I love Amazon’s Gold Box sales. You can get tons of crap that you could have easily lived without if it hadn’t been so cheap. I found myself wasting my Friday two weeks ago purchasing practically every Wii title Amazon was offering. I purchased Crave Entertainment’s Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection thinking that I would play the game once and retire it to my self just as quickly. I couldn’t have been more wrong. Hit the jump to find out why.

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The Force Unleashed is one of the best Star Wars stories in recent memory, delivering a better developed plot and cast of characters than any of the three prequel movies. The concept of Darth Vader raising and training a secret apprentice that will one day help him overthrow Emperor Palpatine is a great concept that’s used to its fullest throughout the course of the game. Unfortunately, the actual gameplay in TFU is pretty good at best and glitchy and broken at worst.
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Continuing a proud tradition of posting other people’s hard work and passing it off as my own, here are the top 20 Genesis games (according to Screwattack, obviously). I was a Nintendo kid, during the days of the only console rivalry that ever really mattered, so I’ve only played a few of these. The top 10 are after the jump.
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Joystick Jockies is a radio show where me and two of my best buddies chat about our all-time favorite subject: video games! I’ll warn you that the show is perforated with local advertisements and weather updates (since it’s hosted by my college radio station), so there will be a few times when, if you aren’t from the Midwestern plains area, you’ll be a little left out. Anyway, I just wanted to let all you internet people know that you can listen in to the show live from 12:00-2:00 PM Central either by clicking here or simply plugging 146.57.73.100:8502 into your favorite media player. This week we’ll be detailing how YOU can win a brand spankin’ new download for The Behemoth’s thoroughly kick-ass game, Castle Crashers!

If you can’t listen to the show (or you read about this post after it was over), then shame on you! However, I will be updating this post with details on how to enter. We’ll be announcing the winners on next week’s show, so at least be sure to tune in then!

UPDATE: You have until this Friday at 11:59 PM to submit your best Video Game Haiku to JoystickJockeys@gmail.com. Be sure to give us a way to contact you to give you your prize! A winner will be chosen based entirely on our opinions of how creative and hilarious his/her haiku is. Even if you don’t win, there’s a good chance we’ll read your submission on the show. Get on it!

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John Diamonon of Capcom just threw up a blog post that’s, well, totally tubular. If you’ll look above you’ll see a hard copy mock up of Mega Man 9. Unfortunately, this is apparently fanfare that’s limited to the press. Says Diamonon:
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Check it out, bitches; it’s Monday, which means that Nintendo is once again going to try to entice you to spend your rent money, grocery money, and tuition on downloadable content. This week brings us a whopping two WiiWare titles and one thoroughly kick-ass NES game. Hit the jump to see what they are instead of just checking the Wii Shop channel yourself (which, if my Wii is any indication of everybody else’s, would probably take several hours of loading time.)
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Jeez, this place has been dead lately. To be fair, the majority of our writers have just had to start school back up, which makes life a little hectic. Anyway, I’m sure that all of our devoted readers are just dying to hear my opinion on the games I’ve been playing in the last month. So, without further ado, I give you reviews for Bionic Commando: Rearmed, Castle Crashers, N+, and the first 20 hours of Tales of Vesperia!
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Only by one week, though. Still, the promise of battling some of the coolest AI ever seen makes the push all the sweeter. The new release date is October 14th, and for those of you who, like me, are planning on just going without food for the month of October, this is both exciting and depressing news. The friendly PR fellas at EA would also like you guys to check out this kick-ass website, too. No, really, it’s awesome. EA didn’t even pay me to say that.

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All I can say is that it’s about damn time.

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