Update: Game Night is now over!
Update: If you’re playing Black Ops 2, please send a friend request to “NE_austin” and join the game I’m in. If you’re playing Mario Kart 7, please join the NintendoEverything Mario Kart 7 community using the code 22-5271-0357-0675.
Game Night will begin at 4 PM ET / 1 PM PT. Most of the friend code exchanging will take place around a half hour prior.
Two items are attached to this page. First, above, is our official Twitch account. Any Wii U games played during Game Night will be streamed, and will eventually be posted to our official YouTube channel.
Below is what we’ll use to communicate with each other. You don’t need to sign up with any sort of service to join, and you don’t have to be playing to chat with us. Just enter any name you desire and you’ll be good to go.
What is Game Night? You can find details right here.
Hi all. My name is Scott Duncan (some may know me as Unlikely Yuusha), and I create video game reviews which are filled to the brim with my terrible ideas and ridiculous personality. Hopefully this is something you’ll enjoy.
The debut episode in Nintendo Everything’s new “Unlikely Reviews” series is Super Mario Sunshine, which I’d say is one of the more under-appreciated titles of the GameCube. In the video above, I take a look back on the game and remember the lovable setting and characters.
I’ll see you in the near future with more silly antics!
I’m never doing two Eggbusters in one week again. I nearly died trying to get these out even remotely on time I think! But they turned out pretty good.
If you’ve never played LEGO City Undercover, I still suggest checking out the video. It’s one of my new favorite episodes!
We’ve hit the motherload with Sonic Lost World screenshots. You can find a ton of images from the Wii U version below.
Platinum Games has updated its Wonderful 101 blog with yet another post. You can find it here. Today’s update covers the game’s bosses.
Nintendo released an enhanced GamePad battery in Japan a few weeks ago. How does it perform? Japanese publication Game Watch put the new battery to the test earlier this month
The original GamePad battery was sitting at 1500mAh, but the new large-capacity battery pack is about 1.7 times stronger at 2550mAh. And whereas the original had an operating time of about 3-5 hours, the new one is said to last between 5-8 hours.
Game Watch set the GamePad’s brightness to the highest point, all power-saving methods were turned off, vibration was turned on, and Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate’s opening movie was played on full blast. In this state, Dengeki measured the amount of time until the controller powered down from a complete depletion of battery life.
The results were pretty encouraging, as the GamePad lasted 5 hours and 12 minutes. Previously, the original battery would last about 3 hours in this state.
We should mention that the size of the battery pack is about 1.5 times bigger than the original, so where the original sits vertically in the back of the GamePad, the newer and bigger battery fits perfectly sideways. It just barely fits into the back of the controller.
Joystiq has compiled a series of stats about this year’s Gamescom expo, posted below. The big highlight? 340,000 people attended this year’s show, up from just over 275,000 attendees in 2012.
Here’s the full roundup of stats:
- 340,000 attendees, a 23 percent increase from 2012.
- 635 exhibitors from 40 countries (2012: 600 exhibitors from 40 countries; 2011: 557 exhibitors from 39 countries; 2010: 505 exhibitors from 33 countries; 2009: 458 companies attended from 31 countries).
- Croissants consumed at hotel breakfast: 40 (2012: 35).
- Liters of multivitamin juice consumed: 1 (2012: 6, 2011: 4).
- Number of times the Joystiq crew locked themselves out of their rooms: 2.
- Number of liters of Kölsch consumed by us: 3.6 liters (2012: 0.2; 2011: 8; 2010: 1.6; 2009: 6).
- Number of times “excess” was experienced: 0.
- Number of times we were confused as working for the French magazine: 0 (2012: 1; 2011: 2).
- Evenings of Turkish take-out (Turkish pizza is amazing!): 0, our place across the street was turned into a currywurst joint (2012: 2; 2011: 3).
- Number of horse images in our hotel room: 10. Same hotel room as the past three years.
- Number of Super Joystiq Podcast guests that hung out in our hotel room: 17 (2012: 13; 2011: 7).
- Number of things that went wrong during the Gamescom EA and Sony press conferences: 0. Expected karmic retribution for that amount of luck: limitless.
- Number of times we ate at the Bier Esel (Beer Donkey): 1. (2012: 3; 2011: 2).
- Number of times we had a surly waitress at the Bier Esel, but didn’t care because the food was so good: 1. So saucy!
- Number of times a homeless guy asked us for for cash: 1 (2012: 4; 2011: 12; 2010: 0; 2009: 8).
- Number of times accosted by ladies on a bachelorette party for money: 1.
- Schnitzels consumed: 1.
- Number of days Sinan Kubba brought rain: 3.
Circle Entertainment has shared new details about its upcoming 3DS eShop game, World Conqueror 3D. You can find the new information below.
– Strategy is “beyond [that of] a board game”
– Each country has advantages like cheaper costs to recruit armies, powerful tanks, unstable infantry, etc.
– Enemies in the countries differ, as do the tax income
– Having a lot of land but a poor country won’t let you easily protect them since you need money to recruit in your defense
– Game uses the mobile title World Conqueror 1945 as its foundation
– Has been redesigned
– Presentation improved for a “more comfortable” look
– Can have a challenging level of difficulty, but taking into account the 3DS’ “many casual gamers”
– Should be out around October in North America/Europe
– Out a month later in Japan
– Pricing not finalized
– Will be set at a “reasonable” cost
– 12 campaigns
– 3 storylines
– Apparently has at least 50 hours of gameplay
