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Thanks to Adrian for the tip.

Update 3: Added in the live-stream below. Austin provided some lovely commentary!

Update 2: Game Night is now over!

Update: If you plan on playing Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 on Wii U, please send a friend request to “NE_austin”. If you plan on playing Mario Kart 7, please join the NintendoEverything MK7 community! Community code is 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 (10 minutes).

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 we’ll be good to go.

As mentioned last night, Call of Duty: Black Ops II will be the game of choice on Wii U, which Austin will be handling. I’ll mainly be in charge of Mario Kart 7 sessions.

We’ll see how well this goes. I imagine things will improve over the next few weeks!

What is Game Night? You can find details right here.

EarthBound 64 never saw the light of day in light of a tumultuous and lengthy development cycle. The project was ultimately canned in 2000 – and on the same day, Nintendo published an interview with Shigesato Itoi, Shigeru Miyamoto, and Satoru Iwata covering the cancellation.

You can find the full thing here. It’s a long read, but certainly worth checking out.

We did want to highlight one bit from Iwata that is making the rounds. He actually put a good amount of the blame on himself, stating:

That one was clearly my fault. A long time ago I once said, “Never say a programmer CAN’T do something.” Those words sort of take on a life of their own—dropping the word “can’t” can close the doors of possibility. Generally speaking, everything will work out eventually if you put in the effort and push onwards, but everything still operates within certain limitations. So if something is honestly impossible to do, you need to accept that. Oftentimes the case is that something is possible, but sacrifices will need to be made. Or that something is possible, but it cannot exist alongside some other thing. So that’s what I meant when I said “Don’t say you CAN’T be a programmer,” but “don’t say you CAN’T” is the only part that took off.

There was a time when the early designs for MOTHER 3 were really reckless. We were working with specifications that surpassed the system capabilities and memory capacity. We starting working on the game with the premise that we’d create something that’s never been done before.

The official Batman: Arkham Twitter account has posted more clues and teases for Origins’ upcoming reveal.

Here’s the latest:

Teases for the upcoming Batman: Arkham Origins just began recently. It’s been said that the reveal will be “epic”.

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Thanks to Jake for the tip.

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This month’s GamesTM review scores are as follows:

Dota 2 – 9
The Walking Dead: 400 Days DLC – 8
Shadowrun Returns – 8
Tales of Xillia – 7
Deadpool – 5
Rogue Legacy – 8
Project X Zone – 6
Plants Vs. Zombies 2: It’s About Time – 6
Dynasty Warriors 8 – 7
Deus Ex: The Fall – 7
One Finger Death Punch – 9
Capsized – 6
Mighty Switch Force! 2 – 6
Gun Monkeys – 7

Thanks to joclo for the tip.

Grinsia, an RPG from Kemoco, is coming to the 3DS. Nicalis revealed the news in the latest issue of Nintendo Force.

Some gamers may be aware that Grinsia was originally released on iOS and Android. It sounds like the 3DS version will have some form of new musical arrangement. How the game plays on the 3DS is currently unknown.

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