Out of all the announcements made at this year’s Nintendo E3 press conference, New Super Mario Bros. Mii for the Wii U was probably the most unexpected one.
Nintendo only just released New Super Mario Bros. Wii in 2009 so most Nintendo fans weren’t expecting to be seeing a new entry in the series again anytime soon. Instead it turned out to be one of the few recognisable games on show during the Wii U trailers played throughout this year’s Continue Reading…
The Legend of Zelda series got a whole lot of love at this year’s Nintendo press conference due to it being the 25th anniversary of the popular franchise.
At the start of the Nintendo conference video game God Shigeru Miyamoto and Nintendo of America translator Bill Trinen came up on stage and announced that the fans of The Legend of Zelda series would be in for a treat this year. Continue Reading…
The official launch trailer for the 3DS game Super Mario has been revealed at this year’s Nintendo press conference. So far Super Mario appears to be a mixture of Mario games in terms of gameplay.
The trailer gives Mario fans a quick glimpse of the Tanooki Suit and also the 2D and 3D level design featured throughout the game. Besides the suit, there are also the more common Mario power-ups such as the star shown and Continue Reading…
A new trailer for Animal Crossing 3DS has revealed updated graphics and a few other slightly noticeable differences.
The main surprise of the trailer is swimming. At around 1 minute 15 seconds in, the character within the trailer of the new Animal Crossing runs up to the pier and jumps in the water. He has a swim around and then takes a bit of a dive as if he’s searching for something. Continue Reading…
After his second-rate Wii outing, Paper Mario will be making a return.
Paper Mario 3D developed by Intelligent Systems for the Nintendo 3DS will return the series to its roots with a traditional RPG format similar to the one featured within the first two games.
A release date for Paper Mario 3D has not yet been announced by Nintendo Continue Reading…
Nintendo has finally put us out of our misery and decided they’re going to release a sequel to Luigi’s Mansion on the 3DS.
As you’d expect, the title will be called Luigi’s Mansion 2 and it will once again star the forgotten Mario brother.
Reggie Fils-Aime the President and COO of Nintendo of America has confirmed Luigi’s Mansion will be a completely new 3D adventure that will feature not just one Continue Reading…
Nintendo’s E3 press conference has just finished for another year and with it comes a stack of Ninty goodness. The biggest news of all though was the announcement of the Wii U and the fancy new controller that comes with it.
For those who didn’t stay up last night, the Wii U is Nintendo’s next generation home console. It’ll come with HD graphics and a powerful but slightly ugly-looking controller that has the ability to play fully-fledged console games. Continue Reading…
UPDATED: Hey all, this year I’ll be live blogging Nintendo’s E3 2011 press conference from this page. If that sounds even slightly interesting then make sure you refresh this news post every now and again while Nintendo’s press conference is going on.
The conference will kick off on Wednesday, June 8 at 2:00AM for VIC, TAS, NSW, ACT and QLD, 1:30AM for SA and NT, and 12:00AM for WA. It should also run for Continue Reading…
