Robo-goose

This was to be expected, and for good reasons, too.

Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?

@GlasS
I'd agree with you if the last Pokemon game I played was Red.

@toonlink1122
Yo, welcome to the finest Nintendo exclusive gaming website money can buy!
(btw, I bought all the NL stocks and gave them to some hobo-dude-bro
I saw in LA. You higher-ups work for him now.)

For some people, this may be one of the only things other than videogame dialogue that they will ever read.

@Zephren
@GigaFlanMan
Remember when Nintendo said that they didn't like the idea of DLC that made games easier (e.g. DLC for most facebook games, DLC for many ios games)?
If they stick to what they say, which they usually do, we won't be seeing any CheetLC in Fire Emblem.

@KoKoO_Psy
I decided to attempt holding both of my thumbs after seeing what you wrote.
It's a tricky process.

Good luck to one specific person!
djosh444, the random number generator chose you as the person I am supporting. Grats.

Bloons is also free to play on addicting games.com, it's been around for years. Was the DSi ware version even made by the same guys? I've seen two (pun) many games on Nintendo's "ware" service that are just cheap copies of games from AG, which were never even good to begin with.

As much as I don't like games getting released while DLC for them are either ready or almost completed, the thought of having more Fire Emblem just makes me happier!
I'm sure none of us want any "to access this side quest, you must purchase it from the Nintendo e-shop." moments.

While scrolling through the DSi Ware section, My Little Restaurant and My Asian Farm got mixed up in my head; I read it as My Little Asian.

Christmas is already here? Better start playing your favorite Zelda game for tradition sake.

"we're the most knowledgeable people in the world when it comes to downloadable games on Nintendo formats."
Honestly, I don't think anyone can really argue with that.

Link dies. CONFIRMED!

You want it! You need it! You love it!

Anyone else think Dillon's Rolling Western looks pretty darn amazing?
Tower of defense meats beat-em'-up, how awesome is that?
Also, Texas.

Heh heh heh, good times.
Too bad I'm not willing to spend 44 bucks on nostalgia.

A baby seal on the cover? Does this mean that we get a game involving clubs and premature animals?

We're talking about retro studios, here. These are the guys who took Metroid on a daring stunt trip, and made it do some amazing tricks.
These are the guys who developed DKCR, what I consider to be the greatest platformer ever made.
These are the guys who are based in Texas, the greatest state to ever be a part of the USA.
Yeah, I wanna see what they can do with Zelda.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEAH!!! Fire Emblem, man! Freakin' FIRE EMBLEM is one of the free games, and it's the Sacred Stones, too! Dang, this day is amazing!

Good grief, who let the Final Fantasy in?

@TeeJay Heh, it was a bit silly, but I really enjoyed that video.

Hey, do you have any numbers for us? I want to know how many people bought Pushmo/Pullblox.

I want it.

The larger you swing in SS, the more accurate you will be.
Too many people do a quick flick with the wrist, then complain that their sword went the wrong way.
Lets take a sword in real life, shall we? Swing that sword. Swing it hard.
Did you do a quick flick of the wrist, or a large, broad swing? If you flicked it with your wrist, congratulations! You have superhuman wrist strength, and will probably have a great career with the circus!
Now, did you do a broad swing? Probably, because that is the natural way to swing a sword. Now go play Zelda, are you going to continue flicking the remote with your wrist, expecting the sword to go the same way every time like your common WiiWaggler? You shouldn't, because that's not how you swing a sword in real life.
Now do a broad swing. There! Right on target! Now isn't that better and more lifelike than what you were doing before? You're so silly!

Once I saw "abyssmal" I immediately put on a stern frown.
Glad to be wrong.

Alright, before the end of the year! Makes one wonder how soon our GBA games are going to come, right?

Miyamoto secretly wants to live forever, which is why he's doing his best to force the younger generation of game developers to think the way he does, and make what he wants. I bet he has an entire section of Nintendo devoted to figuring out how to prolong life/clone armies of himself. One day, there will be millions of Shigeru Miyamotos, marching down the game development streets, murdering any game developer who isn't a Shigeru Miyamoto. First he'll target the guys in charge of making games, next he'll destroy their entire companies by killing all of the members. Sega and Ubisoft will fall first, next will be Activision followed by EA. There will be pockets of resistance comprised of members of Valve, Atlus, and indie companies, they will struggle to survive, they must if they wish to save gamer-kind.
They won't.
Nintendo will eventually start to root out Valve's whereabouts, Gabe Newell will be a victim in 2019. Once Valve falls, everyone will start loosing hope. The indie companies will attempt to join Nintendo in a fruitless effort to stay alive, but will be captured and tortured for information instead. They will give up the location of Atlus in yet another fruitless effort to stay alive, but all that they did was spell the end of non-Nintendo gaming, and the end of the lives of many other developers as well...
Atlus will relocate on the island Wake before Nintendo finds them, then try to build a small navy and airforce for themselves.

