I'd like to formally announce my departure from Level-5, effective last month. With my work done on the domestic and overseas version of my latest 3DSWare game, it was good timing for me to step down and take a short break in order to recharge for my next project. My deepest thanks to everyone at Level-5 and everyone playing our games for your continued support.
So the big picture here is that the rise of the mobile gaming market … is largely the emigration of consumers who stopped in briefly to play Nintendo’s hardware but had no long-term interest in that kind of platform.
Nintendo’s core market is still intact, and they are still growing their market. The explosive growth of gaming on mobile platforms could mostly be additive to the overall market, without threatening Nintendo.
Gamasutra's Matt Mathews, Nintendo's core handheld market is stable
Video game posters by Marinko Milosevski
Ohio state performs tunes from your favorite videogames and they are spectacular.
Taking over a month to complete, this is EricPowerUp's paper cut-out work of awesome, titled "Mario on Paper". Made entirely of paper and animated with stop-motion, this recreation of the classic Super Mario Bros. games with original sounds and music is mesmerizing.
This Kickstarter, just on the cusp of being funded, is for a super-fine coffee table book commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of Mike Tyson's Punch-out!!! Check out more pictures and a description at the Kickstarter page.
Square Enix announced at the Tokyo Game Show 2012 that it will port the PlayStation 2 games Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories to PlayStation 3 in high definition. The two ports will be released under the title Kingdom Hearts -HD 1.5 ReMIX- and include trophy support.
Alex
Ni No Kuni...epitomizes the old-school console RPG; in fact, it feels more like a classic Dragon Quest game than recent Dragon Quest sequels do...Imagine if DQVIII's sequel had appeared on an HD system rather than on the tiny DS, that Akira Toriyama's artwork had been swapped out for image design by Studio Ghibli, and that the combat system added a real-time element and played up the monster-collecting mechanics of Dragon Quest V and Dragon Quest VII...To top off the Dragon Quest vibe, Ni No Kuni's English localization has been spearheaded by Richard Honeywood, the former head of Squaresoft localization who defined the Dragon Quest dialogue style with his work on DQVIII. Ni No Kuni reads and sounds exactly like it was ripped from the DQ world; characters speak with a variety of European dialects (including a persnickety Welsh monster companion) and puns abound. A feline fortune teller is called a "Purrognosticator"; a pig soldier is called a "Boarrior"; and the mechanical pig boss you battle at the demo's end is called "Porco Grosso." That... is Ni No Kuni. And it's endlessly charming.
Alex
Surprise! Bayonetta 2 announced for the Wii U.
Alex
BlogA stroll through memory lane. Which one spits out your favorite sounds?
There are at least two timelines on the Internet that put the major Super Mario games in chronological order, as if they happened to one guy named Mario who has been living an extraordinary life.
These timeline don't present Mario as a real man. The people who make these timelines aren't that free-thinking. But the makers of Mario timelines have asked questions that most people have lived their lives without asking, questions like: Does Super Mario Bros. 3 really take place after Super Mario Bros. 2?
Kojima Productions have announced a new Metal Gear Solid game for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
Alex
So I purchased a digital copy of Guild Wars 2 yesterday. I never played Guild Wars but I've played my fair share of World of Warcraft as well as a small amount of a few other MMORPGs and Guild Wars 2 looked promising.
Jumping into a new MMO, even for someone who's played one before, can be a pretty big jump. You have no idea of the world's setting, game mechanics or whether the community is going to be comprised complete idiots. Logging into the game with promises from the developers of "putting the player first" and have no grinding, I was either in for a surprise (of it actually being true) or a let down. Read on
Alex
In memoriam of Nintendo Power, which will be concluding its 24 years of publishing at the end of the year. The end of Nintendo Power reflects how the videogame industry has changed so radically over its publication lifetime, from the point when information, tips, and buying suggestions spread through the schoolyards, offices, and neighborhood street corners of America -- a time before the internet made gaming information ubiquitous. Enjoy this commercial, produced in the heydays of Nintendo Power.
Matt
Square Enix have revealed The World Ends With You is now being released on iOS on August 27 under the title The World Ends With You -Solo Remix-. The iOS version has a number of new features including a new combat system and HD graphics. Square Enix have also listed a new album - Subarashiki Kono Sekai – - Crossover - - for October 1. The album will contain the new arranged tracks for the iOS version as well as tracks from Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance. Read on
