ShaneM

I liked Yooka-Laylee, but Gregg Mayles' creative direction and level design were sorely missed. He was pretty much Rare's Miyamoto, but he's busy with Sea of Thieves now.

I love Aaron Webber.

I was literally just about to buy it... I had the money on my account and everything...

Thanks for the warning, Nintendo!

@Tasuki

Nintendo owns all the characters, including K. Rool. K. Rool has appeared in many newer Donkey Kong games as well as Mario Super Sluggers.

I really wish this worked in Wii Mode. I'd love to play N64 games with a suitable controller again.

@unrandomsam

The modern ports of the Adventure games are the same as the GameCube versions.

@rumple88:

Battle Royale coming to consoles was one of E3's most exciting announcements!

@Artwark This game is on PS3 and 360 too.

Four hours? Pssh. This game takes far less than four hours to beat.

@LetsGoRetro

Yeah, it's mostly more of the same. Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed is certainly the better game.

@MasterGraveheart

SEGA is involved with this release to some degree as they still own the IP.

I really wish I could get the Majora's Mask soundtrack, but I'm only a gold member, so Link's Awakening will have to do.

Wonder Trade won't be doing any favours for people worried about hacked Pokémon and the effects that they can have on our games.

Robin Beanland isn't a former Rare composer. He's a current Rare composer.

If they wanted to stop cheaters, they wouldn't make it nearly-impossible to get good Pokémon.

I chose Tropical Freeze, but maybe you should do the same poll without Smash as one of the options? XD

Donkey Kong 64 and Banjo-Tooie were absurd in this way.

Super Mario 64 and Banjo-Kazooie did things beautifully.

@ThomasBW84 The way this card works though, is it disguises itself as the game on the microSD card. Nintendo would essentially think you were playing an official copy of a game upon checking your activity log.

This is completely wrong.

A few years ago, just after Unleashed came out, a guy named Wentos started posting info on a new Sonic game on 4chan. He was proven wrong and none of it came up again.

Wentos' existence has been a joke both within the Sonic fanbase and on 4chan. This leak came from a guy pretending to be Wentos, but he couldn't even get the name right and called himself Wintos. For whatever reason, one or two members on some Sonic forums thought Wentos was one of our legitimate sources, and now this is spreading like wildfire.

David Wise is doing the music and that is enough of a reason for me to buy.

@SanderEvers

SEGA finally got 3D Sonic right for the first time, Nintendo consoles just didn't get Sonic Generations. Sonic Colors was a pretty good 2D game too.

I'm looking forward to a Nuts & Bolts review on Nlife's Xbox-based website, Pure Xbox. Mostly so kids who haven't even played the game can stop pretending it's bad.

Sonic Blast and Sonic Labyrinth are both notorious as games that are possibly even worse than Sonic '06 (and having played all three games, I can say it might just be true), so it's more of a blessing that they're not on the shop.

I wouldn't want to release a game on a platform where games aren't tied to accounts either...

SNES PAL games are much more simple to convert to 60Hz than NES PAL games, so I'd suggest you guys stay on the lookout next time a NES game releases on Wii U.

@Nano This isn't a remake, this is just a new game trying to steal some success from the good Walking Dead game.

I don't care for the comics or the TV show, but the Walking Dead game that's on other consoles was brilliant. This just looks like trash.

@Moshugan Rare before was second-party, but Retro is first-party. Rare is first-party now too - to Microsoft.

Rare (then) - 49% Nintendo
Retro - 100% Nintendo
Rare (now) - 100% Microsoft

I was worried about this game's sales for a while, but this is pretty good news! (:

@Onett "Oh, and I wonder if James is feeling the hype?"

Putting aside for a moment the fact that that this is just a rumour with no factual basis, as far as I recall James generally dislikes the Adventure games.

...How much does this cost?

@AbeVigoda Buying a decade-old game for more than the original retail price is thinking like an adult now?

The original Wind Waker was only $49.99 when it came out. If this is the remake's actual retail price, Nintendo is being atrocious.

Can't say I didn't totally expect this, though.

Sonic's racing game was better than any Mario Kart I've played. I hope Nintendo steps their game up with this one.

"first ever HD appearance of Mario outside of the Dolphin emulator on Wii"

...But I was playing Super Mario 64 in HD many years ago!

Is Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed really this forgettable? ;_;

I loved this one on the PS1, I need to catch up on the DS remakes too...

SEGA's patent for Touch Striker: http://i.imgur.com/Yd1mP.jpg
Inazuma Eleven screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/1loH2.jpg

Capcom picked the game up, funded it, and tested it. It was amazing when SEGA did it with the Sonic CD remake, but when Capcom does it, it's wrong? I'm personally excited to play this.

A lot of these comments couldn't be any more wrong...

First of all, it wasn't Sumo's idea to use Danica Patrick or Wreck-It Ralph in the game. Steve Lycett from Sumo said himself back in June that he actually warned SEGA that the fans wouldn't be happy. However, SEGA went through with it and as a result the game has a higher budget. Sumo also went and made Danica and unlockable character so that players don't even have to see her if they don't want to.

Secondly, this game did not rip off Mario Kart 7 as it has been in development since 2010, shortly after the first game's release. Sumo reported that there was a lot of shock and confusion when they watched Nintendo's press conference together in 2011, though. XD

Thirdly, I see a lot of hate going around here towards this game, and all I can ask of you all is to try it before you knock it. I personally adore this game and I'm doing nothing to hide that. However, I don't think comparisons to Mario Kart are justified. Mario Kart is a party racer - Nintendo has even said this in the past. This game is more of an arcade racer like OutRun or Hydro Thunder, only with power-ups. Simply put, both games hold very different places on the gaming spectrum.

This series didn't get any good until Ian Flynn took over with Issue #160.

Not buying a Wii U until a Suite Life on Deck game with online multiplayer comes out.

I want to know if we can tether certain games to certain Nintendo IDs.

I live in a large family and many of us downloaded many different games. My brothers are gonna kill me if they all get tethered to my ID.

Awesome! I'll definitely consider updating to digital!

Will there be an option to transfer my save data to the digital versions?

Jazz Jackrabbit 3 please.

Banjo-Kazooie wouldn't work without Leigh Loveday's humour. Nintendo would have to hire him as a writer if they wanted to buy Banjo-Kazooie.

But yeah, the employees who left Rare were from the Goldeneye team:
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/4033/timelinenew4bl.jpg

The DKC/B-K team went onto make Viva Piñata and Nut & Bolts, which were objectively Microsoft's highest quality Rare games. Nuts & Bolts just shouldn't have been a Banjo game...

@Gunorgunorg

That was just a silly rumour.

And to everyone else, Nintendo is just as much to blame as Microsoft. Nintendo had first dibs on Rare and they rejected. It's been said many times. The only two companies interested in buying Rare were Activision and Microsoft.

This game has some pretty sweet battle music, I'll give it that.

Yeah, I've known about the Final Fantasy II prototype for at least six years; I've even played it myself through certain methods that I normally wouldn't approve of.

Pac-Man and Klonoa are okay. Everyone else is not. Tekken has just never had a Nintendo presence.