Tag: nintendo
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Nintendo Enters Mobile Gaming Alliance with DeNA
Nintendo characters will officially be making a leap to smartphones and tablets after a business and capital alliance was struck with Japanese mobile games company DeNA Co., Ltd. We received an email from Nintendo PR this morning announcing the exciting news that it will be employing DeNA’s world-class expertise in mobile games to develop Nintendo’s globally…
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Nintendo amiibo Will Unlock NES & SNES Classics – Gold Mario Also Spotted!
If you thought Nintendo’s amiibo couldn’t get any cooler, you were so wrong. During a company briefing it was revealed that the little plastic figures for Wii U will soon be able to unlock playable highlights from a library of NES and SNES games. To play classic moments including characters from Super Mario Bros., The…
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Nintendo Cancels Wii U TVii Launch in UK and Europe
Nintendo has announced its decision not to launch the long anticipated TVii service for Wii U in the UK and Europe. Via the Nintendo Europe website the company puts this unexpected and unfortunate change of plan down to “the extremely complex nature of localising multiple television services across a diverse range of countries with varied…
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Club Nintendo To Close This September After 8 Years
Nintendo has announced that it will be closing the Club Nintendo loyalty scheme which has been running in its current model since 2007. The Japanese-based gaming company broke the news on its website in UK, Europe and North America among other regions, informing customers worldwide that from April 1st 2015 Nintendo will no longer be…
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NPD Reveals Bestselling Games of 2014
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Market analysts over at NPD have recently released their latest update on the state of all things bought and sold in the gaming world, as they are wont to do every month. however, this time the analytics company has compiled and released the entire sales statistics for the top ten bestselling titles of 2014. First…
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New Nintendo 3DS 2.13 Release Confirmed – But Why No Charger?
As expected the focus of this week’s Nintendo Direct presentation was the New Nintendo 3DS range. The online program hosted by company boss Satoru Iwata answered a number of questions about the new reimagined handheld but also left one burning question – Why no charger? As the leaked promotional poster revealed yesterday, the New Nintendo…
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New Nintendo 3DS on Sale from February 13th
A leaked promotional poster from a number of sources suggests the revised Nintendo 3DS portable console range with the long awaited extra analog stick is heading to shop shelves on the 13th of February. Simply called the New Nintendo 3DS and New Nintendo 3DS XL respectively, the latest additions were announced last summer and the release…
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Is Nintendo getting ready to release a new redesigned Wii U GamePad to the world?
Well a new Advert from the Mighty Nintendo appears to have ousted a new smaller and sleeker looking Wii U Gamepad to the world, all be it in a very fuzzy shot. The Advert was launched on the Japanese YouTube channel, and shows what looks to be a much smaller and slimmer version of the…
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ZombiU 2 for Wii U Appears (and Disappears) from Amazon.fr
A scary sequel to the infectious Wii U release day title ZombiU has been unearthed via the Amazon France website. ZombiU 2 was unceremoniously announced and appeared very briefly on Amazon.fr before it was quickly pulled – possibly as some kind of cover-up to hide that the fact that the virus will break out once…
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Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D Special Edition Preordering for £45
[Update:] After announcing that The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask will finally be re-released for Nintendo 3DS in a standard and special editions a UK pre-ordering page has appeared at store.nintendo.co.uk. The standard pack includes physical copy of Majora’s Mask in the normal plastic box and cover for £39.99 – however spending the extra fiver will…