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Kingdom Hearts 3D confirmed for U.S. release, keeping awful title
Dream Drop Distance? Really? The next spinoff for the Kingdom Hearts series will be arriving on our shores for 3DS in 2012. Although this isn’t as surprising as the localization of Xenoblade, it’s good news for less jaded Kingdom Hearts fans who aren’t sick of non-numbered titles in the series. Kindgom Hearts 3D will be ...
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Killing Mario for coins in Super Mario 3D Land
I have a problem, an addiction really, and I hear admitting it is the first step to recovery. It wasn’t always a problem; back before Yoshi’s Island I was a hale and healthy chap without this crippling hunger. The real damage was when Mario 64 came around and gave me my first star. It was ...
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3DS beats DS’ first-year sales in eight months
As far as hardware releases go, Nintendo’s 3DS got off to one of the more rocky starts in recent memory. An early reveal and a rushed release left consumers with an underwhelming list of launch titles earlier this year, not to mention a hefty asking price and health concerns from its 3D component. In spite ...
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Nearly A Third of Players Think the Nintendo 3DS is Better Without the 3D
You would think that most 3DS owners would play the handheld largely for, you know, the 3D part. After all, it’s the first gaming device to sell itself on 3D – without glasses, no less – and despite the criticisms hurled against its rushed release and lack of launch titles, it’s an impressive technical feat. ...
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Rumor: New SSB Titled Super Smash Bros. U-niverse
Fresh off the pages of 4chan (so take this with a grain of salt), a supposed Nintendo document has been leaked revealing the name and logo of the newest entry in the much beloved Smash Bros series. Incorporating the Wii-U’s already silly name to make something that sounds even worse, the game is set to be called Super ...
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A look into the Nintendo Ambassador Program: Or how the game Yoshi is the greatest threat to democracy.
When a company is in the video game market, it needs to be on top of the community, understand its user-base, and interface with them to sell product and keep them coming back for more. The company as an entity needs to be just as big a fan as its patrons, in the trenches of ...
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Two Monster Hunters on the 3DS
Gaming sites are fun to read again as news from TGS11 is making it’s way to the internet. Naturally it looks like we’ve got news on one of the biggest (if not the biggest) video game franchises in Japan, Monster Hunter. Nintendo has announced both Monster Hunter Tri 3G(data plan not included) and Monster Hunter ...
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Nintendo 3DS Takes the Art World by Storm
Thanks to Nintendo, photographers will no longer feel pressured to bring their art to life. From September 1 to September 17, 2011 the Magnum Gallery in Paris will be exhibiting the works of eighty photographers, including such notables as Martin Parr, Thomas Dworzak and Gueorgui Pinkhassov. What sets this exhibit apart is the device used ...
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Deliverance – 3DS Review
Deliverance is a risky game. Developed by newcomer Southsoft for the 3DS, the game’s attention to detail strives to retain much of what made both the novel and 1972 movie American classics. And yet, this same attention to detail will feel misguided to some—primarily, those who play games to have fun. Nevertheless, those who come ...
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Four Nintendo Franchises in Need of Revival
Possibly the saddest thing modern day Nintendo has done is that they’ve pared down the number of their franchises they’re doing anything with. We’ve seen more Mario games than we can imagine, and we’ve seen some oldies revised into modern incarnations like Kid Icarus, but Nintendo has also completely ignored a large number of excellent ...
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News in Brief: Communist Day Edition
Welcome, welcome. If you’re here, you’re probably lamenting the fact that I am working on May Day. Either that or you’re probably thinking of that song by that guy. Whatever. It’s time for all the news that wasn’t quite fit to print. Big news, of course, is that the Playstation Network might go up again ...
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Will the 3DS be relevant?
I wrote, quite negatively, about the Nintendo 3DS a couple months ago, when its lack of launch titles and low battery life were announced. Now that it’s out, we’re hearing that demand isn’t quite as strong as Nintendo would hope. This would be a shame if I didn’t despise the idea of 3D technology. Can’t ...
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The Great Sucking Sound
That noise you hear? That is the wind being violently ripped from the 3DS’ sails. It sounds a lot like three to five hour battery life, which, supposedly, is only when the backlight is turned down. We in the trade call this the Non-Nintendo handheld trap, because it’s what has doomed every handheld going against ...
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3DS's Tag Mode Details, Is Confirmed For 3 Titles
What’s Tag Mode, you say? Why, we’re here to tell you just that! Wired has the scoop on various 3DS capabilities, which you can read in full here. As always, we bring it to you! Tag mode is a feature which lets “players automatically trade game data with each other when their 3DS units get ...
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3DS, Seriously
The Wii? Nintendo is okay with you not taking it seriously. I mean, your grandma might be playing that thing. Her idea of a crazy day is getting a 300 in Wii bowling. And the DS? Your little sister probably plays that thing. She probably puts a Hannah Montana sticker on her hot pink DS–mine ...
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3DS At A Glance, Commentary
That, right there, is the fabled 3DS, folks. Looks like a glorified DS, doesn’t it? Well, it’s design isn’t final–hopefully they can do more to set itself apart from the DS. Otherwise, a common consumer might look at this and go, hey, its just a DS with 3D on it! We, however, know that it ...
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A Sign of Things To Come
“What people want are simpler, more accessible games that are easier to play and solve”–Iwata, 2003 You probably had no idea of what Iwata meant at the time. None of us could. Who could predict the DS, the Wii–who could tell that Nintendo would shift their core values so dramatically from one generation to the ...
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It's Official: 3D Is Here to Stay
Nintendo just unveiled their successor to the DS, the 3DS. That alone is just a testament to the 3D craze that is currently taking the gaming industry by storm. After all, we know that the PS3 will adopt the medium soon. But after today’s announcement, its become obvious that it’s not just a fad–they announced ...
