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Sony’s AR Tech Is Smart (Smart Enough for NGP?)

The holy shit moment of the Nintendo 3DS is its Augmented Reality capability. By using cards (or tattoos), the 3DS can project augmented reality. Sony is working on its own AR tech. It’s truly impressive. Called SmartAR, Sony’s augmented reality tech doesn’t require special markers or 2D. Thus, an object can be captured by a…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 20, 2011

Why These Video Game Shoes Might be a Good Purchase

Even if the design of the actual shoe isn’t to your liking, the Converse x Nintendo limited edition sneakers released for Mario’s (belated) 25th anniversary have one thing going for them: a great box. OK, so a box for sneakers may not be as useful as, well, most things, but it’s a very nice box.…

By Luke Plunkett Published May 20, 2011

Kill Time at the Bank with the Nintendo DS

Throughout Japan, fastfood chain McDonald’s and multimedia shop Tsutaya have Nintendo DS zones that allow DS owners to connect and get original content. Now, a bank does, too. Staring today, the Bank of Kyoto is establishing a Nintendo zone at ten branches in Kyoto. The original content available includes “Notices from the Bank of Kyoto”,…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 19, 2011

Nintendo Might be Taking This Whole Anti-Piracy Thing a Little Far

Nintendo takes the fight against piracy seriously. How serious? Serious enough to really mess up this guy’s day. Warning: NSFW language ahead! [thanks Chris!] 3DS Piracy [Rooster Teeth]

By Luke Plunkett Published May 19, 2011

Ocarina of Time Puts Those New 3DS Cases to Good Use

Nintendo 3DS game boxes have been designed to be friendlier on the environment by using less plastic. All those little holes could look like crap, but Nintendo already knows a good way to make the most of them. This is the European version of Ocarina of Time 3D, and despite the awful picture quality on…

By Luke Plunkett Published May 19, 2011

CultureTotal Recall

My Favourite Nintendo Console Wasn’t Even Made by Nintendo

We’re going to get a little personal today on Total Recall, and take a look at my favourite Nintendo console of all time. Not the best, not the biggest-selling, just…my favourite. And that console is the Panasonic Q, a machine sadly never made commercially available in the West. The Q, a very fancy version of…

By Luke Plunkett Published May 19, 2011

Check Out the World’s Largest Working NES Controller

Students at a Dutch university on Tuesday unveiled what they claim is the world’s largest working Nintendo Entertainment System controller, some 30 times bigger than the console’s actual game pad. It’s so big, the only way to manipulate the D-pad or buttons is to stand on them Built by electrical engineering students at TU Delft,…

By Owen Good Published May 18, 2011

Some Person’s 3DS Has Wrinkled Buttons (Does Yours?)

The 3DS is an expensive, beautiful piece of gaming hardware. Because it’s so expensive, owners might be prone to notice the smallest things. One gamer in Japan apparently has a paint issues with the Dpad and a button on the Nintendo 3DS. The paint on the Dpad looks warped; a line of some sort appeared…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 18, 2011

Ten Years of Crappy Tasting Pokémon Bread

Back in 1999, Japanese bread maker First Baking launched Pokémon bread. Here is a collection of commercials from 1999 to 2009. While the ads got better (they really did!), the bread didn’t. Kids buy the bread for the stickers, not the taste. If the Japanese word for bread (“pan”) sounds vaguely familiar to Portuguese speakers,…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 18, 2011

He Is Anung un Rama, Destroyer of Worlds, Plumber of Drains

Yes, that is Mario, if Mario was actually Mike Mignola’s Hellboy. This might be the best thing I see on the internet this week. Mario Boy by Scott Watanabe

By Luke Plunkett Published May 18, 2011

Nintendo Fakers, You Got to Do Better Than This

For those who checked the internet when the Xbox 360, PS3 or Wii launched, you’ll remember the fake “secret presentation” photos. They were typically either bad photoshops or bad photos showing new hardware presentations. That was over five years ago, before the proliferation of high quality camera phones. It’s 2011, new hardware is incoming, and…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 18, 2011

CultureTotal Recall

When Mario Had a Best-Selling…Book?

Mario has gone through three distinct phases of super popularity. One in the early 90’s. One is seemingly just on the wane, born of the success of his games on the DS and Wii. The other, though, was in the mid-80’s. The fat plumber was so popular then that he didn’t just have a best-selling…

By Luke Plunkett Published May 18, 2011

Link and Ganon and Power and Courage

The monster Ganon and courageous warrior Link face off for a duel to the death! Hunter Bonyun went all out when creating this masterpiece. Power and Courage by Hunter Bonyun (Blog) (deviantART) (Note: This print will be available at Canada’s upcoming Otafest and Anime North cons, if you’re a neighbor to the north.) Need your…

By Michael McWhertor Published May 17, 2011

Nintendogs Made People So Happy

ROOF ROOF | LEIPZIG, GERMANY: Nintendogs on display in the 2005 Gamescon. (Photo: Daniela Schaar | Getty) Building Better Portal 2 Personality Spheres We’ve already seen our fair share of Portal 2-inspired art around these parts, but this series of miniature personality spheres by Chris Myles certainly takes the, ahem, cake. Life-Sized Gundam Vehicles You…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 17, 2011

Best Buy Getting 3DS Hotspots

Starting June 7, Nintendo and Best Buy are teaming up to bring 3DS WiFi spots to over 1,000 stores across the country. Besides trailers and exclusive content, the spots will take advantage of the 3DS’s SpotPass feature. [via Nintendo]

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 17, 2011

The Call of Pikachu Cthulhu

Who better to spend a C++ study break with than Pikachu Cthulhu. Cthulhu Pikachu [SadAndUseless]

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 17, 2011

Chrono Trigger Warps Your Wii Back to 1995

The Wii Virtual Console travels back in time this week to a time when a much softer Square made games that were consistently excellent. It’s not that Square Enix doesn’t put out good games. There are plenty of excellent modern games out there bearing the company’s brand. It’s just that back in the days when…

By Mike Fahey Published May 16, 2011

Don’t Lend Strangers Your Game Handhelds, Kids!

On May 12, a 10 year-old grade-schooler in Kochi City and her friend waere playing with her Nintendo game portable along the city’s waterway. A 23 year-old man named Akira Nakamura appeared and said, “Let me see your game machine.” According to Yomiuri Online, the girl lent her handheld and two games to the unemployed…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 16, 2011

The Right Way to do Japanese Box Art

The same smart people at Nintendo Europe who thought it was a good idea to localise Wii RPG Xenoblade also know how important box art can be for such a localisation. So they’re letting the game’s fans vote. While the front cover – which we’ll assume is the same as that found in Japan –…

By Luke Plunkett Published May 16, 2011

Windowed AR Cards Reveal 3DS’ Secret

When the Nintendo 3DS is looking for an AR Card to start a game, it isn’t searching for or recognizing its specific image-it’s recognizing a color, and then spawning whatever comes next off of that. To prove this, AR enthusiast Super Jezmerelda created cards with the question-box design cut out, then framed certain colors within…

By Owen Good Published May 13, 2011