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Pokemon X and Y Magazine Scans Reveal New Info

John Llewellyn Martin — Sat, 11 May 2013 18:35:19 +0000

A new scan from an upcoming issue CoroCoro magazine has been released, courtesy of Serebii.net, and shows us some of the new creatures and features in Pokemon X and Y. Thanks to some translations from Serebii.net’s friend, Gin, we know the game is set in a region called Karos, which is loosely based on France. This might have [...]

Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon Leads This Week's Nintendo Downloads

John Llewellyn Martin — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:07:37 +0000

We’re sure you haven’t exhausted the oodles of fun you got from last week’s downloads, but there are some heavy hitters this week that cannot be ignored. And honestly, who can ignore a huge sequel like Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon that’s presented in a smaller package? We’ve also got Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity, [...]

Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage 2 Leads This Week's Nintendo Downloads

John Llewellyn Martin — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 17:39:08 +0000

Prepare your memory blocks for an assault from this week’s Nintendo Download highlights! You paid for all of that memory, so you might as well use it, right? This week’s download features furious fighters, deep dungeons, cranial concentration, and small-screen soccer. It also seems like the current download offerings are continuing the trend of being [...]

The Cave and NES Classics Lead This Week's Nintendo Download

John Llewellyn Martin — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:41:00 +0000

Hey, it’s the Famicom’s 30th Anniversary! Don’t know what the Famicom is? Well, it was more commonly known in North America as the Nintendo Entertainment System. To celebrate, Nintendo’s offering $0.30 downloads daily for a different featured NES game on the Virtual Console. These games will be offered each month until their anniversary on July [...]

New Yoshi Wii U Game Coming From Epic Yarn Team

Luke Brown — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 04:30:00 +0000

It’s been a while since Yoshi’s starred in his own game, but that’s about to change thanks to the Kirby’s Epic Yarn development team. Though little about the game was actually discussed, there was a bit of gameplay from Yoshi Wii U shown off. The character hasn’t had his own game since 1998′s Yoshi’s Story, [...]

Mario 3D and Mario Kart Wii U Games Are Coming

John Llewellyn Martin — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:54:39 +0000

In today’s Nintendo Direct, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata announced two new Mario titles coming to the Wii U. He didn’t say what they were called or give any concrete details about them, but he said that the Wii U Mario game will be in 3D, so expect to see Mario’s block-breaking fist coming towards your [...]

Purchase a Pre-Owned Wii U, Get Free Games?

John Llewellyn Martin — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:59:09 +0000

It seems that buying a Wii U secondhand can net you downloads of digital titles that were previously purchased on the machine. There’s no official word on whether or not this is applicable to all pre-owned Wii U consoles, but a thread on NeoGAF popped up, with gamers claiming that they could download games that [...]

Code of Princess, Gunman Clive, and More Goodies in This Week's Nintendo Download

John Llewellyn Martin — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:56:30 +0000

This week’s Nintendo Download packs a princess, unchains some blades, and heads back to the wild west, along with offering a slew of other content for your handheld Nintendo consoles. The biggest titles for this week are Unchained Blades, Code of Princess, and Gunman Clive. Unchained Blades is a first-person dungeon crawler with turn-based combat, [...]

'Breaking Bad' As An Old School Nintendo Game

slick — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:38:49 +0000

Breaking Bad is an immensely popular show on AMC. Full disclosure, I've actually never seen it. I have heard it's "must see" and stuff so I will have to get caught up eventually. They are into their fourth season and this hypothetical game, that I would have loved to play back in the day, takes you through the journey via playable characters. 8-bit NES style.

Super Mario Brothers Get the Indie Film Treatment in 'Mario' [VIDEO]

brad.bruner — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 17:00:30 +0000

A live-action re-imagination of Nintendo 8-bit hero Super Mario as an angsty, mushroom-eating, down-on-his-luck plumber was a big hit this week at the South by Southwest film festival in Austin, Texas.

"Mario" is a trailer-length short which filmmaker Joe Nicolosi doesn't intend to turn into a feature film. You can check out all two minutes of the project below.