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eShop cards on sale at Target
From now until August 9th, all American Target stores will be offering an excellent sale on eShop cards. The deal is simple, buy one eShop card and you get the second card for 25% off. The values of these cards can be mixed and matched, but the 25% will come off the lowest priced card. Anyone interested in purchasing anything off the eShop may want to head down to Target right away, and save yours...
Review: SteamWorld worth digging into your wallet
Retro-inspired platformers have taken the eshop by storm the past couple of years. Games like Mutant Mudds, Gunman Clive and the critically acclaimed Shovel Knight have all sold well and received glowing reviews. Another game inspired by the 8-bit and 16-bit era of gaming is Image & Form’s SteamWorld Dig, a highly addictive mining adventure. Regularly priced just under $9, the game is cu...
Bravely Default’s success could help return Final Fantasy to it’s roots
With over 1 million copies sold worldwide, over 600,000 outside of Japan, Bravely Default’s success may have slapped some sense into the people at Square Enix. The company well known for some of the greatest RPGs of the SNES era, had seemingly lost the plot as of late, particularly with the extremely popular Final Fantasy series. Having veered away from the traditional Japanese RPG model, re...
Review: Biogenik battery – Less of a savior, more of a backup plan
Every battery has a life cycle. Even rechargeable batteries start to lose their charge over time, and, while they will continue to function, their power will diminish. While most products can be recharged approximately 500 times before they begin to diminish, others will begin so slowly charge less and less, coming to a complete end at 500 charges. One of the major complaints revolving arou...
How to get The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD for free!
If you’re a Wii U owner and a fan of free stuff, you’ll be ecstatic to hear that Nintendo is giving away a download of one of four Wii U games– absolutely free! The offer is part of a promotion where you can redeem the Club Nintendo code off of your copy of Mario Kart 8 online at clubnintendo.com. Once you register, you’ll be allowed to download any one...
Alternate Timeline: the Nintendo and Sony partnership
What if Nintendo and Sony had a successful partnership instead of the tale of broken agreements and the creation of Nintendo’s most successful competitor that most of us are aware of? For those who are not let’s take a journey back to 1988. A Sony engineer named Ken Kutaragi wanted to strengthen the partnership with Nintendo after Sony agreed to create a custom sound chip for the SNES ...
Weekend Discussion: 90’s Nintendo
I know that I have not posted here in a while. However, I saw this advertisement today and thought it would be a great discussion topic. Branding is an important aspect of any company. When we see golden Arches, we can almost taste the fries that are fried within the establishment without stepping inside. Nintendo’s logo once had that same appeal to a majority of the gamers out there. Su...
Mega Man 3DS eShop Release Dates Announced
Capcom will release a Game Boy Mega Man title every Thursday this month on 3DS eShop. It’s a “Mega May”, if you will. The first title released was Mega Man Extreme for $4.99. Here are the release dates for the remaining games: May 8: Mega Man 2 & Mega Man 3 May 15: Mega Man 4 May 22: Mega Man 5 May 29: Mega Man Xtreme 2 Do you see your favorite on this list? Wh...
Peach Pink 2DS Available at GameStop
GameStop started selling a new 2DS color in the U.S yesterday. This “Peach Pink” version retains the $129.99 price of the 2DS and comes with a bonus too. The handheld comes bundled with a Disney Magical World-themed carrying case. Disney’s Magical World released beside the Peach Pink 2DS and sports a $29.99 price tag. If you are a 2DS holdout and dig the color, now might be th...
Kickstarter Alert: ‘NES” by Richie Palys
I am a sucker for video game music, even those of the early beginnings that seem more like beeps and boops compared to today’ symphonies. In my younger years, I could imagine the Mario Bros. or Zelda musical scores as so much more than they were. So much so, that I actually heard them different in my head that they were actually playing out through my television speakers. I was alw...
Nintendo of Europe announces Mario Kart 8 bundle
Nintendo of Europe announced a limited edition Mario Kart 8 software bundle for release this spring. The bundle includes a spiky blue shell collectible and a copy of Mario Kart 8. Europeans can buy the set when the game releases on May 30. No word yet on a U.S release, but don’t be too surprised when Nintendo spills the beans. Source: Nintendo via Joystiq
Which genre could Nintendo use for their next IP?
Nintendo is ubiquitous with platformers (there’s no getting around it) and they have most of the other genres covered, such as the RTS (Pikmen) and RPG (Mario & Luigi series). But there are a few genres which are under represented by Nintendo such as an old school point and click adventure or a top-down hack and slash in the vein of Diablo in which item management could be made a lot sim...