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Oh son of a motherless goat, My Japanese Coach is on IOS

Hardly news worthy i know, but if there’s one DS title worth having its My Japanese Coach, a great tool for learning japanese, and to get it on the DS, especially 3DS as it doesn’t run R4 cards, you have … Continue reading

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Hurrah, zelda cd goodness boxed in for early purchasers, Skyward Sword

A few days ago, maybe a week, there was news that The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword was to be released with a limited edition gold motion plus controller with the hylian crest, and free cd from the upcoming 25th … Continue reading

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My fellow Ambassadors, 3DS that is, NES games ahoy

Greetings my fellow 3DS Ambassadors, you may have noticed some talk yesterday about the free NES games already available to us on the 31st, well when I checked they weren’t, not here in the UK anyway, but today you should … Continue reading

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Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life, Guardian Heroes release iminant

Earlier today @majornelson tweeted that the Guardian Heroe’s release for XBLA was as early as tomorrow, this has now been updated to NOT being released tomorrow. Original developed by Treasure on the Sega Saturn console, this re release has been … Continue reading

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Ah, what a shmup

Radiant Silvergun, one of the most expensive Japanese only Sega Saturn games is coming cheap to a Sega Saturn Xbox 360 near you. Available for 1200 MS Points this September 14th via XBLA. This remake of a golden classic will have … Continue reading

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I’m an Ambassador don’t you know

Some of you may have noticed that the layout style of nintendo.co.uk and nintendo.com are slightly different, we have a news section with not very useful news, and the Americas have a what’s new sections, which also has news, and … Continue reading

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The US gets a free Orchestra cd with Skyward Sword, but what about us?

Over at Nintendo.com there’s news as far as the states is concerned that the first batch of The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword for the wii will come with a free cd of select tracks from the upcoming recordings of … Continue reading

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Hairy Golden Axe Wound and Cheap ChuChu for All!

Well stroke my bunions if SEGA haven’t chucked a load of iOS gaming on the bank holiday bonfire. This stuff is going so cheap that taking it off them is effectively looting. Which we couldn’t possibly urge you to do. … Continue reading

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Ludum Dare August 2011 is over and sleep is good

The competition for rapid game development is over, for now. My humble attempt can be found here https://www.grigorig.com/files/twister2.html it’s called twister, as the them was escape, though you can’t actually escape it as it gets faster and mows you down … Continue reading

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He who dares, wins. Ludum Dare update for my game

With just over 12 hours until the submissions for Ludum dare end, i’ve just added my first update to the ludum dare sites blog, with a brand spanking new shiny screen shot, here it is At the moment you just … Continue reading

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