http://www.computerandvideogames.com/?cid=OTC-RSS&attr=CVG-General-RSS Providing the latest news, previews, reviews, features, tips and cheats for UK gamers en-gn Copyright 2011 Future Sat, 19 May 2012 05:00:44 +0100 Eden v2.0 http://backend.userland.com/rss Nintendo Gamer's Mark Green loves it when the AI cheats...
Fairness is a hot topic in Nintendo land right now. Why? Mario Party bleedin' 9. You sweat your dungarees off bagging 27 stars, and then a bunch of Boos nicks the lot and banishes you to last place. Boo indeed. Nintendo's always had a strange relationship with fairness.



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Soooo... Apparently, Mass Effect 3's ending is controversial because it leaves a lot of questions unanswered. And the fans aren't happy about that at all.



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Let's get this straight: I love game maps. Not, to be clear, the ones you get on your telly when you press Start or whatever.



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From the moment Ezio Auditore's uncle bellowed 'Ezio! It'sa me - Mario!' in his Italian baritone in Assassin's Creed II it was destined that the historical stealth series would eventually arrive on a Nintendo console



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Shocking revelations! Scandalous leaks! Yes, welcome to silly season. It's the collective intake of breath that precedes every console launch. Oxygen-starved minds begin to choke, blurting out nonsense to fill the silence of Nintendo's PR vacuum. You name it, we've heard it: Wii U is six times more powerful than a 360 with a NES sellotaped to it! Wii U has 18 controllers and will cost £4,567! Wii U is made from wood and plays games from a disc carved from ham offcuts!



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Even over seven years after its release, no one's quite sure what 'Snake Eater' refers to.



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"Bonjour! Rhythm Thief is un jeu mystère set à Paris! Oui! C'est true!"



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They say that smell triggers memories more effectively than any other sense, but when it comes to games, a few bars of the soundtrack are usually all that's required to hurl you right back to your experiences of it as a kid



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Thanks to Frankie Goes To Hollywood, we all know what happens when two tribes go to war, but the friendly collision between Disney and Square Enix has been the consistent bearer of strange fruit.



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Meet Watthew. He's the loneliest Monster Hunter in the world. He lives in a bizarre land that seems somehow familiar, one where he can't speak the language or understand what people ask of him - but Watthew knows one thing: hunt monsters. If only it were so easy...



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How often do you hear people clamouring for a new Mario Tennis to be announced before big industry events or when console launch line-ups are revealed?



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With its aggressively esoteric premise (an elite band of assassins co-exist in the shattered mind of their wheelchair- bound mentor? Okaaaay) and manga-meets-brutalism visuals with more than a slight whiff of S&M, it's easy to write off Killer7 as, well, y'know, a bit of an oddball.



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Major developments are afoot in the world of Animal Crossing: retail raccoon Tom Nook has a new job!



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Now, it's taken years of planning, countless dark magic rituals, and the sacrifice of a beloved pet rat, but the Wii has finally, bewilderingly and brilliantly become the go-to format for the big-budget JRPG.



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Assuming you don't count Shadow Dragon and *clears throat* Hikari to Kage no Eiyuu, there hasn't been a 'proper' Fire Emblem since Radiant Dawn, which came out over here in 2008.



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Within the year we'll have a new piece of Nintendo hardware. That fact alone is enough to have us foaming at the mouth with excitement but get this: it'll also be the most powerful console on the market.



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What is money? Where does it come from, and where does it go when we spend it? Someone somewhere pondered these questions in the summer of 2008 and came to the chilling realisation that nobody actually knows.



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You wouldn't think it from playing RPGs, but there's more to life than killing and cash.



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We've just been deposited in the city of Nexus, in a world known mysteriously as Veil. (Or rather, our character has - we've been given a 3DS and a copy of Heroes Of Ruin for an hour, but we didn't want to shatter the illusion.)



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You probably haven't heard of it, but there's this series on non-Nintendo formats that's been causing a bit of a stir. It's called Grand Theft Auto, and if our amateur sleuthing is anything to go by it's set to be more than a little controversial.



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You'll often hear Return Of Samus mentioned as the Metroid that's ripest for a remake.



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The insightful design fuses with a forward-thinking structure to make Mario Kart 7 the best online racer of any type on any console bar none.



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There's a sweet irony to the idea of two games about conflict resolving a rivalry. Street Fighter man Yoshinori Ono and Tekken sensei Katsuhiro Harada recently joined forces for Other Formats brawler Street Fighter X Tekken, but the latter's 3DS debut is just as likely to benefit from the collaboration.



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If there's one thing our World Of Pokémon and World Of Nintendo sections have taught us, it's that people love sharing their disturbing creations on the internet, whether it's *shiver* sexy Pokémon, or *shiver* Mario characters as they would look in real life.



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Here's the 3DS irony. For all the trouble Nintendo went to, squeezing a whole extra dimension into the console, few games have really emerged that take full advantage of that exciting extra 'D'. Why? They're not allowed to!



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You don't normally associate Japanese role-playing games with bleakness, but Final Fantasy VI - AKA Final Fantasy III in the US, and We Can't Be Bothered To Release It in the UK - is one of the most miserable RPGs in Square's long and eventful history.



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Resident Evil: Revelations has the scariest door in all of gaming. It lies in wait for intrepid explorers in the bowels of the Queen Zenobia, Capcom's luxury ocean liner turned floating ghost house.



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If you think about it, Luigi's Mansion was Nintendo's first real attempt at survival horror. Sure, it was closer to Rent-a-ghost than Ringu - or Resi, for that matter - on the scare scale, but it wasn't afraid to give youngsters the occasional playful jolt, from dark corridors illuminated by sudden flashes of lightning to suits of armour swinging their sharp weapons down as Luigi nervily edged past.



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Nintendo's playing it fairly safe when it comes to ol' Mazza at the moment.



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MMO? More like "Erm... erm... oh." At least, that was the internet reaction to the announcement that the latest Dragon Quest would be a massively multiplayer adventure. Japan's biggest series meets Korea's biggest genre.



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