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GameCube EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Game SERIES Debate to the Death! The Legend of Zelda 213 Good gaming gods, last week's debate was epic, and I do not use that word lightly. I had to go through all 235 comments twice, just to make sure no tallying mistakes were made. The outcome broke ... Another portable GameCube mod because why not 7 Modder Hailrazer took a GameCube and some other electronics, stripped them down and created the portable GameCube you see above. The case was from a Datamax Kid's Delight, the screen was origina... Game SERIES Debate to the Death!Smash Bros VS Mario Party 95 Last week's debate made me pretty nervous. On paper, comparing a cartoony and speedy shooter to a realistic and slow stealth shooting game made perfect sense. But this was Metal Gear -- could any... Games Time Forgot: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 46 Every Wednesday, we highlight rarely-remembered but interesting games for our "Games Time Forgot" series.If you are as big a Harry Potter fan as I am (impossible!), you already know by ... The case for cute: Why Wind Waker is the best Zelda ever 175 Yes, I did indeed just say that. If I know my gaming public, and I quite unfortunately do, chances are that many of you are huffing and puffing on the verge of a hissyfit before you've even made ... Why Pikmin is the greatest videogame series ever 52 A few weeks ago Jim Sterling wrote an article about why Dynasty Warriors is the greatest videogame series ever. It was an interesting feature, but I had to chuckle at the glaring typo in the head... The Memory Card .57: Jade's moment of silence 39 There are many different reasons specific videogames are great. Some have outstanding characters, some have surprisingly intelligent writing, and some contain beautifully orchestrated music. Whil... The Memory Card .47: A castle stuck in time 51 Let me know if this scenario sounds familiar:You are playing a videogame and reach a section that is absolutely beautiful to look at. Instead of playing through quickly, you take your time, even ... New features being added to Wii Pikmin and Mario Tennis GameCube re-releases 24 When Nintendo first announced their Play it on Wii series -- a line of GameCube games being ported for play exclusively on the Wii -- we weren't sure if these games would see any Wii-specific upd... Pikmin and other GameCube games re-releasing on the Wii 37 Tons of info was just revealed at the Nintendo Fall Press Conference held in Japan and one of the highlights was the announcement of the new "Wii de Asobu Selection", which translates t... The Memory Card .39: Del Lago! 47 I love to be scared.I don’t know why -- me being scared usually involves a lot of running around like an idiot with my arms flailing -- but I love the feeling of shock and subsequent nervou... Nintendo ordered to pay $21 million for patent infringement 26 And it's not what you're thinking, either. No one has a beef (yet) with the Wii's wand-waggling technology; Nintendo paid out for infringement on the design of the GameCube controllers.Anascape, ... The Memory Card .33: Peach dances with TEC 32 We all have them: certain videogame moments that we are ashamed to love as much as we do. It may be a moment that makes you scream out loud at your television set, only to make you ... Miniboss Monday: Rawk Hawk! 12 Today's boss is actually one of my personal favorites from the previous generation of consoles. Meet Rawk Hawk, the undisputed champ of the Glitz Pit from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. Rig... White GameCube controller hits Japan this April 51 GameCube enthusiasts will either be pleased or pissed to hear about the recent announcement of a white GameCube controller release coming in the latter half of April. Pleased because its pretty a... Game Debate to the Death! Best Super Smash Bros. Melee multiplayer level? 116 Last week's Super Smash Bros. level debate was one of the closest game debates we've ever had. At first the Saffron City stage received a burst of votes, but then Sector Z surged to the top. Then... Pixar's Wall-E gets a GameCube incarnation 17 I must admit I love me some console mods, although I still would like to see less simplistic function and more of the fabulous. Why aren't I wearing a GameCube Carmen Miranda-style on my head yet... According to Miyamoto, the GameCube controller was sort of a test run 59 The GameCube may have been ribbed for being dainty and blue (remember the purse comparisons?), but it was the Fisher-Price looking controller  that really seemed to polarize gamers. Admitted... Bargain Bin Laden #29: XIII 39 The first person shooter genre has, for a long time, not been known for its wealth of engrossing, plot-heavy games. With the exception of Valve's Half-Life series, one would be right to think of ... One of a kind AT-AT GameCube mod up for sale 38 A long time ago, in an Internet