According to Gamefly, care of Shack News:

1. Super Mario Galaxy 2
2. Donkey Kong Country Returns
3. Disney Epic Mickey
4. Metroid: Other M
5. Red Steel 2
6. Monster Hunter Tri
7. Kirby’s Epic Yarn
8. GoldenEye 007
9. Wipeout
10. Just Dance 2

Most popular DS rentals were as follows: (more…)

This is a compilation video of all the well known, or known shortcuts and tricks that are possible in Super Mario Galaxy 2. Surprisingly, I learned a trick or two from watching it. It’s a great video and I didn’t even think to do some of the stuff that is in this video.

Pretty cool right?

It’s nearly official: Super Mario Galaxy 2 will be the Terminator 2: Judgement Day of Super Mario Galaxy titles.

What does that mean? Easy. I mean the sequel is looking to go down in history as better than the original.

That’s the case in Japan, anyway, where the plucky plumber and his newly discovered and easily spooked dinosaur friend Yoshi have stormed the charts, to the tune of 340,000 copies in its first three days on sale. That’s better than the original, which only managed 250,585 in its first week on the market, reports Edge Online.

Oh, and Nintendo titles once again dominated the Japanese top 10. The sky is also blue.

Update: Fabio raises an excellent point in the comment section:

There is a key difference that I read (on another gaming site) that is the Wii user base in Japan today is over 18 million, while at the original Galaxy release it was less than 3 million. So I really don’t think it has been that successful, at least proportionally.

Thanks, Fabio, for pointing out this important caveat!

I’m not sure if you guys know this, but I am the underground-know-it-all of the site. I have to be well versed in all types of hacking, modding, homebrew, emulators, programs and everything of the sort. While many of you must be saying “Will, you are coming out and saying your a dirty pirate!?” I am doing nothing of the sort, and I am only saying this to justify my findings.

Since I have my Wii Modded for homebrew, I use that access to an ISO loader. That rips and stores games, as well as accesses information on the disc that is not normally seen by the likes of normal consumers. Such as the true game identification names and the specific serial codes.

However, all this information about ISO loaders and being a underground-know-it-all wouldn’t be worth posting unless it was to share this one piece of information… (more…)

So the game has been out approximately 5 Days now, and have received universal praise from various gaming websites. Some even claim it to be better than “the best game ever made“. However, none of that really matters, it’s what you, the readers think.

So let’s have an open discussion in the comments below. Tell us your thoughts on the game, and lets discuss its strong points and it’s flaws. Let’sa Go!