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Advert Of The Week – Shake It!

cronogenesis — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:24:25 +0000

First of all, apologies for the lateness of this post. I have been preparing and recording a very special edition of the WiiDS podcast, to be released this week.

Wario Land: Shake Dimension is one of my current favourite games, if not one of the greatest platformers of all time. With it’s flinging, throwing, shaking and brute strength, Wario powers through the world rather than taking times to gracefully jump from platform to platform like most characters.

Nintendo has made this VERY special trailer to promote the game which uses a lot of clever tricks to express it’s awsomeness. Unfortunately the trailer will not last forever and cannot be embedded in the post, so click here to see the full awsomeness!

WiiDS Ep 73 – A New Hope?

cronogenesis — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:28:29 +0000

- Reminders
- Question Of The Week: Multiformat Purchases
- Nintendo Press Conference Announced
- New DS Bundles Announced
- Pokemon Still Going Strong
- Capcom Stop Exclusives But Maintains Support
- Ubisoft Knew About Motion Plus
- What We’ve Been Playing
- Wii Shop Releases
- Emails
- More!

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Advert Of The Week – Politics

cronogenesis — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:55:48 +0000

As it’s currently impossible to turn on the news and not hear about people trying to axe Gordon Brown or the U.S candidates, so this advert seems fitting. While it ma only be a short advert it does a good job at hinting the product, with lines such as “Are you afraid of the gorilla” and “Will your brother be joining your team?”. It manages to get the product across in a humorous and relavent way so gets the thumbs up from me

WiiDs Ep 72 – Ramshackle III

cronogenesis — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:18:57 +0000

- Announcements
— Strongbad Contest Reminder
— We’ve Been Nominated!
- Question Of The Week: Games That Should Be Films
- News
— Storage Solution “Better Than” A Hard Drive
— Animal Crossing Priced
— Nintendo Flattered By Xbox Avatars
— New Phantasy Star For DS
— Wii/DS Router Announced
- What We’ve Been Playing
- Virtual Console Releases
- Online Section
— Emails
— Topic Of The Week: WiiDS Games Night
- More!

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Advert Of The Week – Target Practice

cronogenesis — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:43:30 +0000

I love this type of advert. Take a strange game concept and apply it to real life for obscure, yet interesting viewing. This one’s for Super Mario Advance, a remake of the western version of Super Mario Bors 2 (aka Doki Doki Panic + Mario). Like most NEs sequels, Super Mario Bros 2 took a completely different approach to the series, with expansive worlds made up of many screens and vegetable throwing instead to jumping on heads. It’s this vegetable thrpwing idea that the advert picks up on, comparing it to more convential methods of killing. Needless to say, it works very well and is rather funny

Strongbad’s Cool Contest For Podcasting People

cronogenesis — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:19:10 +0000

The Contest

To celebrate the release of the monthly episodic adventure Stong Bad’s Cool Game For Attractive People, we at the WiiDs Podcast have organised a prize packed contest for our listeners. Over the next few weeks we will be playing a recording from Strongbad’s Wii as he plays five of his favourite WiiWare games. All you need to do to be in the chance of winning is tell us, in order, which five games he’s playing. The winning entry will then be drawn from all correct entries on episode 75.

The Prizes

Elite Beat Agents (DS)
Strongbad Emails Season 5
A set of Homestar Runner Collectable Figures

A prize bounty worth £45/$90!

Prizes donated by Jack “The Jumpman” Smith (aka Cronogenesis)

How To Enter

Please email your entries to wiidspodcast@gmail.com. Entries should include your name, your email and your five answers in order. Please make the subject of your email “Contest” to make it easier for us to find your entry. Please submit your entries before 1st October 2008 to be sure of a chance of winning.

Free free to use the template below when submitting your answer.

Subject: Contest

Name:

Username:

Email:

Clip 1:

Clip 2:

Clip 3:

Clip 4:

Clip 5:

The Fine Print

Contest Not Open To Hosts

Only one entry per person.

Entries received after Wednesday 1st October 2008 may not be entered into the prize draw.

Valid entries must contain the submitters Name, Email Address and all five answers in the correct order.

