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I love the Final Fantasy series and mourned with many fans when Hironobu Sakaguchi had to leave the series behind but was overjoyed to see that he would keep making wonderful and fun games.

“I think the Wii is a wonderful system.  It’s very unique, starting with its iconic controllers.  We have no plans at the moment, but I would love to make a Wii game in the future.” -Sakaguchi

Then my mind was blown when reading these words and asking “What would a Sakaguchi Wii Game Look Like?”

Sakaguchi’s games already immerse me in their immaculate reality bringing both excitement and intellectual satisfaction to my playing experience.  Hopefully he does take up the charge to create a game for the Wii so that I add to the experience and interactive depth too, wow that would rock!

(via The Wire)

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Yes this is real and not a hoax! The crazy and cool people who will bring us the awesome Lego Indiana Jones game has now released LEGO Indiana Jones(TM) and the Raiders of the Lost Brick. A mini movie set to premier on Cartoon Network Toonami May 10 at 9 p.m but don’t blink it’s only four minutes long.

They are also doing an online release of the mini movie through the Cartoon Network Toonami web page. Be forewarned, the web page loads slowly but your patience will be rewarded.

They have also added three levels of the game that can also be played online. Make sure to read the instructions, I didn’t and got flattened by the rolling bolder, though that was worth a hearty laugh.

The Game will be available on June Third. Pre-order your copy today

• Wii Lego Indiana Jones
• Xbox 360 Lego Indiana Jones
• Playstation 2 Lego Indiana Jones
• Playstation 3 Lego Indiana Jones

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I came across some exciting news late last night! Brace yourself… ready… Doctor Who and other BBC iPlayer shows are now available through the Nintendo Wii!

Now for the sad news… I got so excited that I didn’t even pause to let my skeptic side speak out before I scooped up the Wiimote and loaded up the browser. I went to bbc.co.uk/iplayer and became even more giddy to see the page load on the TV. Scrolling around for a brief moment I took in the beauty of technology and clicked swiftly on the first episode of Doctor Who: Partners in Crime. The player loaded and then the dreaded message “Sorry, this programme is only available to play in the UK.” Yes, I forgot or maybe had hopes that there was some glorious loophole which didn’t require deliberate circumventing of systems to allow me, living in the U. S. to watch Doctor Who in near real time.

But hope remains eternal… Since I was already on the page and desperate to click on something, probably a conditioned response form having a game controller in my hand, I moved on to the “why” link. Latching on to the second line I perked up reading that BBC world wide is working on an international version!

So I wait patiently and hope that soon they can iron out the requirements and allow international access.

(Link via Times Online)

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LucasArts and Spike TV have teamed up on a promotional extravaganza for the Game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. With this teaming up they have made two very exciting announcements.

First, LucasArts announced that the game will be released in the United States on September 16th and will be out in Southeast Asia, Australia, and Europe on the 19th. I can’t wait! The game will have different style of play customized for each platform that it is played on, for instance the Wii version will allow us to use the Wii-mote like a Lightsaber.

I’m still bummed that this game unlike the ones in the past seem to only allow you to follow a dark path. I really enjoyed it when they put in the choice on which path the player could walk down. Games like Knights of the Republic were really neat to see how things change depending on whether you go dark or light. In force unleashed it appears that they only give you the choice to walk down the dark side of the path playing as Vader’s secret apprentice helping him to hunt down renegade Jedi. Though I’m still holding out hope that maybe there would be a plot twist in the game where you could make some choices that could allow you to help the rebels.

Second, Spike TV will be showing a Star Wars extravaganza starting Friday, April 4th through Sunday April 13th. During this extravaganza they will air a Star Wars marathon including all six episodes starting with The Phantom Menace and concluding with Return of The Jedi. This is cool but the more exciting news is to come.

Spike TV will also be showing featuretts giving us details about the game Star wars: The Force Unleashed. The best part is LucasArts gave us a schedule for when each feature will be showing:

• April 6 at 7:58 p.m. ET/PT — between the premiere of Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones and Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith
• April 11 at 10:52 p.m. ET/PT — At the end of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
• April 12 at 12:00 a.m. ET/PT — throughout an episode of GameTrailers TV with Geoff Keighley filmed at LucasArts’ headquarters in San Francisco
• April 12 at 5:06 p.m. ET/PT — before Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
• April 13 at 5:06 p.m. ET/PT — before Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back

This Rules, I can’t wait only a few days to go till Sunday. I hope that they put these up on the web too for those of us who don’t subscribe to appointment TV. I will let you know more as I find out! For now LucasArts has released six stills two of which are in this article. To see all six follow the via link below.

The game is available for order on these platforms:

• Wii $49.99
• X-Box $59.99
• PlayStation 3 $59.99
• PlayStation 2 $39.99
• Sony PSP $39.99
• Nintendo DS $34.99

(via Star Wars)

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At GDC, Nintendo announced that free online game play would become spotty as they roll out a new hybrid model: Some free, others (the ones you really want to play online) you will have to pay to play per game.

Such titles will have a red icon on the game box instead of the blue Wi-Fi circle that indicates free online playing. So instead of paying an annual fee like Xbox LIVE that covers all online gaming, gamers will only pay for the games they want to play online. This has the potential to be needlessly confusing (via GayGamer.net).

Here is the first major mistake by Nintendo that will allow others to steal their market and prevent them from being the console that they really should be. I hope this plan is not as confusing as it sounds.

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