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That Time Wario Made A Deal With Satan, And Mario Went To Hell
Nintendo Power in the US had a monthly comic called Howard & Nester. It was, with one exception, totally kid-friendly. Fairy floss and rainbows.
Wario Shows Us Some Creative Things The Wii U Controller Can Do
Leave it to Mario’s evil doppelganger to demonstrate the innovative potential of a new piece of hardware. As you can see from this video we shot of Game & Wario at E3 this week, Wario and his friends do a nice job showing off some of the unique ways you can use the Wii U’s GamePad controller to play games. Seriously, Nintendo, why the hell wasn’t any of this in your press briefing?
Nintendo Didn’t Show This Wario Game, But Maybe It Should Have
The 3DS excepted, new Nintendo hardware launches over the last decade or so have almost been defined by the Wario games released at or near their launch. Combining quirky mechanics with an almost requirement to play them socially, they do as good a job of any game of making the most of a system’s unique capabilities.
Wario Helps Show This Developer The Money
Tiburcio de la Cárcova, co-founder of social games studio Atakama Labs, doesn’t sell things at a cash register. His games go out over the internet. Meaning a sale isn’t as satisfying as seeing cash in the hand!
So he built this awesome Wario Robot (with help from his daughter!) to help make everything seem a little more real. Programmed to check his company’s store once a minute, every time the robot detects a sale, it reacts. So Tiburcio can be cooking some dinner, and ding, he knows he’s made money. Doing the laundry, ding, more money. Brushing his teeth, ding, hey, more money.
Nintendo’s Bamboo-Walled, Flower-Roofed Headquarters
With corridors made of bamboo, a roof layered with flowering sedum plants and buildings named after Mario, Donkey Kong, Yoshi and Wario, Nintendo’s new Redmond headquarters sounds every bit as fanciful as the games the publisher makes.
Wario – Captures the essence of the man better than any minigame, kart racer or platformer ever could.
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