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The Nintendo Download Is On Fire This Week

WiiWare really heats up in this week’s Nintendo Download with Cozy Fire, a fireplace simulator with six – count ’em – six different fireplaces to choose from. Yeah, it’s that kind of week. Perhaps Nintendo and dtp young entertainment are celebrating President’s Day by releasing Cozy Fireplace. After all, President’s Lincoln and Washington surely spent…

By Mike Fahey Published February 21, 2011

The 3DS, Torn To Pieces

Later this week, the glasses-free Nintendo 3DS goes on sale in Japan. A Chinese site already has its hands on the hot portable, and it’s ripped it into pieces. This dissection gives a closer look at the innards that power the 3DS, which boasts more powerful graphics than the previous generation of Nintendo handhelds. Of…

By Brian Ashcraft Published February 21, 2011

Playing Games Is Easier Than Being A Pop Star

Citing fatigue, pop star Hikaru Utada is taking 2011 off. She’s not touring and not releasing any new albums. Instead, she’s doing what many do when they want to relax: she’s playing video games. In particular, she’s all about recently released dungeon crawler Mysterious Dungeon Shiren the Wanderer 5: Fortune Tower and the Dice of…

By Brian Ashcraft Published February 21, 2011

Culture

Can a Controller Be Programmed to Speed-Run Super Mario Bros.?

Long story short, this modder built a controller that, when plugged into a Nintendo Entertainment System, auto speedruns Super Mario Bros. in just a shade under 5 minutes. Naturally, commenters have shouted it down as a fake, but the Tool-Assisted Speedrun community is unanimous in calling the mod real. Modder pjgat09 provides a step-by-step, with…

By Owen Good Published February 20, 2011

Glass Joe Ain’t No Punk, Bitch

St. Louis instrumental hip-hop duo Safety Words have combined two of my favourite things in the world: Nintendo music and the Wu-Tang Clan. Check it out here, and check them out here

By Luke Plunkett Published February 19, 2011

How Samurai Warriors 3DS Plays While You’re Not Playing

With the Nintendo 3DS’s innovative new Street Pass feature, developers now have to figure out how their games will play when the players aren’t playing. In Samurai Warriors Chronicles, your 3DS will fight your battles for you. Street Pass is the Nintendo 3DS feature that allows your 3DS to communicate with other players’ systems while…

By Mike Fahey Published February 18, 2011

There’s Something Cool In The 3DS’ Box (Aside From The 3DS)

Included with every 3DS sold will be six cards. They may look like plain paper cards, but they’re actually “augmented reality” devices, which when detected by the 3DS’ camera come to life on the handheld’s top screen. We’ve shown you what the question block card looks like, but that’s just one card. There are five…

By Luke Plunkett Published February 18, 2011

Real Life Mario Kart Would Really Look Like This

There’s a new contender in the battle for real world Mario Kart action, Rémi Gaillard. Master video makers Freddie Wong and friends have taken their special effects laden know-how to the track, the most realistic looking Mario Kart-meets-real life video yet. Even if you’re creeped out by floating Freddie as a Lakitu—Aaaahhh!! Those realistic eyes!!—stick…

By Michael McWhertor Published February 17, 2011

Meet The Lovable Mumbling Supporting Cast Of Okamiden

While the story of Capcom’s upcoming DS adventure Okamiden is that of tiny wolf god Chibiterasu, it’s the characters the young deity meets that paint the picture of a Nippon worthy of being saved from rampaging demons. Let’s meet some! First up we have the dog Mushi and his human mother. Mushi was one of…

By Mike Fahey Published February 17, 2011

The Nintendo 3DS Has The Launch Line-Up Blues

On February 26, the Nintendo 3DS goes on sale in Japan. Folks want the hardware (bad), but do they want the games? The 3DS is a compelling piece of hardware. It has that what the French call I-don’t-know-what which will appeal to the masses. Players can see 3D with no glasses! Brilliant. And it has…

