General Nintendo

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

Sadly, Nintendo Power is gone. The December 2012 issue – yep, the last one – was sent out to subscribers and is on newsstands now.

Nintendo Power was kind enough to include a farewell letter with the final magazine, which you can read below. Try not to tear up!

Posted on 12 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, General Nintendo, Random, Videos, Wii U | 0 comments

Posted on 12 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, General Nintendo, News | 0 comments

As promised earlier this week, the Club Nintendo 3DS game card case is now back in stock. You can order the reward here. Pricing is set at the standard 250 coin amount.

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… And here’s a look at a lenticular card sent out to the press:

We’ll be hearing about Disney Infinity next month.

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Disney Interactive will be showing off its answer to Activision’s Skylanders franchise, “Disney Infinite”, next month. Chief creative officer of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios John Lasseter and Disney Interactive co-president John Pleasants will be on hand to unveil the title.

The press will get a first-hands look at Disney Infinity during an event on January 15.

An October article from the New York Times outlined Disney Infinity as a “console game with extensive mobile and online applications in which various Pixar and Disney characters will interact with one another for the first time.”

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Posted on 12 years ago by Patrick(@Patricklous) in Features, General Nintendo, Podcast Stories, Random | 1 Comment

Hey everyone, it’s Patrick here and throughout this week I’ll be celebrating Christmas in the only way relevant to this website – by taking a look at a bunch of terrible Christmas specials based on various Nintendo titles. First up is the Super Mario Bros. Super Show – a late-80’s TV program featuring cartoons based on Super Mario Bros. and Zelda. This Christmas episode —Koopa Klaus— is one of the rare episodes of the show  that isn’t just a reference to a popular movie like  “Raiders of the Lost Mushroom” or “On Her Majesty’s Sewer Service”, but that doesn’t make it any less awful.

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

Trine 2: Director’s Cut could be just the start of Frozenbyte’s Wii U support. Sales and marketing manager Mikael Haveri has said that the studio is “very interested” in working on the console once more.

“We are very interested in working on it again. Who knows, but if everything goes well maybe even sooner than many might suspect.”

Haveri also commented on sales of Trine 2: Director’s Cut thus far. Haversi said the title is selling “fairly well according to our calculations”.

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Posted on 12 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, General Nintendo, News | 0 comments

Club Nintendo’s 3DS game card case has been out of stock for awhile now. But on Wednesday, a new batch of units will be available for members.

Nintendo of America confirmed on its Twitter account that the case will be returning on December 19:

“The Nintendo #3DS Game Card Case returns to #ClubNintendo on Dec 19.”

Club Nintendo users will be able to “purchase” the 3DS game card case for 250 coins.

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

NeoGAF member “Mama Robotnik” has written up a brilliant feature on Silicon Knights. The post goes well into detail regarding the studio’s early times, debacles, and cancelled projects.

Much has been said about Silicon Knight’s Eternal Darkness 2 (perhaps one of the studio’s most-anticipated yet not-officially-announced projects), but we’ve never seen any assets from the game. Screenshots have never popped up online, nor have concept arts of any kind.

Thanks to some findings by Mama Robotnik, we may finally have some renders/art from Eternal Darkness 2. A former Silicon Knights 3D character artist included the images below in a couple of folders that could very well be from the game.

The purple creature in particular was probably created for Eternal Darkness 2 based on the fact that Mantorok was the only surviving ancient. The other ancients were able to create red/blue/green undead monsters, so Mantorok would have likely made his own purple soldiers in the sequel.

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Posted on 12 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, General Nintendo, News, Podcast Stories, Wii Shop Channel | 0 comments

Three digital downloads are available on Club Nintendo. Through January 6, 3D Classics: TwinBee, Metroid II: Return of Samus, and Mario Party 2 can be ordered from the site for 150 coins each. Last week’s addition, 1080 Snowboarding, is also up for 150 coins.

View order pages for each game here.