A PASSION FOR ALL THINGS GAMES
Say Good-Bye – Nintendo launched the Club Nintendo program over 6 years ago, offering game incentives in exchange for fan loyalty and survey responses. Kicking off the New Year, Nintendo has just announced this Club Nintendo program will be ending in the coming months. While it is sad to see this program go, Nintendo is […]
Looking Positively on the Potential – During Nintendo’s most recent Nintendo Direct, they announced that Wii games will be released on the WiiU eShop digitally. These downloadable Wii games can be played right from the WiiU main menu without needing to boot up the disc from the Wii Channel. Further, if you did a data […]
Ending the Year – Nintendo is wrapping up 2014 with a low-cost Virtual Console heavy Club Nintendo offering for December 2014. The following games will be available from December 15 through January 19, 2015. Game #1 – Kirby’s Dreamland 3 (SNES on Wii U VC) Price – 200 Coins, normally $7.99 Summary – Kirby must […]
Preparing for Holiday 2014 – Nintendo released 8 new games from their Club Nintendo program for November 2014. Uniquely, there are a couple titles that have never been a part of the Club Nintendo program before and could be worth a look if you have Coins to spare. The following games will be available from […]
Preparing for Smash Bros. – As we get close to the launch of the new Smash Bros for 3DS, Nintendo has prepared a list of Virtual Console titles to create more hype as gamers wait for this anticipated release. Many of these titles were available via Club Nintendo before but there are some winners in […]
Changing It Up – Nintendo has listened to customer feedback and just changed their Club Nintendo program by offering even more games starting this month. There are now four Wii U downloadable games available and four 3DS titles available for the August 2014 Club Nintendo program. As expected, most are Virtual Console titles but this […]
Unlike Sony and Microsoft, Nintendo has had some extra time with their new gen system. In typical Nintendo fashion, they killed it with 1st party announcements but 3rd party support remains low. However, a higher emphasis on smaller indie games was definitely made apparent and Nintendo is also betting heavily on the NFC Amiibo figures. […]
Closing out the month of Mega May, Megaman Xtreme 2, basically a de-make of the SNES Megaman X2, is now on sale via the 3DS eShop Virtual Console for $4.99. Players play as both X and Zero in this surprisingly good GBC game. As a side note, Pushmo is on sale for $4.69 and Crashmo […]
Preparing for Megaman’s debut in the upcoming Smash Bros games, Nintendo and Capcom will be releasing one classic Megaman game on the 3DS eShop each week for the entire month of May. Megaman Xtreme, a re-making of the original Megaman X on SNES, has already kicked off this promotion. Megaman Xtreme 5-1-14 Megaman II 5-8-14 […]
Nintendo just started offering more digital games as part of a maintenance sale. Physical rewards are undergoing some restructuring (they will not be available) and Nintendo is currently offering 9 digital games across Wii, Wii U and 3DS to make up for it. In short, Nintendo is offering more games from their April offering and […]
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