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Korean Elite Beat Agents revealed

By Spencer . October 1, 2007 . 11:49am

I’ve been wondering how Nintendo was going to handle Elite Beat Agents in Korea and since we’re nearing the October 11 release date information is pouring out. The short story is it’s Elite Beat Agents with nothing special except for…

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Elite Beat Agents bound for Korea, a slim chance for K-Pop?

By Spencer . August 6, 2007 . 12:35pm

Watching what Nintendo is doing in Korea has always been rather interesting to me. Unlike other companies that shovel games to the market ripe with Japanese text, Nintendo is carefully localizing each game. Releasing Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team…

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Bring the Elite Beat Agents in Ouendan

By Spencer . June 21, 2007 . 9:39am

Nintendo has a really clever bonus for fans of Inis’ beat tapping series. If you have Ouendan 2 you can hop over to the Touch! Try! DS stations and download the character models from Elite Beat Agents team. Once you get…

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Memorable Ouendan character returns in the sequel

By Spencer . March 26, 2007 . 6:33am

 Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan is one of those rare games where you are going to remember the bite sized story sequences because they are so hilarious. As a treat for fans it looks Inis is bringing back some of the characters…

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Localizing Ouendan to the village people?

By Spencer . March 8, 2007 . 8:25am

During Keiichi Yano’s panel he spoke about the difficulties of localizing Ouendan for a Western audience. Before Inis decided on the cool blend of Blues Brothers, Charlie’s Angels and Austin Powers to create the Elite Beat Agents, they were considering…

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Indie Game Intermission: ClickBeat – Open source Ouendan for the PC

By Spencer . January 29, 2007 . 1:21pm

Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan or better known as Elite Beat Agents outside of Japan was a novel concept made by Inis and Nintendo where you hit bubbles on the beat with the stylus. After seeing the game two developers re-created the…

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A thumb stylus for all your gaming needs

By Spencer . January 21, 2007 . 4:31pm

The DS already has a little nub for analog control, but what about a thumb based stylus? The Thylus made by the good people at… Thylus Inc. came up with this concept. It looks kind of silly and in a…

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The DS gets an Ouendan-like conductor game

By Spencer . December 15, 2006 . 6:19am

Based on the manga series Nodame Cantabile is a music/rhythm game where you lead a group of misfit musicians in an orchestra. You help Chiaki, the conductor by tapping notes on the touch screen. After looking at the game I…

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Dress up and dance like Elite Beat Agents to win DS Lites

By Spencer . December 14, 2006 . 5:30am

Nintendo is putting together a contest for Elite Beat Agents, which is bound to make some hilarious and hilariously awful videos on the internet. Step one find three friends who aren’t camera shy. Step two dance and groove to the Elite…

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Watch: New songs and videos in Elite Beat Agents

By Spencer . November 2, 2006 . 10:14am

While Elite Beat Agents is based off of Ouendan, it has a different setting and all new music. What Elite Beat Agents keeps is the gameplay and wacky humor that made it a hit in the first place. Sum 41’s…