If you have not turned your 3DS on in a while (why not, there are plenty of good titles for it) or if you have simply not let it connect to the net in a while, now is a good time to do so.
Due to poor sales of the console and subsequent price drop (though frankly I don’t see that they were bad) Nintendo are offering 20 classic NES and GBA titles free to download to early adopters, being anyone who first performed a system update before 11:59 p.m. Eastern time on Aug. 11, 2011.
While you may have no interest in many of them there must be something in there for most people, I mean who can say no to Mario and not one but three Zelda games (including the Minish Cap)? The complete list is included below. All you have to do to get them (assuming you are eligible) is open the store select settings/other go to your download history where you will find they have been added to your account for download. The complete list of titles is below the cut.
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For those of you who were helplessly caught in the Holiday sale that Steam was holding, or you were intoxicated by the Humble Indie Bundle 4 there is still more games to buy! The New Year’s Indie Royale has been released which includes Nuclear Dawn, Max and The Magic Marker, Fractal and Super Crossfire, which is an Indie Royale exclusive, not to mention that if you pay more than the minimum price then you get George and Jonathon’s awesome new chiptune album Beautiful Lifestyle. Also for you wondering you can redeem all the games except Super Crossfire on Desura and Steam. The Current minimum price is at 4.30 so pick up this great deal fast as every time someone buys the price goes up!
For a while now Miyamoto has been in the works with Luigi’s Mansion 2 and Pikmin 3, not to mention the big frenzy over him possibly leaving the video game industry. Recently in an interview with Zoomin he revealed that he is working on a new original title for Nintendo, which would be nice considering Nintendo seems to be lacking new original first party games. The interview of Miyamoto is below.
If you were looking forward to playing Gotham City Impostors next week then you are going to be waiting a little bit longer. After feedback from the beta that has been going for a good 2-3 months Monolith has announced that they are pushing the game’s release back to February for polish. Yes it is disappointing that we have to wait longer to quench our Batman thirsts but it’s good to know that the developers actually care about what they are releasing on to the market.
This week portable gaming has had more than the usual amount of news so we thought we would give you an update..
-Nekkei Trendy, a technology website for Japan, that the “Lite” model of the 3DS will be released in Japan during the first half of 2012 as many of you probably already predicted when they announced the 3DS in the first place. Hopefully this new model will have the Circle Pad Pro built into it.
– Also due to the low sales of the PS Vita shops in Japan (A little above 40,000 units, behind the 3DS, the PS3, the original PSP and even the Wii!) have been lowering their prices unofficially just to sell them from their stores, this has been happening more often with the 3G models than the regular models.
-A new Monster Hunter game has been rumored over in japan, this could be a spin off in the series or a port of the fourth title in the series which as it stands now is a 3DS exclusive.
-Capcom has confirmed that 3DS owners will be able to download the demo for Resident Evil Revelations later on this year.
-The 3DS has sold over 4 million units at this point in time, Nintendo states that this is more than the Wii sold in it’s first nine months. The regular Nintendo DS has sold over 10 Million.
We know you Kingdom Hearts fans are really tired with the sequels and spin offs of the Kingdom Hearts franchise and just want the series to actually move on but this new spin off for the 3DS looks so great! Although details are very small at the moment here’s what we can tell you..
-The Story line will take place directly before Kingdom Hearts 3 where Riku and Sora must take the keyblade mastery exam to become keyblade masters to stop Master Xehanort from returning.
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Yesterday we went over some of the early releases for 2012 gaming year; Here are a few more.
Today on Twitter, Team Meat shared that their game “Super Meat Boy” had sold 1 Million copies! This is a huge feat for the group as 1 million is not a small feat for an indie game. This record was probably reached over December because of the games inclusion in the Humble Indie Bundle and the huge sales that were going over in Steam. If you have no checked out Super Meat Boy yet it is definitely a title to check out, it has some of the hardest platforming that we have seen in a while, not to mention the most entertaining.
With the coming of a new year, so too comes a plethora of new media, be it technology or video games, books or movies, something new is always on the horizon. Here is a quick glance at some of the up and coming releases for 2012. Continue Reading
For those of you who enjoy the better games of the Sonic franchise you would probably like to know that Episode 2 in the downloadable series Sonic The Hedgehog 4 has released a trailer. From the looks of it Metal Sonic is going to be the villain of the game and it looks like Sonic’s two tailed friend will be making an appearance, he will most likely be a playable character or maybe we will see a multiplayer mode similar to Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Also for those of you who haven’t been reading up on this game it looks like the Wii players are going to miss out on this episode. Check out the trailer below!
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