December 2012
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Crimson Shroud, Ninja Gaiden hit eShop soon
Crimson Shroud, the third and final (probably) eShop release from Level-5’s Guild01, will be out in both North America and Europe on December 13. The news was tucked into a press release about Aero Porter, which is out this week and is pretty intense.
In other eShop news, Ninja Gaiden (NES) will be on the 3DS Virtual Console in North America next week for $5. That news comes from…...
November 2012
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Solomon's Key on 3DS VC in Japan next week →
Keeping up with the recent theme of NES games on Japanese 3DS, but not on US 3DS, Solomon’s Key comes out next week.
The single-screen arcade port was actually one of the launch games for the Wii Virtual Console in North America, which I’m going to use as an awkward lead-in for this Virtual Console retrospective I posted on Joystiq yesterday. I feel like our relationship to the...
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WatchWiiU Grooves by Dj CUTMAN. This is a remix album of all the Wii U’s system music, from the eShop to the firmware update screen, with a bonus Nintendo Land track. And from what I’ve heard so far, it’s excellent.
The basis for all these tracks is literally background music, so it makes sense that the resulting mixes are very chill and perfect for leaving on while working.
The...
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Kid Icarus Uprising for $20 →
It’s marked as “temporarily out of stock,” but Amazon is still taking orders of Kid Icarus: Uprising for $19.99. Be sure to click on the “More Buying Choices” to find it from Amazon. It’s a Cyber Monday deal (along with Star Fox 64 3D and Ocarina of Time) at Best Buy as well.
Having just spent a bit of time playing multiplayer last night, after scanning...
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Black Friday's best gaming deal? PS Vita and... →
If you want a PS Vita, jump up on this deal immediately! Starting at 3PM ET, Amazon will have the white Vita + Assassin’s Creed 3 Liberation bundle, a copy of PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, and a 90-day trial of PlayStation Plus (and therefore free Gravity Rush, Jet Set Radio, Uncharted, etc.) for $179.99.
Regular price for a PS Vita is STILL $250. This is the best deal until that...
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Amazon kicks off Black Friday game deals →
Amazon’s Black Friday event begins now with dozens of lightning deals that will be posted over the next week.
There are a few Wii deals (LEGO Batman 2 is $15 for the next few hours), as well as cheap 3DS titles (e.g. Steel Diver, Spirit Camera) on the way, but the site has plenty of discounts for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, too.
Other notable sales going on right now:
PS Vita and COD:...
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“Maybe it’s because we in the U.S. just came out of a viciously unpleasant...”
– Initial thoughts on Wii U’s launch from Christian Nutt.
I haven’t spent enough time with the online-enabled version of Wii U to form a broad opinion on the system, but I’ll throw out a few impressions about its OS:
People are going to hate grabbing the day-one update that takes... 