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Devs Explain How Animal Crossing 3DS Will Be the Best Animal Crossing Yet

Producer Katsuya Eguchi and a trio of developers from the Animal Crossing 3DS team spend ten minutes discussing how the latest iteration of the animal life sim will set itself apart from the rest. They had me at skirts and pants. While I love me some Animal Crossing, the game hasn’t changed very much since…

By Mike Fahey Published December 5, 2011

On Second Thought, Club Nintendo’s Platinum Gift Doesn’t Look That Bad

Announced back in July, the pin set Club Nintendo is giving free to its platinum members this year was met with the usual round of griping and complaining. One of our readers just received his and, you know, it’s actually a pretty decent gift. For starters, the display box is pretty big, as reader Jon…

By Owen Good Published December 3, 2011

A Video Tour of the 16 New Tracks in Mario Kart 7

This week, we’ve taken a look at Mario Kart 7‘s online multiplayer and community pages, so for my last launch-week video, I wanted to take a quick tour through the 16 new tracks that Nintendo has created for the game. They run the gamut from simple racetracks to elaborate, multi-level roller-coasters, and a couple already…

By Kirk Hamilton Published December 2, 2011

Celebrate Xenoblade Chronicles‘ Impending North American Release With a Trailer

Are you ready to help Shulk and friends combat the mechanical Mechon using the power of the Monado blade? Perhaps this official trailer will help you prepare for the North American release of Xenoblade Chronicles this April. Or maybe the fact that you’ve already imported it (or worse) will help you prepare. Either way it’s…

By Mike Fahey Published December 2, 2011

Nintendo Changes its Tune, For Once

I have asked Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime about a video game called Mother 3 so many times that, in recent years, he would bring it up before I did. He’d laugh about the question. If we were doing an interview and there were other people in the room, he’d jokingly predict to them…

By Stephen Totilo Published December 2, 2011

Xenoblade Chronicles Coming to North America as a GameStop Exclusive Update

Despite heavy fan demand for Monolith Soft’s role-playing masterpiece, Nintendo of America still hasn’t revealed plans to bring Xenoblade Chronicles to North America. Who will step in and save U.S. role-players from missing out on what is arguable one of the best RPGs of this console generation? Would you believe GameStop? Update: Now available for…

By Mike Fahey Published December 2, 2011

It Might Soon be Cool to Jailbreak Your Consoles

It’s totally cool to “jailbreak” an iPhone to get around its DRM. Apple may not like that, but the courts say otherwise, so it has to abide. Video game consoles? Less cool. But that could soon change. The reason the iPhone is exempt is because a few years back the Electronic Frontier Foundation successfully lobbied…

By Luke Plunkett Published December 2, 2011

Man Mods Etch-A-Sketch to Work With Nintendo Controller

Have you ever wanted to control an Etch-A-Sketch with a Nintendo controller? Probably not, but it’s pretty awesome. Watching this video, I tried to imagine all the uses this device had, but most of them were drawing boxes. I’m sure somebody will come up with something better then that.

By Chris Carolan Published December 1, 2011

This Week’s Nintendo Download is So…Awww, Kitty!

Another week, another handful of games you may or may not give a damn about coming to Nintendo’s download ready devices, including Xmas Puzzle, a WiiWare game about…oh my god it’s so fluffy! Awww, look at him, all curled up in the holly. Are you dreaming of sugarplums, my little tiger-striped friend? I just want…

By Mike Fahey Published December 1, 2011

Can You Trust FedEX with Your Nerdy Shipments?

Do not trust FedEx with your deliveries. I had shipped out a NES coffee table to someone who bought one, and upon receiving it, they ignored the “This side up” stickers and delivered it on it’s side. They also had stacked a large and very heavy box on top of it, tweaking the table inside.…

Matt Borgelt Published December 1, 2011

This is the Worst Thing Nintendo Has Ever Done. Ever.

