• Features, News

    Posted on August 22nd, 2008

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    Play the Samba De Amigo flash mini-game

    Sega have released a Samba De Amigo flash mini-game in asociation with the release of the game on Wii on September 19th in Europe (September 23rd North America). Samba De Amiga Wii features numerous tracks from the original Dreamcast version as well a a long list of new aditions. Check out the full track list below [...]

  • News

    Posted on August 21st, 2008

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    New MadWorld trailer

    A new trailer coming out of Leipzig Games Convention of SEGA title MadWorld. Due to be released in 2009. Looks like one of the few games on the Wii that might actually be worth buying.
     

  • News

    Posted on July 21st, 2008

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    Sonic And The Black Knight announced for Wii

    SEGA today confirmed the release of a new Sonic game called Sonic and the Black Knight. Coming exclusively to the Wii in Spring 2009, the game follows on from the story of Sonic And The Secret Rings and is said to bring Sonic “into the world of Arthurian legend offering the worlds most infamous blue [...]

  • News

    Posted on July 21st, 2008

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    Mystery of Nintendo E3 Wii mind control headset solved

    All of us here at ButtonBandits HQ got rather confused this weekend regarding the content of Nintendo’s E3 08 press conference. First off Andy Nuttal &  Alex Trowers (ex Bullfrog) at Fusion 08 referred to a Wii mind controller when asked about Nintendo’s E3 presentation. Next up, speaking to ButtonBandits staff member Frosty on Virgin Radio’s Iain [...]

  • News

    Posted on July 15th, 2008

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    Nintendo press conference summary

    Nintendo’s press conference didn’t go down well with the online audience. The majority of it was taken up with lots of boring graphs and talk about growing the market. The few mildly interesting announcements to come out of it are below:
     

    Animal Crossing: City Folk coming to Wii with Microphone attachment to add to the sensor bar [...]

  • News

    Posted on July 15th, 2008

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    Sega getting ready for E3 announcements. Shenmue 3?

    Sega have sent over an email saying their going to be sending out lots of info in the next few hours regarding some E3 announcements coming today. With the Nintendo E3 2008 press conference coming up in a few hours, this is the point where all SEGA fans get over excited about Shenmue remakes coming to the Wii, [...]

  • News

    Posted on July 8th, 2008

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    Animal Crossing Wii to feature in Nintendo E3 press conference?

    Kotaku reports on rumours that Animal Crossing for the Wii is to be unveiled as part of the Nintendo E3 press conference. They state that Official Nintendo magazine is reporting on the subject as though it’s already happened but doesn’t link to the source. More here.

  • Culture, News

    Posted on June 2nd, 2008

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    Infinite Puchi Puchi!

    Infinite Puchi Puchi is a new game being released on the Japanese WiiWare download service. It’s highly original and based on popping bubble wrap, although somehow I don’t think it will be quite as satisfying bursting it virtually as it is in real life. Thankfully you can still do the old screwing it up trick to burst [...]

  • Culture, News

    Posted on June 2nd, 2008

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    Shenmue rumours not going away

    Another month, another Shenmue rumour. Following on from the rumours picked up on about Shenmue 1 and 2 coming to the Wii, the Shenmue rumour mill has not died down. A few days ago SEGA announced they had obtained the rights to use Unreal Engine III for an unannounced game. Speculation is rife that the engine [...]

  • News

    Posted on May 16th, 2008

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    Rumour: Shenmue 1 and 2 being ported to Wii?

    It wouldn’t be a SEGA themed update day without any Shenmue rumours now would it? While the press had their attention drawn away by SEGA’s PlatinumGames announcements, the Shenmue rumour mill was in full swing. Word comes from a forum poster on GameFaq’s by the name of Saikobooru who provides news From Swedish gaming magazine GameReactor. The magazine states that Shenmue [...]

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