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Published 13 December 2008

Persona 4, weird NES music and the prettiest games of '08 are the most important things that happened this week

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2008 is nearly over, and thusly there aren’t as many new games to discuss. But fear not! We instead recount the prettiest (read: most colorful) games of the year, then ponder aloud how Nintendo was able to sell 800,000 Wiis last month (until we found it was actually 2.2 million) and subject you to an NES song so bizarrely long you’ll wonder how anyone could stand it.

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Top 7… prettiest games of 2008– what, there are colors other than brown?

Home launches… shhh!– witness the lifeless spectacle that is Empty Mall Simulator ‘08

Persona 4 is out– Henry says “it’s good!”



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