The 2012 Year In Games... A Preview That Has My Jaw On The Floor 
10 Stupid Things Terribly Wrong With The Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword 
Nintendo Is Ready To Re-Think Zelda 
'When We Show A Power-Up To Mr Miyamoto, We Get A Bit Nervous.' 
The Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword Pierces Game Reviewers' Hearts 
This Is How Our Copy Of The Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword Begins In China, workers’ rights kind of suck! So when the folks who make your game consoles and electronics want to protest, they take to the roof and threaten to kill themselves. Lovely.
Not much more than a brief tease; as part of today’s “Nintendo Direct” news event in Japan, the company said “a special Wii disc featuring all your favourite Kirby games,” will be released this year, the character’s 20th anniversary.
And what’s more, it looks awesome, because instead of just asking players to dance to pop music or sing like a teenage girl, it’s asking you to pop, lock and boogaloo your way to awesomeness.
Microsoft has Xbox Live; Sony has the PlayStation Network. Nintendo technically has WiiWare, but its download service hasn’t enjoyed the same breadth of offerings or popularity as other digital download services. And yet the country is full of homes where Wii hardware can be found. So what gives?
In today’s highly-collectible episode of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Gemini-Phoenix wonders what value this generation’s patch-heavy console games will hold years from now when the update servers have gone dark.
If there’s one thing you can say to me to make a first-person shooter experience sound more exciting, it’s that it’s not a modern military shooter. In the case of Aliens: Colonial Marines — out this spring for Xbox 360, PS3, Wii and PC — that involves having different classes of aliens with acid-burning blood fighting against a group of marines.
Xenoblade Chronicles taught me an important lesson: Never trust the Internet.
You see, for the past few months, everybody everywhere on the web has been hyping the hell out of Monolith Soft’s new Wii role-playing game, which publisher Nintendo will release in the United States this Friday (though it’s been out in Europe for almost a year, and in Japan for close to two).
The list of Australia’s most trusted brands has been released and there are a few surprises in there. But the biggest surprise, for me at least, is how many of the brands are tech related.
