Today marks the beginning of a new feature here on Rekuru - The Weekly Bento. Much like a bento box is packed full of bite-sized portions of varying foods, this new feature takes this past week’s happenings here on Rekuru and provides them to you in easily accessible, catagorized portions. Think of it as a week in review only with a Rekuru twist. Here’s what happened last week: More »

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Welcome to Plusle and Minun Reviews. You may be asking yourself why I chose these two as the face of my reviews, allow me to elaborate. Plusle (left) and Minun (right) hail from the world Pokemon and bear a striking resemblance to the license’s well known face: Pikachu. The obvious difference of course is that one has a positive appearance and the other a negative one.

By now, you’re probably scratching your head wondering, while that’s all nice and good, what does that have to do with a review? Simple. As opposed to most reviews you will find on video games, Plusle and Minun reviews are short but sweet, positives and negatives of a specific game with an overall letter grade. Rather than read pages of text, most people just want to know is it a good game? What’s good about it? And what’s not so good? Plusle and Minun Reviews is just that - a quick and easy list of the good as well as the bad. Additionally, there will always be a trailer at the end for all of you to check out because I know how much you all love trailers. With all that said and done, enjoy.

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From Wirebot:

We are coming close to 2010, which is promising to be a “Golden” year for gaming, with new technologies (example. Microsoft Natal) and innovations making their way to release. I’ve always considered myself a bit of pessimist, so forgive me if I sit over here on the other side of my computer fake sneezing and screaming “bull$h17!” at the top of my lungs. More »

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This week Nintendo releases the next chapter in The Legend of Zelda series (Spirit Tracks). On his neverending quest to save the princess, Link has made use of many forms of transportation including but not limited to: a horse, a magical talking boat, a flying chicken, a hookshot, a magical mask and now with the newest release, a cute little train. None of the above can hang with these vehicles. More »

From Ningin: Aha, so that was why Square Enix (known for Final Fantasy) was busy promoting Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 on launch day in Japan! Square Enix teamed up with Infinity Ward to localize the most famous FPS game on the planet. FYI, first person shooters are a scarce in Japan. More »

This console generation, home to high definition gaming and wii-mote waggling, genres like shooters have seen an explosion of interest with games like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Gears of War, Resistance: Fall of Man, Killzone 2, Halo 3, and much more. While that’s all well and good for shooter fans, there are some gamers that have been all but left in the cold. Let’s face it, not everyone enjoys shooting things in the face. What about RPG (that’s role playing games for the uninitiated) enthusiasts? This generation, there has been very little in the way of RPG’s and while the future release of Final Fantasy XIII may help change that much like its predecessor VII did for the Playstation, it still doesn’t change the fact that there is a major RPG drought at the moment. What’s a gamer to do? Enter the Nintendo DS. More »

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From Ningin: You must be kidding me. There will be another video game-to-film adaptation! You’d think that Hollywood would have learned, right? WRONG. Think again. Of all the movies out there that are horrible, video game film adaptations are the martyr for all horrible films that exist. Just recently, I discovered that King of Fighters, which is one of the longest running fighting game series out there, is becoming a film. More »

Unfortunately, not all ninja games for the Nintendo DS are as good as monday’s Ninjatown. Like Tenchu: Dark Secret for example. Take everything you like about Tenchu. Got all that? Good. Now throw it all out the window. What’s left you ask? Tenchu: Dark Secret, perhaps one of the worst titles in the franchise’s history. More »

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From Wirebot:

Welcome back to another exciting installment of Games You’ve Probably Never Heard Of. This week (in honor of the release of Ninja Assassin) we take a look at some horrible ninja, assassin, and samurai games, from the world of Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo. More »

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Although Alexa already mentioned this new piece of hardware, I again wanted to draw attention to something that is both a blessing and a curse to the world of gaming. 1up.com has posted a gallery of them comparing the new Nintendo DSi XL to other portable devices. More »