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Aksys Teases Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma

Posted on March 19, 2016 by Jason Nason

Aksys Games released a teaser trailer for Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma, the upcoming third game in the Zero Escape seires. Developed by Spike Chunsoft, Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma will be available for retail and digital on both the Playstation Vita and Nintendo 3DS in North America and digitally in Europe on June 28th, 2016 The first game in the series Zero Escape: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors was released for the Nintendo DS back in 2010, with the sequel to that game Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward hitting the Nintendo 3DS and PS Vita in October 2012.

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March 17th Nintendo Download

Posted on March 18, 2016 by Jason Nason

Pokkén Tournament – Battle Pokémon like never before in new action-packed arena fights. Perform vivid Pokémon moves using an intuitive fighting system and unleash devastating attacks upon your opponent to become the Pokkén Tournament champion! Pokkén Tournament will be available on March 18. Mutant Mudds Super Challenge – Renegade Kid’s beloved dimension-defying platformer is back with a new game – Mutant Mudds Super Challenge – featuring a host of exciting, fresh platforming challenges and boss fights. The game supports cross-buy for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, and offers a 15 percent Loyalty Discount for the first 30 days if you purchased

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Mario & Sonic Head to Rio Early with 3DS Launch Today

Posted on March 18, 2016 by Jason Nason

Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games is inching closer to release, with the game slated to be released for the Nintendo 3DS in North America this Friday! The home console version follows closer to the Olympic event itself, bowing on Nintendo’s Wii U on June 24th. To celebrate the release of the game Nintendo released the opening movie for the game, which you can see below. “Mario and Sonic are two of the most recognizable characters in video game history,” said Scott Moffitt, Nintendo of America’s Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing. “Once again they join

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Mario & Sonic Head to Rio Early with 3DS Launch on Friday

Posted on March 16, 2016 by Jason Nason

Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games is inching closer to release, with the game slated to be released for the Nintendo 3DS in North America this Friday! The home console version follows closer to the Olympic event itself, bowing on Nintendo’s Wii U on June 24th. To celebrate the release of the game Nintendo released the opening movie for the game, which you can see below. “Mario and Sonic are two of the most recognizable characters in video game history,” said Scott Moffitt, Nintendo of America’s Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing. “Once again they join

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Parascientific Escape: Cruise in the Distant Seas | Review

Posted on March 16, 2016 by Jason Nason

Parascientific Escape: Cruise in the Distant Seas is a visual novel with exploration and puzzle solving elements. The game follows Hitomi Akeneno, a 16 year old high school student with a little secret – she has not one, but two psychic powers. After receiving an invitation, she boards a luxury cruise ship with her friend, Chisono Shio. As soon as she enters a suite room, a loud explosion sounds … and she finds herself stuck, unable to get out. Is this an accident? Or something far more sinister? The only way to find out is to escape, with the help

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Nintendo 3DS System Updated to Version 10.7.0-32U

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Jason Nason

It’s been just a few weeks since the last system update, but the Nintendo 3DS firmware has been updated again. This is a very minor update which updates the 3DS system from version 10.6.0-31U to version 10.7.0-32U. There aren’t any big changes in this update, with the only text on the update the very same as last month’s update. The text from Nintendo as follows: “Further improvements to overall system stability and other minor adjustments have been made to enhance the user experience.” The update is required in order to continue using Nintendo Badge Arcade and likely several other online

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Pokkén Tournament Launches this Friday

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Jason Nason

The release of Pokkén Tournament is nearly here, with the game hitting store shelves in North America this Friday. This finally brings the high-definition game play and over-the-top action to never-before-seen battles between some of the most recognizable Pokémon characters. Pokkén Tournament is of course a collaboration between The Pokémon Company and BANDAI Namco Entertainment Inc. The game is a new fighting game for Wii U that lets players use their favorite Pokémon characters to battle it out in fighting arenas. This looks and feels like a combination of the turn-based battles fans will recognize from the role-playing series with

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Miitomo Launches in Japan March 17th

