fucking Fallout 3: New Vegas.

The game is coming out this fall, and the hype machine is starting to work, as people are claiming it to be either number 1 or number 2 for their game of the year in 2010. I’m gonna have to lend my helping hand in the hype, as I’m saying it’s number 1 on my list.

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Now that’s a cupcake I’d play my games with

Cupcakes are delicious, as I’m sure everybody knows. Well now that the can’t get more delicious, people have to step up their cupcake design game, and this one definitely “takes the cake”, if you know what I mean.

This one was found on clevercupcakes’ flickr page, and created by Cupcakes Take the Cake which, after looking at all of those cupcakes, I’m drooling all over my laptop. I blame Microsoft.

Via [Kotaku]