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Here’s a look at the Nintendo strategy around casual gaming. The hardcore scoff at the ‘weaknesses’ of the Wii and DS, but that laughter you hear in the background? That’s Nintendo going to the bank.

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Tales from a grumpy old gamer and how ‘kids’ today are losing respect for a venerable pastime – Real Life. Is it truly possible to play more games and yet lead a healthy lifestyle in the real world? Mr. Toffee commands you to.

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World of Warcraft (WoW): 10 million plus accounts, the most popular online game ever. It made MMOs, if not cool, at least acceptable to play; after all, everyone was playing it at some point. It also seems to have coincided with an alarming decrease in the quality of the Internet.

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Here’s another video interview @ GAX. This time, we met up with the lead storyboard artist for Animax Asia’s upcoming original anime LaMB. Yasufumi Soejima was here for the AFA08 weekend, so we dropped by to have a quick chat on his work on the project. Among others, Soejima previously worked on various 3D CG [...]

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Mr Toffee gets to do what millions of fanboys around the world can only dream of: ask Lara Croft “if those guns are real”. This is the first time we’re attempting to use video for interview so obviously the geek in us, even the great Mr. Toffee is a little camera shy, but don’t forget [...]

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Very big. In fact, these guys can give Square Enix and Microsoft a run for their money. I manage to squeeze in a bit of playtime with the new Professor Layton game, only I did not understand a word of it and gave up halfway. Apparently, Professor Layton and Luke head to the future thanks [...]

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(by FatCatLim)

Easily the best title showing at the Tokyo Game Show 2008, Biohazard 5 (AKA Resident Evil 5) had dozens of people lining up at any time at the Capcom booth to get a taste of the zombie-fested title that’s due for release next year. Besides flying down the motion actors for the game down [...]

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I’m going to say this out loud: Resident Evil: Degeneration proves once and again that movies based on videogame I.Ps are just below-average at best and horrible attritions at worst, even if it’s tied with its original canon or tries to piece a new storyline out of the old one. Fellow GAX Malaysia editor Fat [...]

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Yep, they really mean business
Being a big influence in Japan, one would assume that the Tokyo Game Show showing of Sony’s key games like Resistance 2 and Killzone 2 would be well laid-out in a big manner. Well, you’d be assuming right on the mark. While the front has a big monitor in the centre [...]

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I was suppose to post this on Thursday, but I had to get a few notes straighten out (due to my inability to translate). Nonetheless, Yoichi Wada, president of Square-Enix, was the first person to break the ice among the media on the first day of TGS 2008. Key points from his sage mind are:
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