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The first images of a new and upcoming 3DS peripheral have recently been released, and it’s a bit of a head-scratcher.
Core Gaming (official distributors of Nintendo in South Africa) recently confirmed release dates and windows for a range of hotly anticipated 3DS and Wii titles, most interestingly for Mario Kart and Super Mario for 3DS.
Even in this day and age of internet scoops, Nintendo managed to surprise us with a few announcements at the publisher’s E3 press conference this year.
At the top of the list was the Wii U, Nintendo’s next home console and the successor to the Wii. The tablet-like controller for the Wii U has a touchscreen, dual analogue circle pads, motion controls, speakers, a microphone and a camera. The controller screen can be used instead of or along with HDTV.
Mario Kart holds a very special place in many gamers’ hearts, mine included, so tonight’s news that the popular arcade racing game will be coming to the Nintendo 3DS will be cause for jubilation.
The newest installment to the Mario Kart racing franchise will bring a new dimension to kart racing as the Mushroom Kingdom springs to life in glorious 3D.
Nintendo’s E3 press conference has just wrapped up and it sure was filled to the brim with announcements, trailers and more.
The publisher focused on their newly revealed Wii U console along with the Nintendo 3DS, for which they gave us a preview into five upcoming titles.
Following Nintendo’s preview event for its 3DS handheld earlier this week, bunches of exciting new information has emerged surrounding the device including date and price data, lists of features, and tons of announcements and reveals on new games.
In amongst all of this excitement, new batches of screenshots were released for a host of first-party Nintendo games scheduled for release on the 3DS this year, including Kid Icarus: Uprising, Mario Kart and Paper Mario.
Have a look through the new media below:
No time to explain! Too many screenshots!
OK, I’ll explain a little bit!
In order to better plump up the release schedule for Nintendo’s 3DS handheld, the company is currently working on a few titles that long-time fans of Nintendo may get a little excited about.
We’re talking about re-releases of classic titles such as The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of time, Starfox 64, and what looks like a hybrid between Mario Kart 64 and Mario Kart Wii (also known as Mario Kart DS).
Currently, these games exist as technology demos for the 3DS’s stereoscopic 3D ability, but represent games that Nintendo will in fact release at some point in the future.
Have a look at some released screenshots for these games below:
How much do you love Mario Kart? Enough to buy a set of remote controlled karts and race them around your living room?
Dang, you don’t need to be a Mario Kart fan to do that!
It does help, though, that the theme of these particular remote controlled karts is ‘Mario Kart,’ because one of their greatest features would otherwise not have been included – working power-ups.
Developers at Bizarre Creations have stated on numerous occasions that they don’t mind that their latest action racing game, Blur, is being compared to Nintendo’s power-up infused Mario Kart series of racing games. They’re even honoured that Blur can measure up to such a distinguished and long-running franchise.
It seems as though Blur’s marketing team has other ideas.
While this latest trailer for Blur is rather funny, it’s always a little worrying when one game needs to belittle another ‘competing’ game to get ahead. Can’t Blur stand on its own features?
It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt:
A Frenchman by the name Remi Gaillard has gone and done what a lot of Mario Kart fans probably wish they could do - race a Mario kart in real life. Gaillard takes to the streets with his customised racer, picking up power-ups and throwing banana peels at cars. His little speedster is surprisingly zippy…
If you need a bit of a smile today, watch this video for a good laugh, but keep watching for the awesome end event:
Have you heard the Mario Kart love song yet? It’s quite simple really, a song about Mario Kart and love, but singer Mark’s simple lyrics (“You be my princess, I’ll be your toad”) promise to make even the most hardened Mario Kart fan blush slightly.
Source: Kotaku
I had the pleasure of spending my Friday evening at Spur endeavoring to outwit, outplay and outlast my fellow gamers over dinner.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen we took our DS’s out into public and unsheathed them in plain view of the general public. We had Phat ones, finger printed Lite ones, pinks, whites and blacks too. It was a scandal second to none and naturally this exhibition did not go unnoticed. Waiters and patrons alike stopped dead in their tracks to ogle and quiz us on their way to the salad bar.
The amount of interest generated by the nine of us playing Mario Kart whilst chowing down between races was quite phenomenal. The men were naturally polite and let us get on with our “hardcore” gaming session however the ladies were darn outspoken. What is it that you are doing? Are you all playing the same game? Fortunately I was more than happy to share the joys of the Nintendo DS to them. In summary it went like this…”It is called a DS Lite which just launched in South Africa! Lots of fun with games for kids and adults.” I am not sure they believed the adults part and I didn’t have time to share the joys of Brain Age or Nintendogs.
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