The handheld version of Zen Studios’ excellent Marvel themed pinball game hits the 3DS in the US and EU next week. The standalone game will include four tables, multiplayer, leaderboards, and all the bells and whistles that you’d expect from a Zen title. Landing in the eShop on June 28th for…
Read MoreThere’s a fascinating piece over at Gamesindustry that points out that while the media attention is focused firmly on the plight of THQ, almost every major games publisher is genuinely struggling right now. It’s not the “bad economy,” that’s causing it, either. Companies like EA and Take Two are underperforming…
Read MoreIt’s a pretty good week for Wii owners in Nintendo’s weekly download update, but then again any week is a good one when Double Dragon is involved. DDII appears this week for the Wii’s Virtual Console and stars the Lee Bros once again as they quest to… oh forget it-…
Read MoreChances are, if you’ve got a games console or a PC, you’ve been given free games. Nintendo gave early adopters of the 3DS console 20 free games. Sony’s given away 10 free games twice (once as an apology for the massive hack, and at E3 as a gift for PS…
Read MoreMany people, including myself, will agree that Nintendo’s weakest part of its current game console plans have been the online side of things. While the Nintendo DS and the Nintendo Wii both had online functionality, they were very bare-bones compared to what competitors had. Developers wanting to digitally publish their…
Read MoreIt’s another quality week for Nintendo’s download service as the eShop plays host to superheroes, outlaws, and a classic ape. I almost feel spoiled by the last two weeks of demos on the 3DS. Last week, if you’ll recall, LEGO Batman 2 landed on the service (and was great). This…
Read MoreIn an investor meeting that happened during E3, an individual asked Nintendo president Satoru Iwata how Nintendo would catch up and overtake the digital services of Sony, Microsoft, Apple, and Android devices. Iwata responded by saying that Nintendos solution to providing an online service would not quickly be able to…
Read MoreHot on the heels of E3, the latest Nintendo Download is jam packed with trailers and a very cool download in the form of the LEGO Batman 2 demo. Batman 2, in case you don’t know, should just probably just have been titled LEGO Justice League since it features all…
Read MoreAnother E3 has drawn to a close, the journalists have all packed up and gone home. We return to regularly scheduled viewing from tomorrow. Of course there’s going to be a lot of discussion in the press and in the forums about who ‘won’ E3 2012, and there were a…
Read MoreNintendo’s final E3 conference for the year has ended. You can see our coverage of the event as it happened below. Ready for E3’s last press conference from the big three? In case you’re not, we’ll be keeping tabs on what occurs during the event right as it happens. Nintendo…
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