A little freebie for Boxing Day.

To commemorate the release of Sengoku Musou 3 AKA Samurai Warriors 3 on Nintendo Wii, Nintendo, particularly excited with the prospect of landing a Koei blockbuster exclusive, are packaged with a special mode based off a classic Japan-only Nintendo title called Mura Samejou and a special controller bundle (embedded below for your viewing pleasure).

But of course, fans will have to dig deeper in their pocket to get the special bundle, and even deeper if they want get the Treasure Box limited edition which includes the controller, a mini figure, a strategy and art book, and an original soundtrack CD.

The aforementioned art book commissioned artist such as Ayami Kojima (小島 文美, famed for her work on the classic Castlevania: Symphony of the Night) to provide their rendition of the Sengoku Musou characters.

Well, since it's Boxing Day and all, courtesy of Koei, of course, The Daily Zombies have managed to scavenged the complete high resolution scans of for you, and available for further download, right here.

A few of the selected pages embedded below.

Despite report coming in with regard to Playstation 3's improving sales both in and outside Japan, Nintendo 's Wii is still holding its very sizable share of the gaming pie over its more powerful and pricier competitor. Notwithstanding the fact that Nintendo's mascot himself, Mario is back with New Super Mario Bros, and Wii's very own MotionPlus games making their rounds at the game sales charts, with, of course Wii Sports Resort, holding the fort.

We take a brief look at the functionality of the Wii MotionPlus and the list of games supporting the function.

In Nintendo's continuing efforts to illuminate Wii's more reputed functions, being the unique gaming controls, the Wii MotionPlus was released in June this year, serving as an expansion device for the Wii Remote video game controller for the Wii in order to more accurately capture complex motion. Nintendo's official statement indicates that the sensor in the device supplements the accelerometer and Sensor Bar capabilities of the Wii Remote to enable actions to be rendered identically on the screen in real time.

Featuring a pass-through External Extension Connector, the Wii MotionPlus allows other expansions such as the Nunchuk or Classic Controller to be used simultaneously with the device. A color-coded mechanical slide switch for locking the clip release is available, and when attached to the Wii Remote, the unit extends the length of the controller body slightly by approximately 1+1⁄2 in (4 cm). Therefore, each Wii MotionPlus comes with a longer version of the Wii Remote Jacket to accommodate the added length.

While the device can only be utilized by games that have been specifically developed to use its functionality, the Wii MotionPlus can be left attached to the Wii Remote when playing games that do not support the function. However, when using accessories such as the Wii Wheel or Wii Zapper on Wii, the device must be detached.

The sales for Wii MotionPlus has been tremendous, parts in due to it being bundled with Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 and Wii Sports Resort, in North America and Japan, respectively despite negative reports surfacing on the function being too sensitive.

For fans of games that are, for lack of better word, "hands-on", the Wii MotionPlus is indeed an enhancement over an already capable product.

A list of games that had been specifically developed with the new function in mind are below. And after the break, we have embedded a video on how to run Wii Sports Resort on Neogamma on Wii.

Let's face it: You'll really thought that Starkiller, Darth Vader's secret apprentice and the protagonist in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, the franchise's fastest-selling Star Wars video game ever, had indeed went to the Jedi Heavens and turned "one with the Force" (to quote the great Yoda I am)?

Tough luck.

One of 2008's best-selling game across more platforms than you would have thought, from the conventional 3rd-gen consoles like PlayStation 3, Wii, and Xbox 360 to iPhone OS, to second-generation N-Gage, Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 2, and even Java-equipped mobile phones. That's George Lucas milking the cash cows in all angles, and that's just the gaming portion of it. The Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Project were developed by LucasArts alongside partners, Dark Horse Comics, Lego, Hasbro, and Del Rey Books, and therefore consisted more than just a video game, with a tie-in novel, action figures, a comic book, a reference book, a role-playing game supplement, and a book on the making of the game released simultaneously.

In an effort to garner more attention to the unknown protagonist, the aforementioned Starkiller, the Apprentice to The Dark Lord was also licensed to Namco Bandai to be a playable character in both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of Soulcalibur IV.

In the fairly predictable ending, Starkiller met his maker, one way or the other, given that he does have his choices on how to go out Jedi Force ablazing. Despite the dual choices, there can be only one canon ending, in order not to mess up the entire Star Wars continuity. You'll be amazed at how the dead cash cow can still be managed to squeeze further, when LucasArts re-released the game complete with all previous downloadable content in Ultimate Sith Edition of The Force Unleashed, just last month. These downloadable contents included an interesting take on an alternate Star Wars reality should the canon ending is the other path (darker, of course) that the Apprentice had taken.

Surely, that must be the end of the road for this niche franchise, then? Not quite. LucasArt had indeed attained a Jedi Master-like level when it comes to squeezing cash cows. While the details are still unsure, Starkiller, will be back from the dead in this direct sequel to the 2008 hit, in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II scheduled for release in 2010 (along with the "accompanying" tie-in novel, action figures, a comic book, a reference book, a role-playing game supplement, and a book on the making of the game, I reckon), as announced exclusively at the 2009 Spike Video Game Awards, with a trailer (embedded below for your viewing pleasure).



Relatively mediocre the original game may be, it was indeed filled with unfurnished potential, one aspect that a sequel could accomplish, provided the developers look into them more diligently (unlike the earlier mentioned re-released version which all but ignored the glaring problems).

Let's keep our fingers crossed on this one.

Check out the official site for a better resolution of the trailer.