Nintendo’s Metroid Prime 3: Corruption was easily the best FPS on the Wii, and now the publisher is adding those controls to the previous two games, Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, previously released on the GameCube.
Nintendo has announced that the two previous games, alongside Corruption, will be released as a Trilogy on one [...]

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Although the Wii Classic Controller or a Gamecube controller works well enough for most virtual console titles nothing would beat the sheer joy of playing old school Nintendo games with the original controller. Before now you’d have to possess MacGuyver level skills to wire an old-school NES controller to your Wii, but a new peripheral [...]

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Factor 5, developers of the Rogue Squadron series and Liar, has announced that the San Rafael based studio is shutting down. This is due to the bankruptcy and failure of Brash Entertainment, a leading investor in the San Rafael based studio
However, Factor 5’s German studio — and headquarters — located in Cologne, Germany, is unaffected [...]

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Nielsen has released their newest round of data tracking the gaming habits of American gamers. Though the Wii still continues to outsell many other systems the console is getting the least play time. The only system that it’s beating in terms of how often it’s played and for how long is the Gamecube. The PS3 [...]

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There are games that visibly, awesomely, catch your imagination and pull you into the experience with a force and grandeur all their own. I admit that this was the case with me playing the first stage of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. Sadly, this wonderful beginning couldn’t last, and from there, the game throttled back [...]

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Part of the reason Nintendo’s raking in money hand over fist with the Wii is their brilliant decision to re-release classic titles for low costs. Between the current library of games, backwards compatibility with Gamecube titles, the Virtual Console and Wiiware it’s hard not to find something you’d like to play. While NES and SNES [...]

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Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto has told UK’s Channel 4 that he is worried about developers creating excessively violent video games,
“I don’t want to curb freedom of expression, but I am concerned that many developers focus just on excessive violence in order to stimulate people’s mind. I believe that there are more ways of grabbing players’ attention [...]

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Oh how easily the tides have turned. From Factor 5’s humble beginnings on the PS3, turning Lair from what appeared to be a AAA effort into a critical flop. We now know the developer has switched tracks to develop an upcoming Wii title, we also know Factor 5 was one of the best developers on [...]

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Nintendo has stopped shipping of the wireless GameCube controller — known as Wavebird — to retailers. The Wavebird was one of the first true RF based wireless controllers, where now virtually all controllers are wireless on the current generation of consoles. Nintendo has said that the Wavebird will still be available on their online store, [...]

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Nintendo has seen staggering sales for the Wii, but just how staggering has it been? Well, the console has surpassed the Gamecube, Nintendo’s previous outing, in Japan - its lifetime sales within a year.
Exactly 4,179,963 units of the Gamecube were sold during the lifetime of the product. Astonishingly, the Japanese picked up 4,231,044 units of [...]

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Drawn by Raven Perez, the comic strip above is quite funny, finally revealing who Master Chief really is. You can find more game related comic strips on the official site here.

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Another year, another football season, another round of Madden NFL. This year’s version of Madden has hit the stores, available on 10 (ten!) different platforms, that’s gotta be some sort of record, even for EA.
GameSpot (85/100) “Madden 08 seems to represent a tipping point of sorts for the series. You feel like the game is [...]

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Hi everyone well its that time of the week again, where we all get together and giveaway prizes for thoughs who like to comment on our stories. We’ll pick the best 3 comments each week and award each one with a game. All you have to do is to continue posting relevant and constructive comments [...]

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And the winners of the weekly comments contest are, drum roles please!
1st SasukeX - Wii Remote Controller
2nd Tidles - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
3rd The Wicker Man - Resident Evil 4
3rd Anuban - Resident Evil 4
Special DB Editor Commentor Prize goes to Zac - Resident Evil 4Please send your postal info gday1234@gmail.com
Many Regards Paul Nation

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DigitalBattle is again holding a contest for those who like to comment on our stories. From this week on, we’ll pick the best 3 comments each week and award each one with a game. All you have to do is to continue posting relevant and constructive comments on stories. Check out this week’s prizes after [...]

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