I have an fascination with water. Give me a camera and I can spend a whole day photographing the ocean, a river or a waterfall, for example. It’s not just that water is so essential to life that it appeals to me; it’s the aesthetics of water that I find…
Read MoreHot on the heels from the unfortunate revelation that Nintendo has censored the English release of Project Zero on the Wii U to strip a bikini costume out of it, comes the news that it has done the same thing with its upcoming Xenoblade JRPG, on the same console. This…
Read MoreDataminers digging up references to Twilight Princess HD on the Nintendo Update Server, the Washington Journal claiming that the NX will be outfitted with “industry-leading chips,” a rare extended downtime of Nintendo’s online services, DeNA teasing an upcoming announcement concerning Nintendo’s first mobile game, reports of NX dev kits being…
Read MoreEver since it was first unveiled, Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer has been castigated by a vocal crowd and endured the label “placeholder spin-off”. Frankly, the paranoia that led to this reputation is justified. After all, boiling Animal Crossing, a sandbox game with an obscene degree of freedom, down to…
Read MoreAnd thus it came to pass that on September 30th in the year of our Lord 2015, the Wii U proudly acquired its 11th known million seller. Earlier today, Nintendo’s Twitter accounts shared some interesting numbers with us concerning Super Mario Maker. According to the developer and publisher, Mario Maker…
Read MoreI have some ver fond memories of Mario games from childhood. Who doesn’t? From my first experience with Super Mario Bros. 3 on a TV encased in wood to beating my sister in Mario Golf, every game was great to me. Mario Tennis was no different, but I’ll be honest…
Read MoreBrave Tank Hero is a distressing affair. On one hand, arena-based tank combat games ought to be explored on consoles and Natsume deserves serious props for publishing one at all. On the other, this game is the embodiment of everything that could possibly go wrong with the untapped subgenre. Related…
Read MoreSay what you want about multiplayer Zelda games, but nobody can deny the serious adorableness occurring in the new preview trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes. The game features multiplayer in a variety of ways: download play, local multiplayer, and online play. Of the three options, download…
Read MoreThe King is dead, long live the King! Nintendo has released a notice following an extraordinary meeting of the Board of Directors announcing the appointment of Tatsumi Kimishima as the new president of Nintendo Co Ltd (NCL). Prior to joining Nintendo, Kimishima had a long career at Sanwa Bank of…
Read MoreThe idea of making my own Super Mario levels has been a dream of mine for literally decades. Sure there have been shady means to do it through emulation, but I just did not have the time nor the patience for that. But fast forward to 2015 and my dream…
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