Posted on March 11, 2016 by Jason Nason

Nintendo announced late Thursday via Twitter that they will roll out Miitomo in Japan next week. The app will launch for iOS and Android. Miitomo is a free-to-start social experience that lets you spark conversations with your friends in a whole new way and uses Nintendo’s Mii characters, which first debuted with the launch of Wii Sports in 2006. More than 200 million Mii characters currently exist across Nintendo systems worldwide. To get started, users can quickly create a Mii character, customizing its facial features, eyes, hair, as well as voice and personality. Users can also use the camera of

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Witch & Hero II could be released in North America as early as March 17th

Posted on March 11, 2016 by Jason Nason

Circle Enterainment has released the English trailer for the upcoming release Witch & Hero II. The trailer is pretty much the same as the previous one released by Flyhigh Works, the Japanese distributor which released the game in Japan on February 17th. The game will be localized and released in North America by Circle Entertainment, with an exact date not yet set. [ UPDATE: Circle tweeted on Tuesday that they hope to have the game released on March 17th. ] The trailer for the game states that the game will be released in North America and Europe soon, which could

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March 10th Nintendo Download

Posted on March 11, 2016 by Jason Nason

Star Ghost – Save the galaxy from the Metagons in this explosive shoot-’em-up by former Rare and Retro Studios developer Rhys Lewis.Star Ghost features procedurally generated levels, a unique control scheme and an atmospheric soundtrack from renowned composer David Wise. It is available exclusively in Nintendo eShop on Wii U. Click here to see the trailer. Grumpy Reaper – Grumpy Reaper is an arcade-style game that includes elements of skill in different playing modes. Death’s granddaughter has stolen the keys to the Underworld to unleash creatures on the world! Take on the role of Grumpy, mow the lawn and find

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The Grumpy Reaper | Review

Posted on March 11, 2016 by Jason Nason

Grumpy Reaper? Grumpy Gamer. The Grumpy Reaper is kind of a hard game to peg. On the surface it looks like it could be a pretty fun game, however once I started to play it there were things that nagged at me. In the game you take on the role of Grumpy, a gardener I think. Most of the story introduction is done though slides, and they were somewhat tough to follow. I got the gist of the plot of the game through the online description, though to be honest the story doesn’t really matter that much. Here is the

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New Pokemon Title Announced For Mobile Phones

Posted on March 10, 2016 by Rae Michelle Richards

The Pokemon Company and mobile developer HEROZ Inc (developer of smartphone Chess titles) have joined forces to announce a brand new title for smartphones in Japan.  No official title, press-release or gameplay synopsis has been released thus far. As far as we can tell the brief teaser video, which is entirely in Japanese, appears to be teasing a new virtual strategy board game for mobile phones. Honestly, the whole thing elicited a reaction of “what the hell did I just watch?” from BrokenJoysticks staff upon stumbling on the below video. The title of the video roughly translates (according to Microsoft

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Mega Man Battle Network 6 hits Virtual Console Tomorrow

Posted on March 9, 2016 by Jason Nason

Capcom is bringing another Mega Man game to the Wii U’s Virtual Console tomorrow. Following in the footsteps of Pokémon in releasing two slightly different versions of the same game at the same time, you can catch up with Capcom’s MEGA MAN BATTLE NETWORK 6 CYBEAST GREGAR and MEGA MAN BATTLE NETWORK 6 CYBEAST FALZAR when they hit the Wii U. In the games you can help Lan and Mega Man tame the Cybeasts and investigate the culprit responsible for their release. After moving with his family to Cyber City, Lan, with the help of Mega Man, must intervene before

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Mutant Mudds Super Challenge Releasing on 3DS and Wii U on March 17th

Posted on March 9, 2016 by Jason Nason

Renegade Kid released information via Nintendo Life on Friday that their upcoming title Mutant Mudds Super Challenge will be released in North America, Europe, and Australia on March 17th. We didn’t get a chance to play the original Mutant Mudds on the Nintendo 3DS, however we did play and review Mutant Mudds Deluxe for the PC and the game was great fun. We also downloaded the Nindie preview of MMSC for the Wii U and played thru the demo of the original 3DS title at length.

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