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Posted on 12 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Images, Random | 0 comments

For the past couple of years, the gaming community has taken interest in… Nintendo boxes that have been sent to the E3 convention center. E3 preparation are well underway, and they have been detected for a third year. You can find a few photos of the boxes and E3 site in the gallery above.

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Update: Here’s a photo…

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Nintendo did something rather neat with the first Animal Crossing. Copies came with a number of classic NES titles that could be played directly in-game.

We haven’t seen something like that with future entries. And as far as series creator Katsuya Eguchi is concerned, this isn’t something that will be returning.

Eguchi told Kotaku:

“Please consider it’s not happening ever again. At the time, we didn’t have a Virtual Console system. We thought that playing games inside of a game is kind of funny, and we wanted to do it. But now there’s a Virtual Console where you can play classic games, so we don’t think we will be doing that in future titles.”

Kotaku later asked if he would consider letting people play the old Animal Crossing in the new Animal Crossing games. His response? “That might be interesting.”

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Beyond Good & Evil 2 may not be dead. Well, Ubisoft seems to at least remember that it had announced the game at one point.

The company posted the following content on its Facebook page late last week with regard to E3 2013:

“We’re a bit busy prepping for E3. Time to call in some reinforcements. (Points if you remember this classic character!)”

Surely Ubisoft isn’t just messing with us, right…? Beyond Good & Evil 2 has to come back at this point. It’s been waaaaaaay too long since Ubisoft announced the game!

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Posted on 12 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in DS, General Nintendo, Videos, Wii | 0 comments

If you were to ask any Nintendo fan about which E3 conference was Nintendo’s worst, most would probably point to E3 2008.

The briefing was completely devoid of announcements for the hardcore audience, and there was very little news in general.

So what was there? From Nintendo, the company announced Animal Crossing: City Folk, Wii Sports Resort, and Wii Music. That’s it.

Arguably the biggest announcement was Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for the DS, but no trailer (or screenshots) was shown.

E3 2008 led to several cringe-worthy moments. Cammie Dunaway made her debut and talked about breaking her wrist snowboarding, while Ravi Drums was banging away on virtual drums like a madman.

At least we got a few memes out of the whole thing!

Posted on 12 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Images | 0 comments

Before there was Star Fox Adventures, Rare was cooking up Dinosaur Planet for the Nintendo 64. A trailer was prepared for the game back in September 2000, but never released. We do, however, have a few screencaps from the video that you can view in the gallery above.

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Posted on 12 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Random, Videos | 0 comments

We typically don’t post this kind of content on NE, but it’s so bizarre that I’d be doing a disservice if I didn’t share this with you all:

Posted on 12 years ago by Austin(@NE_Austin) in General Gaming, General Nintendo, News, Podcast Stories | 0 comments

You heard that right: The greatest fighting-game franchise ever to grace consoles just might be returning, despite being dead for nearly 20 years. Siliconera was doing some digging around and discovered four trademarks for “Shaq Fu” registered by the same folks (“Mine O’Mine”) who registered “Shaqfighter” back in May.

Could this mean the return of Shaq to gaming? Or perhaps we’ll see a 20-year anniversary edition of the game?

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Posted on 12 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News, Podcast Stories | 0 comments

There is some “awesome” news coming from Platinum Games next week – so says creative producer JP Kellams.

Kellams teased the exciting updates through his Twitter account, which will be shared next week:

Platinum Games has two Wii U games on the way: The Wonderful 101 and Bayonetta 2. Both of these titles should be on display during next week’s Nintendo Direct with Bayonetta 2 receiving a proper unveil.

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Posted on 12 years ago by Patrick(@Patricklous) in 3DS, DS, Famicompendium, Features, General Nintendo, News | 1 Comment

Author: Patrick

Welcome to Famicompendium – a new regular (or at least semi-regular) column where I’ll be taking a look back at the best and worst the world of import gaming has to offer. From the Famicom to the Wii, I’ll be exploring some of the most fascinating titles to never be officially released in English.

I thought I’d start the column off with an adorable, charming and brutally difficult platformer from the 90s. Lately we’ve been giving a fair bit of coverage to a little 3DS game called Sayonara Umihara Kawase (and hopefully even more once an English version is announced at E3 – don’t leave me hanging, Agatsuma) so it’s worth examining just who the heck Umihara Kawase is and why we’re saying goodbye to her.

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