Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Apple Announces iPad 3 Event, March 7th

That's right, Apple is going for the third generation iPad, Apple has sent out invitations for the Event. Showing off for what it looks to be a very hi-res tablet display.

Where is the iPad's home button?
The iPad 3 Event will be held at 10AM PST at the Yerba Buena Center for Arts in San Fransisco, which is where most of the company's big announcements.

Apple's iPad 3 is expected to be equipped with a Retina Display, updated cameras, and processor, and possibly 4G LTE connectivity.

What company do you think will take over this year?
Nintendo's Wii U,
Sony's PS Vita,
Microsoft's possibly new Console,
or Apple's iPad 3?

Monday, February 27, 2012

Mario Tennis Open announced on 3DS!

Mario Tennis Open will now hit stores in the U.S May 20th. The same company that developed Mario Tennis on N64, Camelot will be developing Mario tennis Open. This game will support the gyroscope technology, so you can look around the court by moving around the system. Touch screen controls or the 3DS system face buttons, choose your way to game on the court.





As the game will feature Local Multiplayer support, Mario Tennis Open will be the first in all Mario Tennis games that will feature online 4-player multiplayer. Either you play with friends in a private match or look for open games. Nintendo promises to offer some form of matchmaking, so you will game with people around your skill level.

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Side scrolling Mario game coming to 3DS

A new Mario game coming to 3DS!!!

President of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata made this reveal a while back in a long meeting. During that presentation, Iwata revealed that a "totally new side-scrolling action Super Mario in 2D" will be coming out as an exclusive title for 3DS sometime during the next fiscal year (April 2012 to March 2013)

Other games were also announced to be released around that period of time for 3DS. Such as Fire Emblem: Awakening, Animal Crossing, Paper Mario, Luigi's Mansion 2, and Mario Tennis(now announced "Mario Tennis Open") and much others.

"With the fulfillment of software, we are confident that we will be able to make the Nintendo 3DS active for the full year as the mainstream platform in the video game market," said Iwata.

                                                 

Gamecube Officially Collectible

April 2, 2012

Will no longer accept the trade of Gamecube Games, Accessories or Systems. This probably means that they will no longer be selling any Gamecube Games, Accessories or Systems in-stores. Considering that this happened to the original Xbox, the last generation consoles (Gamecube, Xbox,Playstation 2) are running out. Gamecube and Xbox are considered Official Collectibles. Now for the Playstation 2 still running along the lines from Collectible and still having a games on the pre-order list. Playstation 2 is not really considered as a current Generation console and a last Generation console, more as a mid-gen console, between current and last.


Saturday, February 25, 2012

Pokemon Black & White 2!

In a very rare development. The third installment in Pokemon 5th Generation series. Pokemon Black and Pokemon White now have a series, Pokemon Black 2 and Pokemon White 2. While most fans were expecting a mixture of the 2, for the first time in Nintendo/Gamefreak game development, they will now have a series. The 2 games will release in Japan in June simultaneously. No news on a North American release, the U.S site says they will be "Coming Soon."

The U.S site also calls the 2 games "two incredible new adventures."

The official Pokemon Japanese website has been updated with news for this game. "mysterious legendary Pokemon" will make an appearance. The new Pokemon look very similar to the legendary Pokemon of Pokemon Black & White. Perhaps a merge with the grey legendary Kyurem. Of course, only further news can tell who these Pokemon really are.



The games which for now is called Pokemon White & Black 2 have been confirmed. Will be released for the Nintendo DS in June in Japan. This news was revealed by Junichi Masuda. Masuda revealed these games in a Japanese show Pokemon Smash.

Pokemon #646: Kyurem, Dragon/Ice type Pokemon.