While there aren’t a whole lot of Wii Nintendo Selects titles to choose from, at least Nintendo is trying, and their most recent effort will be something to get excited for. Although we knew Pikmin 2 was on the way for the first time in the States with new play control, we didn’t know that [...]
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As a lifelong fan of the JRPG genre, particularly Hironobu Sakaguchi and Nobuo Uematsu’s respective work on the Final Fantasy franchise, I’ve been as excited as anyone for The Last Story, especially in light of this generation’s relative dearth of JRPGs. I got a chance to check the game out for the first time last [...]
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You were going to get The Last Story anyway, weren’t you? You don’t need a new batch of screenshots to make up your mind. After waiting all this time Mistwalker’s game is finally coming to North America some time this summer. It’s not like Wii-exclusive RPGs pop up every week or something. Still, our saviors at XSEED [...]
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This week’s Nintendo download content brings you two monster games from Sega’s past. It seems like Sega had a few games with the word ‘monster’ in the name, so it was easy to get them mixed up. I know I enjoyed a few of them, but I can never remember which ones were the good [...]
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The recent cancellation of La-Mulana for WiiWare for territories outside of Japan stirred up a bit of brouhaha, and it was a long time coming. First the game’s release was put in question. Then the developers at Nigoro let us know that they didn’t know what the hold up was. Shortly after that, the game’s publishers announced [...]
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Such a busy bee, that Nintendo. Just last week it was announced that they would soon be offering eShop and WiiWare purchases of current first party releases, priced and dated the same as their store shelf counterparts. Now in a statement to IGN, Nintendo reveals that they are “currently preparing a program for third parties” but have [...]
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With summer almost here, I’m sure die-hard football fans are already packing their coolers and mixing their magical sauces in preparation of pre-season football… which starts in late August. But before any real pigskins fly in the NFL, the true kickoff for football season starts with the annual release of Madden NFL, allowing armchair quarterbacks [...]
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The Wii is running on fumes, make no mistake about it, but at least there are a few bright spots remaining. One such spot was Lu-Mulana, a beefed-up version of a freeware platformer that offered plenty of challenge and exploration. I had casually dabbled in the original, but it was enough to place the remake [...]
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It wasn’t that long ago that Tyrone Rodriguez (Janitor of Nicalis) announced on Sup Holmes? that he’s working on a titles for the 3DS and the Wii U. Since that time, Tyrone had reportedly stated that the Wii U “was Nintendo’s most powerful console,” and that he could see it lasting for “five to ten [...]
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Hey everybody! It’s Saturday! Better yet, lets make it Staturday! LETS GO CRAZY FOR STATS! GoNintendo has a crapload of stats from Nintendo’s recent fiscal report, and there are a few surprises there worth checking out. First off, over 70% of 3DS owners in Japan and the U.S. have connected their console to the internet. That’s [...]
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