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Did You Tell Her About The Night Of Two Posts*? Tell Her About The Night Of Two Posts*.

What’s that you say? A Pokemon-esque JRPG featuring ghosts and a magic watch that’s made by Level-5 and raked in a billion dollars in Japan and is now winging its way to 3DS over here in the West?! Holy Handhelds, … Continue reading

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Prime Doesn’t Cover America…

Just read this beaut of an article about the origins of Nintendo. Some stuff you may have known before – about how it started in the 1800s (only just… 1889. But still… old ahoy), as a company selling playing cards, … Continue reading

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Animal crossing the chores, the grinding, and for what?

When I went to Japan in the summer of 2013 I thought animal crossing would be a good game to get in case there were any street pass opportunities. As it turned out there wasn’t really, nothing useful anyway, at … Continue reading

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And now the other side of the Nintendo story…

Encapsulated in this game – Nintendo World Championships on the NES – is the other side of the Nintendo story. People won’t pay a few hundred for a Wii U, but they will pay thousands for a bashed up copy … Continue reading

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Funny how many of these I never saw…

Seems like every year or so, some smart alec posts a pic of a Game & Watch that I never saw. I thought I’d seen em all – but that there was basically only about four. The browny-yellowy Donkey Kong … Continue reading

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Nintendo 3DS update delayed but soon

The nintendo 3DS update that was due very late november is in the internal testing phase at Nintendo and should be rolled out by December 8th. The update includes 3D video recording for upto 10 minutes, as well as some … Continue reading

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Hurrah, zelda cd goodness boxed in for early purchasers, Skyward Sword

A few days ago, maybe a week, there was news that The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword was to be released with a limited edition gold motion plus controller with the hylian crest, and free cd from the upcoming 25th … Continue reading

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My fellow Ambassadors, 3DS that is, NES games ahoy

Greetings my fellow 3DS Ambassadors, you may have noticed some talk yesterday about the free NES games already available to us on the 31st, well when I checked they weren’t, not here in the UK anyway, but today you should … Continue reading

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I’m an Ambassador don’t you know

Some of you may have noticed that the layout style of nintendo.co.uk and nintendo.com are slightly different, we have a news section with not very useful news, and the Americas have a what’s new sections, which also has news, and … Continue reading

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The US gets a free Orchestra cd with Skyward Sword, but what about us?

Over at Nintendo.com there’s news as far as the states is concerned that the first batch of The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword for the wii will come with a free cd of select tracks from the upcoming recordings of … Continue reading

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