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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
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Beating Ocarina of Time in under 25 minutes and other crazy speed runs

You shouldn't be able to beat The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time in 23 minutes and 29 seconds, but thanks to some truly bizarre glitches, you actually can accomplish this incredible feat. Speed runs are nothing new. Players bored with merely plowing through their favorite titles until they hit a "game over" screen have made their own fun by trying to complete the experience in record time. While the best speed runners rely on fast reflexes and skills (a single mistake can ruin an entire attempt), many also take advantage of glitches to secure the top spot on the leaderboards.
Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir, an augmented-reality 3DS adventure from Tecmo and Nintendo
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Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir is creepy enough while it lasts (review)

Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir is one of those games where the “Genre:” tag should read “Design Experiment.” It feels like the first question the creative team asked was, “How can we try out this new technology?” as opposed to “What is the story we want to tell?” or “What kind of experience do we want to create for the player?”
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Wii U reportedly launching on November 18 in North America

Nintendo's newest console, the Wii U, will launch in North America on Sunday, November 18th according to Wii U Daily. The site claims to have obtained an internal email from Japanese retailer Media Land that reportedly outs the system's November 18th release date, with the Japanese launch to follow a week a later. The email contained no info on a European launch.
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Can we panic now? — Core gaming has a problem

THQ layoffs, Sega cancellations, and Sony studio closures caused last week to be one of the worst in memory for the gaming industry. Compare that to mobile darling OMGPOP which was sold for $210 million based on the strength of one game. It seems like one side of the market is on its way down, while the other side has nothing but growth ahead of it, but that isn't necessarily the case.