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Gamevine Week in Review (03/17/08 - 03/23/08)

News Type: Other — Sun Mar 23, 2008 9:56 PM EDT

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What was your favorite news item this week?

  • SSBB Crushes Sales Record
    25%
  • PA's $10,000 Scholarship
    50%
  • FSC Sanctions JT
    25%

Total Votes: 4

Gamevine Week in Review (03/17/08 - 03/23/08)

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Here are the Gamevine highlights for the week of March 17th through March 23rd, 2008.


Game News Highlights

This week's top stories, delivered hot and fresh!

SSBB Crushes Sales Record: Maybe this should have been tagged with "not news", but the eagerly anticipated Super Smash Bros. Brawl dropped 1.4 million units in it's first week making it the fastest selling video game in Nintendo of America's history. For a little perspective, the title sold 874,000 on March 9th, the first day it became available.
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PA's $10,000 Scholarship: Those foul-mouth philanthropic funny-men are at it again. For the second year in a row Gabe and Tycho (Mike and Jerry) have announced that they will be awarding a $10,000 scholarship to a worthy student who would like to further there education in the gaming industry. For all the times they drop a @!$%# and a @!$%# in their comic these guys are still a class act in my book.
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FSC Sanctions JT: Everyone likes to be heard. When it comes to the Florida Supreme Court hearing anything from Jack Thompson, they've now placed a sanction on him stating that if J.T. wants to file anything with the Court, he's going to need to hire another lawyer to do it on his behalf. Justice may be blind but she's now deaf, and apparently she couldn't take his frivolous lawsuit and inane rantings at the tax-payers expense any longer either.
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Sims 2: Part 3...Plant Sims: In part 3 of Sim2Luv's continuing saga we learn about the Plant Babies of The Sims 2. Now I haven't played The Sims in a long time, but I don't remember anything about this and it's quite fascinating how in depth the game gets with some of these abstract concepts.
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Russ R.

Wow, it was a real light news week this past seven days in the Gamevine corner of the web. We all know that more did happen in the past week, but the GV WiR focuses mainly on stories posted to the Gamevine group, so the pickings were slim for actual news items.

Charity always warms the cockles of my heart, and if Penny Arcade is involved that's like a +4 fire spell and those cockles are now hot! Those guys never cease to amaze.

The Gamevine Writers' section seems to get smaller and smaller each week (what is everyone doing?!) and only the third installment of Sim2Luv's epic poem has graced the GV.

Jeez, even the comics and video sections were light this week. PA wasn't game related at all this past week and I really wasn't enjoying the rat in the basement story line. The three picked for your viewing pleasure are mediocre at best. The best being Little Gamer's for basically biting the hand that feeds them.

Oh and if you haven't checked out the Metroid 2 Fan Remake video, please do so as it's highly recommended.

Lastly, sorry for this being a Russ R. heavy WiR but there just wasn't any new posted this week. I'm begging everyone to seed and write articles for this upcoming week.

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Reply#1 - Mon Mar 24, 2008 8:02 AM EDT
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Steve Watts

Yeah, it was a super-light week, but then it was the week of Easter. Maybe game developers were too busy buying chocolate bunnies and dying easter eggs.

I voted for PA, just because the other two are kind of non-stories. Brawl sold a lot? Wowee! And JT is off my radar completely out of sheer principle.

I actually liked the rat-basement storyline, particularly the Wednesday comic. Nice little bone thrown at the end to an old reference, too.

I'm a little disappointed in not seeing the Star Wars retrospective of this week go up to GameTrailers. But I'm sure it will be along shortly.

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    Reply#2 - Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:09 AM EDT
    {"commentId":1616994,"authorDomain":"Henryvii"}
    Henry VII

    I thought Halo 3 did at least a million on the first day...

    ...ah, that's NoA's history. I'm still glad JT is sanctioned.

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    Reply#3 - Tue Mar 25, 2008 5:33 AM EDT
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    Steve Watts

    I thought Halo 3 did at least a million on the first day...

    ...ah, that's NoA's history.

    Yeah, if only Brawl had aligned itself with Mountain Dew.

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      #3.1 - Tue Mar 25, 2008 8:38 AM EDT
      {"commentId":1617332,"authorDomain":"russrenshaw"}
      Russ R.
      ... aligned itself with Mountain Dew.

      I think it was more the FBDBQ (Frat Boy Douche Bag Quotient) that pushed Halo over the One Million in a day mark.

      This also the mathematic formula to explain Madden selling so many copies per year despite that fact that each new iteration is little more than an expansion pack over the previous years'.

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      #3.2 - Tue Mar 25, 2008 9:16 AM EDT
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      Jack Huang

      Hey, I bought Halo 3 the day after release. :-p

      That being said, I just bought SSBB tonight. Being barely a SSB Melee dilettante, I say it's glorious.

      SSBB character spoilers:

      Some of the characters really feel like filler, though. Lucas, anyone? However, some of the new characters are balls-out awesome. My girlfriend's gonna love Pokemon Trainer. I'm looking forward to unlocking Solid Snake, if only because I can't imagine how the heck he's going to fit in with the rest of the cast.

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        #3.3 - Fri Mar 28, 2008 2:18 AM EDT
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        Henry VII

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        Reply#4 - Tue Mar 25, 2008 9:51 AM EDT
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        Russ R.

        I saw that too! Check out the article and flag the crap out of it. Wicked advertisement.

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        #4.1 - Tue Mar 25, 2008 1:36 PM EDT
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