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Pink Nintendo 3DS announced with nintendogs in tow

Chris Burns, Nov 28th 2011 Discuss [0]

For a product that was in a bit of trouble for having low sales the first few months it was out, Nintendo's 3DS is certainly continuing to release the iterations, today's announcement on a special packaged game and color combination, namely pink! The Nintendo 3DS in Pink joins the already available Flame Red 3DS bundled with Super Mario 3D Land and the also just announced Hyrule-toting Zelda edition of the gaming system, this team taking on the United States market this holiday season. And what's better than pink Nintendo 3DS? A pink Nintendo 3DS with a puppy game in the box! Read The Full Story

Nintendo offers new 3DS bundles landing on Thanksgiving Day

Shane McGlaun, Nov 21st 2011 Discuss [0]

Nintendo is gearing up for Black Friday with a couple new 3DS bundles that it hopes will lure the shoppers in for Christmas giving. Two new bundles will be offered starting November 24. The first bundle is a red 3DS that comes with the Super Mario 3D Land game in the box. The red color is called flame red. Read The Full Story

Blue Wii hits Walmart for Black Friday

Chris Davies, Nov 21st 2011 Discuss [16]

Walmart will offer a limited edition blue version of the Nintendo Wii as part of its Black Friday sales promotion this year, it has been revealed, with the new color console priced at $99.96. Set to go on sale at 10pm on Thursday, November 24, according to details screen-grabbed from a CBS commercial and passed to Engadget, the blue Wii has already been offered elsewhere in the world, but this will be its first official debut in the US. Read The Full Story

Zelda 3DS special edition set for USA release

Chris Burns, Nov 18th 2011 Discuss [0]

It is finally time all you lovers of the Zelda series who've put off picking up a Nintendo 3DS for long enough, time for the Zelda 25th Anniversary 3DS to hit US shores, complete with black casing, gold accents, and Ocaria of Time 3D right there in the box. Thus far the rumors have been that this would only be an international release - and indeed up until now you'd have had to think about importing one later this month here to the USA, but what we're hearing today is that both Best Buy and GameStop will be carrying the package come Black Friday. That's the 25th of November, next week, if you're keeping track, and we're guessing you'll want to get to the store rather early the day before and tent up if you plan on being there in time to grab one. Read The Full Story

Nintendo creates full-size Mario Karts

Chris Davies, Nov 18th 2011 Discuss [1]

Nintendo has created two life-sized Mario Karts, intended to celebrate the launch of Mario Kart 7 on December 4, and a lucky gamer will get the chance to drive one of them away in a huge giveaway. The two electric buggies - one for Mario and one for Luigi - were constructed by West Coast Customs, and members of GameStop's PowerUp Rewards program stand a chance of winning one of the iconic vehicles if they make a purchase or trade in December. Check out the video of the Mario Karts in action after the cut. Read The Full Story

Columns

Hey Nintendo: Get Out of Portables and Put Mario on the iPhone

Don Reisinger, Nov 17th 2011 Discuss [158]

Whenever you talk to a Nintendo fan, there are two topics that are absolutely off-limits: Nintendo ditching its portable-gaming devices and the company bringing Mario to the iPhone. Upon even bringing up those topics, you can expect to be dealt some serious name-calling (“idiot” is usually a favorite) and a slew of reasons you’re wrong.

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Anti-Mario fur campaign “tongue-in-cheek” insists PETA

Chris Davies, Nov 17th 2011 Discuss [1]

Animal rights group PETA has defended its anti-Mario campaign, in which the Nintendo character was accused of "sending the message that it's OK to wear fur" for sporting a Tanooki suit, describing its intentions as "tongue-in-cheek." In an email from PETA's media coordinator to gaming site Kotaku, the headline-grabbing claims and gory mini-game was said to be "a fun way to call attention to a serious issue, that raccoon dogs are skinned alive for their fur." Read The Full Story

Nintendo skewered over Mario raccoon cruelty

Chris Davies, Nov 15th 2011 Discuss [25]

Nintendo has come under fire from animal rights activists, livid that iconic character Mario wears a fur Tanooki suit in Super Mario 3D Land. PETA has launched a minisite titled "Mario Kills Tanooki" - complete with a playable game - to highlight the similarity between the Tanooki suit and the tanuki raccoon dogs who, in real life, are skinned alive. Read The Full Story

With Pokemon still absent from iOS, MinoMonsters looks to steal the show

Chris Burns, Nov 10th 2011 Discuss [14]

There's this fellow by the name of Josh Buckley out there, ladies and gentlemen, he's a developer of games, webpages, and environments who's done so much in the position he's in that he's been called "the Harry Potter of startups" by Paul Graham - and now he's coming for you, Nintendo, and he's got your little monsters in his sights. This Buckley fellow has apparently been making games and online-based communities since he was in his early teens, having made his first 6-figure sell of a webpage he'd created when he was just 15. He's since started a game environment by the name of MinoMonsters with his partner TJ Murphy and plan on filling the space left by the absence of massively popular Nintendo-based game Pokemon with said game starting December the 6th. Read The Full Story

Android, iOS overtake Sony PSP, Nintendo DS in US portable game revenue

Rue Liu, Nov 9th 2011 Discuss [7]

According to new data from mobile analytics firm Flurry, Apple's iOS and Google's Android devices have now taken command of the US portable gaming market. Together, they control 58 percent of the industry's revenue in 2011. That's a huge jump from just two years ago when the Nintendo DS held 70 percent of portable gaming revenue. Read The Full Story

Ubisoft unveils Drawsome tablet for Nintendo Wii

Rue Liu, Nov 8th 2011 Discuss [0]

Ubisoft announced today a new peripheral for the Nintendo Wii called the Drawsome Tablet. The device lets users draw on the tablet using a stylus to interact with games. It appears similar to THQ's uDraw device, but is said to be a way for Ubisoft to test the market for Nintendo's upcoming Wii U console. Read The Full Story

Nintendo patent outlines Wii Remote touchpad accessory

Shane McGlaun, Nov 4th 2011 Discuss [1]

I like it when patents surface from places like Apple, Nintendo and others that show off what we will probably see in the future from the country. The latest patent to surface is from Nintendo and it shows an accessory that appears to show a way to turn the Wii Remote into a touchpad. The patent app line art shows a device that slips onto the Remote. Read The Full Story