Deals Roundup: Your Weekly Dose of Gaming Discounts/Downloads

Deals Roundup: Your Weekly Dose of Gaming Discounts/Downloads

Posted By: Vincent Parisi In: Gaming News, Nintendo DS/3DS, Playstation 3, PSP / Vita, Wii U, Xbox 360 On: 14 May

It’s mid-May, and while it’s not the biggest month for blockbuster titles, “The Big 3” are doing everything they can to ensure you have plenty of games to play during the spring semi-drought. Of course, the best part is that you won’t have to pay full price for any of the games or add-ons they’re [...]

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Deals Roundup: Your Weekly Dose of Gaming Discounts/Downloads

Posted By: Vincent Parisi In: Gaming News, Nintendo DS/3DS, Playstation 3, PSP / Vita, Wii U, Xbox 360 On: 07 May

May is in full swing, and rather than shower you with rain, your favorite gaming consoles are looking to sprinkle you with savings. There’s a lot to get through today, considering Sony has reverted to their old announcement method of hitting you with the entire months’ worth of PS+ announcements all within the first couple [...]

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Deals Roundup: Your Weekly Dose of Gaming Discounts

Posted By: Vincent Parisi In: Gaming News, Playstation 3, PSP / Vita, Wii U, Xbox 360 On: 30 Apr

It’s April 30, and you know what that means: Only two more days until the midnight screening of Iron Man 3 for all the U.S. fans that would rather shoot adrenaline than sleep in the wee hours of the morning. Oh, and I guess it also means a week’s worth of new sales and specials [...]

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Retro Round Up: The Potential and the Problems of Virtual Console

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Blog On: 28 Apr

Retro Round Up is a regular feature that takes a look at what’s new in the world of old games. Since the Wii U’s Virtual Console service launched this week, I thought it’d be pertinent to take a look back at how the original Wii’s Virtual Console performed, as well as discuss my hopes and [...]

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Wii U Virtual Console to launch with 8 games

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Wii U On: 24 Apr

Nintendo announced today on their Facebook page that the Wii U Virtual Console service will launch sometime this week.

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Zelda Oracle of Seasons and Ages coming to 3DS Virtual Console

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Gaming News, Handheld, Nintendo DS/3DS On: 21 Feb

Nintendo aired a small Nintendo Direct broadcast this morning, and while there wasn’t much in the way of new games shown, Nintendo did have some good news for fans of old games: the previously Game Boy Color exclusive Zelda titles Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons will be coming to the 3DS’ Virtual Console [...]

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Celebrate the NES’s 30th Anniversary with the “Wii U Virtual Console Trial Campaign”

Posted By: Vincent Parisi In: Console News, Gaming News, Wii, Wii U On: 28 Jan

As we’ve seen in the past couple years, Nintendo absolutely loves to celebrate anniversaries. While The Legend of Zelda is still being celebrated with this past weekend’s release of Hyrule Historia, the most complete collected historical information on the franchise, July 15th marks the 3oth anniversary of when the Famicom (which we know in the [...]

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Earthbound creator hints at new developments for the series

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, Handheld, Nintendo DS/3DS, Wii On: 21 Dec

The Earthbound/Mother series is (at least among a certain hardcore contingent) one of Nintendo’s most beloved franchises, but new releases in the series have been few and far between. Thankfully, we may be seeing more of the series soon, as Earthbound’s creator and popular Japanese author Shigesato Itoi dropped a few hints on his Twitter [...]

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Original Donkey Kong Country games pulled off of European Virtual Console

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, Wii On: 17 Nov

New releases for the the original Wii e-shop dried up a few years ago, so it’s easy to forget that yes, you can download games to your Wii. But hey, the Wii still has one of its best and most underrated features: the Virtual Console selection of retro downloads! Unfortunately, it seems like 3 of [...]

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Retro Round-Up 07/11/12 – A summer of 8-bit E-Shop releases

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Blog, Handheld, Nintendo DS/3DS On: 12 Jul

Retro Round-Up is a weekly article (which I never get around to posting on time, sorry,) where I take a look at the world of retro games. This week, I’ll take a look at Nintendo’s line-up for their “8-bit Summer” campaign on the 3DS e-shop, and pick out which games have stood the test of [...]

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Game Gear Games Coming to 3DS Virtual Console

Posted By: Chris Hernandez In: Gaming News, Nintendo DS/3DS On: 22 Feb

According to Andriasang the 3DS Virtual Console will be expanding beyond Nintendo portables to include the Sege Game Gear. Though currently slated for release on Japan 3DSs next month, there is little doubt that a Europe and North American release will be following shortly.

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