Nintendo

Since our interview with Illfonic last year we've been keeping an eye on this development team. Illfonic graced us late Monday with with an email about their latest project Nexuiz. Working with Alientrap, Illfonic will be bringing the fun, fast paced first person shooter to XBox, PS3, and the Wii.

In Japan Capcom’s Monster Hunter franchise is huge.  And by huge I mean ridiculously huge as it’s one of those games people will stand in massive lines to obtain a copy, take a day off from school/work to play and boatloads of tie-in products are released to coincide with the latest Monster Hunter adventure.

Today Nintendo showed off a few of their 1st and 3rd party Wii and DS games at a special press event.  Besides showing more of the upcoming Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Monster Hunter Tri, the event also had some Metroid goodness as well.  Since being announced at E3 last year the Nintendo-Team Ninja developed Metroid: Other M hasn’t been shown that much but thankfully that changed today.

Alright, so I'm posting this at the end of February, but it's better late then never. Especially when it's the crazy antics of Diifii. With CES and some new projects on the horizons we got a little back logged with Big Smile Reviews videos. BUT FEAR NOT. We've got a double dose of Diifii for you today starting with two of his picks from 2009. Next up, his pick for best Fighter! More videos coming this week.

New art for the The latest Mega Man title has dropped, and it's time to get a look at the different weapons Mega Man will be able to wield. It definitely looks like Capcom continues to bring the series back to its old school roots with retro action platforming gameplay and classic 8-bit NES-style graphics and sound.

The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks​ is the fifteenth installment of Nintendo's series. The game was released worldwide in December of 2009 and features a cel-shaded art style similar to that of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass titles.

If you listened to our CES Mega Wrap Up Podcast you might have already heard our separate thoughts on the You Rock Guitar experience. If you haven't, we cut it out and put it at the end of this post.

Now, before reading our thoughts on this product it should be noted that Casey and I looked at this product through very different eyes. I'm a gamer who's also deeply into making digital music, mixing, scratching, beat making etc. My room is an audio Bat Cave. Casey on the other hand doesn't share the same passion, interest or knowledge of electronic music. But he sure does know how to shred the living hell out of any rhythm guitar game. He's a certified Rock Band Expert player.

Usually North American gamers are used to get shafted when it comes to not getting a cool gaming bonus or special add-on.  When Capcom released Monster Hunter 3 in Japan last year the game was launched with an extremely sweet and surprisingly sexy looking Kuro Black Wii.

With the release of No More Heroes 2 next week I feel like a kid on Christmas Eve waiting to open his presents.  I’m a huge NMH fan and the past few trailers have put me into hype overdrive mode since the game promises to be even crazier and more enjoyable than the first installment.   Sadly Ubisoft has been doing the best job of promoting the game, in fact they don’t seem to be promoting it at all, but they have released another dev diary for the game featuring the incredible Suda 51.

After being rumored for awhile all while claims that it couldn’t or wouldn’t happen Netflix and Nintendo have announced that Netflix owners will now be able to stream films and TV on the Wii.  If you’re currently a Netflix member with an $8.99 subscription or higher you’ll be good to go when Netflix streaming hits the Wii this spring as the service will not require an additional charge.

Due to the hectic schedule that Corey and I have been doing our best to maintain it’s been impossible to get together to do a podcast over the last couple of nights like we originally planned. I don’t think either of us knew just how much we were biting off when we signed up to cover this convention. Even as a couple of writers only covering the gaming portion of the show we were blown away by the amount of things we’ve seen this week. Now you can get a summary of our entire CES experience, which ranges from everything from photos with Dr. Evil to meeting up with the Frag Dolls.

For anyone who grew up in the 90s as I did third-party peripherals generally hold a negative stigma about them, especially if you happened to be a Nintendo fan. The N64 controllers that were launched throughout the consoles life-cycle were quite possibly some of the worst offenses ever made to the gaming community.

There's been tones of hype and anticipation around Capcom's jet pack fueled action adventure game Dark Void, which is set to drop this month. But what some people don't know is that Dark Void is not a new IP. It is actually based off an 8-Bit classic arcade game that never quite made it to market due to the rise of the Nintendo Entertainment System. Fortunately for us we got to sit down with Shana Bryant, the Associate Producer for Dark Void Zero on the DS.

Alright! So here we are. We’re finally able to throw together our first podcast (almost) live from Las Vegas for CES 2010! After a looooooong hard day wrought with trials and tribulations aplenty, Corey and I had a chance to sit down and put together a podcast. It’s now day two of our stay and about time to discuss some of the events that have been occurring to the both of us. We’ll also make sure to talk a bit about the show, of course.

With recent rumors that Nvidia would be supplying the graphics chip for Nintendo’s next handheld Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has commented for the first time and what we can expect from Nintendo’s successor to the DS.