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It’s Me Mario and Friends Coming To An All-Star Party in North America
In honor of Super Mario Bros. 25th Anniversary, Nintendo is releasing Super Mario All-Stars, all of the Mario NES games under one title.
(More on Techland: Super Mario Bros. Turns 25 Today)
That’s right Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, Super Mario Bros. 2 and Super Mario Bros. 3 have all been remastered for …
New Wii Remote Plus on the Way?
Nintendo’s got a history of rolling out new accessories or add-ons with new game releases. Think back to 1997 and the vibrating Rumble Pak bundled in with Star Fox 64. More recently, they’ve done the same thing with the Wii Zapper and Link’s Crossbow Training and have included the Wii Wheel with Mario Kart Wii.
Now, it seems like …
NHL 2K11 Review: Happiness is a Wii Classic Controller Away
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2K Sports
Developer: 2K Sports
System: Nintendo Wii
ESRB rating: E 10+ for Everyone (Mild Violence)
The idea of using the Wii to play serious professional sports games should pretty much be out of everyone’s system by now. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. It’s just that the Wii versions of games like Madden aren’t …
Super Mario Bros. Turns 25 Today
He may have gotten his start as Jumpman in Donkey Kong, but it was really the release of Super Mario Bros that made Nintendo’s mascot the icon that he is today. The Mario Bros. game were out in 1983, but it wasn’t until Super Mario Bros. came out that Princess Peach’s boyfriend got, well, super. The 8-bit classic came out 25 years ago …
Holy Team-Up, Batman!: Talking about The Brave and the Bold Video Game [Updated]
Batman’s been entertaining generations of comic-book readers, TV watchers and movie viewers. He’s been in tons of video games, too, but it’s only been until recently that the games have actually been good. Last year’s Batman: Arkham Asylum gave players a grim vision of the Dark Knight and his world, which got widely acclaimed as the best …
DC vs. Marvel: Tell Us Who Wins in a Batman/Spider-Man Fight and Win
Comic-book games come and go, but it’s rare that major releases featuring superhero comics’ Big Two come out in the same week. Both Batman: The Brave and the Bold and Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions hits store shelves today and we’ve decided to celebrate with some good old-fashioned nerd deliberation.
(More on Techland: Batman: The …
Harry Potter Watch Out: The Wii Has A Wand+ Now
Nyko Technologies’ Wand+ for the Wii looks suspiciously like the Nintendo Wii Remote, but the company behind it says it can do much more. They proclaim that it features Full Motion Technology support, Trans-Port Technology (which supposedly means it can pass sound and vibration signals to other Nintendo Wii related products) and …
Samus Aran Gets Autobiographical in New Metroid: Other M Trailer
Metroid: Other M‘s being hatched between Nintendo’s internal development team and the Team Ninja studio, who are best known for the Ninja Gaiden games on the Xbox platform. I saw and played the new title at GDC, where I learned that series heroine Samus Aran would be speaking in a game for the first time.
Nintendo’s released a new …
Hands-On: uDraw Brings Stylus-Based Input to the Wii
Though folks scoffed when it was first announced, the stylus-centric interface of the Nintendo DS has only extended Nintendo’s domnance of the handheld video game market. Now, a similar gamble’s being made on Nintendo’s home console but it’s not Mario’s keepers who are rolling the dice. THQ–who, up until now, have been strictly …
Batman: The Brave and the Bold Goes Cross-platform
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment’s upcoming Batman: The Brave and the Bold is going cross-platform on the Nintendo Wii and DS.
The game launches September 7 for both the DS and Wii, and if someone happens to be playing on the DS alongside someone playing on the Wii, the DSer can jump into the Wii version by controlling …
Two Minute Video: Golf Club Meets Wii Remote with the Chicken Stick
The Chicken Stick is a $40 Wii accessory. Wait! Don’t go. Don’t go. It’s better than you think. Developed with true golf fans in mind, the Chicken Stick is made from a real golf club–Golf Pride grip, True Temper shaft–shortened, and with a slot on the end to hold a Wii remote and MotionPlus attachment securely in place. Check out the …