Watch live video from SmashPad on www.twitch.tv This week’s SmashPad Streamkend will feature the Wii U puzzle platformer Toki Tori 2. We will be taking a look at the latest notable release on the Wii U’s eShop, which is a sequel to a classic puzzle game for the Game Boy Color by Two Tribes. The [...]

If you had to name an immensely popular entertainment property off the top of your head, The Walking Dead could easily come to mind. The comic series began steamrolling its way into mainstream media when the now-critically acclaimed television series debuted in 2010. Gamers were treated to a fantastic gaming experience last year, when Telltale [...]

Watch live video from smashpad on www.twitch.tv This week’s SmashPad Streamkend will be featuring Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate for the Wii U as I continue playing the latest game in the series that continues to search for its breakout installment in the West. I’m also expecting to get LEGO City Undercover from Gamefly tomorrow, so [...]

  At first, 2012 seemed like a disappointing year because there wasn’t that one game that blew everybody away and won all of the awards. However, when I look through all the games myself and the rest of our staff enjoyed the most this past year, 2012 was actually a great year for gaming thank to the [...]

Watch live video from smashpad on TwitchTV If you checked out last week’s New Year’s Stream, I talked at length about wanting to purchase a Wii U the following day with the recent influx of holiday cash that I had received, but a rather nasty snow storm earlier that day lead me to just stay [...]

Scribblenauts and Super Scribblenauts on the Nintendo DS were both games that allowed players to creatively think up different ways of solving simple puzzles. While the games weren’t completely open-ended, players could progress through the games however they wanted to, and that’s where the series gets its charm. The third entry in the series, Scribblenauts [...]

Nintendo Land was first met with puzzled reactions not only when Nintendo unveiled the game at E3, but also made it a headlining feature, this summer. All people knew was that Nintendo Land was going to be what Wii Sports ended up being for the Wii, a true testament for what the console can do [...]

It has been 16 years since Nintendo has had a new installment of the legendary Mario franchise ready for one of its console launches. To find the last such instance, you’re going to need to go all the way back to September of 1996 and Super Mario 64. Since then, the company’s history has played [...]

Hot off the heels of last night’s big announcements from Nintendo of Japan, Nintendo of America had their own preview of what’s to come for the Wii U–including the release date and price of their next generation console, and it looks like the western gamers will be the first to get their hands on the [...]

A few hours ago, Nintendo held “Nintendo Direct” videos to update gamers, fans, and writers alike about what the popular developer and publisher has up its sleeve for the coming months. Japan and North America each had separate Nintendo Directs, and while each one had some content exclusive to each region, each one also had [...]