General, Write-a-palooza 2017

Quick Review: Mario Odyssey

My son and I went out for the midnight release of Super Mario Odyssey a week ago and he’s been having a great time with it ever since. I got a chance the other day to play a bit on my own and I can see why all of the reviews of this game are […]

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General, Write-a-palooza 2017

Fire Emblem Heroes

My youngest son is into Fire Emblem on the 3DS, and when the recent iOS game came out I decided to check it out for myself. I’d never played the 3DS version before, so I was walking in somewhat blind. My son filled me in on the basics, and I dove in to see what […]

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Blog-o-rama 2016, General

Nintendo Classic

Earlier this year, Nintendo announced a new classic game system. For $60 you get a mini-NES with updated controllers, and 30 pre-loaded games. It all hooks up to your HDMI TV and allows you to save games, unlike most NES games from years gone by. When this was announced, everyone was incredibly excited about it, […]

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Blog-o-rama 2016, General

The Nintendo Switch

Today Nintendo unveiled their new upcoming console, the Switch. The form of this console had been rumored for many months to be a hybrid of a console and a tablet. Today’s reveal confirmed those rumors were true. The product that was shown today is a tablet, that plugs into a dock that sits next to […]

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Create-a-thon 2015, General

Nintendo E3 news

Yesterday I caught some of the announcements from Nintendo for new games coming out in the next year. One of them that all of us are excited about is Mario Maker. It’s a tool that you can use to create crazy Mario worlds that you can then share with your friends. I remember back in […]

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Create-a-thon 2015, General

Quick Review: Stealth Inc 2

(This was supposed to post last night… oh well, guess there will be two today) The other week I picked up a Humble Bundle of indie Nintendo games, mostly for my youngest kid. However, there was one game in the mix that I wanted to try myself, and that was Stealth Inc 2: A Game […]

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Create-a-thon 2015, General

Nintendo on smartphones

Today brought news that Nintendo has partnered with a mobile game maker to bring some of the more popular character franchises to smartphone games. So this means that in the future you may see games on iOS and Android that feature Mario, Luigi, Kirby, etc. along side other games in the app store. However, one […]

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