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Nintendo no longer "family-friendly"

Most consumers consider the Wii the most wholesome of the three home consoles thanks to its large library of kid-friendly titles and Nintendo's squeaky clean reputation. But with the release of Sega's blood-splattered Wii game MadWorld, that perception could undergo a serious shift.

In a press release, the National Institute on Media and the Family takes Nintendo to task for green-lighting the gruesome action game, which lets players dismember enemies in a variety of creative ways as they fight their way through a violent game show.

"The release of MadWorld for the Wii brings violent video games to a once family-friendly platform," says NIMF president Dr. David Walsh. "MadWorld is another reminder that parents need to make sure they watch what their kids watch and play what their kids play."

Watch MadWorld Video

Releasing Tuesday, the M-rated game has already endured its share of controversy. Back in August of last year, media watchdogs in the U.K. urged the British Board of Film Classification to refuse giving MadWorld a rating, effectively banning it from sale. Fans were outraged, though the game eventually received an 18 rating. MadWorld won't be offered at all in Germany, where violent video games typically are frowned upon.

In their defense, a Nintendo spokesman told the DailyMail that the game "will be suitably age rated through the appropriate legal channels and thus only available to an audience above the age rating it is given."

It's hardly the first time Nintendo has been in hot water for giving the okay to a violent game. In 2007, the Wii version of controversial "murder simulator" Manhunt 2 met with a massive backlash and was initially rated 'AO' by the ESRB -- essentially amounting to a ban. Publisher Rockstar Games responded by editing the content, and the title eventually shipped with the more common 'M' rating.

To NIMF, however, the release of MadWorld could leave an indelible mark on Nintendo's family-friendly rep.

"In the past, the Wii has successfully sold itself as being the gaming console for the entire family and a way to bring family-game nights back into people's living rooms. Unfortunately, Nintendo opened its doors to the violent video game genre. The National Institute on Media and the Family hopes that Nintendo does not lose sight of its initial audience and continues to offer quality, family-friendly games." So Sega might screw Nintendo?

Well one last word SEGA SUCKS!

SAW V ( 5 )DVD review

im scared now lol
well this is not the best SAW so far but its good not alot of blood and gore in this one
but still scary and sick lol but it was good but im hopeing SAW VI ( 6 ) and the video game will be good
this tells more of JigSaw and stuff ( i aint saying what if you did not see it yet ) lol
but i got to give it a *** 3 stars its worth watching but if your a DIE hard fan of SAW you got to see it im a fan but NOT DIE HARD lol

NEXT UP IS... WHAT EVER I SEE NEXT!!!

Marly&Me Movie Reviwe

ok well this is a sad movie but im not saying why go watch it yourself lol
any way if your a dog lover or own a dog you may not want to see this some may know why
( if they seen this movie ) but still if your a dog lover/ dog owner
go see this movie its funny sad and for the ladys lol
so any way go see this movie if you got the guts and any other body part to watch this movie lol

i give this movie a ***** 5 stars ( most of my reviews have 5 stars lol )

NEXT UP IS... WHAT EVER I SEE NEXT!!!!

Bed Time Stoires Rview

Ok i just seen Bed Time Stories today and it was funny i thot it was gonna suck like most Disney movies today like
" high school musical 1 2 3 " lol any way this movie was funnyer than i was thot adam sandler was peretty damn funny at some parts and theres a guina pig named Bugsy lol he mostly made the movie funny but like yea its good for a famliy movie
so ill give it **** 4 stars

NEXT UP IS " MARLY&ME "

GAME OVER FOR THE PSP

Whatever happened to the PSP? The device that Sony once touted as "the Walkman for the 21st century" is fast disappearing from popular consciousness, and if you believe the rumors circulating just three-and-a-half years after its launch, it's up for a major rethink in 2009.

Over the crucial month of November, the Nintendo DS shifted a jaw-dropping 1.5 million units in the US alone (up 20% from last year) while the PSP languished, managing just 421,000 sales -- actually down 27%, in what was in general a tremendously strong month for video games.

Even the software support is eroding. Despite the PSP's healthy install base of around 13 million consumers, only six 2008 PSP releases scored better than 80% on review aggregating site gamerankings.com, compared with 16 on the DS. There's a good reason for that: nobody's making PSP games, because outside of one or two hits like this year's Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core, nobody's buying them. That's only going to worsen when the superheavyweight Grand Theft Auto series (previously exclusive to the PSP on handhelds) releases its first DS title early next year.

