Month: November 2009
Video game reviewers give NSMBW their highest Nintendo rating: 8.0
Video game journalists and reviewers were unabashedly blown away by New Super Mario Bros. Wii this week, and rewarded the recently released Nintendo title with their highest honor for Nintendo titles: The coveted “8.0 (decent)” The reviews were legion for this highly anticipated title, but all seemed to share an unbridled enthusiasm for this, the first side-scrolling Mario title to gra...
Cloudy with a chance of girlfriend
Intrigued by a recent BoingBoing post about Konami’s new and apparently addictive DSÂ dating sim “Love Plus” I stumbled upon a free downloadable weather widget featuring three of the game’s main girlfriend characters. The widget lets you choose a “girlfriend” to make comments on the weather based on their in-game persona.
Failure
Obviously, this is all Nintendo’s fault.
New Game Get plays New Super Mario Bros Wii and free WiiWare demos until its eyes fall out
This week is dominated by the moustachioed master of fun, Mario. New Super Mario Bros Wii came out on Sunday and is the top pick this week, alongside Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles and Lego Indiana Jones 2 on Wii. Over on the DS isn’t much other than Assassin’s Creed II. The first DS iteration was actually a pretty decent platforming puzzler, so it’s sequel might be worth...
WiiWare Demo service hits Shop Channel TODAY!
Nintendo’s new WiiWare demo service hit European and Australian Wii consoles early this morning – and Nintendo soon followed with an official press update, indicating it will be available today for North American consoles as well: This week, Wiiâ„¢ owners who connect their Wii consoles to the Internet can enjoy demos of five exceptional games for the WiiWareâ„¢ downloadable game servic...
New Super Mario Bros Wii out today – thoughts?
We’ve covered it pretty well on here already, but now that it’s out, we want to know what you think of New Super Mario Bros Wii. Too hard? Not hard enough? Throw a controller at your TV already? Let us know in comments!
Poll – where do you buy games?
Video games have nuzzled their way into all kinds of scores, even 7-Eleven. We want to know: {democracy:102}
Square Enix brings back Lufia, unveils artwork
This week’s issue of Famitsu is reporting that a long awaited sequel to the Lufia series (called Estpolis in Japan) is currently under production. While the game, titled “Estpolis: The Lands cured by the Gods,” will be developed by Square Enix (which acquired the original developer Taito in 2005), the title is being worked on by the series’ original staff. The Famitsu artic...
The Mario Museum video Tour
I didn’t take this video, but at least you guys can get a good feel what the museum was like.
Mario Collection at the Nintendo World Store
Nintendo World recently decked out their store to be all about Mario due to the release of New Super Mario Bros Wii. They found and showcased some of the rarest, oddest products ever to be released under the Mario name.
New Super Mario Bros Wii arrives tomorrow – proceed to freak out
[phone rings] “Hello?” “Hi, this is Charles Martinet..” The rest of the message plays out with him adopting a Mario voice and proceeding to make a bunch of silly jokes while he proclaims that Sunday is the day to pickup my pre-ordered copy of New Super Mario Bros Wii. This pushes me over the edge. I’ll spend the rest of a rainy Saturday looking up reviews, vid...
Comment of the week is short and sweet
“Nintendo doesn’t do brown. Thank heavens.”’raindog469