post back, back in the day, a man made an awesome GameCube mod. Now, the creator of this mod needs some cash and has put his AT-AT GameCube up for sale on eBay. Th... YTMND Thursday: The saddest YTMND ever 106 For today's edition of YTMND Thursday, I thought it would be nice to only have one specific YTMND. I will admit that I had to hold back the tears from how heartbreaking this story was. The story ... WTFOMGBBQ?: Purchase Gary Coleman's GameCube on eBay 42 Sometimes life is good, and sometimes life is great. Tonight, life is great -- Gary Coleman's GameCube is up for grabs on eBay. From the Engrish-like description of joy and good times: What ... Portable Sensor Bar for your non-portable Wii 22 ConsoleShop has got an interesting accessory for the Wii on sale. It's called the Retractable Travel Sensor Bar and is exactly what it sounds like. It looks nice, but the designers of the produ... Game Debate to the Death! Super Smash Bros. Melee 116 Last week's debate was a duel between a dozen different Super Smash Bros. 64 characters that we've all come to know and despise over the years. Votes were cast in all directions, but a few fierce... Gamercize: Number one for choice and enjoyment 23 As a collective group, I'd say it's pretty hard for gamers to get motivated into exercising. Be it running, or picking heavy things up and putting them back down, the mere thought of moving is of... The Memory Card .14: The legend of Tetra 41 Have you ever got to a plot twist in a game and thought to yourself, “Wow, I genuinely didn’t see that coming!” While most videogames try their best to surprise pl... Bargain Bin Laden #23: Metal Arms: Glitch in the System 38 Hi gang, once again I'm holding down the fort while much of the staff are out of the office, which is why I'm covering Aaron Linde's Bargain Bin Laden post for today. I'm very pleased to be able ... Histamine blocker: Radio Allergy for the GameCube canned 15 It appears that the GameCube version of the much delayed quirky vertical scrolling shooter, Radio Allergy, has been given its walking papers.In a recent post on O3 Entertainment's official bo... Resident Evil 4: Wii edition now has a price 25 Capcom, that wonderful company that I adore so much, has listed on their official store the pricing on the much anticipated port of Resident Evil 4 that is the talk of message boards everywhere ... Fake game friday: Paction Man: The Curse of the Stringy Limbs 6 The format for these Fake Game Fridays is typically set in stone. Usually, a forumite posts a fake game idea, I go to Fronz, and Fronz makes a Photoshopped image of the game art. But in this inst... New releases for the week of 04/23/07 23 Pokemon! Pokemon! Pokemon! Pokemon mania is officially hitting the country again this week (unless you took advantage of stores selling the game early). Without a doubt, Pokemon is going to be se... French RE4 ad redefines the meaning of "dude, that's a zombie's boob!" 59 Yeah ...I'm not even sure what to say about the above ad. It's like everything awesome and pure in the world has been torn away and we are left staring at the cold, bleak darkness withi... Pac-Man VS. coming to DS; deluge of touching/swallowing jokes coming to 'net 8 Remember Pac-Man VS.? It was that wacky, ingenious, 4-player GameCube version of Pac-Man, in which four people equipped with their own Gameboy Advances, would e-LARP the cat-and-mouse orgy of de... Hands on: Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition 100 Capcom made it very clear that they are the company to watch this millennium. They even scorned the rest of the industry for not taking chances and simply relying on sequels to keep the money rol... Weekend Reading: Goodnight Gamecube 43 "My point is that from a first-party perspective, just like Microsoft doesn't put out new original Xbox games, Nintendo is no longer supporting GameCube. Can you confirm that?""... Nintendo Power Awards 2006 begin, Scorsese snubbed again [UPDATE!] 15 Now that we're well into February 2007, Nintendo Power has put out a call for all of Nintendo's loyal fans to vote on their favorite games of the year. The list, of course, covers all of... Resident Evil 4 could have been scarier 42 HardestBoss spotted a video of an early Japanese E3 build version of Resident Evil 4. These concepts were dropped from the final game because it was "too paranormal" to mesh with the ga... Bargain Bin Laden #7: Beyond Good and Evil 72 You don't really need me to go on and on about Ubisoft's incredible Beyond Good and Evil, do you? The same people that busy themselves fellating Fumito Ueda over Shadow of the Colossus an... Bargain Bin Laden #5: Donkey Kong Jungle Beat 20 Sorry for the interruption in programming, kids. Due to forces beyond my control like physics and math and other kinds of science, BBL's gonna be a Sunday deal from here on out. We cool? Good... Sexy or virtual rape? 38 Depending on the quality of items in your spank bank, this clip from Resident Evil 4 may either be a keeper or a reminder of how things will probably turn out in college. (If you haven't hi... Explore the forbidden zones in Zelda: Twilight Princess 11 A Gamespot forum member used the SuperClawshot code in the GameCube version of Zelda: Twilight Princess to go where no Link was ever supposed to go (after the beta, I'm sure). While we'r... Radio Allergy: the last great GameCube game 3 Hey, speaking of shmups, it seems as though Radirgy -- a beautifully cel-shaded shmup and one of the last Dreamcast games ever released -- is set to hit the US GameCube as Radio Allergy in Februa... Nintendo to short change GameCube owners/Zelda fans this holiday? 