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Today on the Spot - Deca Sports 3, Comic-Con, Nobuo Uematsu interview, and more

The only update in this boxart is that now the fourth Spider-Man costume now has eyes. Previously, it was just a dark mask. I guess Activision figured that Spider-Man needs to see where he’s going. link

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Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions - boxart update

“The great thing about Twitter is we can provide real-time information to our fans and receive real-time feedback, as well. The former Prime Minister of Japan [Yukio Hatoyama] was tweeting a lot, so that inspired me and Wada-san to start tweeting. I want to use Twitter as an opportunity to have conversations and provide information for fans. I never get a break from it, so I wonder when the fad will die down so I can stop writing so much.” - Shinji Hashimoto Both Hashimoto and Kojima have been using Twitter for some time, and they’re teasing another collaboration. It seems like the collaboration is unrelated to Nintendo, but we’ll keep an eye out just incase. Link

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Shinji Hashimoto discusses the importance of Twitter for game devs

“Probably to complete the main story, around 40 hours would be ideal. …What we focus on is not the time constraint but the amount of content we put in. When you purchase a game for a few thousand yen [3000 yen = $34], you want to have the value of the game. For kids you really want to have a game they can play for a long time. For adults, maybe they will play for six hours and if the gameplay is good maybe they’ll be happy and want to play longer. But for kids, they might only get a couple of games a year and I would like them to continue to be playing.” - Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii 40 hours is a good chunk of time to pour into one game. If a game takes that long to completely, hopefully it’s good enough that you don’t realize how long you spent playing it! link

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Video Games | ScrewAttack | Video Game Vault: Turok: Dinosaur Hunter XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii Direct link here

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ScrewAttack - Video Game Vault: Turok: Dinosaur Hunter

Direct link here Hmmm…well…that was interesting. If you want to check out more on this fan-made show, hit up the official site at the link below. You can find more art, clips and audio. More here (thanks Dan!)

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Weirdness of the Day - StarFox: The Animated Series (fan-made)

Hundreds of Melburnians braved the cold this morning to attend the Australian launch of Super Mario Galaxy 2, a game that is already receiving rave reviews internationally. Mario received 172 hugs goodbye as he set off into the galaxy with a new world hugging record, for the most amount of hugs by a mascot in 20 minutes. The record established at The Nintendo Experience at EB Games Melbourne, commemorated the much anticipated Australian launch of Super Mario Galaxy 2. Eager Melburnians were up at the crack of dawn to secure the first copies of this highly anticipated video game and a lucky fan walked away with one of the only signed copies from Mr Miyamoto himself, the genius behind Mario and other Nintendo games. TV and radio personality Jabba entertained the early morning crowd and every hugger received their own personal photo of the occasion. The current world record for the most hugs set by a human (not wearing a mascot costume) is held by 51-year-old Jeff Ondash who hugged 7777 people in 24 hours outside the Paris Las Vegas casino in February 2010. Due to Mario needing a rest every 20 minutes (it’s tiring jumping around and collecting all those coins), the hugging time was limited to 20 minutes in order to establish the new hugging record for a character mascot. The hugging record is in the process of being formally registered with The World Record Academy, the leading international organisation which certifies world records. Super Mario Galaxy 2 is out today. Link

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Australia - Mario takes off into the record books: Melburnians have established a new world hugging record

I have a headache from laughing so much tonight. The gang got together and played some Mixed Messages, and then we went on to some LOL. If you have a group of local friends that enjoy playing games, you need to have these two titles! You can get both for really cheap, and the amount of fun you’ll have is endless. Man, I need to get some rest to stop my head from pounding! Whenever you are tonight, I hope you had a great day as well. See you in a few, short hours. Video games are a ton of fun, and they can provide all sorts of experiences that you can’t get from anything else. While books, movies, music and TV all have their benefits over gaming, we all know that video games allow for adventures that those other medias can’t compete with. Unfortunately, those experiences come at quite a high price. Being a gamer that wants to keep up with the current titles is no easy task, and it’s usually the wallet that is hardest hit. Back in the day, game prices weren’t any better. I can remember paying upwards of $70 for a Super Nintendo title. When you’re talking about buying games on an allowance, one Super Nintendo game could blow your entire savings! You better hope that game you were picking up was good. Even if it sucked, you would play the hell out of it. You didn’t want to waste $70, and a bad game wasn’t going to stop you from having some fun! Even though gaming was quite pricey back then, I believe that things have gotten even worse now. You no longer buy a game at a store, and end the wallet transactions there. Now, when you get a game home, there are all sorts of extra fees to get the full experience. DLC ends up pulling even more money out of you if you want to see all that a game has to offer. Sure, you can hold back from purchasing any of that extra content, but sometimes those downloads offer up new gameplay elements, storyline details and other mechanics that actually complete the experience. Games don’t have set prices anymore…the tally just keeps growing and growing. How do you deal with the price of gaming in today’s day and age? Are you a newcomer to games that thinks nothing of it? Are you an older gamer that is floored by just how much it can cost to play a full game? I know that I think things are getting a little out of hand. I’m curious to know what you guys think, and see how you deal with the current pricing layout.

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GoNintendo ‘End of Day’ thoughts - The price of gaming

A portion of a WiiLoveIt review… Adults who enjoy these games will especially see that this is a satisfying purchase. While it’s not worth picking up for the Bowling on its own, if you’re a fan of Air Hockey, Snooker and Pool, you’ll find Arcade Sports is a good, budget collection. Full review here

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Arcade Sports - review

Aaron Webber, community manager at Sega, demos Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Interview: Joel McHale after Ubisoft presser Jun Senoue takes on the music of Sonic with his electric guitar The music of Sonic

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