Let’s Ramble About Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl Eps 3 & 4

Posted on January 17, 2015 by Les Major

It’s time to yet again delve into NIS America’s recent anime release, Ground Control To Psychoelectric Girl! Naturally, there will be spoilers but for those of you interested in taking a deeper look into this series before giving it a go, or some of you who just want to reflect, come in and join us. What sort of drama will Makoto and Erio find themselves in now?

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Wii U Closes out 2014 with Biggest Sales Month in the System’s History

Posted on January 15, 2015 by Jason Nason

Wii U established new benchmarks for hardware and software sales in a single month in December. This helped total hardware and software sales in 2014 increase by more than 29 percent and more than 75 percent, respectively, over sales in 2013. Nintendo 3DS also had a strong December, including its largest month ever for first-party software sales. This was primarily fueled by Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS, which has already surpassed 2 million combined physical and digital units sold in a little more than three months, and Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire, which have combined to sell

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Mario & Friends Throw a Party On WiiU This March

Posted on January 14, 2015 by Rae Michelle Richards

Can you believe that the Mario Party series is about to celebrate its tenth instalment? Mario and friends just keep finding reasons to throw elaborate board game themed parties and this time the excitement is coming to the Nintendo WiiU. During this morning’s Nintendo Direct we learned several new details about the game as well as its North American release date – March 20th 2015. Mario Party 10 will include over 70 different mini-games, support for a brand new line of amiibo figures based off of classic Super Mario characters, new game boards based on your favourite characters will be

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New 3DS Launches In North America On Feb 13th

Posted on January 14, 2015 by Rae Michelle Richards

The rest of the world received Nintendo’s most recent iteration of their flagship handheld the New Nintendo 3DS last fall and now the console maker has taken the wraps off of their North American launch plans. The New Nintendo 3DS XL will be available in Canada and the United States on February 13th for a suggested retail price of $229.99 CDN. If you’ve been waiting to upgrade your 3DS now might just be the right time as apparently pre-orders are selling out fast. What new features await owners of this new handheld? New 3DS XL adds two additional shoulder buttons,

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Nintendo Direct Set for January 14th at 9:00am ET

Posted on January 13, 2015 by Jason Nason

Nintendo has today announced that a Nintendo Direct will air tomorrow, Wednesday January 14th, with the news focusing on Nintendo 3DS and Wii U releases for spring 2015. The broadcast will be hosted by Nintendo President Satoru Iwata. Unfortunately we’ll be out of the office during the Direct, but check back here afterwards for a wrap up of what went down!

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Let’s Ramble About Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl Eps 1 & 2

Posted on January 7, 2015 by Les Major

You may have heard that NIS America recently released Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl on Blu-ray in North America. I’m currently watching the series and thought it would be fun to write articles about my thoughts as I continue on into the anime. Of course these may contain spoilers so that’s something to be aware of. Today we’re looking at the first and second episodes. This seems like an interesting idea since it will contain my evolving thoughts as I watch. So instead of just a review, you’ll get to see a flowing progression of how I feel the show

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Halo 5 Multiplayer Beta Expands With New Maps & Modes

Posted on January 4, 2015 by Rae Michelle Richards

Owners of Halo: The Master Chief Collection can now enjoy the Xbox One only multiplayer beta for Halo 5: Guardians. Players were able to ring in the new year with a killing spree as the beta began last week on December 28th and will last until January 18th. A major update to the beta was released a few days ago that adds more weapons and a brand new game mode. The new mode is called ‘Breakout’ where every player begins the match with only one life and the first team to win five rounds claims victory. In terms of new

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Jan 15 PS Plus Games – Infamous: First Light & More

Posted on January 4, 2015 by Rae Michelle Richards

It’s a brand new year and more importantly a brand new month and that means a whole crop of new PlayStation Plus games to try out. InFamous, one of Sony’s premiere first party franchises makes the jump to the instant game collection with a gratis copy of Infamous: First Light. That’s not all Sony has in store, read on to find out what other surprises await PlayStation 3 and PS Vita owners.

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January 1st Nintendo Download

Posted on January 1, 2015 by Jason Nason

Bionic Commando: Elite Forces – You are the perfect combination of man and machine – a Bionic Commando equipped with a Bionic Claw that will be extremely handy when infiltrating the danger zone. Blast through enemy lines as you grapple, swing and scale more than 20 levels of forests, deserts, mountains and futuristic cities. You are the last hope in saving your homeland from utter destruction. Suit up, soldier!

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Nintendo Holiday Download (12.25.14)

Posted on December 30, 2014 by Rae Michelle Richards

The holiday season isn’t exactly a hot bed of new video game news but Nintendo doesn’t really take time off. Over Christmas the Big N released a whole slew of classic games from their back catalogue onto the 3DS and Wii U virtual consoles. If you’ve got some downtime between now and the inevitable New Years Day hangover  then why not sink some time into the original Mario Bros?

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Hackers Say Merry Christmas By DDOSing PlayStation Network

Posted on December 25, 2014 by Rae Michelle Richards

If you got a brand new PlayStation 4 for Christmas I hope you weren’t planning on using it on the PlayStation Network today as it appears that PSN is down due to a distributed denial of service attack. It appears that users all across North America are having issues logging into PSN on their consoles leading some to believe that hackers are targeting the PlayStation Network login servers. A group of “hackers” on twitter calling themselves “Lizard Squad” have taken responsibility for today’s outage. They took to social media to request that their twitter account receive more than 10,000 re-tweets

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December 18th Nintendo Download

Posted on December 18, 2014 by Jason Nason

League of Heroes – Take your place amongst the best warriors and become true hero of Frognest! A NEVER-ENDING STORY: Hack, slash and pummel your way through the endless Frognest Forest! GEAR UP AND CUSTOMIZE YOUR CHARACTER: Kit out your character with numerous armor and weaponry options – then design the best strategy to defeat your enemies! EVOLVE AS YOUR ADVENTURE UNFOLDS: Earn experience, discover treasure and unlock a slew of cool items, including magic! COMPLETE QUESTS: Complete 60+ daunting quests and earn valuable silver coins! BEAUTIFUL HAND-DRAWN GRAPHICS AND ANIMATIONS: Immerse yourself in spectacular 2D visuals and awesome animations! PERSONALIZED, WEATHER

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Circle Bringing Fairune to 3DS This Month

Posted on December 13, 2014 by Jason Nason

CIRCLE Entertainment is bringing a retro-style puzzle ARPG to the Nintendo 3DS very soon. Develped by Skipmore and FlyHigh Works, who have done previous games CIRCLE has released, the game is a very simple ARPG to play. The story revolves around a girl, who has been chosen to become a heroine. An adventure filled with mystery awaits her. During her adventure, she’ll need to find weapons to defeat monsters, and to level up. She also needs to collect items, find secret passages, and solve puzzles. Once she has unlocked three ancient statues, she has to seal a mysterious menace away

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