Red Faction: Guerrilla – 5
The Conduit – 3.5
Ghostbusters: The Video Game (360/PS3) – 4
inFamous – 4.5
Punch-Out!! – 4.5
Terminator Salvation – 2
Fuel – 4
Battlefield 1943 – 4.5
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger – 4.5
Let’s Tap – 4
Klonoa: Door to Phantomile – 4
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor – 3.5
Harvest Moon: Frantic Farming – 3.5
Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! What Did I Do to Deserve This – 3.5

About the site earlier today

Posted on 15 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Site updates | 3 Comments

We don’t really have any good luck when it comes to site downtime, do we? Our host underwent emergency maintenance at about 5 EST today, but we didn’t get back up until 7 EST or so. The actual maintenance was complete after roughly thirty minutes, but then we had to restart some sort of lovely box, which we obviously weren’t able to do for quite some time! I’d rather not get into the tech mumbo jumbo and drag this post on long, but rest assured that we are completely fine now. I feel like I’ve said that so many times throughout NE’s life, but I’m honestly hoping for a better technical future as the months go on.

Oh, and before I forget, happy Fourth of July to those who celebrate!

Nintendo Power review scores

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Little King’s Story (Wii) – 9.0
Virtua Tennis 2009 (Wii) – 7.0
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Wii) – 5.5
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor (DS) – 8.0
Mega Man Star Force 3 (DS) – 6.0
Guitar Hero On Tour: Modern Hits (DS) – 7.0
The Bigs 2 (Wii) – 6.0
Dawn of Discovery (DS) – 8.5
Overlord: Minions (DS) – 7.0
Overlord Dark Legend (Wii) – 7.0

Thanks to Jake for the news tip!

Dead Space: Extraction – Controls interview

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Source

Virtual Console Hanabi Festival video

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Thanks to _Contra_ for the news tip!

Miyamoto explains what the Super Mario Galaxy 2 black-and-white effect is all about

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After Super Mario Galaxy 2 was revealed at E3, fans were left wondering about a particular moment in the trailer. In the video, Mario hits a switch and then the screen turns black and white. So what was that all about? Nintendo Power asked Shigeru Miyamoto about this in the magazine’s most recent issue.

“We haven’t revealed that yet but maybe I can talk about it…It’s an effect where time slows down. There’s a slowdown in time within the game – probably pretty much what you had expected.”

So it seems as though the developers will be mixing up gameplay mechanics in a few ways. We now know about slowing time down, the level where duplicate Mario figures copy you, and of course, Yoshi.