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"When asked about maintaining quality control at Nintendo, Miyamoto says the key is in avoiding Sega-style design. He tells Wired, "I'm always instructing my game designers on the history of the characters and worlds we've created. Often we're in development and I'll say, 'Oh, this looks like a Sega game. We need to make it look more like Mario.'" Ouch."

Usually the forgotten continent for gamers, Europe's gaming scene has received some attention in the form of a claim by Forbes that Europe's gamers prefer sports games and - guess what - casual games.

While it comes as no surprise perhaps that football games are more popular in Europe than they are across the Atlantic, what may be slightly more unexpected is that apparently, European players prefer casual games they can pick up, play and put down as they wish on excursions and the like as ...

"The Saturn's surprise launch celebrates its unlucky thirteenth birthday this month. SEGA's gambit to drum up big hype by debuting the Saturn months earlier than its original due date -- the big E3 shock of 1995 -- ended up being its death blow. And after parsing the results of a poll asking IGN Retro readers whether or not they owned a Saturn, we've determined that you were in fact its death rattle. In spite of games like the Panzer Dragoon series, Virtua Cop, Virtua Fighter 2, and SEGA Rally..."

This article basically rambles on about the history of Nintendo, how they brought in the NES to shock the world, then they fast forward to this year, with the Nintendo Wii beating it's competition by millions of units. At first, this was believed to be rumor, but the author allegedly says that Nintendo is already working on things like 'head-mounted sensor bar' and to play downloaded virtual console games via your SD card. Whether he is pulling our leg or not, there is sure to be high-definit...

"Ah, fanboys. What industry can truly call itself an industry without them? Those who prove themselves obsessively loyal to any product or corporation can be found among many communities, and nowhere do they flourish more freely than within gamer culture.

Although it may sound ridiculous to normal people, swearing undying allegiance to a heartless box of electrical components is a perfectly rational act in the mind of the fanboy, even though if he defended something like a particular brand ..."

"10. Nintendo Gamecube
Despite the fact that it looked like a purple lunch box, it's hard to hate on Nintendo's Wii-predecessor with its fantastic video game lineup. We blasted TIE Fighters in Rogue Squadron II, pummeled friends senseless in Super Smash Bros. Melee and sailed the high seas in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. Gamecube also spurred the release of the wireless Wavebird game pad, one of the best controllers in history.

8. Nintendo 64
Why is the N64 our #8 pick? One word: ..."

"Some games are utterly timeless. Super Mario Bros is still perfect. Soul Calibur 1 is still beautiful. But this is GR’s Week of Hate, after all. So here are the once-great games that might shock you if you play them today."

"We, the fans of Take Two Interactive Software, Inc. (T2) games, object to the idea of Electronics Arts (EA) purchasing T2. For the sake of diversity and variety of choices in the video game industry, we would like the two companies to remain separate. Each of the companies make games that are unique to their respective ways. The fans view the purchase of T2 shares by EA, as jeopardizing to the games made by T2, and would not remain loyal if EA acquired any T2 shares. By signing this petition ..."

"This is not a good sign for Gaijin Works, the company he founded after closing niche jRPG house Working Designs. Go bid on his games and send him your money if you want to see some obscure Japanese games localized complete with Clinton era humor. Is it too late for Giftpia, Vic?"

In an unusual move by SEGA, they have made a new zombie-slaying game. That doesn't sound so unusual, you say? Well it's title might seem a little strange to you, then. It's called English of the Dead.

So what's this game all about? It's quite simple: Players must defeat Japanese-speaking zombies by using English. Yes, you kill zombies with English!

"Heavily tattooed gaming enthusiast extraordinaire Barry Evans loves everything about videogames. In fact, Barry loves the videogame phenomenon so much that he’s spent most of his life gathering together a collection of gaming goodies so impressive that ‘enthusiast’ simply doesn’t do him justice.

"Over the years of collecting, I really missed my childhood arcade that I grew up in," explains Barry in an X-Play report, while proudly standing amid the vintage arcade cabinets, hundreds of func..."

"While there is no denying the ever-evolving nature of the videogame industry, modern day software releases are still reliant on gameplay inspiration provided by retro offerings from years gone by."

If anyone has ever heard of Shenmue which was released on the under rated Sega Dreamcast will now of how this is a classic. I wouldn't have played it if my father didn't purchase this game for me by mere luck one morning.

Shenmue is a classic adventure game that was directed & produced by Yu Suzuki of Sega-AM2 , who then moved on to the Virtual Fighter and Psy-Phi games. Shenmue was released back in 1999 and was welcomed as one of Dreamcast's finest titles.

