Daily entertainment news covering Mario Party 8 en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 http://www.starpulse.com/ http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/07/02/mario_party_8_makes_record_breaking_wii_ Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:25:44 EST Entertainment News 49756@http://www.starpulse.com/news Mario and his pals have plenty to party about: Mario Party 8 has become the all-time fastest-selling title in Nintendo’s popular Mario Party series. As the first Mario Party game created exclusively for Wii, this new installment has sold more than 550,000 copies in the United States during the weeks following its May 29 launch.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/06/27/my_sweet_board_the_old_fashioned_board_g Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:25:51 EST Entertainment News 49167@http://www.starpulse.com/news People have been playing board games for thousands of years, while video games have only been around for a few decades. So it makes sense that designers of video games would copy their ancestors. Just about any board game you can name - from chess to Trivial Pursuit - has probably been translated into an electronic version.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/06/20/week_in_video_game_news_sony_apologizes_ Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:33:02 EST Entertainment News 48066@http://www.starpulse.com/news News from the virtual world: -LOSING MY RELIGION: A virtual shootout inside a British cathedral led Sony to apologize to the Church of England. The culprit is ''Resistance: Fall of Man,'' the PlayStation 3 best-seller that finds Earthlings fighting aliens in the U.K. At one point the action spills into a building that resembles Manchester Cathedral in northwest England.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/06/15/beyond_fun_fathers_playing_video_games_w Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:08:21 EST Entertainment News 47342@http://www.starpulse.com/news When Will Nickelson and his daughter want to spend some quality time together, they fire up Nintendo Co.'s Wii and play a few rounds of ''Wii Sports'' or ''Mario Party 8.''

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/06/06/video_game_review_mario_party_8_is_some_ Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:29:25 EST Entertainment News 45837@http://www.starpulse.com/news It's becoming easy to extol the virtues of Nintendo's successful Wii console. The system's interactive controls have given many of us good reason to get our butts off the sofa and into some animated flailing with the Wii's remote control.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/05/30/week_in_video_games_more_raving_rabbids Wed, 30 May 2007 11:14:01 EST Entertainment News 44690@http://www.starpulse.com/news News from the virtual world: -KING UBI: The most consistently intriguing ''third-party'' publisher of video games (that is, a company not named Sony, Nintendo or Microsoft) is France's Ubisoft, which has developed a reputation for solid quality over a range of genres. Ubisoft made a big splash at the 2006 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), and warmed up for this year's show with its own ''UbiDays'' events in Paris and San Francisco.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/05/22/summer_of_video_games_real_heat_s_in_lat Tue, 22 May 2007 12:28:42 EST Entertainment News 43705@http://www.starpulse.com/news Summer is typically a slow time for hot new video game releases. This year is no different. Gamers looking forward to big brands like "Halo 3" and "Grand Theft Auto IV" will have to wait until this fall and the Thanksgiving-Christmas holidays. That's when the games business goes into overdrive and makes up half its revenue, says analyst Anita Frazier at NPD Group.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/03/08/pokemon_battle_revolution_to_be_first_wi Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:03:31 EST Entertainment News 33184@http://www.starpulse.com/news Wii owners of all ages have discovered the fun of playing with a group of friends in the same room. Now for the first time players can compete with one another near and far with Pokemon Battle Revolution, a game of remarkable firsts:

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/01/12/virtually_every_new_wii_and_nintendo_ds_ Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:46:59 EST Entertainment News 25909@http://www.starpulse.com/news There has never been anything like it. Independent U.S. sales figures released by the NPD Group today confirmed a red-hot launch for the new Wii system by Nintendo, and the crowning of the portable Nintendo DS as the best-selling video game device of any type for both the holidays and all of 2006.

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