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Bet you have never seen the Super Mario Bros. Super Show like this:

Good Night Guys. Got some reading and some Advance Wars to do tonight.

From IGN:

THQ had a nice Valentine’s Day surprise. A game about a Scorpion and a Tarantula livin’ it up and kickin’ ass in a desert wasteland. It will be interesting to see where this game goes, and the visuals are already pretty nice. Rainbow Studios is developing the Wii exclusive title and they are promising full and innovative use of the Wii Remote.

I will definately have to play and read up on this game a bit before I decide to buy it, but the graphics are nice for a Wii game and the concept is different.

Check out the full article here: Deadly Creatures

Well, January’s numbers are in:

• Wii - 274,000
• PlayStation 3 - 269,000
• PlayStation 2 - 264,000
• Nintendo DS - 251,000
• PlayStation Portable - 230,000
• Xbox 360 - 230,000

Wow, the PS2 is still going strong.  The PS2 and 3 both outsold the DS, which still dominates the hand-held market.  The Wii is still on top of things, but the PS3 is not very far behind.   Let’s see how things roll out in February.

Article here: Kotaku

News from Kotaku: 

Parappa creator, Masaya Matsuura is back explaining his statement a while back about the DS bubble bursting in Japan.

He explains that games with non-gaming content are struggling with low numbers. For example, the second Brain Training game did not sell as well as the first. He also goes on to say that the situation for the Wii is much more difficult, because it seems that third parties get no support in Japan.

Well, that seems like the situation here too. For some reason, Nintendo fans just don’t seem to be giving the third parties any love. It’s OK Ubisoft, I own a few of your games on the Wii and the DS.

Still, this is all coming from the guy who sticks to one genre. I loved the original Parappa, but it was just as simple as many of the games he is talking about now. There was not a whole lot of content, it was just a fun game.

Check out the real article here: Masaya Matsuura talks DS and Wii