Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate Demo Hits The Nintendo eShop
Thursday, 21st February 2013Posted in Industry
Tags: 2013, 3ds, available, demo, demos, eShop, Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, players, wii
Written by: Craig Hunter
There are now Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate demos available as free downloads in the Nintendo eShop for the Wii U and the 3DS. The long awaited demo will feature two quests and allow players to choose from a number of different weapon load outs (via GT).
The demo will feature two quests, one for beginners and one for seasoned veterans. Along with the twelve different weapon choices the demos will pit the players up against two of Ultimate’s monsters. Continue reading “Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate Demo Hits The Nintendo eShop” »
Is Watch Dogs Coming To The Wii U?
Wednesday, 20th February 2013Posted in Preview
Tags: 2013, dogs, game, gen, hardware, listings, watch, Watch Dogs, wii
Written by: Craig Hunter
It looks as though Watch Dogs could be coming to the Wii U according to listings on Amazon, GameStop and Best Buy. The listings state that the highly anticipated open world action game is dated for 2013 and is in development for the Wii U as well as the Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and PC.
At this point Ubisoft has not made an official comment on the Wii U version of the game or the various retail listings.
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DRAGON QUEST X Coming to Wii U? Yes, But Only in Japan (For Now)
Tuesday, 19th February 2013Posted in Preview
Tags: Dragon Quest 10, Dragon Warrior 10, wii, wii u
Written by: Jeff Nau
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Dragon Quest (better known in America as Dragon Warrior) fans at long last have something to look forward to on the Wii U — and given recent sales figures for the system, it may also be the only thing.
Now the Dragon Quest X/Dragon Warrior 10 game has at long last received an official release date for its Japanese Wii U drop. Continue reading “DRAGON QUEST X Coming to Wii U? Yes, But Only in Japan (For Now)” »
ZombiU Wii U Bundle Making Its Way To U.S. And Canada
Friday, 8th February 2013Posted in Preview
Tags: bundle, comes, copy, Deluxe, land, nintendo, wii, ZombieU
Written by: Craig Hunter
The new ZombiU Wii U bundle has been announced for North America. The bundle will also ship with a copy of Nintendo Land and will be available in the U.S. and Canada on February 17 (via GI).
The bundle will run you $389.99, which Nintendo says is “a savings of $70 if all items were purchased separately.”
The bundle contains the deluxe version of the Wii U, so it comes with everything you would normally get including Nintendo Land. The bundle comes with a little more than the regular deluxe bundle which is why it’s a little more expensive.
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Rayman Legends Delayed Until September, Now Coming to PS3 and Xbox 360
Thursday, 7th February 2013Posted in Preview
Tags: 360, game, Legends, play, ps3, rayman, September, wii
Written by: Craig Hunter
Today Ubisoft announced that it’s popular platformer Rayman Legends will be coming to both the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3 this September (via Joystiq).
The bad news is the Wii U version also won’t be coming until September.
Originally a “launch window” game for the Wii U set to release on February 26, Legends has now been delayed to launch along with the 360 and PS3 versions come September.
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A Reason to Buy a Wii? ‘Too Much’ Couch Sitting Will Make You Impotent, Study Finds
Wednesday, 6th February 2013Posted in Offbeat
Tags: couch potato, couch sitting, impotence, wii
Written by: Jeff Nau
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Turns out that sitting around all day is actually killing your chances of impregnating your significant other (if that’s indeed your intention).
Perhaps that’s a good reason to get up and, we dunno, swing a tennis racket every once in a while. And by tennis racket we of course mean Wii Tennis game controller! Continue reading “A Reason to Buy a Wii? ‘Too Much’ Couch Sitting Will Make You Impotent, Study Finds” »
Weak Wii U Sales Cause Nintendo To Lower Sales Forecast
Wednesday, 30th January 2013Posted in Industry
Tags: 2013, 3ds, march, million, nintendo, sales, sold, wii
Written by: Craig Hunter
Disappointing Wii U and 3DS sales have caused Nintendo to revise its sales forecast (via WSJ).
In the last report Nintendo planned they would sell 5.5 million Wii U systems between the November launch and March 31, 2013. It also expected the Nintendo 3DS to sell 17.5 million units between April1, 2012 and March 31, 2013.
