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Brits: Drill your way to HMV for cheap games

Posted Jun 20th 2008 6:00PM by Chris Greenhough
Filed under: Sales

Summer in the northern hemisphere officially starts today, which means one thing: ~~sharing strawberries with a loved one in a tranquil hay meadow as you soak up the rays~~ grabbing cheap games in the sales! The folks at HMV know the heat turns us Brits into mushy-minded impulse buyers, and so they've gone and slashed prices on approximately 30 DS titles to around the £12 - £15 mark. Here's the best of what's on offer:

Mr. Driller: Drill Spirits for £11.99
Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings for £15.99
Drawn to Life for £11.99
The Simpsons Game for £12.99
Geometry Wars: Galaxies for £12.99
Sim City for £11.99
MySims for £14.99
Magical Starsign for £11.99

Remember also that HMV offers free shipping to the UK, so you won't need to leave your La-Z-Boy and expose yourself to that nasty summer sun.

Gallery: Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings

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Sim City 2 almost as cute as My Sims

Posted Mar 19th 2008 8:00PM by Candace Savino
Filed under: News, Screens, Imports

The characters in Sim City 2 (which released today in Japan) may act like robots, but they sure look adorable -- check out our gallery if you don't believe us. They also seem to have hooves for feet, which we don't understand. Would it have been that hard to give them real feet? Yet, we can totally support a game that gives cavemen glasses and distinguished looking facial hair.

The characters and the Sim City name aren't the only appealing things about Sim City 2, though. The game lets you start in ancient times (hence the caveman) and progress to the modern era. Certainly not a novel idea for a civilization sim, but one we enjoy nonetheless.

Unfortunately, this game is virtually unplayable for folks who don't read Japanese. Sim City fans, let's hope it gets localized -- and, while we're at it, let's also hope that this game is better than the first Sim City DS.

Gallery: Sim City 2 DS

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Promotional Consideration: City planning

Posted Mar 16th 2008 4:00PM by Eric Caoili
Filed under: Promotional Consideration

Promotional Consideration is a weekly feature about the Nintendo DS advertisements you usually flip past, change the channel on, or just tune out.

We applaud any video game ad that eschews the common official-art-and-screenshots approach, a template that's been in place for as long as we can remember. This week's piece abandons those conventions, marketing EA's SimCity DS port and its city-management features in a much more creative fashion. Expand you commercial zoning, lower industrial taxes, and join us past the break!

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New Sim City 2 screens, promo site erected

Posted Mar 7th 2008 1:30PM by David Hinkle
Filed under: News, Screens

Sim City aficionados will enjoy this update from Famitsu. They've gone ahead and set up a small promo site for the upcoming sequel to Sim City DS, Sim City 2. And, as we still lack our whipping boy for reading Japanese, we've no idea what any of the text says on the page. But, there's plenty of new screens to look at! That's always nice.

If you want to check out the new screens, which seem to show off multiple assistants, then hit up our gallery below.

Gallery: Sim City 2 DS

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Watching Sim City isn't as fun as playing it

Posted Feb 18th 2008 3:00PM by Candace Savino
Filed under: Video

There's something compelling about Sim City games, even though it's hard to capture exactly what that is in a trailer. You can see that evidenced in this video for Sim City 2 DS, which borders between dull and downright creepy. The trailer just fails to capture the magic of Sim City, making us think that the game has to be better than this video makes it look.

Or, maybe we're just being too harsh. Maybe those slow-blinking characters that talk in robot voices don't creep you out. Either way, the gameplay seems deeper in this title than in the DS's first foray into Sim City, and we'll be keeping a close eye on the game as more information comes forth. As of now, it's only planned for a Japanese release in March.

The Twelve (well, thirteen, actually) Sales of GameFly

Posted Dec 24th 2007 12:00PM by Eric Caoili
Filed under: Sales

Video game rental service GameFly has a pretty big year-end sale going on through January 4th for over 30 of its used DS games. Though the carts are all pre-played, each one will come with a new manual and case, so you need not worry about receiving an incomplete set.

As usual, we've picked the notable titles out of the bunch and listed them for you, except this time, we've done it in Christmas carol form!

On the twelfth day of Christmas,
DS Fanboy sent to me:

Twelve Diddy Kong racers Racing ($17.99),
Eleven Spectrobes for collecting ($15.99),
Ten Hoshigamis a-SRPG-ing ($14.99),
Nine Planet Puzzles Leaguing ($19.99),
Eight Custom Robos a-fighting ($12.99),
Seven Sim Cities a-building ($16.99),
Six Bombermen a-touching ($22.99),
Five of Sonic Rush's golden rinnngggggs ($17.99),
Four Mana Children ($14.99),
Three Elite Beat Agents ($22.99),
Two Mega Man Star Forces ($17.99 each),
And a Naruto: Ninja Council 3 ($17.99)!

[Via CAG]

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Brits: Drill your way to HMV for cheap games

Sim City 2 almost as cute as My Sims

Promotional Consideration: City planning

New Sim City 2 screens, promo site erected

Watching Sim City isn't as fun as playing it