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A new memoir from author Salman Rushdie has revealed that the respected academic has a (until now) secret love of SNES hit Super Mario World. The Millions reports that at one stage during his ten-year exile on the run from a fatwa, Rushdie took to playing Super Mario World after …
Read More »Nintendo ramps up digital offer on 3DS
Full download titles, online sales, DLC – such things are rarely discussed in the same sentence as Nintendo platforms. But there were signs of change in last night’s European Nintendo Direct broadcast, in which NoE president Satoru Shibata revealed plans for all three on 3DS. Following its experiment with New …
Read More »Paper Mario returns this December
Nintendo will release Paper Mario: Sticker Star for 3DS just in time for Christmas European president Satoru Shibata announced the game will arrive on December 7th via the platform holder’s latest Nintendo Direct web conference. This will be the first 3DS title from the quirky Mario spin-off series and sees …
Read More »MCV Pacific Weekly Wrap-Up: EB EXPO Edition
With half the industry unavailable this week due to EB EXPO mayhem, MCV Pacific takes a look at a primarily EXPO-led week of news. Day one is now drawing to a close, and MCV’s first impressions of the show(which doubles the size of last year’s effort, which was then the …
Read More »Disney Epic Mickey 2 confirmed for Wii U launch
Disney’s Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two will be ready for the launch of Wii U on November 30th. The Epic Mickey series began in 2010 and is created by popular development legend Warren Spector. It brought back classic Disney characters, including Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, the precursor to …
Read More »MiiVerse is Wii U’s killer app, says Fils-Aime
Social network a 'key differentiator' to competition in the console space
Read More »Wii U ‘more open and indie friendly’ than Wii
Broke Rules' Martin Pichlmair discusses how Nintendo has learnt its lessons from the current generation
Read More »Three DLC packs coming to New Super Mario Bros 2
Nintendo has revealed that it has three DLC releases planned for 3DS title New Super Mario Bros 2. Polygon reports that the downloads were revealed by Nintendo boss Saturo Iwata in a video presentation. The first DLC is called the ‘Gold Mario Go! Go! Pack’ and offers three new Coin …
Read More »Lexis Numerique: Nintendo doesn’t push digital enough
There is 'no proper marketplace' for digital games on Nintendo platforms, claims dev
Read More »Without Nintendo, Bayonetta 2 would be dead in the water
The idea that Nintendo has blocked the release of Bayonetta 2 on rival platforms is inaccurate. Indeed, it transpires that without the partnership of Nintendo, Platinum Games would not have been able to greenlight the project at all. "WouldBayonetta 2not exist without Nintendo? The answer is yes," Platinum’s executive director …
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