This marks the second time the company has lowered its 3DS forecast. Originally Nintendo planned to sell 18.5 million by March 1st, then it went down to 17.5 million and now 15 million.
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Nintendo News Day Continues: Bayonetta 2 Exclusive, New 3D Super Mario Galaxy, Xenoblade Chronicles Shows Off Successor [Videos]
Wednesday, 23rd January 2013Posted in Industry
Tags: announcements, Bayonetta, game, Mario, new, nintendo, today, trailer, wii, Xenoblade, Yarn Yoshi
Written by: Craig Hunter
Nintendo was very busy today in the latest Direct presentation.
Not only did it drop major announcements about the Zelda franchise with the Wind Waker HD remake and the brand new open world Zelda game in development, we also got some interesting updates and announcements about some other titles including Bayonetta 2, a new 3D Mario game, Yarn Yoshi and Monolith’s Xenoblade successor, among others (via Polygon).
Check out the various announcements videos from the presentaiton below including gameplay footage from Monolith’s new title, the new Bayonetta 2 trailer and more.
Brand New Open World Zelda Wii U Game in Development, Legend of Zelda Wind Waker HD Remake Coming This Fall [Video]
Wednesday, 23rd January 2013Posted in Preview
Tags: development, hd, new, remake, waker, wii, wind, Zelda
Written by: Craig Hunter
During a Nintendo Direct presentation today, the company announced that The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker is getting an HD remake coming to the Wii U.
The company also talked briefly about a brand new Zelda game in development (via Joystiq).
Check out the Wii U Direct presentation video and Wii U Wind Waker screens in the gallery below.
Activision’s FPS ‘The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct’ Gets A Release Date
Thursday, 10th January 2013Posted in Preview
Tags: amc, backpack, instinct, players, screen, survival, The Walking Dead, wii, wii u
Written by: Craig Hunter
Activision has now given a firm release date for its upcoming The Walking Dead themed FPS, Survival Instinct. The publisher has also confirmed that we will be seeing a Wii U version as well.
Survival Instinct will hit stores on March 29 for the Playstation 3, Wii U and Xbox 360 as well as being available to download for PC users.
Recently footage from the upcoming Activision survival shooter surfaced online, which you can check out below.
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$2 Million Worth Of Wii U Consoles Stolen in Elaborate Airport Heist
Wednesday, 19th December 2012Posted in Blog Archive, News
Tags: ABC, consoles, county, Inside, nintendo, thieves, truck, warehouse, wii, wii u
Written by: Craig Hunter
Around 7000 Wii U consoles have been stolen from a Seattle warehouse in an elaborate airport heist over the weekend. The thieves made off with around $2 million worth of Wii Us from Seattle’s SeaTac airport.
When Eurogamer reached out for more details on the situation, a representative from the King County Sheriff’s Office said that the stolen goods were made up of about half basic Wii U models and half deluxe units, bringing the take to around $2.28 million.
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Nintendo: 1.2 Million Hardware Units Sold Last Weekend, Wii U Sold Out
Monday, 26th November 2012Posted in Industry
Tags: 1 million, 3ds, DS, hardware, nintendo, Reggie Fils-Aime, wii, wii u
Written by: Craig Hunter
Nintendo has confirmed to CNET that it sold over one million hardware units over this past weekend.
CNET spoke with Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime in a phone interview today where he reveled the impressive sales numbers. Fils-Aime also said that along with those impressive numbers the Wii U is “essentially sold out.”
Fils-Aime said that Nintendo sold over 1 million devices last weekend. Internal sales data from Nintendo showed sales reaching over 1.2 million units last weekend, a number that included Wii U, Wii, 3DS and DS. Continue reading “Nintendo: 1.2 Million Hardware Units Sold Last Weekend, Wii U Sold Out” »
This Week in Gaming: Five Things to be Thankful For
Wednesday, 21st November 2012Posted in Week In Gaming News
Tags: achievement, games, gaming, thankful, time, unlocked, week, wii
Written by: Patrick Scott Patterson
This week in gaming: The Nintendo Wii U was launched.
Check back next week for more…. wait, what? You want more than that?
Okay, but I normally write the weekly This Week in Gaming columns on Thursday morning. Thursday on this particular week is Thanksgiving, a day I’d rather reserve for eating pumpkin pie and watching football. So, instead, I’m sitting here on a Sunday, and so far only the Wii U has launched this week.
