After the Pile O Loot video, I received a number of requests to do a review of this third party figure, Hercules Exgraver from TFC Toys. If you would like to see the transformations, please continue after the jump as that video is embedded below.

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The new titles (in bold), alongside the five titles already known, will be available in both Japan and North America:

• Balloon Fight
• Donkey Kong Jr.
• Ice Climber
• Super Mario Bros.
• Mario Open Golf (JP) / NES Open Tournament Golf (NA)
• Metroid
• Wrecking Crew
• Yoshi’s Egg (JP) / Yoshi (NA)
• The Legend of Zelda
• Zelda II: The Adventure of Link

At least there’s no Urban Champion in there. Whew!

These titles will be made available for download by all Ambassadors on September 1st. (Go to Nintendo.com to find out if you’re qualified.)

Still waiting on the GBA list!

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Madden NFL 12. This is really the only big release this week, but be sure to look at the rest of the release list after the jump.

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Franchise director Frank O’Conner says every comic, book, and additional content released around Halo over the last 4 years has been building up to this.

“Reclaimer” is a term used by 343 Guily Spark in the original game, “Halo: Combat Evolved.” Master Chief John 117 was charged with activating the Halo super weapon, but its vague use in the series may imply John specifically or any human or Forerunner who manipulated a Halo, The Ark, or a Shield World. This might sound all like gibberish to anyone who didn’t play Halo, and I can assure you its almost gibberish to me, and I’ve played all the games multiple times.

In any case, the concepts seen in the teaser seem to imply a lot more Forerunner structures and new planets will be explored in the new trilogy. Hopefully we’ve seen the last of the Flood, though. And the last of the Brutes. I could do without Skirmishers as well. You know what, lets just halo Halo 4 with all Hunters and Grunts! Yeah!

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In a word, no, but don’t worry: we’ll totally qualify that position. Nintendo’s financial troubles in 2011, and initially slow sales of the 3DS, followed by its steep price cut have renewed perennial calls for the company to forego the hardware market and release its titles on other platforms. SeanOrange and Vinnk discuss whether or not such a move would be vialbe for Nintendo, and if the company is leaving a lot of money on the table by not embracing the iOS market.

(Listen to the episode after the jump.)

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If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. That’s what 2k Interactive (standing in for Irrational) must have been thinking when making this follow up to one of 2007’s most beloved new IPs. Bioshock 2 is more of the same, but when the original was as good as it was, fans won’t mind.
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Looks like Square-Enix and Gamestop have a hard time communicating with each other.

Square-Enix, the developer for Deus Ex: Human Revolution, had originally offered a third-party coupon in the boxed PC edition of the game for the On Live cloud-computing gam streaminge service. However, they neglected to inform major game retailer Gamestop of the coupon’s inclusion, spurring Gamestop to remove the coupon for customer redemption completely.

From Gaintbomb’s original coverage:

GameStop dominated the conversation today, based on reports the retailer was opening copies of Deus Ex: Human Revolution on PC, removing the coupon for a copy of the game through OnLive, sealing the games back up and selling them as “new.”

Gamestop reported that they removed the coupon, as they have been developing their own streaming game service and they did not want to promote the competition. As of the backlash Gamestop received for the action of removing the coupon, Gamestop has since pulled all copies of Deus Ex for the PC and stored them for recall. Square-Enix has publicly apologized to Gamestop for the lack of prior knowledge of the coupons.

No coupons for you.

Sean goes to Chicago ComiCon, Zac and Zero go to Baltimore ComiCon, and then we all talked about our experiences.
“Ice cold water, One dollar!”
We also talk about whether a good Nicholas Cage movie, even one about a flaming skull that rides a motorcycle, is even possible. Oh god! The bees!

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