I was looking for some wall-fillers the other day and ran across this gem. It’s a fold-out poster from an old Nintendo Power magazine.

Sure, we all know what those orbs are for but I love how they are represented in this poster. The entire Ninja Gaiden franchise had such a deep and epic storyline and yet, here we see Ryu cutting up oranges with the Dark Sword of Chaos.

You also can’t help but notice that Ryu’s bicep looks like a very nasty tumor.

Capcom is giving the classic side-scroller a HD remake with new features such as bigger boss fights, a revamped arsenal and two player swinging coop. It’ll be coming soon to Xbox Live Arcade and the Playstation Network sometime this spring. Check out the trailer!

The president has been kidnapped by ninjas and here is the plan to get him back. The government sends out their top agent to go hire random people off the streets for this mission. You won’t need any real military training or a rocket launcher, you just need to be bad enough. Warning: this article has Badittude! » read more

Hammered Bros’ very first pick on “The Badasses of Gaming” is Rodney from the Skate or Die series. This guy trained the skateboard legends of today but nobody knows about his past - the past he had working in a little skate shop that was responsible for sending countless kids to the hospital with his “advice.” » read more

Sometimes we don’t get right to playing a game due to its uninviting box art cover. As mentioned in the first part of this article and how it was difficult to make good choices on our Nintendo game purchases due to the lack of review resources like the internet or a wide variety of game magazines. We relied on one thing - our eyes. » read more

You are going to buy a Nintendo game today so it’s either your birthday or it’s close to Christmas. There was plenty of time in between these two great events to decide what game you wanted to buy. Unfortunately you had no resources; there was no internet to read reviews and you couldn’t trust Nintendo Power’s “reviews” either. All you can do is drag your parents to the mall and pray that they had something “bitchin” behind the counter.
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