Nintendo's Wii U might be sluggishly dragging itself along on the path to recovery, but there is no stopping the power of the Nintendo 3DS. The first half of the financial year put not one, not two, not three, but five games over the 1 million sold mark for the company. Animal Crossing: New Leaf walks away as the best selling game of the last six months with 2.49 million sold worldwide...
It looks like the Nintendo 3DS has finally hit its stride. After stumbling out of the gates during a terrible launch, Nintendo decided to right the course of its newest handheld by dropping its price and stepping up the first party software efforts. Now that the system's library of existing software is as strong as its upcoming stuff, it's starting to sell well. Nintendo sent out a...
The Nintendo 3DS has really taken off over the last year, mostly thanks in part to better marketing and a fresh wave of quality first and third-party titles. Nintendo now has some solid figures to reaffirm the success of its handheld. In the first four months of 2013 alone, the Nintendo has sold 2.1 million pieces of first-party software in the United States. Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon...
It's been more than a decade since the launch of the GameCube and the release of the original Luigi's Mansion, and Nintendo has decided to bring the green plumber out of ghost hunting retirement for a brand new adventure. Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon has been a rather quiet comer for the Nintendo 3DS. I personally had it on my radar as a title worth checking out, but it was never...
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon continues to build on the formula laid out by the GameCube original. A far cry from the vast expanding platformers that made his older brother famous, Luigi's solo mission is a claustrophobic game of exploration, uncovering secrets and doing battle with specters of the cutest imaginable variety. The poor coward can barely hold his Poltergust 5000 vacuum...
2013 is the year of Luigi. Nintendo President Satoru Iwata said so while wearing an exceptional Luigi hat. He then gave a brief history of Luigi’s appearances in gaming, highlighting his solo exploits in the original Luigi’s Mansion. Iwata turned the proverbial microphone over to Shigeru Miyamoto, one of the producers for Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon. Miyamoto took time to detail some...
Ever since its initial release as a launch title on the GameCube, Luigi's Mansion has been one of Nintendo's most original and charming entries below the Mario banner. Unlike any other game in the series, Luigi's Mansion presented a playful combination of simple scares, exploration and tough puzzling. Hopefully, that winning formula will repeat in the first full sequel to the game that...
What's a Mario game you can't play with your friends? Well, Super Mario 64, but outside of that, I'm pretty sure every other Mario game has had some form of local multiplayer mode. I might be wrong, who knows? Add Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon to that list. The Nintendo 3DS sequel to the GameCube launch title will have "a brand new local multiplayer mode," or so says the official Nintendo...
Nintendo has released a calendar of upcoming game launches that includes games we've been expecting and excludes games we've been dying for. First up, in regards to Pikmin 3, I say that Nintendo "seemingly" delayed the game because it was initially slated as a launch window title. Nintendo defined the launch window for the Wii U as November 18th, 2012 until March 31st, 2013. Now, in...
Nintendo is doing the right thing by giving Luigi another attempt to be the lead in another ghastly caper. The less popular brother has never craved to be in the spotlight the way his tubby older sibling does, but when push comes to shove, Luigi has always been able to take the reigns. Yet, gamers still occasionally flock to hate on Luigi’s Mansion for some reason. I get that gamers...