The first game covers the v...

This is podcast number six for the Aeropause Crew. This week, we go after several topics, including Metroid Prime 3: Corruption and some of the early control issues that George had. We also talked to Stephen and Paul, who both bought Warhawk at launch. They focused on the ease of the server browser which we compared to the horrendous server browse on Live (it doesn't exist except in Halo 2 and the Halo 3 Beta). There was a nice discussion about how EA Tiburon did not beat around the bush ...

"Since its birth, video gaming has undergone an incredible evolution, from simple sprites and a ghost-eating Pac-Man to today’s domination of home consoles. After all that time, any gamer who’s worth their weight in rupees will remember (fondly, or otherwise) some once-common sights that went the way of the Virtual GameBoy, never to be seen or heard from again. CRACKED recalls some video-game staples of yesteryear, and admits that, in the end, there are still more of them kicking around than w..."

Following Revolution takes a look at the top 5 video game accessories of all time. Not necessarily naming a specific accessory such as the first party Guitar Hero controller, this article looks at types of accessories instead, going back to the GameBoy and up to today! As an added bonus, FR even takes a look at the absolute worst gaming accessory of all time!

Could you pull out a top-100 videogames list at the drop of a hat? Nope, we probably couldn't either - and we're supposedly gaming experts (yukyuk) - so it's always good to know that there are plenty of people willing to construct such lists for us. Fervently subjective they may be, but when renowned UK-based mag Edge puts a top-100 together, folks generally take note. Enjoy.

"#10: King Kong (DS) - Sudden Death
#9: Counter-Strike (PC) - Head Shot
#8: GoldenEye 007 (N64) - Slapped Silly
#7: Mortal Kombat (ARC) - Fatality
#6: Metroid (NES) - Wrong Way!
#5: Super Mario Bros. (NES) - Goomba Collision
#4: Soul Calibur II (PS2) - Ring Out out of the Stage of History
#3: Castlevania (NES) - They All Fall Down
#2: Unreal Tournament (PC) - Juggled in the Air
#1: The Legend of Zelda (Nintendo) - Death by Chicken"

"I’ve always wanted to make the sequel to the original NiGHTS, and we would love to bring NiGHTS to other platforms, however, the unique gameplay in NiGHTS and the innovative Wii controller seemed to be a perfect fit. It’s reminiscent of when we released the original NiGHTS with Sega’s 3D controller. That said…we can’t think about anything else but stay focused on creating a sequel that we hope you will all love!"

"Seeing a beloved franchise crumble into a defunct mishmash of horrid ideas and misconstrued concepts seems to happen all too often in this day and age of money grabbing bottom-liners. A great game is relatively easy to create in comparison to what it takes to sustain that greatness throughout an entire series. Some franchises are great at keeping a high level of quality, whereas others take a swan dive into the shallow end of the pool. It might not be so bad when a company makes a one-hit-won..."

"Welcome to IGN's weekly countdown of the exceptional, fascinating, and absurd: something we like to call Top 10 Tuesday. Every week we'll feature the top ten games, characters, fashion statements or whatever else we can think of that in some way relates to gaming and its history. And just because it's called Top 10 Tuesday doesn't mean it's always going to be a list of the best -- we like to razz on stuff as much as we like to praise it. From counting down the best consoles ever to revealing ..."

"Welcome to IGN's weekly countdown of the exceptional, fascinating, and absurd: something we like to call Top 10 Tuesday. Every week we'll feature the top ten games, characters, fashion statements or whatever else we can think of that in some way relates to gaming and its history. And just because it's called Top 10 Tuesday doesn't mean it's always going to be a list of the best -- we like to razz on stuff as much as we like to praise it. From counting down the best consoles ever to revealing ..."

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This Saturn-era Sonic the Hedgehog never made it past this conceptual stage. Why? I'll let YouTube uploader AssemblerX explain.

"This is a video of the concept "nights" version of Sonic Xtreme for Sega Saturn. Looking to produce a concept for a 3D sonic, a Sega USA team either used or closely followed the design of "Nights" and caused problems internally at Sega. Thinking or knowing that the US team had used their engine, the Japanese nights team had a fit. The engine was ..."

"By now you guys should know I'll post anything that involves Bubble Bobble in any way, and it gets a shout out in this montage of the most memorable video games in the history of the industry. Spanning all genres of gameplay from 1972 to 2007, and pulling from several consoles and handhelds, there's easily a hundred different games that were included in the four minute video. So take out your notebooks and get ready to jot down a few time markers of games you don't recognize but want to know ..."