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Mar 30, 2006

Mage Knight: Destiny's Soldier

DS Preview | Mage Knight: Destiny's Soldier

Only the most frighteningly popular, figurine-based fantasy games get digital makeovers. Now that Dungeons & Dragons has hit the PC, it's time for fellow elf-and-dwarf basher Mage Knight to storm the video game frontlines. Chances are you're not among the thousands who've already transfigured their kitchen tables into epic battlescapes - but you'll soon get a crack at miniature sword-and-sorcery, as the lore is now coming to the ...
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May 12, 2006

E3 06: Magnetica

DS Preview | Magnetica

Nintendo's not wasting any time with its plan to captivate the casual gamer. After captivating them with daily brain training and virtual puppies, the company's now putting out its own version of the popular web game Zuma - but for us DS owners, we'll know it as Magnetica by June. Blue and red marbles roll through a winding, twisting track, dead-set on a course that leads them into a bottomless hole. Your task is to launch like-colored marbles at the procession - match three of any given color ...
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Mar 26, 2008

MLB 2K8 Fantasy All-Stars

DS Preview | Major League Baseball 2K8 Fantasy All-Stars

Most of us didn’t realize that publisher 2K Sports actually put out an MLB 2K7 baseball game last season on the DS – and by the looks of it, 2K would like those who did know to forget that ever happened. This spring, they’ve scrapped any attempts at a hardball sim in favor of a kid-friendly, stylus-driven baseball game, rebranding the franchise as MLB 2K8 Fantasy All-Stars. We got our mitts on a preview copy and took a few ...
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Sep 1, 2006

Mario Hoops 3-on-3

DS Preview | Mario Hoops 3-on-3

Nintendo has done a fantastic job finding partners to bring characters from the Mario universe to the wide world of sports. It teamed with Camelot Software Planning for the excellent Mario Golf and Mario Tennis games. It teamed with Namco and Next Level Games for the entertaining Mario Baseball and Mario Strikers titles, respectively. For its next trick, the company has partnered with RPG giant Square-Enix to make Marios hoop dreams a reality. In the vein of previous Mario sports titles, Mario ...
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Jul 31, 2006

Mario and Moogles play ball

DS Preview | Mario Hoops 3-on-3

Gamers in Japan are no doubt spending huge chunks of this week cramming flaming basketballs into Nintendo-themed hoops with Mario Hoops 3-on-3 - we'll get our chance on September 11, but perhaps one of the coolest features this Mario sports outing has is its cast of Final Fantasy guest ...
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May 23, 2006

Mario Hoops 3-on-3

DS Preview | Mario Hoops 3-on-3

Strange how it took this long for Mario and his posse to crazy-up basketball - they've been hitting tennis, baseball and golf for years now, assaulting each other with turtle shells and bombs as though they were common sports equipment. Though it's developed by Final Fantasy titans Square Enix, there won't be any hit points and pissy anti-heroes here. Hoops is all about getting to the net in the most stylish way possible. From what we saw at E3, it appeared that the standard two-points rule ...
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Jul 21, 2005

Mario Kart DS

DS Preview | Mario Kart DS

Another chance to sample the pleasures of Mario Kart DS, away from the clamour of E3's showfloor, ought to have presented an opportunity for a more reflective, studied examination of the game's handling nuances and track design. It did, but in practice it was much more important that there was no one else waiting to jostle you off the demo pod, giving you the freedom to have another race... and another. And another. And then a few more.Double Dash may have been the first instalment in the ...
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Oct 25, 2007

Mario Party DS

DS Preview | Mario Party DS

Oct 25, 2007 Don't even talk to us about Mario Party DS's newly-revealed plot. Mario and crew get a party invite from Bowser crony Magikoopa - and accept? Just imagine their surprise when they end up cursed to wander the Mushroom Kingdom in shrinky-dinky form. ...
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Aug 31, 2007

Mario Party DS

DS Preview | Mario Party DS

Aug 31, 2007 After Wii's Mario Party 8 (sound of limp party blower), we're amazed Nintendo are daring to even buy the invite envelopes for another Mario bash. But, honestly, Mario Party DS doesn't look all that bad. You get your usual grab-bag of game boards (which seem a tad less involved than their TV counterparts), stars, coins, minigames and the ...
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May 19, 2006

Mario vs Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis

DS Preview | Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis

Friday 19 May 2006 You wouldn't know it by looking at all the 'buddy buddy' sports games on GameCube, but once upon a time, Mario and Donkey Kong were big-time enemies. In the case of Mario vs Donkey Kong: March of the Minis, you're controlling a horde of tiny, mechanical Mario clones as they try to escape the puzzling, 2D prison Donkey Kong has slapped them into. Well, you dont actually control the Marios themselves. They're basically roaming freely around the levels, awaiting your ...
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