VGW: Read Beyond the Headline
Welcome to another installment of Best of Niche Gaming, where buttons never stick and the games are always hot – even if they do manage to go under the radar of many. This May is very much the calm before the storm that is E3 and the flurry of video game announcements that will likely [...]
Searching “Let’s Play” and the name of your favorite retro or current game on YouTube will likely yield several results showcasing hardcore players doing playthroughs of said title. The captured footage that is often accompanied by player or group commentary has the potential to snag thousands of hits on a given video, and some Let’s [...]
On February 20, 2013, Sony invited the world to take a look at the future of gaming and the worst kept secret in modern entertainment since Solid Snake told all his buddies about the time Otacon wet himself: the PlayStation 4. With the Share button and social media innovations of the PlayStation 4 being brought [...]
Fans and critics of the Wii U have been more than a little worried about how this year would pan out for the system, especially with titles that were supposed to make launch window releases such as Pikmin 3 getting pushed back to the first half of 2013. Luckily, Nintendo has made a comeback with its [...]
Nintendo used their Nintendo Direct conference today to give fans and skeptics a glimpse of the future for their two platforms, the 3DS and Wii U. Smash Bros., Mario Kart, and The Legend of Zelda were the dominant IPs announced for Nintendo’s upcoming Wii U agenda, along with other features and updates. Another announcement shook things up slightly, which combines [...]
Nintendo has a tendency to be somewhat vague about their release schedule, so more concrete dates are always welcome. Today, they finally announced concrete dates for a number of highly-anticipated titles, along with a number of unfortunate delays of what were supposed to be Wii U launch window titles. Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon, a game [...]
Analyst Colin Sebastian with Baird Equity Research recently listed nine predictions for the video gaming industry this year. Some are rather safe bets (Microsoft and Sony debuting new consoles at E3), but others are worth digging into a bit deeper. It’s not a surprise his first three predictions all revolve around the next Xbox and [...]
The Nintendo 3DS’s first big RPG of the year, Fire Emblem: Awakening, will be getting a playable demo on January 17th. Nintendo will also be releasing a number of DLC maps when the game launches on February 4th in North America, with one available for free for a limited time as an incentive for early buyers [...]
Though Wii U owners have been able to play their Wii content by uploading it to their Wii Us—to include their Virtual Console games—so far they have not been able to strictly play them on the GamePad. Based on a statement from Nintendo, that will hopefully change. This claim came about while Kotaku editor Jason [...]
Today’s Pokémon-themed Nintendo Direct culminated in an announcement of the next generation of main Pokémon titles, officially titled Pokémon X and Y. In a massive move for the series, the games will be released simultaneously in all major territories October of this year, meaning English-speaking fans won’t have to wait months while their Japanese friends play through the game before them. The two [...]
In just over three hours from the time of this post, Nintendo will be hosting a special 10-minute Nintendo Direct focused exclusively on a new Pokémon-related announcement today. December was full of hints from Game Freak and The Pokémon Company that 2013 would be a big year for Pokémon, and we finally received confirmation by way of Twitter that [...]
Last year, Crytek teased fans of the Crysis series by saying that Crysis 3 could be a possibility for Wii U owners. In July, Crytek producer Mike Reed made an off-the-cuff remark saying that Crytek was working with Nintendo to investigate the potential for Crysis 3 on the new console. On Monday, Crytek CEO and founder, Cevat Yerli, confirmed the game [...]
Nintendo’s decision to tie Nintendo Network IDs very closely to WiiU consoles may be reaping unintended benefits for gamers who bought used WiiUs, who discovered they could freely download games bought by the console’s previous owners. A user at the NeoGAF forums claims they downloaded several free games on a used WiiU they purchased, even [...]