21 While the rumors of the death of the GameCube version of Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess were greatly exaggerated, it seems that picking up a copy might be an exercise is futility ... even if ... Eternal Darkness sequel possible 22 Game developer Silicon Knights has confirmed in a post on their IGN blog that the company wants to make a sequel for Eternal Darkness, originally released on the Nintendo Gamecube.  Silic... Twilight Princess Limited Edition guide is the quicker picker upper 10 Walk into a local game shop and pick up a copy of the Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess official stategy guide, you cheater. Go on, I'll wait. The official word on that one is that it's ... Testing the GameCube on the Wii 30 So, this will be my final video of the night. I wanted to show you guys what happens when you put in a GameCube disc and also what happens when you plug in the GC controllers -- even the Wavebir... Zelda retrospective part 5 3 myFlash = new FlashObject('http://www.gametrailers.com/umremote312.swf', 'swffile', 480, 409, 8); myFlash.altTxt = ''; myFlash.addVariable('mid', 14936); myFlash.write(); Can you believe how ... GameDaily grades the consoles for mommy 0 Got your debating hat on? Good. Depending on your take on the whole thing, GameDaily has a fairly decent report card for the current and next-gen consoles as they apply right now for the holida... Killer 7: All about the porn 1 Perhaps you've heard about this, perhaps you haven't. Either way, now you will. It seems as some rather unfortunate copy editing slips happened at the Capcom HQ because the Web site listed on t... Hey! Look at my awesome swag! Nintendo edition 0 Continuing this storied series of game journo swag, I present to you Nintendo's latest offering: Holiday swag. As I strutted into work today, there was a rather large box awaiting me. I recogni... Donkey Konga to the fourth power 1 If you think you're good in Donkey Konga, get a load of this punk (or whipper snapper, if you prefer) from CrackedRabbit. Using 4 controllers at the same time, Tommy Gun plays the Pokemon Them... YTMND Thursday: XP Edition 0 A sequel was made to the Snoop Kirby song and it sucks. Some loser starts to sing and well, the only reason it made it here was cause of the sw33t gif. Anyone else think the Kirby XP YTMND is j... New for the week of 10/16/06: 20 Previews 0 FINALLY! Bully is coming out tomorrow! You know what that means right? EXACTLY! Bloggers can finally STFU about it! Well, I expect everyone will link to a major news site like GameSpot for thei... Weekend Destructainment: 10 videos and a contest clue ... 1 The horrible looking Street Fighter 2 action figures reviewed. Ok, so I lied. I don't have a contest clue. I just wanted to get your attention! As you're making your rounds on Internet land, yo... Weekend Destructainment: 10 videos and a contest clue ... 0 The horrible looking Street Fighter 2 action figures reviewed. Ok, so I lied. I don't have a contest clue. I just wanted to get your attention! As you're making your rounds on Internet land, yo... Ethan Albright hates being bad at football 0 Ethan Albright. Don't know him? Well now you will. It turns out Mr. Albright is a less-than-perfect lineman for the Washington Redskins. In fact, he's downright awful. At least, according to Ma... Ethan Albright hates being bad at football 2 Ethan Albright. Don't know him? Well now you will. It turns out Mr. Albright is a less-than-perfect lineman for the Washington Redskins. In fact, he's downright awful. At least, according to Ma... Ethan Albright hates being bad at football 0 Ethan Albright. Don't know him? Well now you will. It turns out Mr. Albright is a less-than-perfect lineman for the Washington Redskins. In fact, he's downright awful. At least, according to Ma... Comparing the GameCube and Wii 0 A blog at Jeux-France put this nice comparison of GameCube graphics and Wii graphics, most likely in reaction to the recent news that the Wii is nothing but a spit-shined GameCube underneath. T... Nielsen study reveals our habits 0 Normally I'd pass on some number-crunching geek study, but this one actually can prove quite useful -- especially when engaged with fanboys or gaming outsiders. 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