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Quick Nintendo Direct February 2014 Summary

TastyWhale February 13, 2014 0

Quick Summary, written by guest writer Ralph Dozier. Game Boy Advance games coming to Wii U Virtual Console in spring More “Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze” promotions Kart 8 comes out in May for Wii

Sim City to Include Offline Mode in Newest Update

Tim February 10, 2014 0

Soon, Sim City will return to its rightful location; offline. According to the SimCity.com blog, the next update (Update 10) will include offline mode. What this means is the user will be able to

LocoCycle: What? (quick review)

TastyWhale February 6, 2014 0

I’ll say this: I enjoyed 90% of my time with it. It doesn’t take itself seriously, and is pretty easy while still being a 5 hour time sink. The cutscenes are awkwardly painful to

Some damn good PSAs

TastyWhale January 30, 2014 0

I think these are all real. So over the top… “Children see the world differently” “Keep learning” “Baby Shower :(“ “GI JOE” (whole series) “Texting and Driving” (getting a little more serious in later

Defender’s Quest, quick review

TastyWhale January 25, 2014 0

*UPDATE: omg, played this for another hour. Probably not even a quarter through it. Fun. Very fun! I apologize for the below where I say it isn’t worth the $15… It probably is. Defender’s

StarCraft 2 Patch 2.1 adds in the original SC and BW soundtrack

TastyWhale January 21, 2014 Comments Off

StarCraft 2, Patch 2.1 adds in the original SC and BW soundtrack. Yeah, no much else to say about that. http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/11941668/patch-21-preview-classic-starcraft-soundtrack-in-starcraft-ii-12-10-2013 I guess here is the music: Here is some random track listing info

Dynowarz – The Destruction of Spondylus, a Retro Review

Tim January 19, 2014 Comments Off

[editor’s note: this is part of a series by Tim. Intro here: http://www.tastywhale.com/?p=2489 ] The first game that I pulled from my backlog pile was Dynowarz – The Destruction of Spondylus. Dynowarz is a

Retro Reviews – a self-justification for our collections

Tim January 19, 2014 Comments Off

“Why do you have so many Nintendos?” This is a question that I get asked quite frequently. I can’t blame them; it is hard to miss a 3 by 3 brick of Nintendos sitting

Adventure Time toys coming to McDonald’s

Tim January 6, 2014 Comments Off

Need these, because… I don’t already own a few of the toys? Coming January 17th (boy version of Happy Meal). http://www.happymeal.com/en_US/#/Toys Found via Kotaku

Telltale’s The Wolf Among Us, pt 1, review

TastyWhale January 5, 2014 Comments Off

I didn’t think I’d really like this. Coming into this I had no expectations, other than knowing it was based on the Fables comics (which I haven’t read, but heard good things). Attribution: Published