In a lot of ways, it's a shame. The PSP is a far more capable hardware platform than the DS. It's a phone, a portable music player, a pocket-sized movie device, a mobile web browser, and when paired with a Playstation 3, a remarkably capable remote control for the system, capable of streaming music and movies from a PS3 over the Internet to wherever you happen to be.

Time to put this gaming warhorse out to pasture?

Next to it, the DS looks like a product of another age. It's barely capable of 3D, let alone delivering a suite of mobile applications of the PSP's caliber. Not, in fact, unlike the contrast between the Playstation 3 (modern, immensely powerful, and pricey) and the Wii (underpowered, basic, and cheap.) Oh, and phenomenally successful. The parallels you can draw between Sony and Nintendo's offerings go deep.

But then, set the PSP next to the iPhone or iPod Touch, the year's other big winner in portable gaming, and the PSP's hardware design suddenly looks old hat. Where's the touchscreen? What are all these buttons for? What on earth is the point of this useless analog nub of a joystick? And why, in an age when flash memory is so cheap it practically comes in Cheerios boxes, are we still stuck with a huge, bulky, slow, and noisy optical drive? If you're going to compete by offering a powerful hardware platform, you actually need to outperform the competition. As the iPhone steps into the portable gaming ring, it's already got the PSP on the ropes.

Guess what, Sony: Apple already made the Walkman of the 21st century, and you missed the boat.

By Mark Dukes

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button review

today i seen

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

it was amazeing i LOVED it you must see this movie its about a baby born as an 80 year old and grows
as a kid looking like he is 80 years old to a man in his 40s to a teenager at 17 to a kid at 8 to a toddler at 4 and back to a baby
it was sad :( funny =D and every thing you can think of brad pitt is so funny seeing him as an old man and than to a kid

this move is the best movie iv ever seen much better than " Big Fish " or " The Note Book " ( yes i seen the note book ) lol
its the best christmas movie ever
i give this movie a ***** 5 STARS best drama ever

hope you had a good christmas and have a very happy new year!
By Mark Dukes

NEXT UP IS.... WHAT EVER I SEE NEXT!

YES MAN review

Yes is the new No lol
this is funny as hell but not the best of comedys ever its not an epic fail its good
you will saying YES and NO after the movie but this is not the best work iv seen from JimCary
like " Bruce Almigty " was very funny " Evan Almigty " not so funny
but damn you got to see this i liked it alot so i give YES MAN
***** 5 STARS

NEXT UP IS.... WHAT EVER I SEE NEXT!

merry x mas every one and a happy new year from mark dukes

THE BEST CHRISTMAS LIST EVER! lol

i want MOTHER for the NES game ( its a game from japan and we got MOTHER 2 known as EarthBound in the U.S. )
the STAR WARS saga on DVD and the new STAR WARS THE CLONE WARS DVD
a PS3
a Camera
the STAR TREK movies on DVD
some PS3 games
a Nintendo DSi ( if it can play games in the U.S. )
GuitarHero World Tour for xbox360
and a PIG so i can name him Babe lol just kidding but it wood be sweet to have a pet pig lol
and yea thats about it

HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM MARK DUKES!
AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

TROPIC THUNDER DVD reviwe

oh my god...
this...
was...
so...
damn...
FUNNY!!!
" im a dude playin a dude discised as another dude! " lol
it was to funny you gota watch the credits to see whos in it
but it was funny all the way this was a f*cking crack up
u gota BUY it! best funny movie i have ever seen in my whole 13 going on 14 years of life lol

i give it ***** 5 fucking stars lol

UP NEXT IS... WHAT EVER I SEE NEXT!!! lol

HELL BOY II THE GOLDEN ARMY DVD reviwe

yea i just rented it
and it was good and like always it was action packed lol
the story was good but not the best
lots and lots of action lol
hell boy was pretty bad ass
and there is a german guy in the movie and he is cool
he is like a ghost in a space suit or something lol
( i dont even like germans cuzz they killed us gypsys in world was I and II )
but he was cool
i never read a HellBoy comic book before so i cant say if it fallowed the comics
well but i did enjoy this one
i give it **** 4 stars

NEXT UP IS... WHAT EVER I SEE NEXT!