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News: Take Five and Double It!
The observant among you may have noticed that the scoring system has changed at VC Reviews from a five star system to a far more expressive scale of ten. We have debated making this change for some time as so many classics ended up getting rated with five stars (rightly of course!). Now you’ll notice a lot more 9/10 scores and only a handful of 10/10 scores.
You might assume that we have just..
News: Virtual Console Reviews is Two Today!
Time sure does fly when you’re having fun. Two years ago today Virtual Console Reviews was brought kicking and screaming into the world. That’s 731 days (or 17,544 hours) of Virtual Console-related news, reviews and features – quite a feat, we’re sure you’ll agree.
Since last year’s birthday celebrations quite a lot has happened to the site. The name-change is the most obvious thing -..
News: Retro Gamer Magazine Interview VC Reviews
Recently we did an interview with Retro Gamer magazine about the success of VC Reviews and our thoughts on the Virtual Console service so far.
If you are interested to read it why not pick up the magazine (issue #53) and take a look for yourself? It is available today in all good newsagents such as WHSmiths in the UK.For our many international readers, we would hate for you to feel left out so our..
News: Introducing WiiWare World
The smell of change is in the air. On Monday 12th May the WiiWare service is launching in the USA. Will the world ever be the same again?
To coincide with this momentous occasion it is with great pleasure that we can announce we will be launching a new site specifically dedicated to WiiWare (or Wii Software to Euro gamers!).Behold the future, behold WiiWare World!Whilst the site isn’t ready for..
News: Revamped Site is Now Live!
No, your eyes are not deceiving you. Your favourite Virtual Console resource has undergone something of a facelift. At first glance the cosmetic changes may seem a bit on the minor side, but it would be an understatement to say that behind the scenes the site has been revolutionized.
You’ll notice there’s now a rather swish new login system (it’s up in the top right hand corner, see?) which..
News: The Virtual Console Archive is One Today!
Crack out the cocktail sausages and don your party hats, because today the Virtual Console Archive celebrates its first birthday along with the North American release of the Nintendo Wii.
When we started this site over twelve months ago we saw it as a side project that would keep us busy once we'd ran out of things to do over at The Mean Machines Archive. Little did we know that the VCA would go on..
News: The Virtual Console Archive on German TV!
It seems we are famous at last - we've made it onto TV!
Well, in Germany, at least.Yes, the country that just can't seem to get enough of The Hoff also loves the VCA. We were featured on a recent episode of GiGa's 'WiiMotion' show, which, if you couldn't have guessed from the title, is devoted to Nintendo's shiny new console.Although they only covered the Wii browser version of the site (which..
News: GamesTM interview the VCA (Issue 54)
The Virtual Console Archive get their 15 minutes of fame this month as our favourite UK multi-format videogame magazine GamesTM publish a recent interview we did with them!
Issue 54 of GamesTM will hit the shelves of all good newsagents in the UK on the 22nd of February. We get a 2 page spread in the retro section (pages 150/151)We say our piece about the PAL 50Hz issue, comment on our favourite VC..
