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Meta Review - Electroplankton (DS)

What is this? Why, it's Nintendo's new music, sound, light, creation game for the Nintendo DS. At the time of writing, Electroplankton had an average composite of 80%. Most criticism is based on the fact that it's a music creator rather than a game. ...

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MetaMetaCritic, the reviewer-review aggregator [April Fools]

Paradox Interactive's contribution to 2012's April Fools' Day festivities is MetaMetaCritic, a "new reviewer-review aggregator" that "aggregates reviews of reviewers." Its basically exactly what it sounds like, and while the site doesn't actually wo...

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Meta Review: Animal Crossing (DS)

With a Game Rankings composite currently of 85%, Animal Crossing: Wild World is looking like yet another hit on the Nintendo DS this fourth quarter. Jump on over to Joystiq for the Meta Review summarizing the best of the best. How does the port...

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Meta Knight Amiibo exclusive to Best Buy, Lucario to Toys R Us

Where's the fun in collecting something if you can just place a one-and-done order for the entire set with an online retailer? Amiibo fans are in for some legwork (or a few extra clicks), as two more retailer-exclusive deals have been announced con...

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Meta List: Top 10 Video Games

Filibuster Cartoons has compiled an excellent meta list of the ten best video games of all time. List sources vary from Gamefaqs.com, IGN, Livewire, Edge Magazine, Gamespot, and EGM. Zelda, Mario, Tetris, and Final Fantasy get the majori...

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Breaking down the meta sites [update 1]

How many times have you relied on a meta review site, like Metacritic or Game Rankings, when shopping for a video game? Certainly you have checked out Rotten Tomatoes to check out the average film score -- even CNN has cited them in articles. But how...

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Meta-Metareview: The best reviewed games of 2008

With almost all of the big games of '08 now on shelves (we're looking at you, Prince of Persia) or available via Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network, you're left with a lot of choices. Some of them you've already bought; others you've been on ...

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GDC08: Explaining 'Destroy All Developers' meta-game

This might seem a bit late since the (meta) game is now over, but check out this footage of Mahalo Daily's Veronica Belmont as she interviews Destroy All Developers! organizers on how the game works....

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Former 'ilovebees' devs working on ODST meta-game 'Sadie's Story'

During yesterday's Halo 3: ODST panel at PAX, Bungie made a welcome announcement for fans of the Halo 2 "ilovebees" campaign. Bungie's Joe Staten announced that Fourth Wall Studios -- which is comprised of former members of "ilovebees" dev, 42 Enter...

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Super Smash Bros raises its 'Special Flag,' waves in Meta Knight

Among the growing list of playable characters in Super Smash Bros. is Meta Knight, the Kirby character that first enrolled in the series' battles in 2008's Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Director Masahiro Sakurai revealed the character's inclusion in a re...

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Smash Bros. Dojo updated

Smash Bros. Dojo, the official Smash Bros. website, has updated the character section. Pit, star of the game Kid Icarus for the NES, and Meta Knight, rival to the gluttonous pink ball that is Kirby, are the first two of the game's characters to rece...

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Foresee a trip to GameStop if you want the Shulk Amiibo

Shulk is the first Amiibo unearthed as retailer-exclusive in the US, according to a listing on GameStop. The figurine of the Xenoblade hero is one of 11 coming to North America in February 2015, and yesterday Nintendo said "some of our retail partne...

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Nintendo mega-busts out another batch of Amiibos [update]

Update: As our post went live, Nintendo of America unveiled a trailer pinning the 11 new Amiibo figures for February 2015. In the video, which you'll find below the break, Nintendo notes "some of our retail partners will be releasing a certain numbe...

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GDC Quest Quiz II: Steve Purcell

We did a terrible thing at last week's Game Developer's Conference. Aside from our usual barrage of photographs and "reporting," a select group of attendees had to endure a particularly inane and utterly pointless line of questioning -- just for laug...

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