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Jun 28, 2007
Wii Feature | Mario Party 8
Thanks to its staggered - some may say relentless - release dates, every year since 1998 has been a Mario Party year somewhere in the world. Some years have even been multi-Party years, and while few of the many hundreds of minigames that comprise Nintendos critically maligned - yet hugely successful - series have been particularly memorable, the age of the Mario Party has rarely been dull. Minigame Island The very first N64 version included the Minigame Island mode, which was a compilation ...
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May 30, 2007
Wii Feature | Mario Party 8
So you've read our review, and you've decided to wade in a little deeper. Good! Welcome to our massive Mario Party Guide. In this handy feature, you'll learn everything worth knowing about partying down, Italian style. While most of the kerfuffle on this page is available in the manual, it would hardly be the ultimate Mario Party 8 guide if we didnt give you a glimpse the cast and their enhancing chewables. And who knows? You may still learn a thing or two. But we wouldnt blame you for ...
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May 25, 2007
Wii Feature | Mario Party 8
There's been a new Mario Party game every year since the series' introduction in 1999. Well, there was a new one every year until 2006, when no new Party was held. Has a whole year away from the virtual board game been enough time to rekindle the world's interest? Do Wii controls warrant another look for people who've spent the past eight years bashing the A and B buttons to steal other players' coins and stars? We nabbed a giant TV and four eager editors to see how Mario's latest party stacks ...
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Jul 31, 2007
Wii Feature | Mario Strikers Charged
Mario Strikers Charged just came out and were betting you're either ripping up the competition online or youre sorely pissed that your best friend keeps landing Mega Strikes on your ass. Read our tips thatll make you a stronger player and will have you mimicking Waluigis crotch-taunt in no time. GOAL! Bird brains - Top sidekick #1 The lovely Birdo is unique in that her evasive move sets up her charged shot without warping her into trouble elsewhere on the field. Press the D-Pad just as the ...
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May 22, 2008
360 Feature | Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
360 - Marvel: Ultimate Alliance - Box art that got it all wrong

Ah, the box art story. Ol' R'liable we like to call it, always good for a laugh and sure to inspire conversation about what makes cover art good, bad or legendarily awful. This time though, we're going a different route and focusing on covers that totally botch the simplest rule of box art - it should reflect the product cleanly and clearly. These poor examples couldn't even keep it together long enough to be regular old "bad box ...

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Feb 18, 2008
360 Feature | Mass Effect
360 - Mass Effect - The Top 7... Failed Franchises We Know How to Fix

Videogames, television and movies frequently overlap. With so much cross pollination, you'd think the biggest and best film franchises would have respectable game adaptations by now, but that's just not the case, is it? Sure there are a handful of successful tie-ins, but many series flop around for years, seeing game after terrible game created with little or no regard for the source material. Well, we're sick of it. ...

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Feb 12, 2008
360 Feature | Mass Effect
360 - Mass Effect - Mass Effect Sex Guide When Fox News anchor Martha McCallum broke the story that Mass Effect contained full graphic nudity and player-directed sexual encounters, we immediately loaded up the game and went back for another play-through. How could we have missed such an opportunity? But for some reason we could only find the same two tired, barely R-rated cutscenes. Since we had a bunch of Mass Effect footage already on hand from other projects, we decided to compile a ...
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Feb 8, 2008
360 Feature | Mass Effect
360 - Mass Effect - Box Art F'ups

Derp! Ready the eBay accounts, cause that company that prints game box art - Acme Video Game Box Art Co. Inc. Ltd., we believe they’re called - pulled a gargantuan boner and misprinted a shitload of our favorite titles. We don’t mean to call them out, but we can’t allow the public to be misled. ...

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Feb 6, 2008
360 Feature | Mass Effect
360 - Mass Effect - The Biggest Prick in the Galaxy As anyone who bothered to play or research Mass Effect knows, you're free to make decisions that directly affect the plot, the characters and even the ultimate outcome of the game. Most of us try to stay on the nice-to-neutral side of the law, generally helping people out while occasionally dipping into the renegade pool when a particularly devious choice presents itself. But what if you play the entire game as a rootin' tootin' ...
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Nov 22, 2007
360 Feature | Mass Effect
22 Nov, 2007 With Mass Effect's galaxy consisting of so many different systems and planets it's difficult to really know where to start and the sheer cosmic expansivenessness of it all can be somewhat intimidating. But there's no need to cower from the final frontier, because we've got what every intrepid space cadet needs - a galaxy guide. Over the next few pages you'll find the systems that appear on the Galaxy Map when you first take control of the SS Normandy. You'll find every planet ...
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