ON THIS EPISODE: A great round of what we played this week! Much more talk about Mario Kart 8 to kick things off, Laura and Austin discuss the strange world of Tomodachi Life, and Jack and Austin praise 1001 Spikes! It’s a good thing.

PLUS: We talk about some brief E3 predictions, and halfway through we decide to start marking down our YES/NO predictions in order to check them next week and see how we did.

AND: Listener mail rounds out the day, as usual. We talk about how to review games (as usual), some E3 stuff, and whether or not you can use your 3DS in a sauna.

This Week’s Podcast Crew: Austin, Jack, and Laura

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[Just a Chat] Nintendo at E3 2014: Announced games, mystery 3DS title, and more

Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Just a Chat, Videos | 23 Comments

Austin and I continue our E3 2014 chat by discussing announced games Nintendo should be featuring (Hyrule Warriors, X, Smash Bros., etc.), Nintendo’s mystery 3DS session on Wednesday, and more.

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[Just a Chat] Nintendo at E3 2014: Zelda Wii U, NFP plans

Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Just a Chat, Videos | 13 Comments

E3 2014 is almost here! Austin and I talk about Zelda for Wii U and what Nintendo has in store for its NFP plans.

Part 2 coming tomorrow!

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[NE News Bulletin] No Iwata at E3, Ace Attorney Trilogy, Natsume news, and more

Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in NE News Bulletin, Videos | 1 Comment

Lots of news to cover this time around! I touch on about six news stories in total. Enjoy!

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[NE News Bulletin] DS Virtual Console, Miiverse update, European Wii Sports Club news

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Today’s Nintendo Everything News Bulletin covers a trio of topics: the DS Virtual Console, latest Miiverse update, and Wii Sports Club news for Europe.

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[Just a Chat] Mario Kart 8

Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Just a Chat, Videos, Wii U | 8 Comments

Bumping this to the front page so that those of you who missed the video last night can check it out. I also forgot to mention that towards the end, Austin and I go over some of the feedback you guys left in the form we posted last weekend!

Now that Mario Kart 8 is officially here, Austin and Brian devote nearly an hour to talk about Nintendo’s new racer. Might this be the start of another new series on Nintendo Everything? That’s up to you guys!

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[NE News Bulletin] Huge Mario Kart 8 sales, Sonic Boom news, Nintendo E3 streaming, Wii U update

Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in NE News Bulletin | 2 Comments

Another Nintendo Everything News Bulletin in the books! I was pretty exhausted while putting this together, so I hope you’ll forgive me if I don’t sound overly enthusiastic. That’s what happens around E3 time!

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[Review] Scram Kitty and His Buddy on Rails

Posted on 11 years ago by Jack Johnson(@tupachologram96) in Features, Reviews, Wii U, Wii U eShop | 1 Comment

System: Nintendo Wii U
Release Date: May 15th, 2013 (NA, EU)
Developer: Dakko Dakko
Publisher: Dakko Dakko

Author: Jack

I hate it when people label things incorrectly. It makes me very sad and upset. I can’t tell you how much compound irritation I’ve had to repress when, say, someone would write the wrong name down on an online order at work and offer me the duty of rectifying the situation over the phone with Mrs. Jihnson and her missing mail-order appliance, or when a past roommate not-to-be-named would intentionally label the cat food ‘dog food’ just to try to make me sick the next day.

This is why I possess such a vitriol for relatively new Welsh developer Dakko Dakko and their latest attempt at capturing the burgeoning Wii U indie scene (think Mutant Mudds, Cloudberry Kingdom, and all of the other titles I’ve referenced way too much in writing and on the podcast), Scram Kitty and his Buddy on Rails, a 2D shooter with strong open-world platforming elements. The ‘On Rails’ signifier at the end there implies imprison-y, limited bounds and pointed, one-dimensional gameplay design, whereas Scram Kitty, in its comparative sense of freedom to the recent litany of top-notch platformers we’ve seen reach the eShop, feels anything but. Scram Kitty, though confusing in name, scratches an itch not satiated fully by its contemporaries on the platform. By not being as singularly masterful in its level design elements as, say, VVVVVV or Mighty Switch Force!, Scram Kitty feels a little less uptight and neo-retro, yet crucially still achieves the same level of “old-school hardcore” as those luminaries do. I will not use any cat puns in this review.

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Here’s a Podcast – Episode 95!

Posted on 11 years ago by Austin(@NE_Austin) in Features, Podcast | 4 Comments

ON THIS EPISODE: The first half hour of the show is dominated by talk of two masterful games that Jack played: Katamari Damacy and The Last of Us, followed by some talk of Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box and Child of Light from Laura.

PLUS: Did you think we’d forget about Mario Kart 8? Heck no! We talk for a solid 45 minutes about the game, so skip to the 48 minute mark if you just can’t wait to hear all about our thoughts on it.

AND: Since what we played took so long (due to the big release!) we don’t talk much about the Gamecube controller port for Wii U, so listener mail on a variety of subjects rounds out the show for a two-hour-long bonanza.

This Week’s Podcast Crew: Austin, Jack, and Laura