
The popular Nintendo fighters of the next highly anticipated entry into the Smash Brothers franchise have been met with new challengers of (for optimists at least) the most unexpected sort – with the likes of AKB48 ready to pit their legendary self-defense skills against Nintendo’s combatants in their latest inescapable TV ad.
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Nintendo and Tecmo Koei’s upcoming controversial game collaboration Hyrule Musou is due to be released in a few weeks, and with its initial roster being finalized, many fans have noticed the game’s strikingly high female to male character ratio:
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Nintendo has decided to apologise for not allowing gay marriage in its upcoming “Tomodachi Life” game, promising it in future installments instead.
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Nintendo’s officially sanctioned UK mouthpiece has carried an article damning the English release of Senran Kagura Burst as an “insultingly misogynistic and degrading atrocity” which is “foul” and “wrong,” as well as being “insulting to the intelligence of gamers, damaging to the reputation of the industry, and alienating and harmful to women,” urging readers not even to read articles about it, let alone buy it.
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Rusty hunters may want to sharpen their skills, as an announcement declaring the release of “Monster Hunter 4G” for the Nintendo 3DS has just been unveiled, being slated for purchase in Japan come fall – and the game will also be compatible with save data from the original Monster Hunter 4 – making for the most important gaming announcement of 2014 as far as most Japanese are concerned, the PS4 barely making a ripple these days.
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Nintendo’s unveiling of “Zelda Musou,” the latest entry into the massive cookie-cutter Dynasty Warrior franchise, has been the cause of some consternation with those concerned about Nintendo’s post-Wii slide into mediocrity.
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The frosty reception enjoyed by Nintendo’s newly unveiled 2DS hand-held looks to have already frozen over completely, with confirmation that it has only one screen under its casing and somehow still weighs more than the 3DS doing little for its reputation as anything but “joke hardware.”
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Nintendo’s announcement of the 2DS, boasting no 3D, no hinges and a lower price, looks as if it may please parents but has gamers in an uproar – most seeming to be of the opinion that it is another Virtual Boy or even PSP Go.
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Hyper bust-’em-up Senran Kagura Burst has finally been announced for an English release – after years of begging and pleading by the franchise’s international fans.
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Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto has provoked the ire of Japanese gamers by complaining that it is their inability to stomach the challenge of difficult action games which has led to the genre’s decline in Japan, even as challenge-loving American gamers happily lap them up.
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One-shot wonder social gaming publisher GungHo Online’s days of outstripping Nintendo in market cap look to be well and truly over – the company’s value has plunged by over a third in mere days, leaving nobody in any doubt as to the permanence of social gaming’s ascendancy.
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Japanese gamers have been stunned to learn that the market cap of Puzzle & Dragons maker GungHo now exceeds that of Nintendo, prompting both despair and incredulity and perhaps explaining about the Japanese gaming industry’s rapid decline into idolising card and puzzle games for phones.
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