Get Nintendo GameCube and Games Cheap

Have you been into an Electronics Boutique lately? They’re selling used (but certified) GameCubes for around $79 bucks. They have games for as cheap as $10.

Why is this cool? Because you can buy these as a second box for kids (to keep them off your shiny new XBox 360), or as a second setup for people who have LOTS of friends over to the house to play games all at once (they can use the second console on another TV while waiting for their turn at the big system).

Or, if you’re a huge GameCube fan, you can get another box and inexpensive games to augment your collection.

In any case, it’s a win.

(No, I don’t work for EB or any of their affiliates. I saw this at the mall and was impressed).

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Welcome Back Potter

Think your job sucks? Harry Potter has to save the world from evil at least once a year by sticking a bloody broomstick between his legs — what are you bitching about? Elitestv.com (whoever they are) is reporting that indeed J.K. Rowling’s spectacled dweeb is returning, taint splinters and all, to theaters and consoles (Xbox, GC, PS2) on the same day this November in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. We can hardly wait to skip both.

Harry Potter Video Game Will Be Released With Movie [Elites TV]

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Big Apple, Meet The Big N

Just when you thought Times Square had rid itself of freaks and losers, Nintendo comes along and builds its “World Store” in midtown, guaranteed to bring them back.

Planned for a spring opening in New York City’s Rockefeller Center, the two-story mega-complex will showcase the best of Nintendo, the worldwide leader in interactive entertainment. [It] will be a place where visitors can check out the best new and unreleased games for Nintendo DS(TM), Nintendo GameCube(TM) and Game Boy(R) Advance SP at high-end sampling bars and interactive stations.

Upcoming Nintendo World Store in NYC Gives Nintendo and Pokemon Fans a New Home [WarCry Network]

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‘Sin City’ or ‘Killer 7′ Trailer? You Decide.

It’s got more personalities than Roseanne and more stylish anime weirdness than Super Milk Chan. Now the GameCube’s other game for grown-ups, Killer 7, has a new trailer. And damn, that paraplegic has skills! [GameInformer]

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Pierce Is Out, Sean Back In As 007

Despite amassing great wealth through his domination of such Celebrity Jeopardy categories as “The Rapists”, “Swords” and “Anal bum cover”, Sean Connery is going back to work as James Bond. The Scotsman will supply the voice and likeness for the skirt chasing (and usually catching) spy for EA’s From Russia With Love (based on MGM’s hit movie from 1963) due out this fall for the Xbox, PS2 and Gamecube. Sexy Hollywood Reporter reports.

He will be joined by other likenesses from the original cast of the film as the game will bring to life such characters as the original Q (Desmond Llewelyn), Donald “Red” Grant (Robert Shaw), Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya), Tatiana Romanova (Daniela Bianchi), Kerim Bay (Pedro Armendariz) and Miss Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell). “As an artist, I see this as another way to explore the creative process,” Connery said. “Video games are an extremely popular form of entertainment today, and I am looking forward to seeing how it all fits together.”

Connery back as Bond for EA’s ‘Russia’ [Hollywood Reporter]

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Spittin’ Game(cube)

*EXCLUSIVE*

In light of yesterday’s disturbing article that McDonald’s is paying rap/hip-hop artists to mention its, er, cuisine in their songs, we have to wonder, is Nintendo doing the same thing?

We give you exhibit A: Lyrics from Mike Jones‘ Still Tippin’, courtesy of A-Z Lyrics.

“Blowing on the endo Game Cube Nintendo/
Five percent tint so you can’t see up in my window”

Funny, most gangsta’ rappers prefer Xbox or Playstation 2 for their mature games like GTA and Narc instead of the G-rated ‘Cube. Hanging around all of those white rappers must be making Mike Jones soft.

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Pac-Man Chompin’ At the Bit To Make Come Back

Since freebasing crack on The Bloodhound Gang’s hit song “Mope” in 2000, reports of Pac-Man’s whereabouts have been sparse.

Good news: The famous yellow mouth is back to celebrate an amazing quater-century of life, clean and sober — or so Namco would have us believe:

Leading video games developer and publisher Namco Hometek Inc. announced today that it is celebrating Pac-Man’s 25th birthday with the release of Pac-Man World 3 this fall. … Shaped like a pizza missing a slice and making a wocka wocka wocka sound, Pac-Man exploded onto the video game scene and never looked back. 25 years later, Pac-Man has starred in dozens of games and has been the inspiration for more than 400 different products from cereal to watches to air fresheners and even a cartoon.

Ms. Pac-Man, on the other hand, hasn’t aged so gracefully turning $5 tricks in Jersey.

NAMCO CELEBRATES PAC-MAN’S 25TH ANNIVERSARY WITH PAC-MAN WORLD™ 3 [Namco]

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Capcom Makes Us Feel Old

Attention history buffs: The original Resident Evil debuted on March 22, 1996, for the Playstation.

Nine years later, we’re still blasting away the “S.T.A.R.S.”-grunting, brain-gobbling undead and desperately searching for save tape in order to rescue the world from the not-so-unbelievable Umbrella Corporation.

Is it any surprise that RE is Capcom’s best selling franchise (as of December, 2004)? 26 million units sold, to be exact, and that doesn’t even include RE4 sales!

Other notables:

Capcom releases latest cumulative sales data [GameSpot]

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