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Earthbound Inspired Shirtness, Hatness Ups Your Nerdness
It is not too late to do a very serviceable Ness impersonation this Halloween, thanks to Fangamer, creators of the Earthbound inspired “Awesomeness Combo Pack,” complete with shirtness, hatness and yo-yo-ness. Like most things Fangamer made—the Mother 3 Handbook, for example, or their sundry t-shirts—this Earthbound-ish get up comes with any number of unique pins,…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 26, 2009 -
Excitebike World Rally Coming To WiiWare With Online Play
Nintendo has announced, via the Nintendo Week show on the Wii’s Nintendo Channel, Excitebike World Rally for WiiWare, a 2.5D update to the 1985 NES classic. Expect the WiiWare game to hit virtual shops on November 9. According to the announcement video, Excitebike World Rally will support motion control and classic style controls, feature online…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 26, 2009 -
The Nintendo Download: Zombies Ate My Monkeys
Zombies eating neighbors, giant manatees eating pirates, and ghostly mini-games in this week’s spooktacular Nintendo Download update. WiiWare gets the bulk of the spooky in this week’s additions to WiiWare, DSiWare, and the Virtual console. Each of the three gets two new games each, but with Gameloft’s Ghost Mansion Party (1,000 Wii points) and the…
By Mike Fahey Published October 26, 2009 -
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Marvel Super Hero Squad Review: This One Is For The Brats
For those of us who can’t handle the grown-up action of Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, THQ delivers Marvel Super Hero Squad, the game of the television show of the toy line. In Marvel Super Hero Squad, tiny cartoon versions of your favorite Marvel heroes and villains race to collect Infinity Fragments in order to either…
By Mike Fahey Published October 23, 2009 -
Nintendo DSi Getting Its Own Speak Channel?
Nintendo may soon be offering a dedicated voice chat application for the Nintendo DSi, dubbed the Nintendo DSi Speak Channel, a feature that looks to have leaked from the company’s support web site. That leak was discovered while perusing the “error code 206602” entry at Nintendo.com, an entry which has since been scrubbed of any…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 22, 2009 -
101 Wii Mini-Games, All At Once, All For You
Atlus and developer Nordcurrent take the 101-in-1 Megamix concept from the DS to the Wii, with 101 mini-games that should completely satisfy your need to play mini-games for the rest of your life. Seriously, this should do you until the end of time. 101-in-1 Party Megamix for the Wii features a metric ass-ton of games…
By Mike Fahey Published October 21, 2009 -
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Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games Review: Going Through the Motions
There’s something to be said for a game that has Bowser performing a triple Salchow in figure skating or Dr. Eggman sweeping the ice in curling. I’m just not sure what that something is, though. Exciting? Surreal? Blasphemous? Whatever the case, such sights are possible in Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games, a…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 21, 2009 -
Which Free NES Game Should I Get?
Those of you that shelled out for the Wii’s Internet Channel before Nintendo made it free can now download one NES game on Virtual Console — as long as its worth 500 points. All you have to do is dust off your Wii and update the Shop channel. A little button saying “One Free Title”…
By AJ Glasser Published October 21, 2009 -
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A Boy And His Blob Review: The Zero Nostalgia Version
WayForward Technologies and Majesco bring us A Boy and His Blob for the Nintendo Wii, a re-creation of the beloved 1989 NES title, which I incidentally have never played. I think it bears noting that I never played the original A Boy and His Blob for two reasons. First, the reader understands why I don’t…
By Mike Fahey Published October 20, 2009 -
Report: Nintendo Might Cut Profit Forecast
According to Bloomberg, Nintendo could very well cut its earning forecast and announce that annual profit will decline. The reason? Decreasing Wii sales and the strong Japanese yen. Net income, Bloomberg reports, will possibly fall 11 percent to US$2.7, marking the first drop since March 2004. Wii sales have been on the slide with global…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 20, 2009 -
Nintendo Helping Furries To Communicate
Somewhere along the line, we lost their tails and evolved into the species we are today. But tails are useful in communicating — especially if you are a Furry. Fret not, inventor person Wei-Chieh Tseng is here to help. He’s devised the “Mood Tail”, which uses a mechanical tail, RFID chipped cards and the Nintendo…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 19, 2009 -
Need For Speed: Nitro – So Fast It’s Coming Two Weeks Early
In a fall season filled with game delays, it’s nice to see a release date jump forward a couple weeks, as is the case with Need for Speed: Nitro for the Nintendo Wii and DS. Originally scheduled for a November 17th release in North America, the stylized arcade racing of EA’s Need for Speed: Nitro…
By Mike Fahey Published October 19, 2009 -
Nintendo Is Working On New Mario Game
Hold onto your smelly socks, because Mario voice actor Charles Martinet has a bombshell. Nintendo is, are you ready, making, wait for it, another, braces, Mario game. Unbelievable, huh? The voice actor tweets, “Awesome new Mario Game! And it’s not NSMB Wii, and it’s not Galaxy 2, but it’s going to be crazy fun!” And…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 19, 2009 -
Popping the Question in Super Mario World
If her “awwww! Yes … !” reaction doesn’t melt your heart, then that little dog jumping and wagging his tail when they kiss will definitely finish you off. We get a lot of video game proposals and weddings over the weekends – YouTube user bradsmith182 shows how to do it right. (Which is good, he…
By Owen Good Published October 18, 2009 -
OK, This Wiimote Mishap? We’re Calling Not Fake.
That infamous “Mama!!!” video where the Wiimote destroys the flat-screen has been endlessly debated: staged or real? In this, it’s safe to assume the Home Shopping Network did not intend to smash its own TV showing off Wii Tennis. Hand it to that guy, he does not deviate from the sales pitch after such a…
By Owen Good Published October 18, 2009 -
Miyamoto, Asked Why Peach Isn’t Playable, Looks to Skirt Issue
Oh, the eminent Nintendo designer still answered the question directly. He just said that Peach’s flowing gown would have required different programming to incorporate her as a playable character in New Super Mario Bros. Wii. See? Get it? “Skirt issue?” Destructoid says Wired’s Tracey John brought up the question (at the same roundtable at which…
By Owen Good Published October 18, 2009 -
The Cars Of Need For Speed: Nitro Part 2
The cars of Need for Speed: Nitro might lack the detail of Forza 3 or Gran Turismo 5, but they make up for it in sheer brightness. Here’s round 2 of the grand vehicle reveal. Ten more rides join the nine previously reveled vehicles for the Wii and Nintendo DS racer this week, and so…
By Mike Fahey Published October 16, 2009 -
Castlevania’s Igarashi Involved In WiiWare Rebirth, Secret Stuff
In the summer we reported that longtime Castlevania developer Koji Igarashi, absent during the franchise’s appearance during E3, was still at Konami, involved in a project that would emerge at Tokyo Game Show. That didn’t come to pass. I checked in with Konami, wondering if the recently-announced 2D downloadable Wii game Castlevania: The Adventure Rebirth…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 16, 2009 -
N’Gai Croal Breaks the News to Miyamoto that Mario is Dead
N’Gai Croal, the former games writer for Newsweek (and friend of this site) floored Mario’s creator with news that one of the famed video-game character’s live-action, uh, actors had died recently. During a roundtable discussion earlier Thursday, Croal asked Miyamoto, straight up: “Where were you when you heard that Captain Lou Albano passed away, and…
By Owen Good Published October 16, 2009