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Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Metroid Other M this summer!

Nintendo held a big media summit today and spilled that what everyone assumed would be their big fall/holiday games are actually their big summer/spring games! Super Mario Galaxy (new trailer above) will release on May 23rd. Metroid: Other M will release June 27.
Unfortunately, Nintendo didn’t feel like releasing a sweet compilation of footage [...]

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Powet Alphabet: N is for Nintendo Entertainment System

During the early 80s, the video game market was in danger of dying off before it could take off. Too many manufacturers were releasing too many consoles no one cared for, and developers were making too many games that were mediocre at best. This would lead to a diminished demand for them in [...]

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$20 Game of the Week: Tetris DS (Nintendo DS)

Tetris is one of the oldest and most endearing puzzle games ever. Most other puzzle games that have come out since then have not steered too far away from Tetris’s basic design. So how does the age old-formula manage to remain fresh for its Nintendo DS debut? Nintendo has combined Tetris’s classic [...]

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Top 5: Most Significant Videogame Sequels.

You put a “2″ behind a game title and you’ve got a safe bet: more of the same. Its makes it easier for developers to release another game, and players get what essentially amounts to more levels of a game they already like.
But there are some that dare to be different, and turn the entire [...]

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Harmonyntendo – Piano arrangements of Nintendo themes

Powet fan Mike Choi sent me this video of some of his arrangements for classic Nintendo themes. Above is Super Mario Brothers, and after the break I’ve posted 2 more.
Enjoy his work, i’m sure he’ll be posting more soon!
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Metroid Retrospective and Timeline

This is the final segment in GameTrailers Metroid Retrospective, constructing the events of the 10 games in the Metroid series into a timeline and also mentioning the few cameos hero Samus Aran and her enemies have made in other games and media. You can see the entire series here. Its a nice refresher [...]

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Metroid Prime 3: The Aurora Unit

This is the new trailer on the Metroid Prime 3 Wii channel. This is especially interesting to fans of the original Metroid and Super Metroid (which should pretty much everybody).
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Famicom Dojo: The Battery Backup

Famicom Dojo is back for its second episode! In this installment, we go over why the Famicom Disk System was such a tremendous boon for console gaming worldwide, even though the peripheral never made it to North American (or other) shores.
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Famicom Dojo – Episode 02 – Battery Backup
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