06.14.2008 10:57 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
With economic unrest causing the cost of everything to go up this summer, it’s hard to imagine anyone willing to instead cut their prices anytime soon.
Yet that might be what happens next to gaming consoles if the games that…

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06.13.2008 12:07 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
While the nation sinks into economic recession, video game sales just keep booming.
And while that statement resembles a non sequitur, the reason for gaming’s great time in the face of despair is fairly obvious, at least to Game Guy.…

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06.02.2008 11:46 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
There’s a bundle of rumors floating around claiming that both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 soon will get motion-sensitive controllers like Nintendo’s Wii.
Here’s the latest among them …

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05.29.2008 12:41 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Here’s a thought, St. Louis. If you want an Major League Soccer team so bad, ask a gaming company to help get one.
That idea seems to have worked for Seattle, which on Wednesday announced that its MLS expansion club, Sounders…

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05.24.2008 11:13 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Target: Terror”
Genre: Light-gun, first-person shooter
Developer: Raw Thrills / Leviathan Games
Publisher: Konami
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Price: $40
ESRB rating: M (mature)
Grade: C-
We here at Game Guy HQ aren’t certain exactly what the thinking was over at Raw Thrills and Leviathan Games when the designers…

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05.18.2008 11:53 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Wii Fit”
Genre: Exergaming
Developer: Nintendo
Publisher: Nintendo
Platform: Wii
Price: $90
ESRB rating: E (everyone)
Grade: A
Hard to believe, but right now, the most desired video game in the flabbiest nation on Earth is devoted to physical fitness.
Yes, “Wii Fit,” the eagerly awaited light-exercise game…

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05.06.2008 10:06 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Above all else, two things stand out about “Rock Band,” the outrageously popular music video game by Harmonix: the whole-band experience and the game’s music inventory.
For PlayStation 2 users, however, that last part is limited; only the 58 songs…

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04.28.2008 10:52 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Nintendo has spilled the beans on a new online channel for Wii consoles that will offer game previews and reviews plus feature downloadable game demos for the company’s DS handheld devices.
Wired News reports that the proposed Nintendo Channel will itself…

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04.21.2008 11:57 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“WWII Aces”
Genre: Arcade-style simulation
Developer: Arcade Moon
Publisher: Destineer
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Price: $39.99
ESRB rating: T (teen)
Grade: C
Frustrating.
That’s the word best suited to sum up “WWII Aces,” an arcade-style shooter from game maker Destineer that simulates real World War II air battles and…

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04.16.2008 11:16 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Get ready to shell out some bucks so you can have a Fit.
Wii Fit, that is.
Game maker Nintendo says it will sell the next of its customized games for the Wii console in the United States for $89.99…

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