By Brian Ashcraft Published February 17, 2011

It’s Not Even Out, And Already, A 3DS Game Has Been Cancelled

Well, that was fast. Despite the handheld not being released yet, Electronic Arts has already canned one of its first games for the Nintendo 3DS. My Garden was one of the first titles ever shown off for Nintendo’s upcoming handheld, and also one of the first “proper” games for it we ever got our hands…

By Luke Plunkett Published February 17, 2011

Mario, You Look Great In A Giant Mechanised Battle Suit

You’ve never seen Mario like this before. Not unless you dreamed he was in a game developed by Epic for the Xbox 360. This amazing re-interpretation of the humble little plumber is by artist Marat Ars. His humble little friend Yoshi has been replaced by a hulking mecha suit, quaint fireballs switched out with what…

By Luke Plunkett Published February 17, 2011

Samurai Warriors is a Big Hit with the Ladies

One of the launch titles for the Nintendo 3DS will be Samurai Warriors Chronicles, a series whose devoted fan base is 40 percent female, says publisher Koei. Hisashi Koinuma, the developer overseeing the Samurai Warriors series, quoted the figure to Nintendo president Satoru Iwata. Koinuma said he thought the series was appealing because the development…

By Owen Good Published February 16, 2011

The Nintendo 3DS Doesn’t Want Your Nintendo Point Cards, Sorry

Nintendo Points are Nintendo’s virtual currency for the Wii and the DSi. Players can purchase point cards or charge them on their credit card. You might have some left over prepaid point cards you’re hoping to use on the upcoming Nintendo 3DS. Tough crap. Current Nintendo Points cannot be used on the Nintendo 3DS. On…

By Brian Ashcraft Published February 16, 2011

CultureTotal Recall

Nintendo’s War On Blood, Nazis, Religion And Puppy Dogs

While these days it’s not that hard finding violent, mature titles on Nintendo consoles, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, that wasn’t the case. And when you did find them, well, some “changes” had been made. As anyone around in and gaming during the time can probably remember, it was a strange era for…

By Luke Plunkett Published February 16, 2011

One Last Chance To Own Super Mario All-Stars For Wii

Nintendo is cutting off your supply of the Wii version of Super Mario All-Stars, the limited edition collection of four NES era Super Mario Bros. games with a 16-bit makeover. But it’s also giving you one last chance to buy it. Nintendo of America said today it’s producing its “final run” of the Super Mario…

By Michael McWhertor Published February 15, 2011

Nintendo “Blackmail” Attempt Ends In Handcuffs

Data on thousands of gamers swiped. Nintendo threatened with blackmail. Rest easy, because the man accused of these crimes has been nabbed in southern Spain. The BBC report that according to Spain’s Interior Ministry, an unnamed individual was supposedly able to gain data on 4,000 individuals from online databases. He apparently threatened to contact Spain’s…

By Brian Ashcraft Published February 15, 2011

Why They Still Make Pokémon Movies

The easy answer, of course, is that the Pokémon movies still make money. The longer answer is slightly more involved. Since 1998, there has been a new Pocket Monsters anime in Japan every year, like clockwork. And not only are they released each year, but they are always released during the same month: July. There…

By Brian Ashcraft Published February 15, 2011

The Bizarre Legend of Zelda Controller We’ll Never Play With

You could have played GameCube (and Wii) game The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess with a very rare video game controller feature: a belt buckle. This is the never-produced Legend of Zelda controller from Nubytech. Nubytech is the company that made unusual products like the infamous Resident Evil 4 chainsaw controller and a Shadow the…

By Michael McWhertor Published February 14, 2011

Finally, We Can Play The Legend of Zelda On An Oscilloscope

You finally have a purpose for all those oscilloscopes that have surely piled up in your basement, now that one man has hacked together a way to play your original Game Boy games using its monochromatic powers of display. Craig of Flashing LEDs has a very in-depth and technical walkthrough of the NintendOscope—including his source…

By Michael McWhertor Published February 14, 2011