The Wii may have won the battle, but it looks like it wasn’t the first console to come to mind when Suda 51 was looking for a home in which to house No More Heroes. Quoted from an interview in MCV’s magazine is this juicy morsel that will give ammo to those of you who have said all along that the 360’s fanbase is better suited for this type of game:

“Originally, I’d wanted to make this game for Xbox 360, actually. [Marvelous Interactive boss] Wada-san had information about the new Wii and how the new controller would work before it came out, so that’s why he thought I should produce the game on that format. At the time, I didn’t really understand why, but after seeing and understanding how it works, I think it was a good choice and the controller works really well with the game.”

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In what can only be a carefully planned marketing attack to coincide with the recent bevy of Street Fighter IV information, Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike will be coming to GameTap on December 20. The bad news? It’s the Dreamcast version.

Wait a second — that’s not bad news! If you’re not one of those freaks that recorded and counted the frames in Dudley’s “Ducking Rush,” there should be no bad news. Unless, of course, you don’t use Gametap. That’s not even bad news, though — that’s just silly.
Let me level with you guys — as much as I played Street Fighter II and all of its incarnations, I’ve never had close relations with Street Fighter III. This was mainly due to the fact that the game came out while I was in college, living with a dorm full of people who I’d consistently trample in most video games. Without the […]

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Samuel L. Jackson has once again been tapped to host this year’s Spike “Video Game Awards” show, and we couldn’t be more excited. Just the very idea that we might get a chance to hear Jackson use words like “motherf**ker” and “b**ch” in person are enough to get us all hot and bothered.
That’s right, team Destruction will be on hand next week, when the awards tape on December 7 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. Riding on our coattails will be the likes of Criss Angel, Tia Carrere, Tony Hawk, and Dave Navarro. The show will air Sunday night, December 9 (9:00 - 11:00 PM, ET/PT).
Oh, so what does this have to do with videogames? Right, I thought you wouldn’t ask. Spike are promising world premieres of trailers for Borderlands, Grand Turismo 5 Prologue, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2, and TNA iMPACT!

Actor Charles Martinet, the man behind the voice of Mario, has revealed that he’s working on an autobiography. The book, which Marninet hopes to have ready for a 2008 release, will focus on his time working with Nintendo.
“I’ve actually started workign a little bit on a book,” he tells CVG, “but it’s about finding the discipline to keep going. But I will be inspired [to finish it] by the fans.”
As the voice of the one of the most iconic characters of our time (next to Mr. Destructoid, of course), an autobiography could provide a good deal of insight on what it’s like to work for the videogames giant. We would also like to request that Martinet explain why Mario has an Italian accent, when we’ve all been given the impression that he was a plumber from Brooklyn.

In an interview with Reuters, Activision Chief Executive Bobby Kotick said that, in order for Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony to reach great mass-market appeal they will have to reach the ever-coveted $199 price point in the next two years.
In the next 24 months they all will need to be at that $199 price point, and you can imagine Nintendo will be down to the $129 price point over the next few years

I see where Kotick is coming from. Once the PlayStation 2 dropped to the $199 price point, it became the best selling console of all time. Could you just imagine what the Wii would do sales wise if it were to drop to the $129 price point as Kotick suggested? It’d be pandemonium.
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As expected, Super Mario Galaxy was a pretty great game. We’re pretty sure it could have been an epic disaster, and still sold a ton, so we’re not surprised when Nintendo’s George Harrison brags about its success.
“Super Mario Galaxy had the strongest one-week debut of any Wii game to date and has also become the best-selling Mario title ever in its first week, with U.S. sales of more than 500,000, based on internal sales figures,” he says in a press release issued today.
It’s not over yet — consumers are still tearing apart retail outlets in Wii rages, looking for the elusive console. It would be criminal is the game didn’t sell one-to-one with every installed unit, and when the smoke clears, that will likely be the case.

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By looking at Soundscan’s sales figures for various songs included in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock before and after the rhythm game was released, Ars Technica has discovered that “increased sales for labels and bands” is just one of the benefits of having your music featured in the immensely popular franchise.
“It doesn’t appear to matter if you’re in the main game or are a bonus song; huge gains are seen everywhere. As long as your song ships with the game and you offer the track to be downloaded digitally, you see an increase,” the source explained.

I’ve learned to love new songs with the help of Guitar Hero, and according to this research, many of you have too. No word on whether or not Rock Band will have a similar effect on digital music sales, but it’s safe to assume that it will.
Does this news mean that Activision will load […]

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They say there´s no such thing as bad publicity. Well, i happen to disagree, if i were a customer i´d never buy one of these monsters if i see the one on display malfunction, even if they look so damn sexy now with the black painting.

Left: a Gamecube.

Right: A Xbox 360 power supply

I wouldn´t like being hit with one of those huge monsters.

via: infendo

Xbox 360 is out and despite the crashes, a lot of people wants to ut their hands on Microsoft´s new console. ign published a list wit the reasons to wait for the revo, i don´t agree 100% with the list but they have a few points you might want to consider:

1. Limited Funds and Quantities
2. Same Games, Prettier Graphics (Xbox)
3. 360 Doesn’t Have Legend of Zelda
4. Girls and Grandpas Will Play Revolution
5. Metroid Prime 3
6. Revolution Will Be a Lot Cheaper
7. True Backward Compatibility
8. Revolution is Small, Stylish, and Quiet
9. Super Smash Bros. Online
10. The Controller Will Change Everything

I still want them both but this might not be a good time to get a 360, looks like they are having a lot of problems with it, the first consoles sold have been crashing and it is pretty expensive and hard to get one right now.

Via | IGN