August 29th, 2008 by Daniel Duncan

Earlier today I stopped by Gamestop and picked up the strategy guid for Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise. I have no intentions whatsoever on using it to complete the game, I just like looking through the guides after the game’s completion. I did open it up however to see if it included any Pinata Cards and sure enough, it does. Nine in fact. I’ll be sure and get pictures of them taken individually so when the game releases and if you have an Xbox 360 Vision Camera, you can simply scan the cards and presto!, the pinatas are in your Garden.

Don’t forget that Trouble in Paradise releases in the U.S. on Tuesday, September 2nd and in Europe on September 5th.

August 29th, 2008 by Daniel Duncan

Trouble in Paradise will be resting on store shelvels–hopefully for not very long!!–this Wednesday, and already the review scores are starting to come in. First and foremost is the review score from Electronic Gaming Monthly Magazine that gave the game an ‘A’ and Game of the Month for September. Fingers crossed that the rest of the media will do the same. Be sure and stay tuned here for our review as well shortly after the game releases on September 2nd.

August 29th, 2008 by Daniel Duncan

Team Xbox today has gotten hold of some new media for Trouble in Paradise that includes new screenshots in fantabulous techni-color and a collage of videos on how to capture Pinatas and more. Highly recommend checking it out as it will certainly aid in hyping you up for the game’s release next Wednesday.

August 27th, 2008 by Daniel Duncan

A looooot of people have been ‘out-of-sorts’ because Gamestop hadn’t readily been aware of the pre-order accentive for Nuts & Bolts. Well everyone, I can tell you today that you need no longer fear… Gamestop will indeed be giving out a code to download Banjo-Kazooie on the Xbox LIVE Arcade for free when you pre-order Nuts & Bolts on the Xbox 360. The codes will be given out around the time of the game’s release, which is currently slated for November 14th. Here is your proof!

August 26th, 2008 by Daniel Duncan

Poor, poor Viva Pinata. Trouble in Paradise is releasing in just 10 days from now in Europe and they are sadly not very keen on the title apparantly. At least the German’s arent’. Kotaku listed the most ignored games at the Leipzig Games Convention and Trouble in Paradise was named among them. Perhaps the German’s were just embarrassed to be seen playing it and will secretly purchase it undercover at the late hours of night on its release? I don’t know, maybe it is just a German thing. Let’s hope that the rest of the world doesn’t take this same approach and ignore it as well!

August 26th, 2008 by Daniel Duncan

Rare software engineer Nick Burton has been the center of attention lately with several interviews. The latest has been with Spong, where he discusses a variety of different subjects such as his typical day in the office, a secret game project he is currently working on, desire to work on the Wii and plenty more. Hit the provided link above for the entire six page interview.

August 26th, 2008 by Daniel Duncan

IGN’s 90th episode of their Game Scoop Podcast talks very briefly about Nuts & Bolts. The session begins around the 12 minute mark and ends at the 14th minute. Download and listen for yourselves here.

August 26th, 2008 by Daniel Duncan

Sorry folks, but no embedding for these. Gamersyde is apparantly having issues with bandwidth right now so embedding is a no-no. But no worry, links provided to both soundless videos here and here

August 26th, 2008 by Daniel Duncan

Kind of surprising to see who made this list. It is a Kong, of course, but it isn’t Diddy or Donkey or even Tiny….it’s Cranky. That’s right, old monkey Cranky Kong is listed number 20 on Game Daily’s Top 25 Nintendo Characters of All-Time. Congrats to you Cranky. Perhaps you can be given a electric wheelchair in celebration!

August 23rd, 2008 by Daniel Duncan

I’ve spent the better part of this morning adding new screenshots to Banjo and Viva Pinata DS. For Nuts & Bolts, only three new screenshots have been added, but each are from the newly announced world, Jiggoseum. And for Viva Pinata, thirty new shots were added for Pocket Paradise and more than forty for the original Viva Pinata.

I have other things that I hope to add before the weekend is over and done. I’ll keep you all informed of any new entries. Hit the links in the Galleries section in the sidebar for Banjo and Viva’s respective pages.