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Nintendo Fans need to Buy Third Party Games TOO
Nintendo fans buying only Switch Nintendo exclusives is a problem. Sure, many practitioners of this buying scheme of Nintendo only titles will assume that even if third parties disappear, that they will still have their quality Nintendo developed content. While … Continue reading
Switching to Switch: Rewards and Risks – An Issue of Too Many Games
It is difficult to say how having too many games on a given platform can become a dilemma of consequence, assuming game quality does not plummet. However, it is hard to not be concerned, though, that some games may suffocate … Continue reading
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Switching to the Switch: A Look into its Success
All video game devices or, a matter of fact, any technological device must have a market, or it will fall into the nethers of time. Nintendo’s next-generation portable and console hybrid: Switch, aimed at a market and has seemingly found … Continue reading
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A Smashing Letter of Ideas you Secretly Want.
The beauty of the Super Smash Bros. series is diversity. It’s not a fighting series limited to one-on-one confrontations. Matter of fact, the series likens closely to wrestling, significantly more than it does to Street Fighter, Tekken, and other fighting series. With … Continue reading
The Necessary Balance of Story and Video Games
Video games are interactive experiences, and story elements are part of the video game experience in both minor and major ways. Now, if major, pushing, central-focused, interesting story elements were suddenly cut or drawn back from equation, would people still … Continue reading
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It’s Disheartening to hear of the Industry’s Main Base
Your smile has dipped to a slight frown, and your insides have flipped, because someone who said he or she is really into video games, listed off the only games they play as Call of Duty, Halo, Guitar Hero, Madden, … Continue reading
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Gaming Age Nonsense
Why do we play games? Is it to be entertained, challenged, or is it just something to pass the time or a mix of any of the three? The answer will vary, but it’s a thought that has occurred for myself and … Continue reading
Ranking The Kirby Series
With this year being Kirby’s 20th Anniversary, Nintendo celebrated it with the Kirby Collection, which just released last month, and with that in mind, we’re taking a look at the entire Kirby series, ranking each individual game from weakest to … Continue reading
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Solo is Paramount. The Future of Being Solo or Together.
The video game industry is changing, but not all video game experiences need something new tacked on, such as multiplayer. Stereotypes regarding video game players have been numerous, and one of the most prevalent of those stereotypes is the gamer who lingers … Continue reading
Complaining, Are You? Look at All of Your Games.
People are greedy beings. Nothing is too much. Oftentimes when people claim that a video game system has no good content, there is indeed interesting content, but that aside, many video game players have way too much of a backlog of … Continue reading
Doom, They Said.
Doom is a favorite thing we humans love to predict, but like with everything regarding the Apocalypse, its all pointless and false speculation. Therefore, we can all relax with the Nintendo or Sony is doomed or in trouble scenario. At … Continue reading
Brand Loyalty. Is it a War Worth Fighting?
He and she said that they’re right, without proof, and hence anger erupted from the fiery volcano, and people discredited one another and began to fight among themselves. Conflict has been waged over what has been the best since the beginning of anything, and … Continue reading
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Playing the Game of Dollars…
Money can be hard to come by these days, so perhaps it’s to conserve what little cash each person possesses. Even so, intentionally playing the waiting game, the act of waiting for a video game’s price to drop, or buying … Continue reading
“Gods” Amongst Games…
Carnival rides, the rides of yesteryear, are a blast, but eventually roller coasters, the newer kids on the block, slide into the mind, from there it’s all a matter of perspective of which is better. Carnival rides, the expected and … Continue reading
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The Power is Out: Nintendo Power…
Editor’s Note: The Games’ Temple will now be periodically (at least once a week, if not more) posting editorials and reviews once more. “Why?” they exclaimed, clueless as to the bus of depressing news that hit them (Nintendo Power readers). … Continue reading
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Computation Error Detected! Price & Value do not Compute.
The core product is what matters, but shouldn’t complimentary extras be taken into account, like the original box, and instruction manual? Should you accept these extras as missing for the same value as an identical twin with these extras? Absolutely not. But … Continue reading
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It’s a Fantastical Time to be a 3DS Fan, Possibly…
Nintendo stock has plummeted, and the Nintendo 3DS is dipping $90, shortly after launch, but it may benefit fans, as well as gamers in general. Although most of that may not be the best news in and of itself, it … Continue reading
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3DS Value is Worth the Risk.
Nintendo’s next generation handheld (Nintendo 3DS) may not presently be the most appetizing gaming device at first glance to everyone, but that does not mean it’s not tasty at the moment, per say.
Nintendo’s 3DS is Wounded, and Now May Be the Time to Purchase it.
Nintendo took the bullet head-on today. It dropped the price of its newest handheld, $80 five months after launch, and posted a negative forecast, despite what it may do to stock prices. Yes, a company that has dominated the portable … Continue reading
Wii U is a Future You Want.
Reggie was at E3, and he was the man who primarily introduced us to Wii U. Nintendo at their E3 2011 press conference pulled back the curtain on its newest console: Wii U; a console that will make a name … Continue reading
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