Your first digital games in 2009 from Nintendo are Kirby’s Dream Land 3 and Sandy Beach. Since Kirby’s Dream Land 3 came out so late in the lifecycle of the Super NES it looked impressive. The gameplay, however, is standard Kirby fare where you eat and absorb the powers of enemies. Since this is [...]

Nintendo is revisiting Kirby Super Star with Kirby Super Star Ultra on the Nintendo DS. The original title was one of three Kirby games in development for  Super Nintendo. Only two saw the light of day as a final product sitting in a story. Kid Kirby got canned.
 
Concrete details about Kid Kirby are hard [...]

Nintendo blasted the media, including us, with an announcement about an event taking place on September 18. That’s this Thursday. Instead of flat out explaining what they are doing Nintendo left a bunch of clues. According to “authorities at Nintendo” a celestial event will be visible at a handful of locations. The event only [...]

Between the launch of Wii Fit and August Nintendo of America isn’t releasing anything. Their next game will be Mario Super Sluggers, a compilation of Wii Sports baseball motion control with Mario Superstar Baseball, scheduled to come out on August 28. A two month turnaround is hardly a wait. Mario Super Sluggers just came [...]

Well, it's Monday, and you know what that means. Two more classic games hit the Virtual Console here in the US. This week we have the pink puffball Kirby's first 3D adventure, and a shmup from the TG-16. First up we have Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards.  Players control Kirby as he endeavors to [...]

At the tail end of Nintendo’s financial statement is a glimpse of Nintendo’s plan for 2008. Most of the titles like Disaster: Day of Crisis, Wii Music and Animal Crossing were either revealed or hinted at in the past. However, the list indicates 2008 is the year of Kirby, at least in Japan. Two Kirby [...]

This weeks three virtual console titles all come from the days of the NES. Nintendo is releasing Kirby’s Adventure, Ice Climber and Kid Icarus for 500 Wii points each.
 
Kirby’s Adventure(TM) (NES(R), 1 player, 500 Wii Points): Not everything is well in Dream Land.  For some mysterious reason, the Dream Spring, a magical well that [...]