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Read More »Wii U Price and Date will be revealed tomorrow
It’s been quiet on the Wii U front since E3, but tomorrow, finally, Nintendo will reveal all. The platform holder has confirmed – via a tweet sent by Nintendo president Satoru Iwata – that tomorrow’s Nintendo Direct announcement will include the price, release date and ‘other information’. The firm is …
Read More »Wii U version of Ghost Recon Online "on hold"
It was presented alongside the Wii u hardware itself by Nintendo at E3, but it looks like Ghost Recon Online may now never reach the console. Videogamer reports that the Nintendo SKU is on hold” for the machine, with the dev pouring all of its resources into the PC version. …
Read More »You’re not going to convince Iwata that handheld gaming is threatened
The question, of course, is whether or not gamers still seek the kind of ‘rich’ handheld experience that portable games consoles offer. One man who has always thought and still thinks the answer is yes is Nintendo president Satoru Iwata. He’s heard all the arguments, read all the dooms of …
Read More »3DS passes 7m in Japan, claims entire software Top Ten
The established Nintendo narrative amongst European journalists seems to be quite negative at the moment, but the story in Japan could hardly be better. The latest Media Create numbers for the region show that Nintendo’s 3DS was once again the best selling hardware of last week, shifting 111,857 units. This …
Read More »PS Vita selling 11,000 units a day
PlayStation handheld trails behind iPhone, iPad, 3DS and Minecraft
Read More »Nintendo’s social experiment
Rick Gibson delves into the console giant's Miiverse for Wii U and whether it can succeed in realising Nintendo's online ambitions
Read More »New Super Mario Bros 2 is finally here… and well worth the wait
GAME OF THE DAY: Nintendo’s unrelenting critics would have you believe its mascot’s latest handheld outing is ‘Mario by the numbers’. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The moment 3DS owners start up the single-player mode of New Super Mario Bros 2, they will fall into one of two …
Read More »Capcom Wii U announcement ‘very soon’
Capcom has confirmed to MCV that it will reveal its first Wii U game ‘very soon.’ But it won’t be shown at Gamescom, the publishers says. Capcom has historically been a major support of Nintendo and its new platforms. The company has already released a number of titles on 3DS …
Read More »OPINION: New Super Mario Bros 2 is great. And it’s £39.99
This Friday is an historic one for Nintendo. The launch of New Super Mario Bros 2 marks not only the end of the barren summer (along with Square Enix’s Sleeping Dogs) but also the launch of the ‘New Nintendo’. That’s because the game will be the first to be launched …
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