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Yesterday, Nintendo announced their paid online service plans. I knew this might happen and so I waited till the last minute to write this weeks More Thoughts. I was hoping that they would wait till after I wrote my column and that way I could be totally proven wrong! Oh well. Todays More Thoughts will be about the service and what I think about it. We all knew that sooner or later Nintendo would make us pay to play games…

There was a Nintendo Direct today and as the title says “It was awesome.” How was it awesome? Did you even watch that Direct? If you didn’t, check it out below and come back for my thoughts on what was shown. Today’s Nintendo Direct is the best one we’ve had for awhile. I was amazed by so many of the things we’ve saw. First of all, I am a huge Warioware fan. So the announcement of a new Wariorware game…

Recently, our good friend Abdallah was flown out to San Francisco and put up in accommodations by Nintendo of America and given the opportunity to play around with Nintendo Labo in a closed environment. Abdallah had the opportunity to film some great video to use in a video - see below - and also pointed out his top 10 tips for those just starting out with Nintendo Labo. What kind of tips is Abdallah providing? We will point a few of the obvious ones below, but for tips on creating new cardboard pieces and learning how your creations work, you'll need to ...

I haven’t always been a Kirby fan. In fact, I didn’t know much about the big pink fur ball until the Wii Virtual Console. I saw the NES Kirby game for download there and thought, “Why not?” and downloaded it. And with that, I was a Kirby fan for life! That said, I have always liked the more traditional Kirby eats everything games more than the other more gimmicky games (though Kirby Robobot was pretty cool). So Kirby Star Allies…

A Nintendo Direct was rumoured for today but Nintendo never made an official announcement for it. I was starting to have my doubts that we’d see a Direct. As it happens, we did get a Nintendo Direct! You can check it out below along with my initial impressions of it. I’m not going to hide my opinion here: I was disappointed with this Nintendo Direct Mini. Yes, I do think it was partly because the Direct was so hyped and…

Black Friday is almost here and every year, along with retail sales, there are sales via online shops too. Nintendo has already put their eShop cyber deals up! Check out the press release below from Nintendo for the details. “REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 22, 2017 – Whether you or someone on your holiday shopping list is a fan of action games, RPGs, platformers, puzzle games or party favorites, the Nintendo eShop Cyber Deals sale has something for every type of player.…

Its Halloween again! I’m not sure if I mentioned this, I may have, but Halloween is my favorite holiday. I love candy, first of all, but I also love the spookiness of Halloween. I really like spooky movies, with vampires and werewolves and all that stuff. I do like some zombie stuff. I am a fan of The Walking Dead! Most of all, I just love this time of year. And I always find time to play some spooky game…

I finally got the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild DLC (for Wii U). Thanks to Adam Roffel and GamesReviews.com I should mention. Yes, I’m a bit late to the party. Even so, I thought it would be interesting to write some impressions on the first Zelda DLC. What do I think of it? Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has been out since March now. Some people, including myself, had moved on from the game. However, in…

Splatoon 2 comes out tomorrow (7/21). Please check out Adam Roffel’s review. And you should check out this cool new Splatoon 2 launch trailer from Nintendo UK too! I love how this trailer gives a run down of all the different modes in the game. My favorite part, though, is when a lot of the special new weapons (hamster ball!) are shown! What do you like best about the above trailer? Are you looking forward to Splatoon 2?…

E3 2017 is over. And now its time for my final thoughts on it. How did I like this year’s E3 overall? Metroid 4. Mario + Rabbids. Metroid: Samus Returns. Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga remake. Yoshi! Mario Odyssey overload (in a good way). Wall-to-wall games from Microsoft. Spider-man PS4. These are only a few of the big games from E3 2017. This year was especially big for Microsoft and Nintendo, but Sony had some good titles too. Unfortunately, Sony…