In the year 2021, Atlus will start to test its naval and airforce power by sending aircraft carriers to attack Nintendo-occupied Guam.
The attack will be successful.
Atlus will get over confident, and start to show its full power to Nintendo by attempting to take Agana, Tinian, and Saipan.
These attacks will also deliver good results... So it seems...
Nintendo sees these attacks as a chance to finally root out Atlus, the army of Miyamotos is eager to attack.
Nintendo will launch a fleet of forty-seven carriers, eighty-nine heavy cruisers, one-hundred light cruisers, and two-hundred and twenty-two destroyers. A small force of seventeen Nintendo submarines will alert the optimistic Atlus Navy to Nintendo's presence. Atlus will use its three destroyers to fight back the submarines, not knowing that they are being surrounded by a gigantic fleet.
Nintendo now sends in its full fleet to finally wipe out the Atlus survivors, whom they believed to have all but disappeared two years before, when Gabe died.
Nintendo destroys all Atlus ships in Saipan, Tinian, Agana, and Guam. Nintendo learns of Atlus's Wake-based home.
Atlus tries its best to escape from Wake before the inevitable end.
They're too slow.
Nintendo catches the Atlusians mid escape.
Nintendo has no mercy.
Every developer with Atlus is promptly wiped out. Before death, Fleet Admiral Markus Vaughn gives a farewell adress to his men, "Gentlemen, we had a good run. It has been an honor to serve by you, and to resist the Npire with every fabric of my being. I wish you all a good afterlife. Farewell!".
No one survived, Nintendo had finally wiped out every last developer who wasn't a Miyamoto on the entire planet.
But that's only every developer on the PLANET. They failed to consider the resistance on the moon...

This is actually some pretty good news when taken into context.

Quick! Record as much stuff in 3D as possible so we can put an end to the annoying "I bet you've never seen THIS in 3D!" part of the Nintendo Show 3D!

Normally, I wouldn't like a talking Link.
If, however, Link was to be voiced by Charles Barkley, I would probably change my opinion.

I see that trashing Justin Bieber is still just as fun as declaring that your Wii is collecting dust (at IGN).

February, eh? Better late than never.

Am I the only one who, when reading the headline on the news page, thought a real life town was going to be designed after a Mario Sunshine stage?

Enjoying your first 10/10, James? After seeing so many 80's on metacritic, I was afraid that SS wouldn't be as good as I had hoped.
I now have no doubts.

It's okay for PETA to freeze thousands of animals alive, but if Mario even DARES to dress up like a Tanuki he's an evil person?
Impressive, PETA, you are all hypocritical idiots.

DSi Ware in general can't support SD Cards? There's something I didn't know.

@zionich
"Arg, finally getting into the Master Quest and yall got to hit me with this"
Heh heh heh, how are you liking Jabu Jabu's pet cows?

^The Detroit auto show? You mean the one where everyone competes for the "least broken down and unkempt ride" award?

What about the Hero of Winds fans? Are they really planning on leaving us hanging?
That would be okay if it meant the Hero of Bacon would have a game on the Wii U.

@Luigismash98
"I'm sad. I was hoping a 10/10. I'm VERY picky about my games, so I don't know if 9/10 is worth $40. I'm might return it and use the money to buy monster hunter 4."
A 9/10 game not worth forty dollars? I hope that attitude doesn't carry over to metacritic.

So close. So freakin' close.
Alright guys, see you there!

Nintendo adapts to survive... Darwin would be proud.

@cinemaxgames
SD card support can be incredibly useful, for example, saving songs directly onto an SD card would conserve much-needed 3DS/DSi space.
Having virtually unlimited storage to use, consumers would be encouraged to experiment with Rytmik's many features without fear of using up what little space we're given by Nintendo's handhelds.
That's just a suggestion, though. I'm still going to buy Retrobits with or without SD card support.

@Collision_Cat & @PunnyGuy
"Sonic glanced back at Mario shyly, but happily, for he knew that Mario's love for him was as strong as the roaring tide. He just blushed, and sweetly said 'I love you.'
It was then that Mario and Sonic knew they would never be separated by any force in the universe.
No matter what happened, they would always be together...
They had many babies."

I added quotation marks because I'm sure someone on FA already has that in one of their many MarioXSonic fan-fics.
I'm going to go take a bath now.

@lz20XX & @brenwizard
No, they should let you play as two generic blue and yellow toads instead.

I was hoping for Cutie-Pie Puff Puff Pad,
but I'm down with Circle Pad Pro.

99 Luft Balloons. Nice.

Now stealing your kid brother's downloadable games will be twice as easy! Jerks.

"Along the way, Nintendo has been incredibly helpful and supportive in helping us make this into a real product."
Wait... what?

It's a DD sized answer.

Super Smash Bros: Unicycle.

Pokemon Black & White: final sales=5,308,519 copies.
That was all I saw.