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Nintendo has announced its president and CEO, Satoru Iwata, has died from bile duct cancer. He was 55. Iwata started his career as a programmer at HAL Laboratory, a games company closely associated with Nintendo, where he helped create games like Kirby’s Dream Land, Balloon …Read more »
I don't recall the circumstances that led to me struggling to explain Luna Varga to my 61-year-old mother. That's not the sort of thing that anyone will warn you about in advance. No one is going to take you aside and inform you that part …Read more »
Nintendo had a pretty big showing with this morning's Nintendo Direct presentation. While a lot of what president Satoru Iwata mentioned will have us waiting until E3 for actual footage—from the new Super Smash Bros. to new Mario and Zelda games—they did manage to drop …Read more »
This week's update to Nintendo's online shops sports a couple of notable additions, most of which falls on the portable side of things. The highlight for many will no doubt be the Fire Emblem: Awakening demo, which gives folks a sample of the strategy-RPG action …Read more »
If you see a Western, English-speaking foreigner in Japan, chances are pretty good that they are an English teacher. There are no shortage of blogs, forums and website spin-offs of anime magazines where people while away their free time talking about the peculiarities of the …Read more »
Why yes, that is Final Fantasy III on Nintendo's Virtual Console today. No, not that FFIII , the other one. You know, back before everyone in North America knew it by its original name, Final Fantasy VI ? Playing the numbers game with the Final …Read more »
While Sonic the Hedgehog thrashes about in one of the many foster homes he's been carelessly transferred to over the years, the blue blur's original creator, Yuji Naka, has moved on rather gracefully. His latest creation also happens to involve a cartoon critter, but Ivy …Read more »
Osamu Tezuka and Fred Patten once conspired to make you "watch cartoons in a language you can't understand". As even casual observers of paradox and head-scratching conundrums know all too well, the life of a time traveler can get complicated fast. Just a few days …Read more »
If people in America know Space Adventure Cobra at all, it tends to be because clips from the movie were used in the music video “Girlfriend” by Matthew Sweet. But that was nearly 20 years ago at this point, and most people who can even …Read more »
It's Monday, so that must mean it's time for the popularly irregular Virtual Boy! Or should that be "irregularly popular"? Either way, our formerly weekly roundup of everything new on Wii's Virtual Console has been in disrepair of late, but it's a new year, and …Read more »
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