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What do you do when you’re bored on a Thursday night and there’s no news to actually speak of?  You make funny things in Photoshop to pass the time.  This one is for you, Shelby.  The whole post is inspired by our love of Capcom and their constant misspelling of things.  If  you can’t have a little fun during a slow news period when can you have fun?  [=^)  There’s plenty more fun after the break.

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I know there are some of you out there that have been dreaming for something like this.  You know who you are.  If you’ve been asking yourself where the Pokemon costumes for adults are, well they’re right here.  Isn’t Etsy a wonderful place?  You can have one of these for your very own for the low, low price of 55 pounds ($91).

If you need something to take your mind off of that image of Squirtle above, how about a pokemon party?

It’s Free Weekend in the middle of the week.  Thousand Foot Krutch is one of my favorite bands in the Christian music scene right now. I like the sound they put out, but it’s even better when they work video game references into their songs. Their latest CD, The End Is Where We Begin, hit stores in the middle of April. The song called ‘I Get Wicked’ mixes in a reference to Nintendo’s latest handheld. You can find the reference around the 1:35 mark.

The band’s music is very heavy with guitar riffs and pounding drums.  If you’re into hard rock/metal then you’re going to like this music.

Leading up to the release of Kid Icarus: Uprising Nintendo debuted some original, animated shorts from a number of different studios.  These shorts were really good and were available for a short period of time on the Nintendo Video service.  They are currently being replayed, but if you haven’t had the opportunity to check them out here is a compilation of some of the scenes that you’ll see.

Now Nintendo, please make these available for purchase through the eShop and please announce that one of them is being made into a series of shows that will be featured on Nintendo Video.  I would love to see a full “season” of Medusa’s Revenge.

This video is just about as adorable as you can get. I mean who doesn’t like babies and who doesn’t like Street Fighter? The answer is no one. Then when you combine the two you just can’t resist. If this baby was a true Street Fighter, though, he would have jumped the Hadouken, Dragon Punched his dad in the face and then Hurricane Kicked him on the way down.

I knew that Pokemon could talk.  I just knew it, and Teddiursa is the stuff of nightmares.  Just trust me on this one.  This video posted by The Speed Gamers is pretty funny and features street type interviews with various pokemon.  It’s well worth ten minutes of your time.

We’ve talked numerous times about typos presented on Capcom products over the years.  The most recent was the typo on the spine of Resident Evil: Revelations.  As you can see in the picture above Resident Evil 6 has its first typo.  Can you spot it?  I’ll give you a hint…I don’t think there is a mode where you go around a map buying merchandise.

Oh and then there’s this one from the TGS 2011 Biohazard: Revelations CD sampler, which we’ll be giving away on The Question Block sometime next month.  It’s kind of hard to see, but it’s at the top of the cover, and they did the same thing on the back of the cover.

Mario Party 9 is arguably one of the better entries in the franchise in a few years.  To celebrate the release of the game Nintendo had people take to Twitter and tell the company how Mario and Luigi could 1UP their parties using the hashtag #1UPMyParty.  Nintendo then had the brothers crash a number of parties around the country from a sweet 16 birthday party to a college gaming party.  This is what happened.

This post marks the coming of two different milestones for me and this site.  The first and less significant of the two is that this is my 2,000th post since I started this site.  I cannot believe I’ve written that many things.  It just seems crazy to me.  It’s been fun every step of the way.

The second, and a lot of the credit for this one goes to the rest of the crew, is that we passed 400,000 overall page views since we started back in 2009.  There’s no way we would have made that mark without all the hard work of everyone on the site.  Much of the credit also goes to everyone out there that visits us every day to see what we’ve got going on.  I can’t speak for the rest of the crew, but I really appreciate each and every person who’s ever visited this site whether you’ve had something nice to say to us or you had to disagree with something we’ve posted.  Each member of the staff loves getting the chance to interact with you all on a daily basis through our writing, the Go Rounds, the various podcasts that we produce.

There has been a lot of content come and go on the site and sometimes we get in a funk where we just don’t know what to write, or if I’m completely honest, we just don’t want to.  Yet knowing that there will be comments to be read, discussions to be had and friendships to be built we continue to do it.

I really can’t thank the members of the crew enough for all the hard work that they’ve put in and I’ll continue to thank them every opportunity that I get.  They work very hard to get the content to you, the readers, and they’ve have to put up with me in the process.  If you only knew some of the stuff that goes back and forth in emails between us.  [=^)  I’ve built some great friendships over the last couple of years working with all the people who you see on the site and I’m glad to have all of them as a part of the Nintendo Okie family.

I’m also grateful for everyone that visits the site on a daily basis.  It’s because of you that we continue to do what we do.  Thank you for all the comments you’ve posted, all the emails you’ve sent and all the trivia questions you’ve answered (more on that coming soon!).  I know I’ll be around for a long time to come and I look forward to 400,000 more views and 2,000 more posts to come.

Fun Fact: In those 2,000 posts Shelby has corrected approximately 3,129,042 typos.  [=^)

Letters like these are generally nothing more than PR disguised as a personal letter from the designers. It doesn’t really matter to me and I think it’s a nice touch that Nintendo does and not a lot of other developers do. Chances are these letters might not even be written by the person that they say they are, but I still think it’s nice that Nintendo does things like this. The letter below is from Masahiro Sakurai, head of Project Sora and the lead designer on Kid Icarus: Uprising. It talks about some of the features of the game and what went into his thought process when he updated Pit for a new generation. I don’t know how many of you got this letter in your email. If you did you’ve already read it. If you didn’t it’s a nice note from a Nintendo exec that I think you might enjoy. Head past the break to read the letter in full.

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