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Super Smash Bros Brawl for $43 shipped.
Nights: Journey of Dreams $29.
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption $29.
Pinball Hall of Fame $19.

For $30 you can pick up, tax free and with free shipping:
Bomberman Land
Endless Ocean
Ghost Squad
Godfather: Blackhand Edition
House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return
My Word Coach
Namco Museum Remix
Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition
Sega Bass Fishing
Sonic and the Secet Rings
SSX Blur
Super Monkeyball Banana Blitz
Zack and Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure

For only $20, copies of these games can be found just about anywhere:
Alien Syndrome
Dewy's Adventure
Elebits
Escape From Bug Island
Furu Furu Park
Mercury Meltdown Revolution
Octomania
Red Steel
Wii Zapper with Link's Crossbow Training
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In the spirit of Endless Ocean's themes of fun and exploration, Nintendo and Norwegian Cruise Line are partnering to offer a real-life ocean adventure: the Endless Ocean Cruise Giveaway. Three lucky winners will receive a seven-day Caribbean cruise for two aboard a Norwegian Cruise Line ship, where they can experience the fun of the Wii game at sea.

Between now and Feb. 29, 2008, people can visit www.EndlessOcean.com for more information about the game and the sweepstakes. Participants can enter once daily, and winners will be drawn at random on or about March 5.

The Endless Ocean Cruise Giveaway is open to residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia over the age of 18. For a complete list of rules and regulations, follow the main link below. For more information about Endless Ocean, visit www.EndlessOcean.com.
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Core Gaming Group, Nintendo's representative company in South Africa, launched two popular Wii titles at a press event held this past Friday in Johannesburg. In addition, after roughly a year of the world's best selling handheld console being absent from the South African market, Core Group relaunched the Nintendo DS Lite.

The media briefing was presented by RJ van Spaandonk, the executive director of Core Group. RJ outlined the upcoming Wii releases, detailed the Nintendo DS Lite relaunch information and discussed the success that the Nintendo Wii has enjoyed in South Africa since its launch here in October 2007.

The Nintendo DS Lite was relaunched in South Africa and will soon be available in stores. It will retail at R1 799 and is available in four colours: black, white, silver and pink.
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1/23/08 - Gameinfowire writes:

"Nintendo invites you to dive into a new genre of video games. Launching this week for Wii, Endless Ocean lets users discover a vast undersea adventure at their own pace. It's like a virtual scuba vacation in the tropics that includes interaction with hundreds of different animal species, relaxing swims through brilliant coral reefs and exploratory dives on wrecks of ships and warplanes. With the game's intuitive controls and beautiful underwater visuals, every member of the family will want a chance to dive in."
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Game Informer have just sent out their newest edition to American stores nationwide and this months' review scores can be found below. Super Mario Galaxy receives the game of the month award, while Rock Band also impresses. Time Crisis 4, Soul Caliber: Legends and Jenga were this months' worst games.

