Recently, via an article published on Kotaku, it was alleged that gamers would need to buy headsets for their Wii U if they were set on utilising voice-chat while gaming online with others. This is despite the fact that the GamePad has its own built-in microphone ready to rumble right…
Read MoreFollowing up on part one of this feature, (which you should read if you haven’t done so), I listed three games of which I believed had the potential to bare the Wii U’s innovation and the potential for games (and new concepts entirely) to utilise its capabilities efficiently, as well…
Read MoreDigitally Downloaded’s Farida recently had the opportunity to have a talk with infamous games industry analyst Michael Pachter. Infamous because his words are often twisted by the enthusiast press as having a vendetta against Nintendo, and of late Nintendo’s Wii U console. To set the record straight he elaborated for…
Read MoreThe Digitally Downloaded team spent all of last weekend playing all the upcoming games at last weekend’s EB World Expo. We’ve each put together our top five of the games from the show. Or in other words, here’s the games of the coming weeks and months that we’re looking forward…
Read MoreThere’s a lot to get excited about with the Wii U. Nintendo has in its hands a console that promises a lot, and is backing it up with some exciting games – not just Nintendo games, either. The third party interest, such as Zombie U and Bayonetta 2, is very…
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 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 MoreTwo interesting bits of news regarding Nintendo’s upcoming Wii U platform and its online and social structure hit the news feeds today. And I am not amused. The first is that friends codes will return. Nintendo of America managing director, Reggie Fils-Aime, has promised that the system has been revamped…
Read MoreWhile digital downloads save time and are easy to activate, one concern keeps popping up among the consumers; what happens when it is time to move on? Whether it happens to be a hardware failure or the natural time for the technology to kick the bucket, people want to know…
Read MoreWhile Nintendo’s E3 conference earlier today showed most of the features of the Wii U Game Pad, some functions were exempt from Nintendo’s demonstration video or simply announced following the event. We’ll take you through what we know so far, including the old and new. The Old The screen is…
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