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PAX East: Kid Icarus Scavenger Hunt and Upcoming Game Previews
Nintendo is giving fans an opportunity to show off their Kid Icarus: Uprising skills during a multi-player tournament at this year’s Pax East! They have also scheduled a scavenger hunt to find AR cards. And don’t forget all of the playable, yet unreleased games! If you are going, please share with us your favorite parts of the event, and maybe your biggest disappointments. Below is ...
The 3DS gets a redesign: What the next iteration of 3DS needs to get right.
The 3DS just celebrated its first birthday last month, and the numbers don’t lie. Year one, 17.08 million units sold. That’s nothing to sneeze about. Couple that in with the five games that have already reached the million sales mark and it’s plain to see that Nintendo’s fifth generation handheld is a running success. There are plenty of games on the horizon, and I would be...
Wii U: MMORPG’s New Home?
We seem to know so much, and too little about the next evolution of the Nintendo Entertainment System. The rumors are spreading like Mono at a high school prom. Many game developers have expressed their excitement towards the console and seem to tout the potential for the new device. Ubi Soft has stated: “We have big plans for Wii U. Our intention is to be the number one third party on Wii U,...
The Case for an Achievement System on Nintendo Consoles
I admit it. I’m an achievement junkie. Well, to be clear, I’m a trophy junkie, since I own a PS3, but “achievements” is the more common term. It’s fun to see what I have accomplished in the games I’ve played and it’s also fun to see what my friends have pulled off. The problem is that I’m just not as passionate about Playstation games as I am about Nintendo games. This is why I would like to see a...
April Nintendo Power brings Olympian conflict to your coffee table!
Kid Icarus Uprising fans eager to expand their collection of battling AR cards can get a boost from this month’s Nintendo Power. It includes three free cards, and they’re all superstars: Poseidon, Medusa (battle form) and Thanatos. I let the Sea King and Snakelocks duke it out on my table for your enjoyment; after the break you’ll see how it turned out, as well as a rundown of so...
XSEED says that The Last Story will have a limited run in North America
First, the good news: The Last Story is STILL going to be released in North America on June 19 for the Wii. The bad news? The game’s publisher, XSEED, has announced that the game will have a limited run once it launches stateside. In addition, the publisher is unsure about releasing a special edition version that was available in Europe and Japan. XSEED also issued a statement regarding thei...
Cause for concern? Report says Apple is now Japan’s top consumer brand
A report published from the Japanese publication The Nikkei states that Apple, not Nintendo, Sony, or even Microsoft, is officially the top consumer brand in all of Japan. This is the first time that Apple has claimed the top spot in the Land of the Rising Sun with a a score of 90.5 (out of 100) in terms of total brand power. Car manufacture Toyota came in second in a separate survey, yet neither ...
The Alternate Deaths of Three-Headed Hewdraw…and some more Icarus tips
As Eugene’s review stated, Kid Icarus Uprising contains a mind-blowing amount of content. If you’re enjoying KIU – or considering buying it (and you should) – we now present a few tips and tricks you may not have explored yet. MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD. Nothing earth-shattering, but there ya go.
T-shirt of the day: Mount Playmore
Busted Tees recently unveiled a clever Nintendo-themed Mount Rushmore t-shirt for their online catalog that features Mario, Donkey Kong, Samus, and Link immortalized in stone (or in cloth and print to be more exact). The design itself is sure to make many (including myself) ponder, “If there was a Mount Rushmore for video game characters or designers, what four would grace it?” This qu...
T.G.I.F.: Please Enjoy This Video
It looks like today is going to be insanely busy for me at work, so please enjoy this video that claims to show every N64 game! It looks to be complete, but please feel free to call out any missing games! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRKG7du_23w[/youtube]
Infendo Radio: The technical difficulty edition
This week lots of things went wrong. Took me longer than expected to edit the podcast, I still haven’t figured out how best to upload the podcast to you fine folks, I went out to the local brewery one too many times. All this adds up to delays, and delays are bad. I intendo (see what I did there?) to make it up to you. Chris and I have vowed to record another podcast this week, and I hope to...
Xenoblade Chronicles: U.S. Launch Date 04/06/2012
Fans of the Xenoblade Chronicles, and those eager to play, should be happy to hear that on April 6th, it will be launched in the United States on the Wii. Nintendo recently uploaded some of the Character art on their US Press site. For some, the pics might be old news (the game was released in Japan June of 2012), but for those who have not seen the pics, I urge you to check them out. Below are ...