Nintendo has shown a growing handle on DLC for their games and today you can download the latest for Pikmin 3. Costing $1.99 the new pack features four new stages to the “Battle Enemies!” challenge mode. Much like the previously released DLC, the new stages can be played in both solo and co-op modes with online leaderboard support. Also as with the last batch of DLC, one of the levels is being offered free via a software update. Pikmin 3’s multiplayer, as...
Over the past three years publishers’ sales expectations for their projects have risen dramatically. Games like Dead Space 3, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, and Tomb Raider all carried a heavy burden to sell millions upon millions of copies to be considered a success. By all accounts, these three games have been critically acclaimed and are worthy of a purchase yet some in the industry look upon their sales numbers as failures. It is no secret that the cost to...
I have had the headline burning in my brain for a while now. Reading article after article of Nintendo’s Wii-U console sales being rather slow off the gate and falling behind not only in terms of numbers, but falling out of the minds of the gaming community at large. Consider the success of the Wii, which had sold a mind-boggling 100 million units. In December 2009, thanks to a price cut and New Super Mario Bros Wii coming out, it sold over three million in one month...
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Matt and I had the chance to get our hands on Nintendos latest addition to the Mario Bros. franchise, Super Mario 3D World, this past weekend at New York Comic Con 2013. While neither of us were able to use the gamepad during our play session, we both agreed that we loved the taste this game left in my mouth. During the short one level demo, I was given Princess Peach to play. From what I understand, each character has different speeds and abilities, with Peach being the...
With the passing of Hiroshi Yamauchi last Thursday, Japan and video games as a whole lost a pioneering legend the likes of which will never be seen again. He was 85 and left an indelible legacy on the industry as a whole. Assuming control of Nintendo at the age of 22 in 1949 and serving as its President until 2002, Yamauchi took a small playing card manufacturer and eventually transformed it into a massive force in video games in the 80’s and 90’s. Although he...
On August 9th a Nintendo Direct for Platinum Games’ upcoming “Pikmin with Superheroes” game, The Wonderful 101, was shown. As an added surprise, Nintendo decided to release an action packed demo for the game via their eShop service, and what a surprise it was. In The Wonderful 101, you control a group of superheroes who combine themselves into giant weapons such as a fist, sword or gun in order to wreck house on evil robots intent on destroying earth. The demo gives a...
Like many of my gaming counterparts Nintendo was the first console that I could truly call my own and is largely responsible for starting my love for video games. It is this very reason that it pains me to say that Wii U Is Dead and there might not be a way to resurrect it. For years the name Nintendo has been synonymous with gaming, it was the name that those outside of the gaming world seemed to use when referring to consoles as a whole and that kind of brand recognition...
The day that many a Nintendo fan has been waiting for is finally here, with the SNES classic Earthbound being made available as a digital download for the Virtual Console service. Available now on the Wii U eShop for $9.99, the release will end years of pleading from the games’ ravenous fans. As an added bonus, the game guide that was included with the original cartridge will be made available on Nintendo’s website. The guide has been optimized for use with the...
There was a time in the past generation when it seemed the classic 2D platformer was all but lost. Old-school franchises like Super Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog had become 3D and mere shadows of their former glory, with almost all of the difficulty stripped away in order to appeal to a younger or more casual audience. Then three years ago, Donkey Kong Country Returns was released for the Nintendo Wii and veteran gamers were overjoyed. Developed by Retro Studios, best known...
At E3 this year, one of the most eagerly awaited games among Nintendo fans was Mario Kart 8, the next big Mario Kart game set for release in Spring 2014. The new game keeps what everyone loves about Mario Kart with the addition of HD graphics and anti-gravity. I got my chance to race on three courses from the upcoming game. The first thing I will say is that this clearly is a Mario Kart game. It plays exactly like past games. Everything from the boost...
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