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Yes, There Are Other Zelda Weddings

A fellow in Sweden recently got married. “Naturally I wanted something special for the wedding march,” he writes, “and to surprise the guests it starts with the classic piece by Wagner but then goes over to Zelda.” His wife got a little nervous, thinking that the The Legend of Zelda music should have faded out…

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 1, 2010

Okay, Now This Wii Peripheral Is Just Silly

This is an inflatable “racing kart” for the Nintendo Wii. The product pitchman says that we have two choices for Wii racing games: Using the standard remote to steer or the inflatable Wii racing kart with built-in steering wheel holder. Bwah? Those are the choices? The pitchman, Doug, also has “no doubt” that we’ll be…

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 1, 2010

Will Top Kill Work On This?

As seen on Super Punch via Tiny Cartridge

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 1, 2010

This Girl, Immortalized In Xenoblade CG

Mayu Watanabe is a member of uber popular Japanese idol troupe AKB48. The sixteen year-old is also in a commercial for upcoming Wii game Xenoblade. But something is different Yeah. And yeah. A double yeah. Another… yeah. Perhaps the actual ad isn’t so Uncanny Valley! Published by Nintendo, Xenoblade is the latest entry in the…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 31, 2010

How Mario Celebrates Memorial Day

As seen on Topatoco

By Brian Crecente Published May 31, 2010

Tron’s NES Certainly Looks The Part

The chop shop team at Thretris have come up with another great way to make an old Nintendo console better: make it look like something out of Tron. The Glowing Tron NES is pretty much what it says it is: it’s a working Nintendo Entertainment System, complete with improved stereo sound, done up to look…

By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2010

Final Fantasy VII Writer Sees End of The Nintendo Era

Since the release of the Game Boy, Nintendo has ruled portable gaming. That era is over, says Masato Kato, the writer of FFVII, Xenogears and Chrono Trigger. But why? “With the iPad going on sale, the epoch of Nintendo is finished,” Kato tweeted. “But with the DS and the Wii, it’s been digging its own…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 31, 2010

Molester “Monk” Lured Boys With His Wii

A 46-year-old Taiwanese man has been arrested for raping four young boys. The perpetrator would invite young boys to his house on the pretext of playing his Nintendo Wii. Apparently, he would then sexually assault the children. One of the boys’ mothers noticed that something was bothering her son, and he told what had happened…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 31, 2010

Dear Apple, Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft

Right now, you all might be digging your own holes. The recent rash of suicides at Foxconn’s Shenzhen factory has shined a light on the fact that large companies like Apple, Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft have contracted out the manufacturing for devices like the iPad, the Wii, the PS3 and the Xbox 360 to Chinese…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 28, 2010

Nintendo Investigating Factory Suicides

Following the deaths of over a dozen of its workers in recent weeks, Nintendo has declared it will be investigating the working conditions at Foxconn, one of the Chinese companies responsible for manufacturing the Wii. Sixteen employees have jumped from the rooftops of Foxconn buildings over the past few months, attempting to commit suicide rather…

By Luke Plunkett Published May 28, 2010

Once and For All, Mario Can Jump the Flagpole

GameTrailers took on, Mythbusters style, the legend that Mario can leap the flagpole in Super Mario Bros on the NES. and, whaddaya know, they indeed proved it true. World 3-3 is where you have the best chance of doing it yourself. Now, GameTrailers, next for you: Turning Smurfette naked in Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel’s Castle…

By Owen Good Published May 27, 2010

Mario’s Voice Yearns For Waluigi Games

Three out of four Mushroom Kingdom plumbers have scored starring video game roles. The man who voices them all, Charles Martinet, wants to make it four out of four, lamenting the lack of a game starring Wario’s skinny lackey, Waluigi. Charles Martinet is a prolific video game voice actor, and if he had his way,…

By Mike Fahey Published May 27, 2010

Reviews

Metal Torrent Micro-Review: Not As Good As A Coinstar

The minute you start playing Metal Torrent, you’re almost done. But the brevity of Nintendo’s first DS shoot-em-up isn’t the worst of it. My local bank offers more entertaining ways to press buttons and hear jangling sounds. Metal Torrent is a $5 vertical shoot-em-up for the DSi from publisher Nintendo and development studio Arika, the…

By Stephen Totilo Published May 27, 2010

Grease: The Game, No Seriously

What better way to capture the splendor of the leather-clad, hip shaking of Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta in Grease than with a game for the Wii? By making sure that the game forces you allows you to use two microphones and a Wii Balanace Board while playing it, that’s how! If only they could…

By Brian Crecente Published May 27, 2010

Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light Hits the DS in October

Square Enix’s Japanese-only portable game The Four Warriors of Light: A Final Fantasy Anecdote is coming to the U.S. with a less unwieldy name in October. Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light arrives on Oct. 5 for the DS

By Brian Crecente Published May 27, 2010

Greenpeace Still Says Nintendo Is Bad For the Environment

This year, like every year, Greenpeace has given Nintendo the lowest marks out of the electronics companies it graded. “Nintendo remains in last place with a pitiful 0.8 points out of 10, scoring zero on all e-waste criteria,” Greenpeace wrote last year. Many of Nintendo’s low marks were the result of the company not divulging…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 27, 2010

Thanks Homebrew, For the Adult Nintendo DS Games

Your parents die. But your fate changes when a millionaire adopts you, and you move into her mansion with her and her daughters. Then…yeah That’s the basic plot for retro adult title Fatal Relations, which is finally getting a homebrew DS port from Digital Satin Productions. This, of course, is hardly the first homebrew adult…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 27, 2010

There’s a New Mario in Town

Super Mario Galaxy 2 is now the highest rated video game in history… at least according to Game Rankings and its penchant for number crunching and outliers-inclusive averaging. It was a good run 1998’s The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, don’t let the door hit you in the ass.

By Brian Crecente Published May 26, 2010

Sonic Colors Streaks To The Wii And DS

With fans eagerly awaiting the retro Sonic 4, Sega pulls back the curtain on Sonic Colors, a brand new adventure for the Nintendo Wii and DS, heading our way by the end of 2010. Check out the reveal trailer! Sonic Colors sees our blue hedgehog hero speeding through theme-park inspired worlds as he attempts to…

By Mike Fahey Published May 26, 2010

How The Pros Mock Nintendo

For two decades, people have been paid to make fun of Nintendo. These professionals are hired by big companies that either hate Nintendo or consider Nintendo to be semi-ridiculous. (Irony: These pros never laugh last.) Here are their finest works. We’ll start with a recent example, to put this trend in a modern context. We’ve…

By Stephen Totilo Published May 26, 2010