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This Mr. Saturn Plushie Almost Costs As Much As A Nintendo DS

By Spencer . January 30, 2009 . 11:06am

Banpresto is selling a giant sized Mr. Saturn doll. It’s 45 centimeters (we’ll round that to 1.5 feet) tall! Unfortunately, a gift like this is hard to come by.   I’m not talking about the only in Japan kind of…

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Siliconera Speaks Up: The Mother 3 Fan-Translation

By Louise . November 16, 2008 . 8:00am

Now that Siliconera has grown to include the voices of many talented writers, readers may want to know what these writers think about current issues in the game industry. Siliconera Speaks Up is a new weekly feature which highlights the…

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What We’re Missing With Mother 3

By Louise . November 10, 2008 . 2:35pm

Thanks to two years of fan-translation efforts I finally had a chance to play Mother 3.  After putting a handful of hours in, I’m amazed that no one at Nintendo wants to give the English-speaking world a chance to play this…

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Earthbound punishes pirates by deleting game saves

By Spencer . March 12, 2008 . 7:23pm

Square Enix’s cute and clever “thanks for playing” screen in Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates has sparked some interesting discussion about other anti-piracy measures. It’s “officially” unknown if Square Enix developed a new method to thwart pirates, but after…

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Mothership? Earthbound landing in the USA soon?

By Spencer . December 25, 2007 . 3:34pm

I probably shouldn’t fuel any kind of rabbit hole rumor in fear of raising people’s hopes to unrealistic levels. However, this is about Mother (get ready Levi!) and it comes from the enigmatic insider, Surfer Girl. It’s just too tempting…

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Earthbound fans don’t quit, they demand Mother 3

By Spencer . June 28, 2007 . 1:30pm

The collective community of Mother/Earthbound fans at Starmen.net banded together to launch a campaign to bring Mother 3 outside of Japan. For the past few weeks members have been mailing envelopes to Nintendo with Earthbound fan art, circulating Earthbound propaganda posters…

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MP3 later, Mother [3] may be homebound, Japan-only VC games on U.S. VC?

By Rolando . February 18, 2007 . 10:09am

In an interview with MTV News, Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime was asked about Metroid Prime 3 which will be delayed until later this year. That’s pretty bad considering a lot of fans were eager to get their hands on Samus’ latest adventure…