So, instead, I offer up things I’m thankful for in video gaming, and do it in the style of my normal column. It may help if you fire up a copy of the music from the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving before you read further.
I Am Thankful for the Nintendo Wii U
I don’t care if that makes some guy with too much hair gel tell me that I need to turn in my “hardcore gamer” card for saying that, either. A new console is always an exciting thing to see, even if it covers my television in weeble wobble people, especially since the original Wii console has seemed almost dormant since the start of Barack Obama’s first term in office.
Achievment Unlocked: 10G – This may change if Nintendo is successful in their efforts to make every word on earth end in “ii” from here. Wii, Mii, TVii, oh mii godii. Whatii? Crapii? It’s startiing.
I am Thankful for Call of Duty
Never in the history of video games have I seen a series sell a bajillion copies a year yet supposedly be hated by those who decide they can tag themselves a the ‘real gamers’ out there. Gaming is mainstream entertainment, and no game manages to prove that like the annual Activision tradition.
Plus I can blow up stuff with my friends and not go to jail. Always a plus.
Achievement Unlocked: 20G – The pilgrims were the original host migrations.
I am Thankful for Grand Theft Auto V
The GTA series isn’t an all time favorite of mine or anything, but it’s hilarious watching the news, especially FOX News, each time one of the Grand Theft Auto games comes out.
They’ll flip out, acting as if the parents buying these games for their kids are somehow doing so blindly and without knowledge of the ESRB ratings system and content within the games. Then will come the white haired “experts” with the bad comb-overs that never played the game yet somehow are tapped as an expert for a story about video games.
It’s the best comedy on television. I can’t wait.
Achievement Unlocked: 30G – I’d pay cash to challenge Glenn Beck to complete all achievements on Grand Theft Auto V. A Kickstarter idea, perhaps?
I am Thankful for Indie Games
I’ll never be one of those guys who rants about AAA titles or whatever, as they are important to the financial success of the industry. However, I’m very thankful for the fact that indie game developers have so many ways of getting their product out to the masses in the modern industry.
When I first got hooked on video games in 1981, many games were developed by a single person or a very small and close knit team. They didn’t have much memory or money nor did they have a huge corporate structure telling them what they wanted them to make.
The result was the creation of games that were just pure fun, and close to the heart of the creators. Indie gaming reminds me much of the earliest days of gaming that hooked me on it all in the first place.
Achievement Unlocked: 40G – Damn ya, Spelunky. You took a lot of my time this year.
I am Thankful for Here
I don’t think I’ve told the folks here how thankful I am for the opportunity to produce content on this very website.
I’ve been gaming for a long time, and I’ve been producing content based on gaming for a long time. I’ve got a pretty unique view of the gaming industry and of life in general. I take gaming seriously but try to have fun with it. That’s the point, right?
As part of this site, not only do I get to produce content for an audience that may not have already been seeing it, but I get to do it in my own style. I’m pretty much given the creative direction I need to do things how I do them. I have fun, and hope those checking it out have fun with it, too.
That’s the point of it all, isn’t it?
Achievement Unlocked: 50G – A very serious “Thank You” for the opportunity. Now let’s eat some funking turkey.
This column will return next week with it’s typical non-Full House sounding finish. Everyone have a good Thanksgiving first.
Grand Theft Auto V Coming to The Wii U?
Monday, 19th November 2012Posted in Preview
Tags: aime, content, fils, Grand Theft Auto V, GTA, recently, rockstar, said, wii
Written by: Craig Hunter
At this point the highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto V is only slated to hit the PS3 and Xbox 360 in Spring of 2013. However, the president of Nintendo America, Reggie Fils-Aime, recently spoke about his optimism that the open world crime game would make its way on to the company’s new Wii U platform.
Fils-Aime recently spoke with MTV (via IGN) where he said that there is a great chance GTA V would be coming to the new Nintendo console.
Recent interviews with key members at Rockstar are pointing towards it being a possibility but the company has yet to confirm anything. Rockstar said that it hadn’t made any decisions for additional platforms yet.
