Valentine’s Day. A day for relationships? A day to spend with people? Chocolates and hearts and all that stuff?
Nah. Not if you’re Nintendo.In a Nintendo Direct this morning, Nintendo unleashed
Video Games
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Video Game Review: Fire Emblem: Awakening
Two hundred and twenty six. That’s how many times I started up “Fire Emblem: Awakening” before I beat it. Two hundred and twenty six different times, with an average play time of 10 minutes before I hit the power button and started over again. Across the 40 and a half hour adventure, that’s a lot of resetting. The game now sits at third place (only behind the Mii Plaza and the Notifications menu) among my most frequently opened 3DS titles.
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Video Game Trailer: Injustice: Gods Among Us
Excited for the upcoming super hero free for all “Injustice: Gods Among Us?” The fighting title, which pits a cast of DC comic book super heroes against each other, including Batman, Green Arrow, Cyborg, Harley Quinn, Nightwing, Solomon Grundy, Superman, The Flash, Wonder Woman, The Joker, and more, just release a new trailer revealing none other than Lex Luther. Check it out for yourself below.
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Video Games: Nintendo shows off a bunch of new Wii U games
It looks like Nintendo has listened.
A much more apologetic Satoru Iwata led off today’s Nintendo Direct presentation, and in the first chunk of the presentation gave a lot of good news on small, but important fixes to the overall Wii U experience. The Wii U virtual console is coming (with GamePad, Miiverse support), as are two system updated that will fix the load times of the system. Game Boy Advance titles are coming to the service as well, but sadly there was no mention of GameCube games. Miiverse will also be branching out, coming to smartphones sometime in the Spring.
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Video Game Trailer: Luigi’s Mansion Dark Moon Multiplayer
First it had it. Then it didn’t have it. Then it had it again. Whatever the mix up was, it turns out that, yes, in fact, the upcoming Nintendo 3DS title “Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon” does have multiplayer, and it looks pretty cool.
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Video Games: Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate Trailer (Wii U)
Capcom announced today a released date for the awaited return of the Monster Hunter series, “Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate,” for the Wii U and the 3DS. The game will hot both systems on March 19, but if you just can’t wait to sharpen your sword, you can check out all the pretty monster hunting action […]
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Video Game Review: Little Inferno
“Little Inferno” is a tricky game to review.
Not because I didn’t enjoy it-in fact, the opposite-but because it’s hard to say exactly what the game is. It’s somewhat the antithesis of a sand box game: Normally developers give players the tools to create a world. “Little Inferno” gives you the tools to burn that world down.
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Video Game Review: Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two
Whoever first said two is better than one wasn’t talking about “Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two.”
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Video Game Trailer: Aliens Colonial Marines
Did “Prometheus” get you excited for even more adventure in the “Alien” universe? Well, Sega has released a new trailer for the upcoming game “Aliens: Colonial Marines,” showing off story elements for the upcoming shooter. The game isn’t that far off, and will be launching February 12 in the new year for PC, PlayStation 3, […]
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Remembering the Wii: Six years of motion controls
A lot sure has changed in six years.
I remember some of it like it was yesterday, like the giant poster-tube-meets-piggy-bank I had decorated with Nintendo Wii images that I had printed out and taped to it. The Wii was going to be the first home console I got on launch day, the first one I scrounged and saved money for (I ultimately got my first writing job to cover those costs), and the first console that I camped out a gruesome-yet necessary 13 and a half hours
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The Legend of Zelda Symphony of the Goddesses Tour: Interview with producer Jeron Moore
I’ll travel for “Zelda.” I saw The Legend of Zelda Symphony of the Goddesses tour while out in Los Angeles for E3, but getting a chance to see it again and talk with the people behind it when it came to Toronto in September was something I just couldn’t pass up.
