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From The Other Side: Nintendo 2013

From The Other Side: Nintendo 2013

Editor's Note: This should have gone up a lot sooner, but getting sick and other things caused it to be pushed back. --Ed. Last up in this series is Nintendo. While it was not there with a gigantic press conference in front of a large crowd, Nintendo Direct acted as a...

From The Other Side: Sony 2013

From The Other Side: Sony 2013

Ah yes, my favored console maker. I make no bones of preferring Sony to Microsoft or Nintendo, but there was a definite air of mystery and tension going into this press conference. With Sony being absolutely quiet on their used games strategy, I went into this...

From The Other Side: Microsoft 2013

From The Other Side: Microsoft 2013

Guest contributor Lanceheart returns once again to share with us his thoughts on the 2013 E3 presentations of the big three, beginning with Microsoft. Here we are, E3 2013 has just come to a close. With that entire festival out of the way, it's time for me to keep my...

E3 2013 – My Thoughts on the E3 Nintendo Direct

E3 2013 – My Thoughts on the E3 Nintendo Direct

First there was Microsoft's press conference, then there was Sony's, and now Nintendo's... sort of. For the first time ever, rather than host a press conference at E3, the company opted to instead deliver its big announcements through a Nintendo Direct broadcast-- and...

From the Other Side: One Year Later

From the Other Side: One Year Later

Following his views on the E3 2012 press conferences of the "Big Three," Lanceheart joins us again one year later to share his views on how things have moved along. Here we are, on the verge of E3 2013. Gaming has changed quite a bit since this time in 2012 and...

The Worst Thing About the Wii

The Worst Thing About the Wii

Here we are, only a couple of weeks away from the launch of the Wii U. Naturally, this has led me to take a little bit of time to sit back and reflect on this last generation of games. And thinking about it, the Wii has had one problem which stood out above all others...

The Worst Thing About the Wii

Awesome Art: Yoshi’s Island of Dreams

Matt Green over at Press the Buttons recently came upon and posted the above piece of artwork by Michael Julius Peterson on deviantART, "Yoshi's Island of Dreams." He notes that "this is not a real Yoshi game, but it should be" while drawing comparisons between the...

The Worst Thing About the Wii

Charles Martinet Wants More Super Mario Sunshine

In the above video posted to YouTube by user CooperMcHatton (via GoNintendo), we see Charles Martinet say at an autograph signing at the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con that he would love to see another Super Mario Sunshine game. And I have to say that I'm of mixed feelings...

The Worst Thing About the Wii

Is Bowser Kidnapping Peach Really What We Want?

The similarity between the four New Super Mario Bros. titles is "intentional," says Producer Takashi Tezuka in an interview with GameSpot. "That similarity in the visual style and the control style is all intentional. The things we feel like we've already promised the...

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