Rock Band (PS3/Xbox 360/PS2, EA): 9,25 / 9,25
F.E.A.R. Files (Xbox 360, Sierra): 6,5 / 7
Beowulf (PS3/Xbox 360, Ubisoft): 5,75 / 5
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men (PS3/Xbox 360, Eidos): 7 / 7,25
Warhammer 40,000: Squad Command (NDS, THQ): 8 / 8,5
MX vs. ATV Untamed (Xbox 360/PS3, THQ): 8 / 8,25
Scene It? (Xbox 360, Microsoft): 8,5 / 7
Viva Pinata: Party Animals (Xbox 360, Microsoft): 5,5
Bee Movie (Xbox 360/PS2/Wii/NDS, Activision): 6,5
Time Crisis 4 (PS3, Namco Bandai): 4,25 / 4,5
Super Mario Galaxy (Wii, Nintendo): 9,75 / 9,75 **Game of the Month**
Smarty Pants (Wii, EA): 7,5 / 6
Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 (Wii, Ubisoft): 7,75 / 8
Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles (Wii, Capcom): 8,25 / 8
Soul Calibur Legends (Wii, Namco Bandai): 4 / 4
Ghost Squad (Wii, Sega): 7 / 6,5
Battalion Wars 2 (Wii, Nintendo): 7,25 / 7,25
Endless Ocean (Wii, Nintendo): 6
Trauma Center: New Blood (Wii, Atlus): 7,5
Medal of Honor: Heroes 2 (Wii, EA): 6,75
Dancing With the Stars (Wii/PS2, Actgivision): 5,25
Jenga (Wii, Atari): 2
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27 Nov, 2007 For a time of peace on earth, theres going to be a lot of stress and killing around this Christmas. Just think about this winters biggest games. Whether its COD4s visceral gunfire tearing apart wall and limb alike, the bloody back-stabbing business of the always-hounded Altair, or Kane and Lynch just being plain old sociopathic, the jovial festival of light and wonder really is looking like a quite brutal one this year. We need a way to combat this, and preferably one which ...
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Get ready to take the plunge with underwater exploration game Endless Ocean following Nintendo's announcement that it's swimming to Europe on November 9.
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Last year some people were worried that the Wii console overseen by Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime was driving some gamers to accidentally hurl their controllers through their TV screens.

A week ago, at E3, Fils-Aime helped unveil the Wii Balance Board, a bathroom-scale-shaped controller designed for Wii-enabled full-body yoga, hula-hooping and skiing video game action (see "Nintendo At E3: Mad 'Mario' Titles On The Way; Wii Zapper Could Be A Future Shock"). Might Nintendo be concerned that the Board will drive gamers to accidentally hurl themselves through their TV screens?
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With the big names of the Nintendo gaming world taking centre stage at the publisher's E3 press conference last night, a few other titles slipped under the radar like Endless Ocean 2.

The game is said to "build on the ocean experience first introduced with Endless Ocean" but unlike the previous game which focused on relaxation, the sequel is designed to deliver more adventure, whether it be escaping from sharks, exploring shipwrecks or uncovering treasure on the ocean bed.
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Famous Japanese magazine Famitsu has reviewed some of the Wii games for Japanese launch, the main one of course being The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess for both the Wii and GameCube.

Zelda The Twilight Princess (Wii, Nintendo): 9 / 10 / 9 / 10 - (38/40)

Zelda The Twilight Princess (GC, Nintendo): 10 / 10 / 9 / 9 - (38/40)

Necro-Nesia (Wii, Spike): 8 / 7 / 6 / 7 - (28/40)

Wing Island (Wii, Hudwon): 5 / 6 / 6 / 5 - (22/40)

Kororinpa (Wii, Hudson): 6 / 6 / 6 / 6 - (24/40)

SD Gundam: Scad Hammers (Wii, Hudson): 8 / 8 / 9 / 8 - (33/40)

Ennichi no Tatsujin (Wii, Bandai Namco): 7 / 7 / 7 / 6 - (27/40)

Tamagotchi no Pika Pika Daitouryou (Wii, Bandao Namco): 7 / 7 / 7 / 5 - (26/40)

Red Steel (Wii, Ubisoft): 8 / 9 / 9 / 8 - (34/40)

Trauma Center: Second Opinion (Wii, Atlus): 8 / 9 / 8 / 7 - (32/40)

Elebits (Wii, Konami): 8 / 8 / 8 / 8 - (32/40)

Swing Golf Pangya (Wii, Tecmo): 8 / 7 / 7 / 7 - (29/40)

WarioWare: Smooth Moves (Wii, Nintendo): 8 / 9 / 8 / 9 - (34/40)

Crayon Shin-Chan: Saikyou Kazoku Kasukabe King Wii (Wii, Banpresto): 7 / 8 / 7 / 6 - (28/40)
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