Yu-Gi-Oh Applies for Guinness World Record with 15.8
Billion Cards Sold
With "Yu-Gi-Oh" card sales exceeding 15,880,000,000 cards
sold, Konami has contacted Guinness and applied for a card
game sales world record.
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Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Ultimate Beginner’s Pack Released
Start your Yu-Gi-Oh! career off right
Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. has announced that Yu-Gi-Oh!
GX Ultimate Beginner’s Pack for the Game Boy Advance is now
available exclusively at the Konami online store,
www.konamistyle.com.
A comprehensive package including the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Duel
Academy video game, an in-depth tutorial DVD, and a starter
deck of trading cards.
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Four Talented Duelists Advance to the Yu-Gi-Oh! World
Championship 2006 Tournament in Tokyo, Japan
Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. today announced the
winners of the Yu-Gi-Oh! U.S. Finals Video Game Tournament.
Sixteen of the nation’s best Yu-Gi-Oh! duelists went head to
head in the competition. The top four winners from the
tournament won valuable prizes as well as a trip to Japan to
compete against the best duelists in the world at the Yu-Gi-Oh!
World Championship 2006 Tournament in Tokyo.
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2 deny fatal blows in Xbox slayings
Two men charged with murdering six people in a revenge
slaying over an Xbox video game system testified Thursday
that they hit some of the victims with baseball bats, but
denied inflicting the fatal blows.
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Dreamblade
New game brings your nightmares to life
Any creature that can appear in your dreams … or your
nightmares could make an appearance in Dreamblade.
Dreamblade is the new strategic miniatures game from Wizards
of the Coast. It will soon be on the store shelves and be
making a big splash next month when GenCon, a gamers
convention, opens in Indianapolis.
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Pikachu DS Lite Set for Japan
Getting one of these is going to be tough.
If a pink colored DS Lite caused lines of over 400 to form
outside of Japan's largest videogame retailers on a rainy
Thursday morning, just imagine the kind of commotion a
Pokemon themed DS Lite will cause. Sadly, we're not going to
find out, at least not in the near future.
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Hulk Hogan hosting Pokemon 10th Aniversary party
Not only did we just get word that the Pokémon franchise
would be holding its 10th anniversary party at Bryant Park
in New York City on Aug. 8, but a lovely PR gal was kind
enough to tell us that the Hulkster, Hulk Hogan, would be
hosting the festivities. ARE YOU READY FOR THAT BROTHER!?
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New Media: Pokemon Mystery Dungeon
Nintendo released a few new screenshots today of forthcoming
Pokemon RPGs from Chunsoft. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon will be
a multi-release title, much like every other portable
Pokemon game, with the Blue Rescue Team version appearing on
the DS, while the Red Rescue Team hits the GBA.
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Nintendo repairs DS Lite casing cracks for free
Admits rare problem with hinge casing on new handheld
console
Nintendo of America has issued a press release acknowledging
that a small number of DS Lite consoles are showing cracks
in their plastic casing on the left hand side of the hinge
on the console, just above the power connector.
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