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Review: SteamWorld worth digging into your wallet
Retro-inspired platformers have taken the eshop by storm the past couple of years. Games like Mutant Mudds, Gunman Clive and the critically acclaimed Shovel Knight have all sold well and received glowing reviews. Another game inspired by the 8-bit and 16-bit era of gaming is Image & Form’s SteamWorld Dig, a highly addictive mining adventure. Regularly priced just under $9, the game is cu...
Bravely Default’s success could help return Final Fantasy to it’s roots
With over 1 million copies sold worldwide, over 600,000 outside of Japan, Bravely Default’s success may have slapped some sense into the people at Square Enix. The company well known for some of the greatest RPGs of the SNES era, had seemingly lost the plot as of late, particularly with the extremely popular Final Fantasy series. Having veered away from the traditional Japanese RPG model, re...
Link-inspired weapons and armor confirmed for Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti6xw38LfGo[/youtube] Capcom has confirmed, via a post on their blog, that weapons and armor based on Link’s iconic appearance will make their way to Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate for the Nintendo 3DS. If you watch the trailer above, you’ll see two hunters dressed as Link, one wielding the master sword and Hylian shield, the other the fully upgraded ...
Review: Biogenik battery – Less of a savior, more of a backup plan
Every battery has a life cycle. Even rechargeable batteries start to lose their charge over time, and, while they will continue to function, their power will diminish. While most products can be recharged approximately 500 times before they begin to diminish, others will begin so slowly charge less and less, coming to a complete end at 500 charges. One of the major complaints revolving arou...
Super Smash Bros. Main Menu Screen Revealed!
Here’s another sneak peek at Super Smash Bros. for the 3DS: the Main Menu Screen! Looks like there will be several features (most of which have already been revealed so far) to satisfy your Smash needs. One notable feature looks to be the connectivity with the Wii U. The icons are also animated and the bottom screen displays pictures that match each mode! If you’ve played Kid Ic...
Tomodachi Life stage in Smash Bros. 3DS reminiscent of Brawl’s Luigi’s Mansion
You must have JavaScript enabled on your device to view Miiverse posts that have been embedded in a website. View post in Miiverse. Masahiro Sakurai’s Super Smash Bros. pic of the day reveals a new stage for the Nintendo 3DS version of the game inspired by Tomodachi Life. As you can see in the screen above, it’s the apartment building from the quirky life sim game, with four roo...
Ubisoft’s Tetris Ultimate heading for 3DS, includes exclusive Challenge mode
Ubisoft has announced that its downloadable title Tetris Ultimate will hit Nintendo 3DS systems as well as PS4, Xbox One, and PC. The 3DS version of the game will include an exclusive mode called Challenge: “Challenge – From disappearing Tetriminos (Tetris® playing pieces) to orientation-locked Tetriminos, be prepared for a variety of challenges that will test a player’s fortitude.” Th...
Club Nintendo rolls out a digital line-up of Elite Status rewards
Club Nintendo’s 2014 selection of Elite Status rewards is available to peruse now. If you were able to reach Gold or Platinum status on the service during the year starting July 1, 2013, these rewards are available…right now, in fact, as a downloadable game of your choice. Click here to sign in to the Club and find out whether one of these games will be yours soon: Platinum Members Onl...
Complete 3DS Smash Bros. roster and stages to be revealed on August 12th
Hot off the recent reveal of three characters (two new and one returning) for the fourth and fifth iterations of the Smash Bros. franchise, a Japanese publication titled CoroCoro will offer more insight to the full roster. According to the publication, they will have a full exclusive of the complete 3DS Smash Bros. roster and stages on August 12th. Now, the 3DS and Wii U versions of Super Smash Br...
Rayman trophy revealed for Smash Bros.
Smash Bros. head honcho Masahiro Sakurai revealed earlier today a new Smash trophy on Miiverse. To the surprise of many, the trophy is that of a third party character: Rayman. Not to be confused with an assist trophy, this in-game collectable trophy was actually designed by Ubisoft themselves and not Sakurai’s team. The trophy reveal came a few hours before the Smash Bros. website was to ann...
Video: Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire trailer reveals Mega Metagross
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-wTDPviFq8[/youtube] The official YouTube account for the Pokemon series has uploaded a trailer (right on the heels of the Super Smash Bros. Wii U/3DS character reveal trailer; unrelated) that shows off a new Mega evolution: that of Metagross. The trailer is more than a reveal for Metagross’s new mega-look, though: it includes a look at several of the...
Tip: The Shovel Knight OST is awesome; download it now
Jake Kaufman, music composer for games like Shovel Knight and Mighty Switch Force!, is getting to be quite well-known, and for good reason. Shovel Knight was recently released on the eShop for both Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, and in addition to being very well received, the game has an amazing chiptune soundtrack that you can download right over here on Jake’s Bandcamp page. I haven’t play...