Archive for April, 2012:


Major 3DS System Update Coming this Week

Published on April 23rd, 2012 by in News

At the Nintendo Direct Press conference Nintendo announced a big overhaul for the system operating system this week for the Nintendo 3DS. First of all you will be able to create and name folders for all games and applications on the menu screen now. The other big part of the update will finally enable the

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Iwata Narrows Animal Crossing Release Date

Published on April 23rd, 2012 by in News

Briefly discussed at the Japanese Nintendo Direct conference, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata announced that Animal Crossing for 3DS will release this fall and that development is going well. The title theoretically should be a big hit in this day and age where people love sim type games on portable devices. The last DS Animal Crossing

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Nintendo Announces New Super Mario Bros. 2

Published on April 23rd, 2012 by in News

During their recent Nintendo Direct conference, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata announced the August release date of New Super Mario Bros. 2 which was previously mentioned during an investors meeting earlier this year. Sadly only screens of the game were shown off but you can tell it’s following closely along the last two games. One thing

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Japanese Hardware, Software Sales Announced

Published on April 20th, 2012 by in News

Media Create in Japan today announced the hardware and software sales in Japan for April 9th-15th. Their results are as follows.   Hardware: 3DS – 63,796 PS3 – 17,765 PSP – 13,166 Vita – 8,250 Wii – 6,837 DS – 1,433 Xbox 360 – 1,373 PS2 – 1,212 Software: 2nd Super Robot Wars Z: Saisei-hen

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God of War: Ascension Leaked

Published on April 18th, 2012 by in News

Earlier today it seems that a box art for the unannounced God of War: Ascension was released. Nothing was to surprising or revealing. Just an image of Kratos bound in chains of blood on a PS3 box. Just recently a teaser trailer leaked which showed really nothing more, but the narrator spoke of a time

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Level 5 Confirms No Magic Master Book for North America

Published on April 17th, 2012 by in News

In expected but still incredibly disappointing news, Level 5 recently told Famitsu that the DS version of Ni No Kuni would not see release in North America due to too many hurdles. The biggest one being translating the book. Now putting two and two together here, Namco is publishing the title, which means they would

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Gemakei Live Episode 2

In this episode we dive into the third and final Project Rainfall game, Pandora’s Tower. For those on the fence about this one, you might be surprised to learn the hidden depth to this title beyond the seemingly simple hack and slash gameplay. Also this is possibly the darkest game Nintendo has published since Eternal

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Miyamoto Confirms Playable Mario and Pikmin for Wii U at E3

Published on April 16th, 2012 by in News

Speaking with a Spainish game magazine recently, Miyamoto laid out a couple concrete details regarding E3 2012 for Nintendo. While much of it was the usual smiles and corperate bullshit talk, Miyamoto did say that a Mario game would be playable at the upcoming E3 show and it is based off the 2011 game. Meaning

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Crysis 3 Announced

Published on April 16th, 2012 by in News

EA and Crytek today announced the early 2013 of the “open world” FPS sequel to the Crysis franchise. In the new game you will return to New York which is now encapsulated under a giant dome. Within the dome seven different landscape types are sectioned off. The dome project is controlled by a corrupt corperation

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Mass Effect 3 Review

Long time Mass Effect fans have been waiting for this since they beat Mass Effect 2. Mass Effect 3 is upon us, giving us the last chapter in the Trilogy of Shepard. Plot lines finish, and you take the fight to the reapers. The question though, does Mass Effect end in a bang or go out with a

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