“iPhone and iPad games suck. There’s no buttons!” This is a constant (erroneous) statement we all see people making for why the traditional console makers have nothing to fear about Apple. Except now they do, if a recent patent filing is any indication. Apple has patented a design that looks…
Read MoreNintendo’s month long celebration of all things portable and Mario commences this week with a sale on the original Super Mario Bros and Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3. So no sooner did I start to complain that there wasn’t going to be anything new posting to the eShop for A…
Read MoreNintendo has declared August the ‘Month of Mario’ in honor of the plumber’s upcoming second 3DS adventure. Basically, that shakes out to one Mario eShop title on sale, each week, for the four weeks leading up to release day. Since New Super Mario Bros 2 is all about the gold…
Read MoreThe Wii U: Nintendo’s most important hardware launch yet Nintendo has released its first financial quarter results, and while the numbers still don’t look good, the company is on the path to reverse its horror previous year. The results were in line with the company’s forecasts: a net loss of…
Read MoreI’m going to make a very bold statement here: Yoshi’s Story is the most underrated Nintendo game ever made. The little dinosaur’s N64 romp has been criticised over the years for being too short, too easy, and not a patch on the game many argue to be the greatest platformer…
Read MoreHow do you create a follow-up to one of the greater successes of the video game industry? If The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask is any indication, you reuse much of the same assets and launch it less than two years after its predecessor. Here’s the kicker: you reimagine everything…
Read MoreThe sequel to the NES and arcade classic Double Dragon will be brawling its way on over to the 3DS’ Virtual Console sometime soon. Just when that might be is sort of up in the air, as no details other than a trio of screenshots were released by Nintendo today.…
Read MoreThere’s not much variety to “old school action game” Johnny Kung Fu, but what’s there is fun at first. If only developer UFO Interactive Games could have been bothered to create more of it. Johnny Kung Fu’s premise is basically Mario vs. Donkey Kong’s, stolen wholesale. But thankfully, the short…
Read MoreOuya is proving to be a bit of a big deal. Its Kickstarter program shows there is a lot of support for the very concept, and Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft should be very concerned. It’s not the first indie project, of course, and it won’t be the last, but Ouya…
Read MoreThis is something we’ve been asking for for a while now, but good to see Nintendo being progressive: your Wii U and 3DS will work off a unified account. A report over at Games Industry confirms that players will likely be able to transfer data – including games – back…
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