Nintendo has done some awesome things over the years, but it’s done some awful things too. But this, this is the worst. Nintendo of America has spent what’s probably a ton of money to get serious airtime in the video clip for a novelty Christmas single. A Justin Bieber Christmas single. To minimise civilian casualties,…

By Luke Plunkett Published December 1, 2011

Check Out Mario Kart 7‘s Cool Multiplayer Community Options

Yesterday, I took a look at Mario Kart 7‘s online multiplayer, which is functional and easier to use than any past Kart game. Today, I wanted to show another cool feature of the game’s multiplayer—the ability to make multiplayer communities. Each player can make up to eight separate communities, which can be customized a fair…

By Kirk Hamilton Published November 30, 2011

Three Guys, 18 Million Blocks, One Unbelievable Minecraft Video

It’s just two minutes and twenty-two seconds of black and white video. In it we see a play-through of classic 80s Game Boy title Super Mario Land. Pretty bland stuff, until you hear how it was created. The YouTube Minecraft Super Mario Land in Stop Motion video is the culmination of more than 500 hours…

By Brian Crecente Published November 30, 2011

This Game Demo Will Self-Destruct

Japanese gamers can soon download the Monster Hunter 3G demo to their Nintendo 3DS handhelds. Demos aren’t a new thing, and they give players a taste of the final product. Monster Hunter 3G does that, too. The taste, however, doesn’t last forever. The demo quest takes around twenty minutes to complete. According to the Capcom’s…

By Brian Ashcraft Published November 30, 2011

Call the Cops, Nintendo’s Reggie Drives Like a Maniac

Reggie Fils-Aime, everybody’s favorite pizza man turned game exec, is a terror on the road. The Nintendo of America president thinks it’s okay to drive like Mario Kart in real life. You know, burning rubber and throwing heat-seeking turtle shells. “I played the little game on the Mario Kart fan page and it said that…

By Brian Ashcraft Published November 30, 2011

Their Goal Was to Make a Mario Game that Felt Like a Vacation

Video games as cinematic blockbusters? Sure. Video games as texts? I’ve heard that one too. Video games as vacations? That one was new to me, but that’s the concept Nintendo’s Yoshiaki Koizumi had when he was telling me (quoted above in postcard format) about his team’s approach to making a Super Mario game for a…

By Stephen Totilo Published November 29, 2011

A Look at Mario Kart 7‘s Easy-To-Use Online Multiplayer

Looking back, there’s an argument to be made that Mario Kart 64 was my first true multiplayer gaming obsession, more so than even Goldeneye 64. It was so much more fun to race against my friends than it was to race against the (frustrating, rubber banding) computer—the idea of online Mario Kart hadn’t even crossed…

By Kirk Hamilton Published November 29, 2011

I Think Nintendo is Promoting Its Next Game to the 1%

The back of the Mario Kart 7 box encourages shoppers to “take racing to new heights with the all-new glider.” That’s cool. The back of the box for Namco Bandai’s Active Life: Magical Carnival urges gamers to “ride magic carpets, flying brooms & learn magical tricks!” That sounds great! And then there’s the back of…

By Stephen Totilo Published November 29, 2011

Should You Buy Mario Kart 7? Yes.

Nintendo has been on something of a roll so far this holiday season, releasing a fantastic new Zelda game for the Wii and a triumphant new Mario game for the 3DS. This coming Sunday, the company will see if it can go three for three, releasing Mario Kart 7 for the 3DS handheld. Most of…

By Kirk Hamilton Published November 29, 2011

Wow, That Mario Kart Ad Used Real Mario Karts

The pretty damn amazing Mario Kart 7 ad currently showing looks pretty damn amazing. So amazing that it’d be easy to assume the entire thing, actors aside, was computer generated. But it’s not! As you can see here in these short making-of clips, the ad team built real karts for the action. And didn’t just…

By Luke Plunkett Published November 29, 2011