"Ahhhh, yes. Nintendo has finally taken the wraps off their latest Animal Crossing effort -- but does the "Big N" add enough to this installment to make it a worthy purchase?"

""The thinking here is that the average gamer is unlikely to buy more than 5 games in one genre on their machine, so this figure is a more accurate representation of how good each console is for each type of game to the average gamer. OK then, here we go""

"If your child appears to be alternating between fits of catatonia and weeping frustration, hold the call to your family psychologist / exorcist until you’ve burnt any copies of Wall·E kept in you home (preferably in front of your child’s eyes, and in a flamboyantly pagan, ritualistic manner) and you’ll likely find them instantly cured."

"When we talked to SEGA of America president Simon Jeffery at E3 last week, he showered us with knowledge and know-how. He also threw in a quick mention of a game we hadn't heard anything about — officially, that is — Resident Evil 5 for the Wii. To say that we were surprised to hear it mentioned would be an understatement, despite our non-reaction if front of Mr. Jeffery.

We followed up with a couple folks about the on camera slip of the tongue, starting with Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aime.
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"One of the complaints that gamers have regarding the Madden franchise, whether they're fans of it or not, is that the game "...is just a roster update" and never has any new features. Whether that's true or not is another debate that's largely semantic, but something that we can look at and actually analyze is how successful the features implemented in each year's version of Madden actually are. Do the new features introduced in Madden actually stick around? How often do they get retooled? By..."

"A rumoured track-listing for Guitar Hero IV: World Tour has appeared online thanks to GoNintendo. They claim that the list which appears below for you is set to be the real thing and should be confirmed within a matter of days.

Whether or not we trust a Nintendo blog as a source, remains to be seen, but someone either has too much time on there hands or has a vast knowledge of rock music suitable for the game."

"6. LEGO Batman's Coming Soon
With so many games coming out this year, we have room for only one Batman game, and we're more than happy with the LEGO offering. Playing as Batman, Robin, Joker, Penguin and Catwoman, all LEGO-ized, sounds more enticing than any Dark Knight video game."

Siliconera's Spencer Yip had the chance to chat with Marvelous Interactive's president Yasuhiro Wada about the company's co-publishing deal with XSEED Games, and other topics.

Notables:

• Lux Pain, Suda 51's Flower, Sun, and Rain, Rainy Woods, and Arc Rise Fantasia to be localized for North America.
• Marvelous is currently working on an original WiiWare title.
• All Harvest Moon titles that don't sport the Harvest Moon name will fall be handled by Marvelous
• Vanillaware's Oboro Muramasa Youtou...

It's about time some REAL Fatal Frame IV news started coming in. Here is the second trailer showing the gorgeous cutscenes, the new theme song, and some rather scary moments too ...



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Many Wii owners now hate Cammy Dunaway after her rather embarassing E3 debut.
While many say that gamers are just using her as a "scapegoat" to vent their anger about Nintendo's awful E3 conference, Dunaway certainly seems to be the "bearer of bad news" when it comes to Nintendo.
In an interview with Wired she revealed that, while Iwata said the Zelda team and Mario team are hard at work with their next big projects, don't expect any news (or the games themselves) to come out this year.

Gameloft, who publishes and develops games for mobile devices, the DS, and other things, have announced their results for the first half of 2008. As it turns outs, Gameloft has made 50.3 million Euros, that's 10% more than they made last year! Most of their sales came from mobile games which accumulated 94% of the sales, while everything else only accumulated 6%.