Have you ever wanted to see exactly what goes on while we’re recording the show every week? Well, you’re going to get your chance as we’re going to record Episode 102 of the Nintendo Okie Podcast live and let you all in on the big secret. We’re all going to be together in the awesome Nintendo Okie Studios (that both Shelby and I have tried to destroy at one time or another).
Saturday evening at 9:00 CST join us on our uStream Channel for a live recording of the Nintendo Okie Podcast. We’ll have a chat room going so you can talk to the crew and maybe even toss some questions our way. We don’t get the chance to do this very often so we’re jumping on it. Shelby, Micah and I will be together and we want you to join us. It’s going to be a lot of fun.
Resident Evil: Revelations hits stores on Tuesday and as you can see in the picture above there’s something a little wrong with the first run of the games. They’ll be hitting stores with the name of the game misspelled on the package’s spine. This is not the first time Capcom has had issues with game packaging. Some of you might remember the re-release of Okami on the Wii where the game shipped with an IGN watermark on the cover because Capcom didn’t have the original box art, so they just pulled some from the internet.
Capcom responded to the mistake and is offering to correct it for anyone that would like a replacement. Personally, I think I’d like to have one of these and leave it as is on the shelf. It adds a little character to the game. The following message was posted to the Capcom blog.
As you may well have heard by now, the title of Revelations is indeed misspelled on the spine of the game box (as “Revelaitons”). Unfortunately, the initial North American shipment of the game will reflect this error, but we just got confirmation that subsequent shipments of the title are being repackaged to have the correct spelling. Meanwhile, customers who have received the misspelled version can contact our Customer Service line at 650-350-6700 or by email at accounts@capcom.com and we’ll send you a new insert for your case. So yay!
So, if you want a replacement cover for the game, simply call up Capcom and they’ll send you a new one toot sweet.
Oklahoma is known for a lot of great things; buffalo, allowing parents to homeschool their children with no interference from the government, Garth Brooks, Adrian Peterson, the Trail of Tears (okay, maybe not that one). It’s also a generally conservative, no nonsense state that I love living in. However, one Democratic State Representative, Will Fourkiller, is proposing a bill that I can’t say I get behind.
His new piece of legislation, HB 2696, would place a 1% tax on all games rated “T” and up because they lead to childhood obesity and bullying. Half of this new tax revenue would go towards funds called Childhood Outdoor Education Revolving Fund to fight obesity and the Bullying Prevention Revolving Fund. He cites video games as a cause for these problems in the youth of the nation going so far as to blame games like Bully and Grand Theft Auto. One piece of evidence that he uses to support his legislation comes from a case where, “A gentleman shot a police officer and stole his car. He had been playing Grand Theft Auto.”
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Nintendo just announced the Nintendo Network, which looks like it is going to revolutionize the way Nintendo looks at the online market. We already know some of the details about the Nintendo Network, such as individual user accounts, digitally distributed games and the offer of post release DLC. “What is one thing you’d want to see the Nintendo Network have that would make it more successful in bringing Nintendo’s online presence up to par with their competitors?”
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The uDraw Tablet saw a decent amount of sales after it was released for the Nintendo Wii in 2010. The game launched with an art studio program, a new Pictionary game and some other small software titles. It would then go on to have almost a dozen different titles developed for it.
THQ thought they had a hit on their hands, especially once the announcement of Wii U came about so they developed a version of the device for the Xbox 360 and the PS3. That version of the tablet didn’t do so well and THQ lost a lot of money in the deal. In fact, THQ blames a lot of their recent financial woes on this device and their other software titles for younger gamers.
“Sales of the uDraw GameTablet and related software, and other titles in the kids, family and casual category were far weaker than anticipated, substantially reducing our financial results for the quarter,” – THQ president and CEO Brian Farrell.
Now they’ve announced that they are no longer making the device. That means the price is going to drop.
In fact, right now, the original Wii tablet is listing on Gamestop’s website for $29.99 with the uDraw Studio software. All of the games are below $20 and some of them sold very well. I’ve been interested in the device for a while, but it’s been listed at $70. I think I’m going to have to splurge on this piece of “history” and pick one up.
Courtesy of Club Nintendo. Their latest round of digital rewards expired on January 31st and a new set of rewards went up yesterday. From now until February 29th you can download a copy of Mario Party 2 (150 Coins), originally for the N64 or Art Academy: Semester 1 (150 Coins) for DSiWare.
While many people will tell you that Mario Party 3 is the best game on the N64 any Mario Party game is good to have when you’re looking for a good party game to play with friends or family. I don’t know anything about the Art Academy software.
EA isn’t a company that looks like it will shy away from the recent craze of the online pass. They recently announced that Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning will include an online pass that unlocks seven quests in the single player campaign. It recently came to light that another EA published game, SSX, is also going to have an online pass, but the details were unclear.
EA has confirmed that there will be an online pass for the upcoming snowboarding game, but that it won’t lock players out of the multi-player portions of the game. Rather, it will unlock the in-game credits that are won while playing the game that allow you to purchase other in-game content. Used players will have to fork over $10 if they want to unlock these credits, which will be banked until the fee is paid.
An EA representative commented on the pass when asked:
“Economy balance makes it possible to unlock all available content and allows you to participate in all event drops across both Explore and Global Events, with credits earned solely in Explore.”
So, Online Passes really look like they are here to stay, but publishers are now going to play with what the pass gives you access to. I’m not a fan of locking single-player content away in any game and this version of the scheme seems to only make it faster to earn the items that you can acquire while playing the game.
In case you missed it last week I posted an article where I said one thing that Nintendo needed to do to turn around some of their financial fortunes was to get people excited about the Wii U. It seemed, at least to me, that they weren’t really doing anything to get people excited about the system. The only thing we really seemed to know about the system was that it was going to have a new controller. Even then we don’t know how many of these new controllers the system will use. Well, over the weekend Nintendo released the details of their latest earnings call and there was a ton of information about not only the Wii U, but the 3DS as well.
The biggest announcement was that of the Nintendo Network. This appears to be the successor to the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. A number of details about what the service could entail were also mentioned and they were quite exciting.
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My daughter saw this picture in my email earlier today and freaked out. She’s now attempting to save her money to buy her own pink 3DS.
Nintendo announced today that this new system will hit stores on February 10th for $169.99. In true Nintendo fashion it’s not just pink, but Pearl Pink. According to the company this is the perfect gift for your Valentine this year.
My problem with this system is that’s it’s not purple. When is Nintendo going to release that sexy purple system that they showed off at E3 when they announced the system?
Many of the off-air conversations we have when we’re recording the podcast revolve around Shelby and Micah talking about how they live in the wrong country. Japan gets all this cool gaming related stuff that we just don’t get over here in the United States. One of those things that make me wish I lived in Japan is the upcoming Dragon Quest X. The game is coming to Wii and it is going to be one of the biggest online experiences that you’ll get on a Nintendo console.
Japanese gamers were recently able to get signed up to participate in a beta for the game and word is going out now that final preperations are being made for the Japanese Beta of Dragon Quest X. I’ve participated in a few betas over the years, but this was one I really wanted to get into and I just won’t be able to.
The game hasn’t been officially announced for North America just yet, but with the success of the last few games in the franchise it makes total sense that the game will be coming to this continent as well.
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