Thanks to LetsPlayWiiU for the tip.
Club Nintendo members in Europe can order a new reward starting today. Nintendo has added in “Premium Mario Playing Cards”. These are “super-shiny playing cards, decorated with images of your favourite Mario characters and power-ups.
You can place an order for the cards here. The set costs 3,000 points.
Reviews for Yoshi’s New Island have started to land. We’ve rounded up some of the early verdicts below.
Polygon – 7.5
Joystiq – 4 / 5
Eurogamer – 4 / 10
CVG – 6 / 10
Nintendo Life – 5 / 10
USGamer – 4 / 5
NintendoWorldReport – 7.5 / 10
DigitalSpy – 3 / 5
EDGE – 4 / 10
IGN – 7.9 / 10
GameSpot – 5 / 10
GameTrailers – 7.8 / 10
Destructoid – 7 / 10
Giant Bomb – 3 / 5
GamesRadar – 3 / 5
Shacknews – 5 / 10
A new wave of Nintendo songs are heading to Taiko no Tatsujin Wii U.
The game will soon be receiving Balloon Fight’s Balloon Trip song, Dr. Mario’s Fever, and a song from The Legend of Zelda. NES Remix tunes will also be offered.
All of the new songs will be available on March 19 for free.
Nintendo has launched a North American teaser site for Mario Golf: World Tour. You can find it here. Some screenshots are posted in the gallery above.
Thanks to Tytygh for the tip.
Last year, 3DS was the best-selling games console in the UK. MCV decided to ask PlayStation UK MD Fergal Gara if he believes this bodes well for Sony’s handheld device, the PlayStation Vita.
Gara said:
Well that just shows that playing on a dedicated handheld device has not gone, as many will try to suggest. We want to have a healthy share of that handheld market. But we are playing fairly differently to Nintendo 3DS, when you think that is a dedicated handheld device with a very strong showing amongst kids. Vita is positioned differently. Yes it appeals to kids but also to committed gamers and as a companion device for PlayStation 4. 3DS shows that the sector is still there and that Nintendo is doing very well in it, so there is a market to harness.