We reserve the right to use your name in reference to this promotion and future promotions relative to your contest entry.

The winning entry(s) will be randomly drawn from all correct entries during Episode 75.

In the event of winning, we will contact you for shipping details. These details will be treated with the strictest privacy, not passed onto anyone else and will be deleted after your prizes have been sent.

The grand prize consists of 1x Elite Beat Agents, 1x Strongbad Emails.exe Disk 5, 1x Series 1 Homestar Runner Figurines. Prizes have a RRP of £45. If any prizes are refused then remaining prizes will given to the next name drawn and hence-fourth until all prizes are given away.

You have to right to refuse any prize you do not wish to receive. However no alternative will be offered.

Prizes shown in promotional media are representations of actual prizes.

We are not responsible for the location and condition of prizes after postage.

We hold the right to change the above rules without any prior notice.

WiiDs Ep 71 – Nintendon’t

cronogenesis — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:16:53 +0000

- Question Of The Week: Unreleased games
- News
- Disaster strikes on October 24
- Run the Gauntlet in October
- KORG DS-10 announced for October
- Wii and DS to lead TGS
- GTA IV on Wii
- Main Discussion: Nintendon’t
- 10 reasons why Nintendo is not catering for its core gamers
- Is Shigsy still up to it?
- Is the company about to see a radical shift in focus?
- Are hardcore games worth it?
- Where do third parties stand?
- What We’ve Been Playing
- Virtual Console Releases
- Online Section, including e-mails
- Topic Of The Week: Imagine [insert random occupation here]
- Contest: Strong Bad’s Contest For Podcasting People
- More!

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Vote For WiiDs In The European Podcast Awards!

cronogenesis — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:24:28 +0000

That’s right, we’ve been nominated for the European Podcast Award. All support is much appreciated so please vote for us Voting is open till the end of September so hurry

Click on this link to vote: http://www.european-podcast-award.eu/uk/start/vote-and-win/non-profit/type/player/uid/953/podid/953.html

Please vote fairly. And frequently

Advert Of The Week – Warfare

cronogenesis — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:23:19 +0000

Who doesn’t like the N64? Who doesn’t like tribal warfare? Who doesn’t like seeing fat men in bikinis? Okay, maybe not that last one… Still, this advert manages to take all these factors and create a brilliant televisual masterpiece.

WiiDs Episode 68-70 – The Future Of German Homebrew?

cronogenesis — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:41:28 +0000

Episode 70: Yultide Yearnings 2008

- Question Of The Week: Desert Island Games
- News
- Nintendo Dismisses DS Remake Rumours
- New Consoles To Arrive Before Next Gen
- Core Games 2-3 Years Away
- Motion Sensing On DS
- Main Discussion: Yuletide Yearnings 2008
- What games should you keep an eye out for over the next few months?
- What games should you avoid?
- Which ones suprised us the most?
- What We’ve Been Playing
- More

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Episode 69: Live(ish) from Liepzig

- Question Of The Week: New Wii Channels
- News
- Censor call on MadWorld
- Ubisoft announces more shovelware
- Wii likes third parties
- Game Announcements
- Main Discussion: Live(ish) From Leipzig
- James reports from GC 2008
- What titles look promising?
- How many Wii/DS games are there?
- How are our favourites shaping up?
- Does he know any German?
- What We’ve Been Playing
- Online Section
- Emails
- Topic Of The Week: Custom DS/ Game Boy On VC?

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Episode 68: OMWiiDs

- Guest stars: Alex and Ben of the OMG Podcast
- Question Of The Week: New Handheld Features
- News
- LucasArts Upset About MotionPlus Secrecy
- Overlord coming to Wii, DS
- The Name’s Wii, Yatani Wii
- Capcom: We’re Not Shafting The Wii. Honest
- Main Discussion: Wii Hacking
- The Twilight Hack
- The Homebrew Channel
- Homebrew On DS
- What counts as homebrew?
- Is it right?
- Nintendo’s view
- Should Nintendo encourage user-generated content?
- What We’ve Been Playing
- Online Section
- More!

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