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Dragon Quest Wars “Should” Be Available This Week

By Spencer . September 27, 2009 . 10:13am

Got an e-mail from Square Enix’s PR team with those words and quotes around “should”.

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Meet The Units Of Dragon Quest Wars

By Spencer . June 26, 2009 . 5:36pm

Part of what makes Dragon Quest Wars brilliant is its simplicity. There are only has six kinds of units and you can’t level them up.

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Dragon Quest Wars: A Strategy Game So Simple A Slime Could Play It

By Spencer . June 25, 2009 . 1:44am

Dragon Quest Wars drops the story and gets straight to the heart of any good strategy game… combat. The game begins with a slime sitting in the middle of a menu screen. You can pick him up and drag him to the option menu or a ten stage training mode.

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Color Coded Slimes Seen In Dragon Quest Wars Screenshots

By Spencer . June 12, 2009 . 4:11pm

In just a few weeks Square Enix will release Dragon Quest Wars on DSiWare. Fire Emblem developers Intelligent Systems created Dragon Quest Wars as a simplified strategy RPG with colorful slimes.

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Grooming a Successor to Miyamoto

By Ishaan . May 24, 2009 . 1:17pm

Easily the most interesting question posed in Nintendo’s financial results briefing Q&A for fiscal ‘09 was about fostering young talent and whether or not the company was grooming a successor to follow in the footsteps of its famed managing director/designer/producer Shigeru Miyamoto.

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Fire Emblem developer behind “Spatial Training” DS

By Spencer . January 29, 2008 . 3:15pm

When I think of Benssee Corporation I’m immediately reminded of Berlitz’s one minute English training lessons on subways in Japan. I don’t think of Nintendo DS games. However, they are beginning to publish Nintendo DS games and Kuukan * Zukei…

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Kousoku Card Battle Card Hero adds online play

By Spencer . November 14, 2007 . 1:19pm

While Nintendo has been passionately promoting Wii Fit, Kousoku Card Battle Card Hero is waiting in the limelight. Intelligent Systems is developing the DS game as a follow up to Card Hero & Trading Battle, a year 2000 Game Boy Color…

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Fire Emblem: Goddess of Dawn gets a new subtitle

By Spencer . August 30, 2007 . 4:27pm

Nintendo mentioned that they weren’t going to use the Goddess of Dawn moniker before. The new subtitle was quietly shuffled on the press site with an updated fact sheet. In North America the game will be known as Fire Emblem:…

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Playing Panel de Pon DS

By Spencer . May 2, 2007 . 6:31pm

For some reason Nintendo chose to release Panel de Pon DS (aka Planet Puzzle League) on the same day as Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings and guess what got all of the attention. Nintendo’s DS puzzle game deserves a shout…

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Further into Fire Emblem: Goddess of Dawn

By Spencer . March 30, 2007 . 1:43pm

After flying around to GDC and SXSW I’ve finally had more time to delve into Fire Emblem: Goddess of Dawn. It’s absolutely fantastic that is if you like Fire Emblem or other strategy RPGs. Unlike other Wii games like Wii…