Cover Gallery: Box Art from Another Reality

Source: 1up.com

Artist Rusty Shackles has teamed up with 1UP to bring you these slices of alternate realities: Box art for games from another world. What if things had worked out differently? These games don't exist... but like children everywhere with a ...
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Nintendo eShop Adds Game & Watch Gallery 2 And Mighty Switch Force Update

Source: Siliconera

This week’s Nintendo eShop downloads in North America bring one Virtual Console game and a free update to a previously-released games. On the Virtual Console front, we have Game ...
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Features: Local Newswire: Rusty Quarters Arcade needs $3,000 (or 12,000 quarters) to stay in business

Source: The A.V. Club

Saturday morning cartoons and breakfast cereal commercials might be enough to sell an ironic vintage-style T-shirt at Urban Outfitters every once in a while, but it’s an entirely different ball game to bank an entire b ...
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Nightlife: Rusty Quarters arcade needs quarters - and customers

Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune

Hell and Brimstone Big money for big words When I last wrote about the Twin Cities' only vintage arcade -- Rusty Quarters -- owners Sage and Annie Spirtos were confident they could make their business work, one quarter at a time ...
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BLOG: Club Nintendo Japan Polo Shirt—AKA the Reward You'll Never Get

Source: Nintendo World Report

In early April, I reported on a really cool gift Club Nintendo members in Japan had a chance to snag: customizable, Nintendo-themed polo shirts. For 550 points, not only would you get a limited Club NIntendo shirt, you would actually get to semi-design ...
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On Wii, DSi & 3DS eShop: Game & Watch Gallery 2, Metal Slug 3

Source: Video Games Blogger

New Nintendo downloads this week in America and Europe. The games go live on Thursdays in America at 9AM Pacific time and in Europe at 5PM UK/GMT time. Nintendo has now added new/classic games to the Wii Shop Channel, Nintendo DSi Shop and ...
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Video Games Live at E3: Journey, Skyrim, Diablo 3, Earthworm Jim and more

Source: Joystiq

During the week of E3, on June 6, Video Games Live will take over the Nokia Theater L.A. Live arena. Being E3 and all, and L.A. being one of the most frequently played venues for Tommy Tallarico's live video game concert, thi ...
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Games: The Gameological Society: The Guinness Records games editor on freefall Wii and measuring the world’s loudest burp

Source: The A.V. Club

We often use vague catchall words to describe careers in gaming: developer, designer, producer. But those words don’t tell much of a story. What’s Your Line? is an interview series designed to demystify the people who make their living in games. Fa ...
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One of the Best Downloadable 3DS Games Gets a Little Better in This Week's Nintendo Download [Nintendo]

Source: Kotaku

Last week it was a Mario Kart patch , this week it's a version update, with new content added to WayForward Technologies' Mighty Switch Force inching the 3DS eShop ever closer to iTunes territory. Mighty ...
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