Tag: amiibo
Next Wave of amiibo Available for Pre-Order
The next wave of amiibo and Animal Crossing amiibo cards have popped up online for preorder. They are available online at Best Buy so far, but aren’t showing available on either Walmart.ca or Amazon.ca. They are scheduled for release on January 22nd. Now available to preorder are Resetti, Blathers, Kicks, and Celeste from Animal Crossing […]
Shovel Knight Amiibo To Be Released January 8th In North America
Yacht Club Game’s Shovel Knight will make his amiibo debut on January 8th in North America and December 11th in Europe the developers have announced via their blog. The reason for the almost month long gap between launches in the two territories stems from an issue with the figure’s production. Rather than only ship a […]
Nintendo Dampening Expectations For This Most Recent Direct Was the Right Move
Nintendo’s decision to post a notice on the Nintendo Direct official website outlining that they had no plans to discuss the NX or Mobile during today’s broadcast was absolutely the right move. Usually dampening your fan bases expectation for such a high profile event like the return of Nintendo Directs would be a bad thing […]
Super Mario Maker Supports Sonic, Pit & Splatoon Amiibo
Remember a few months ago back at E3 when Nintendo revealed that certain Amiibo like the Wii Fit trainer would change Mario’s sprite in Super Mario Maker? Well it turns out you can earn this skins for the red plumber without forking over nearly forty bucks for a Wii Fit trainer or other rare Amiibo. […]
amiibo Functionality added in Newest 3DS Update
If you’re like me today you were prompted to update your Nintendo 3DS system today when entering the eShop. The relatively quick update added a new option within the settings home settings menu. Tap on the home icon on the top left of your screen and then scroll down to see a newly added option […]
Nintendo to Release Silver Mario amiibo
Nintendo announced today the release of another new amiibo, which I will never get my hands on. A new Mario Silver Edition amiibo figure is slated for release on May 29th and while the figure is still a few weeks from hitting store shelves, the figure has already disappeared from some online retailers. The silver […]
Amiibo Tap Isn’t Just A Time Limited Demo Player
When I first heard about Amiibo Tap, I kind of glazed over it. Basically it sounded like I could play a time limited trial of a classic NES or SNES game. Of course we’ve been there and done that with other releases. We’re gaming press of course though, so we took a look to see […]
Yoshi’s Woolly World Amiibo Announced
During this afternoon’s Nintendo Direct stream the big N announced a special wool series of Amiibo that will be released this Fall. They are compatible with Yoshi’s Wooly World when tapped on the Wii U Game Pad a second Yoshi will appear in game to aid you. Yoshi’s Wooly World will be released in Q2 […]
Nintendo Adds amiibo to the Loot Crate
Nintendo has partnered up with Loot Crate to bring their new amiibo figures to customers in a new unique way. With the holidays fast approaching and the launch of amiibo on the horizon, the online delivery service Loot Crate is helping fans receive select amiibo figures after they launch on November 21st. By signing up […]
Nintendo’s New Way to Play: amiibo
Nintendo unveiled new NFC figures today at their E3 event, which are a little like the Skylanders and Disney Infinity series of figurines. You can import the characters into your game and build their stats. This isn’t really anything new for sure, but the fact that Nintendo plans to make the figures compatible with multiple […]