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Nintendo Enters the E-book Buisness
OMG, yes! This is exciting news, and it makes so much sense. The DS is cheap, user friendly, light… in short everything that the present e-reader are not. My only worry would be the quality of the display, and of course over long periods of time the reading experience would be much harder on the eyes. I do like the recommendation/mood feature in this program. Can you imagine what amazon/the kindle store might be like with this sort of feature? I mean, the “Amazon recommends” feature is ...
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Arcade Cabinets For Your GI Joes
Original at Kotaku
• Thu, Aug 27
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Original at Kotaku
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Original at Kotaku
• Tue, Jul 7
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Original at Examiner.com
• Tue, Jun 16
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Original at IGN
• Tue, Jun 16
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Original at Gameplanet
• Wed, Jun 10
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Original at Examiner.com
• Wed, Jun 10
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Original at IGN
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Original at Europa Press
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My Game This Weekend - 05.22.09
Original at NintendoDS Advanced
• Fri, May 22
Michigan Instead, I shall press onward to complete Donkey Kong Jungle Beat, wherein I'm actually at the last boss. And from there, I can go on to do my review. Here's a teaser, though: In the GameCube version, I got nowhere near the last boss, though I'm not ...
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Original at WorthPlaying.com
• Fri, May 22
CA The control scheme has lost the uniqueness it had with the GameCube version. That system forced you to use the DK bongos in order to control every aspect of this platforming game. It made the game unique, and the critics loved it. ...
New Play Control! Donkey Kong Jungle Beat
Original at GamePro.com
• Mon, May 11
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Original at Destructoid
• Sun, May 10
Florida I'm also playing the Donkey Kong Jungle Beat remake for review. The game has a ton of new stuff, including Donkey Kong Country-style rocket barrels, new enemies, new obstacles, a whole new life meter system, a new crest earning system, ...
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Original at Kotaku
• Thu, May 7
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Original at Kansas City Star
• Thu, May 7
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Original at IGN
• Wed, May 6
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Original at NintendoDS Advanced
• Mon, May 4
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Original at Examiner.com
• Wed, Apr 29
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Original at A.V. Club
• Wed, Apr 29
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• Tue, Apr 28
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Original at Kotaku
• Mon, Apr 27
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Symphony to pop with ‘Video Games Live'
Original at Richmond Times Dispatch
• Wed, Apr 22
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Donkey Kong iphone clone hits the App StoreOriginal at Pocket Gamer
• Wed, Apr 22
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Original at Joystiq
• Thu, Apr 16
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Original at Destructoid
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Original at Kotaku
• Thu, Dec 11
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Original at OhGizmo!
• Sat, Nov 8
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Original at Kotaku
• Mon, Oct 27
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Original at intendo ~ the anti
• Fri, Oct 3
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Original at WiiNintendo
• Mon, Sep 22
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Original at Wired
• Fri, Jun 27
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Original at LazyGamer .
• Wed, Jun 25
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How To: Steve Wiebe's Donkey Kong 101
Original at Pink Godzilla
• Thu, Jun 19
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Opinion: Mario Kart Wii
Original at Keen and Graev's Gaming
• Mon, Apr 28
By Keen came out yesterday! Graev and I have been fans of Mario Kart games since the SNES and have played every version including the hand held DS releases. The game has this unexplainable charm — all Mario Karts do. Seeing the Nintendo characters driving Go-Karts, Dragsters, bizarre contraption...
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Original at Go Nintendo
• Thu, Apr 10
By RawmeatCowboy Starting Characters Baby Mario Baby Peach Toad Koopa Mario Luigi Yoshi Peach Wario Waluigi Donkey Kong Bowser. Check out the secrets here.
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii) Review
Original at WiiDS.co.uk
• Thu, Apr 10
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Classic, GameCube Controllers Gimped For Mario Kart [Mario Kart]
Original at Kotaku
• Tue, Apr 1
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Donkey Kong at MIX08: Behind the Scenes
Original at blogs.msdn.com
• Fri, Mar 28
By mswanson According to Walter (and Ed and Steve), the release of the movie and its ever-increasing popularity has raised the bar for what it takes to stage a record-breaking attempt for Donkey Kong. To start with, I needed to find a Donkey Kong printed circuit board (PCB) that I could have validated a...
Which publisher gets the best review scores?
Original at Joystiq
• Tue, Mar 4
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Wii Knows If You've Been Bad Or Good
Original at Kotaku
• Mon, Dec 24
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl Hands On Impressions
Original at Kotaku
• Fri, Oct 12
The roster in the demo—and the one I assume will be available at Nintendo's booth at E For All—featured the following characters: Mario, Donkey Kong, Link, Samus, Fox, Pikachu, Diddy Kong, Pit, Meta Knight, Ike, Princess Peach, Yoshi, Sonic and Bowser.
Wii Virtual Console Releases For May 21, 2007
Original at Blogcritics
• Mon, May 21
By Brian Szabelski Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest was released last week in Europe and has not been made available on the Japanese Virtual Console. Streets of Rage 2 was released last week in Japan on the Virtual Console, where it is known as Bare Knuckle II. Blazing Lazers debuts in Europe later this...
Joystiq review: The King of Kong (film)Original at Joystiq
• Tue, May 1
By James Ransom-Wiley Filed under: Arcade, Culture, Features, Reviews, Competitive GamingTruth is stranger than fiction. And while it needs to be threaded by a capable hand, even Donkey Kong can be woven into a compelling canvas that examines the comically-profound idiosyncrasies that drive human compet...
SXSW Review: The King of Kong
Original at Cinematical
• Sat, Mar 17
By Scott Weinberg The story in a nutshell: Back in the mid-80s, a video game mega-guru named Billy Mitchell set the all-time world record for Donkey Kong. (Donkey Kong, you'll remember, is the game in which Mario made his debut while trying to rescue the princess from a grumpy giant ape.) Mitchell's record re...
Wii Virtual Console Update For Monday
Original at Kotaku
• Sat, Dec 2
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