As with any creation that increases in popularity, clones and spiritual successors will attempt to capitalise on the appeal of the original. We’ve already seen this on the Nintendo 3DS, and it was a truly horrific experience. Cube Creator 3D for the Nintendo 3DS is another take on Mojang’s Minecraft,…
Read MoreFor the longest time I’ve felt that Nintendo should follow Disney’s lead and develop a theme park. After all, as the popular saying goes, Mario has overtaken Mickey Mouse as the most recognisable character of all. Further, Nintendo’s reliance on its IP and its “X factor” makes it perfect for…
Read MoreNintendo, despite struggling with the Nintendo Wii U, has announced gains to its operating income for the full financial year. According to its results, published today, Nintendo’s operating income was 24.7 billion yen, on the back of net sales of 549.7 billion yen. Thanks to foreign exchange gains totaling 34.0…
Read MoreSeeing release after the unyielding barrage of downloadable tower defence games has declined somewhat, Collavier’s Monster Combine TD does a decent job of standing out from its hundreds of peers. Though it borrows the general format of Plants vs. Zombies and hardly endeavours to perfect the genre, Monster Combine relies…
Read MoreScrew it. I wasn’t going to review this ‘game,’ because it’s free and it doesn’t even have microtransactions. But then I started playing with it, and felt compelled to write something about it, because I cannot fathom why Nintendo would expend the resources and energy to create this thing. It…
Read MorePrograms like Adobe Photoshop rule the roost when it comes to digital art on computers, but the landscape isn’t as cut and dry for apps that cater specifically to the limitations of consoles and portables. Dedicated systems have received everything from Art Academy, which makes use of the 3DS’s native…
Read MoreI know that Xenoblade Chronicles is considered to be the pinacle of JRPGs on the Nintendo Wii, but if you ask me, as good as that game is, it’s not the best at all. Pandora’s Tower, released very late in the Wii’s life (and, if you’re in America, after the…
Read MoreEvery so often Nintendo publishes an utterly oddball little downloadable title. They typically come out of nowhere, and almost always impress me more than the company’s big releases. Such is the case of Boxboy!. One of the most attractive, charming, entertaining games to land as an eShop exclusive in some…
Read MoreAs I booted up Story of Seasons for the first time, I was greeted with a couple sentences that outlined the developers’ desire for players to appreciate farm life and respect nature as a whole. A message that succinct couldn’t reasonably articulate an impactful environmental message, regrettably, but perhaps that…
Read MoreXenoblade Chronicles was certainly a popular game on the Nintendo Wii when it was released towards the end of that console’s life. As the premier JRPG on the system it never quite left the mindset of its many fans, even with the Wii now retired, and I find it amusing…
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