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In Which Link Dies A Truly Heroic Death
Princess Zelda is in tears, a kingdom mourns, but at least we can rest easy knowing that Link died fighting the good fight, trying to save the world from unfathomable evil. I’ve suffered a similar fate myself during my travels in Link’s shoes. I can’t help it. If you put something in a video game…
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This Coffee Table Is A Giant Working Nintendo Controller
The original Nintendo Entertainment System controller is a thing of beauty, an exercise in simple elegance and efficiency. Apparently that’s exactly what Reddit user Cybergern’s friend Jocke was looking for in a coffee table, so he built this. With only $200 in materials and 70-100 hours of labor, Jocke transformed pieces of wood and some…
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How Can Nintendo’s Next Console Possibly Compete?
In today’s gloomy and doomy Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter MtlAngelus wonders how Nintendo’s next console can possibly stay competitive in today’s gaming market. Let’s speculate, shall we? There’s rumours of a Wii 2 going around, and it’s certainly possible that such a thing might be announced soon(ish), considering that the Wii is basically a zombie…
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This Nintendo Download Goes To The Birds
Nintendo’s downloadable game output continues to be relatively small as we wait for the 3DS store to hit, but at least they’re giving us a theme to play with. It’s birds three ways in this week’s Nintendo Download. How do you get birds three ways? It all starts off in WiiWare, where today’s sole non-demo…
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Sony Bigwig Trash Talks Nintendo 3DS and Hurts Our Feelings
During an interview with Fortune Magazine, SCEA’s charming CEO Jack Tretton discussed the company’s business strategies…and then indulged in some nasty smack talk. “If you’re really going to sustain technology for a decade, you have to be cutting edge when you launch a platform,” Tretton explains to the business mag. Reasonable enough. But the Playstaion…
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The Time Michelle Pfeiffer Healed a Lizard, and Other Ghost Stories from the Filming of Super Mario Bros: The Movie
There’s a reason most people remember The Super Mario Bros. Super Show or The Wizard when they think of ‘90s Hollywood adaptations of Nintendo properties: because if they didn’t they’d be left only with Super Mario Bros: The Movie, the 1993 monstrosity starring Bob Hoskins and Dennis Hopper, a film only vaguely resembling the cartoonish…
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Watch the Dragon Pop Out of Someone’s Chest With This 3DS Augmented Reality T-Shirt
So, we’ve seen the 3DS’s augmented reality games played on an iPhone, on an Android phone and on a white board. We’ve seen giant cards spawn giant Miis and Marios. Now, thanks to this t-shirt, you may see the AR dragon pop out of someone’s chest. Level Up Studios has printed up this AR Card…
By Owen Good