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Basic Wii U Model Leaves the User With Only 3GB Storage
Thursday, 15th November 2012Posted in Industry
Tags: 3gb, available, Basic, limitations, model, nintendo, storage, usb, wii, wii u
Written by: Craig Hunter
The Nintendo Wii U is coming in just a few days now on November 18 and today we get some info on the system’s flash memory and download limitations.The Wii U will finally be allowing Nintendo users to download full size games except with the Basic version there is very little room to do so. There are definitely some storage limitations to keep in mind if you think you will be downloading any full-size titles.
Nintendo explains in a recent presentation that the 8GB Basic Wii U will have only 3GB of space after installing the system software and creating a user profile etc. The Premium model will have 25GB of available space.
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Daily Gaming: New Super Mario Bros. U Details, Nabbit Creature Revealed
Tuesday, 30th October 2012Posted in Preview
Tags: coin, game, map, mode, Nabbit, new, New Super Mario Bros. U, nintendo, wii, wii u
Written by: Craig Hunter
With the launch less than three weeks away, Nintendo has started to reveal more details about many of the upcoming Wii U launch titles.
Today we get word on some new game modes and a new character called “Nabbit” coming to New Super Mario Bros. U.
We already know about some of the new game modes and today we get more details on them and the new world map.
Continue reading “Daily Gaming: New Super Mario Bros. U Details, Nabbit Creature Revealed” »
Game Counterfeiter Who Sold Fake Video Games Taken Down by FBI
Monday, 22nd October 2012Posted in Industry
Tags: DS, DS-1, hong kong, Justin success Brooks, Nintedo, wii
Written by: Jeff Nau
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A U.K. man by the name of Justin Success Brooks was making a killing selling counterfeit Wii, DS, ad DS 1 games, pirating and selling software at around 100-200 games a disc/cartridge.
Kotaku reports that the 41-year-old Mr. Success was doing pretty well for himself, until Nintendo caught wind of what he was up to via the UK Interactive Entertainment Association and decided to come after him.
Much like a good narc would do, (acutely demonstrated with our recent Federal Reserve terrorist attempt), they let Success get nice and comfortable before negotiating a huge exchange. Continue reading “Game Counterfeiter Who Sold Fake Video Games Taken Down by FBI” »
Daily Gaming: Nintendo Wii Gets a Major Price Drop to $129.99
Monday, 15th October 2012Posted in Gaming
Tags: black, bundle, configuration, discounted, new, nintendo, wii, wii u
Written by: Craig Hunter
With the Wii U coming soon, Nintendo has decided to announce a major price drop for the Wii. The Nintendo Wii will be priced at $129.99 and will now come bundled with two titles, Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort. Nintendo expects the discounted bundle to be available by the end of the month.
The bundle will feature the black Wii console as well as both of the aforementioned games on a single disc. According to the Nintendo press release (via Joystiq) the new bundle will also come with a black Wii Remote as well as a black Nun-chuck controller.
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Daily Gaming: Metroid Prime Devs Making New Wii U Game
Friday, 28th September 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: Miyamoto, nintendo, party, Reggie Fils-Aime, Retro Studios, titles, wii, wii u
Written by: Craig Hunter
Retro Studios is well known for its work on the Nintendo platform and apparently the company is working on a “fantastic project” for the Wii U. Retro may be best known for its work on Metroid Prime. Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime told Game Trailers in the latest episode of GTTV that Retro has something big in the works.
GTTV host Geoff Keighley asked Fils-Aime about some of the first party titles Nintendo has coming our way but has yet to announce. Reggie was quick to promise that Nintendo has some major platform exclusives on the way from some of the company’s biggest developers including Retro Studios and Mr. Miyamoto’s team.
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Blizzard Says Starcraft May Work On The Wii U?
Tuesday, 19th June 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: blizzard, Dustin Browder, mouse, N64, nintendo, starcraft, ui, wii, wii u
Written by: Craig Hunter
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Developers behind the ever popular Starcraft II say there is hope to see a Starcraft game on consoles yet, adding that Nintendo’s upcoming Wii U could be an excellent fit.
Although Blizzard long since focused on PC games, it is in no way a stranger to console titles. The studio has previously confirmed some kind of console version for Diablo III. In the past we have already seen popular Blizzard titles like Starcraft and Diablo make their way onto the N64 and the Playstation respectively. Some 10 years ago Blizzard also announced a console title that has been infamously delayed, Starcraft: Ghost which was to be a stealth-action hybrid. Continue reading “Blizzard Says Starcraft May Work On The Wii U?” »
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