Posts Tagged “nintendo”
Nintendo President Hiroshi Yamauchi Dies
Hiroshi Yamauchi, who ran the Nintendo brand for 50 years and brought it from tradition playing card make to a video game giant has died. He was 85 years young. Read On »
Nintendo Files Lawsuit against HackYourConsole.com
The fight against video game piracy has been going on for years. Now Nintendo has filed suit against the owners of HackYourConsole.com.
Fan-Favorite Character Coming To Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow – Mirror Of Fate
Fans of Castlevania‘s Alucard are in for a treat today, as he has been announced as a playable character in the upcoming title Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate. Read On »
Nintendo E3 2012 Press Conference In Review
With E3 in full swing, the press conferences are probably what are catching the eye of most gamers. Microsoft started us off, showing cool features like SmartGlass; then Sony took their stage to surprise us with impressive games like Beyond: Two Souls and Last of Us; not to mention the Cross Platform technology to use a Vita as controller on PS3. That just leaves Nintendo, whose core focus this year was titles for their upcoming… Read On »
Impressions On Nintendo’s Pre-E3 Wii U Announcement
Last night, Nintendo streamed a pre-E3 video briefly detailing features of their upcoming system, theWiiU. If you happened to miss it, don’t worry, I’ve got you covered with the lowdown on the new console. Read On »
Nintendo – Hundreds of AR Cards For Kid Icarus: Uprising
Nintendo today announced details on how to discover and collect hundreds of AR (Augmented Reality) cards to collect and use in the upcoming Kid Icarus: Uprising, the first Kid Icarus game to hit retail markets since 1991. Read On »
Nintendo Triumphs In Maryland Patent Suit
A Maryland U.S. District Court Judge has dismissed at suit by IA Labs CA, LLC claiming that Nintendo’s Wii Fit and Wii Fit Plus software infringed on one of their patents (U.S. Patent No. 7,121,982). Rick Flamm, Nintendo of America’s senior vice president of Legal & General Counsel stated, “Nintendo has a passionate tradition of developing innovative products while respecting the intellectual property rights of others. We vigorously defend patent lawsuits when we firmly believe that we have not infringed another party’s patent. We refuse to succumb to patent trolls.” Read On »
Nintendo Reveals Limited Edition Box For Pandora’s Tower in UK
Nintendo UK today released a reveal trailer for the next upcoming RPG for the Wii in the UK, Pandora’s Tower. The game releases in UK stores this coming April 13th, and will have a Limited Edition package available that contains a steelbook game case and 32-page artbook. No announcement as of yet if the game will be coming to US shores, however if Operation Rainfall has anything to say about it, this game will be hitting shelves alongside Xenoblade Chronicles and The Last Story, both of which have been picked up by US publishers Nintendo and XSEED Games respectively after much petitioning by fans led by OpRainfall. Read On »
Lucky Winner Receives ‘Epic’ Mario Kart Reward
A few months ago, we told you about how Nintendo partnered up with West Coast Customs to create not one, but two life-size Mario Karts to be displayed at the Los Angeles Auto Show. Well, Nintendo also teamed up with GameStop to give one of these fully functional karts away to one lucky winner as part of GameStop’s Epic Rewards Giveaways which run regularly. As you can see from the pictures after the jump, this life-size Mario Kart has a happy new owner down in Tennessee. Now our only question is, how big is his garage? Read On »
Nintendo Announces Pokémon Black and White 2
This morning Nintendo announced the upcoming arrival of Pokémon Black 2 and Pokémon White 2 coming to the Nintendo DS family of systems this Fall 2012 to stores in North America. As part of a sneak peak into this soon to be hit title, Nintendo is showing off new character art of Black Kyurem and White Kyurem which can be seen here. The game will be playable in 2D on the Nintendo 3DS.
