When you go to a game store how often do you find yourself looking at various Wii and DS titles and wondering if you should buy them? There are numerous games released every week for every system and it really is a hard choice to pick up a game you know nothing about. Some even have very alluring box art and sometimes false promises of greatness, but you just aren’t really sure what to get out of fear of wasting your money on some type of shovel-ware garbage.

I honestly find myself doing this little dance a lot as of late. This is because when I usually go to a game store to buy some games with some spare cash, I like to blindly dive into one hoping to find something good to play. Like taking that chance and picking up an obscure title like Disgaea that might be actually be good. Continue reading…

Since Braid is a homage to Super Mario Bros, I wondered what would of happened if Braid was a homage to Zelda. I then somehow managed to find this image on devient art, which seems to combine the two of those ideas perfectly. Interesting isn’t it? Also anyone for “High Definition” remake of a Link to the Past?

Not too sure about Konami’s new WiiWare title, Sandy Beach, but at least it’s only 500 points.  Sure to be a good buy on the Virtual Console is Kirby’s Dream Land 3.  Either of these titles intrique you?

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VGChartz did some number crunching and found WiiSports to be the “Best selling game of all time,” surpassing Super Mario Bros. for the NES in total sales.  A common complaint applies to both of these titles - in most cases they were packaged with the console.  WiiSports was bundled with the Wii in every country except North Korea and Japan, worldwide console sales have reached 45 million.  Super Mario Bros,  packaged with most NES bundles, holds at 40.24 million.

Of course, console owners don’t have a choice when it comes to bundled games - so if you don’t think Super Mario Bros. and Wii Sports are eligible “best selling game,”  your champion is Pokemon Red/Green/Blue, at 31.38 million.

Nothing really worthy of a post-holiday gift card here.  Probably best to get outside and play in the snow.

DS
Paws & Claws: Pampered Pets
Big Bang Mini
Bigfoot
Hotel for Dogs
Jumble Madness

Wii
Paws & Claws Pet Resort
Fishing Master World Tour
Hotel for Dogs

Anything you’re interested in?

When it comes to homebrew without a modchip, the Nintendo Wii is second only to the Dreamcast.  While the infamous Twilight Hack remains the only way to run unsigned code without cracking open your Wii, FlatMii offers a mod-chip free alternative that, while still voiding your warranty, might not break your console.

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According to Nielsen, which released a similar study earlier this year, the Wii comes in third behind the venerable PlayStation 2 and the Xbox 360 in terms of console usage.

Oddly enough, but no surprise given its current struggle, the PlayStation 3 checked in just above the GameCube cube with 7.7% to 4.4%, but behind the original Xbox at 9.1%. Yes, read that again. The “failure” that is Nintendo’s purple cube is nipping at Sony’s heels (quotes used because, as a profitable system, it’s silly to call the GameCube a “failure”).

Now, not that there was any real doubt, but the Wii is, apparently, not as dusty as the cacophony of dissenting Internet voices would have us believe. I know mine’s got a work out this past week thanks to de Blob and Wario Land: Shake It!

Note: The study is for the period Jan-Oct 2008, and did not track portables.

Drummer virtuoso Andrea Vadrucci totally remasters the drum tracks in Super Mario Bros 3 while listening to them in their original 8-bit form. This makes him one of the most awesome drum medley makers around, and an obvious supporter of Super Mario Bros. 3 as the best game ever.

Mega Man 9 producer Hironobu Takeshita fought the good fight with clueless Capcom executives and saved us all from the dreadful 3D graphics creep that’s doomed many a classic franchise from times past. If only he could have saved Bionic Commando from a similar fate later this year.

See also: Sonic the Hedgehog.

Japanese TV execs are wetting themselves today over Nintendo’s big TV moves. Slowly but surely, I think Nintendo is dead set on taking over the entire world using nothing but the Wii and my television.