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Apr 2, 2008

Classic, GameCube Controllers Gimped For Mario Kart

GC News from N4G | Mario Kart: Double Dash!!

GC - Mario Kart: Double Dash!! - Classic, GameCube Controllers Gimped For Mario Kart

The latest fact sheet handed to Kotaku from Nintendo contains some notes on the game's four control schemes. Here's what it says for the Classic and GameCube controls:

Â¿ Classic Controller: Mario Kart veterans can let their thumbs do the driving with the Classic Controller. However, players cannot perform certain moves with this control scheme.

Â¿ Nintendo GameCube Controller: Experienced Mario Kart fans may also enjoy this familiar scheme, although some manoeuvres cannot be performed.

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Mar 26, 2008

'It's time for gamers to grow up'

GC News | Gamecube

American Chronicle writer Dave Gibson has joined the long list of writers hopping on the 'gamers are destroying the world' bandwagon - blaming lazy, television watching Americans for divorce, out-of-wedlock births and cancer (we made the last one up). "A society whose grown men seem to be more interested in the latest video game, rather than the survival of their nation or even of their own family--is doomed to failure," says the angry ...
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Mar 26, 2008

Think you're good at online games? Prove it

GC News | Gamecube

Think you've got the skills to school GamesRadar? Want a chance to hand us our asses online? Well now's your chance. Starting this Thursday (27 March) we're launching PlayRadar, a new fortnightly event that gives you the chance to show us your mettle in a multiplayer showdown.Every other Thursday at 4pm (GMT) two members of the GR team will take on all-comers in a series of online matches. All you have to do is send us a friend request from ...
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Mar 19, 2008

Greenpeace: Nintendo must clean up its act

GC News | Gamecube

Environmental campaign body Greenpeace has once again slammed Nintendo for its policies on toxic chemicals and recycling. In Greenpeace's latest Guide to Greener Electronics, which ranks the 18 top manufacturers of PCs, mobile phones, TVs and games consoles according to their policies on tackling environmental waste, Nintendo remains bottom of the pile, having been the first brand to score a zero out of ten when it was first included in the ...
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Mar 19, 2008

Next week: it's the Week of Hate on GR!

GC News | Gamecube

Gamers hate everything. Of all people, doing all sorts of hobbies, all over the world, gamers hate the most. Whether it's moaning about console prices or release dates, complaining that a game is too long, or too short, or too hard, or too easy, or too realistic, or too unrealistic. Or typing bile at each other on forums, or screaming it down the headset on LIVE. Gamers love to hate.So in celebration of this integral piece of gaming ...
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Mar 18, 2008

Metal Gear Solid PSOne headed for PSN

GC News | Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes

As the PSOne games on PSN drought continues on this side of the planet, Japan's Famitsu magazine has revealed that the original Metal Gear Solid will be hitting the PSN in spring for play on PS3 and PSP. MGS was, in case you lived in the Himalayas at the time, one of the best games on the PSOne - a platform-defining title upon which the whole modern MGS craze was built. Its arrival on the PSN would be sweet. But there is, ...
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Mar 13, 2008

EA gets aggressive with Take-Two

GC News | Gamecube

EA's conquest to buy GTA IV publisher Take-Two has stepped up a gear as it extends a tender offer directly to Take-Two shareholders, following the company's rejection of its original offer. EA has made a tender offer of $26 per share to Take-Two's shareholders, which is valued at approximately $2 Billion - the same sum Take-Two itself turned down last month. The offer is scheduled to expire at 5am GMT on Saturday, April 12. Take-Two is due to ...
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Mar 5, 2008

Ziff Davis files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

GC News | Gamecube

Ziff Davis Media has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in New York City today in an attempt to restructure its operations and pay off its debts. "The restructuring, if approved by the court," says business publication BtoBonline, "would reduce Ziff Davis Media’s $225 million senior-note debt. That amount will be exchanged for a new $50 million (face amount) senior secured note and at least 88.8% of the common stock in the reorganized ...
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Mar 5, 2008

Uwe Boll: Spielberg is sloppy

GC News | Gamecube

Dungeon Siege and BloodRayne movie director, Uwe Boll, has lashed out at Stephen Spielberg - pitting his film, an adaptation of videogame Postal, against the new Indiana Jones flick. In an email sent to horror website Bloody Disgusting, Boll said: "On the Indiana Jones weekend - May 23 - we will go out and destroy Indiana Jones in the Box Office! We all know that Harrison Ford is older as my grandpa and his time is up - would Michael ...
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Mar 3, 2008

"38% of gamers are female"

GC News | Gamecube

Thirty-eight percent of gamers are female, according to a report by the Entertainment Software Association, sourced by CNN technology. According to the ESA, girl gamers spend 7.4 hours a week playing games, in-between hiding every television remote and moaning that we've left the toilet seat up. Studies and sales data have shown that women are more likely to play casual handheld games such as Nintendo DS titles, along with "social games" ...
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