3DS Miis: More Action!
Just when you thought it was safe, four fleshy weapons prove you wrong with their fists. Bruce Willis and Wesley Snipes join Jet Li and the Old Spice Guy. Together they are unstoppable. More
3DS Miis: Rocky Edition
Introducing four heavyweights of the Rocky series, including Rocky Balboa himself, Apollo Creed, "Clubber" Lang played by Mr. T and Ivan Drago the deadly Russian from Rocky IV. More
Play Kid Icarus: Uprising in First-Person Mode
Are you a hardcore FPS player who wants to get into the newest Nintendo entry? Today is your lucky day! By changing one simple option you can play Kid Icarus: Uprising in the first-person perspective.
Navigate your way through Kid Icarus’ menus to reach the control options (they are also available from the pause menu):
Options > Controls > Control Configuration
There you will be presented with two options for controlling Pit’s movement. Select the default setting (Circle Pad). The next screen you will be taken to modifies the reticle controls. Selecting the last option will enable you to use both the face buttons on the 3DS and the touch screen to aim.
An interesting side effect of this is that the “View Change” button is remapped to Up on the D-Pad and its functionality altered. Prior to this change you would have to hold Y in order to enter FPS mode, now you can toggle it on or off by simply pressing Up on the D-Pad.
Upon activating this, you will stay in first-person mode as you shoot & dodge your way to victory.
Japanese Elephant in the Room
This is intended as an addendum to the Develop article on Phil Fish’s modern Japanese games “just suck” comments from GDC 2012 and my previous rant on the subject.
The “unknown Japanese developer” as it was widely reported has (finally) been revealed to be Makoto Goto. He has posted a series of heart-warming tweets thanking people for their support of him and Japanese games in general.
Languish: Japan’s Video Game Decline
The Incredible Adventures of Mr. Fish
Earlier this month the 2012 Game Developers Conference (GDC) took place and game devs from around the world came to give and hear speeches on game design. One such panel included indie developers featured in Indie Game: The Movie. It was there that a Japanese developer from the audience asked the panel what they thought of modern Japanese video games. According to Develop, the reply he received from Phil Fish was a short and rather unsweet, “your games just suck” followed by a barrage of criticisms aimed squarely at the developer’s home country. It’s what some people would consider rude and makes Mr. Fish look like a complete ass. Yet there seems to be a large group of people that regret the way in which he replied to the question, and yet do not necessarily disagree with what he was trying to say.
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3DS Miis: Action Edition, Part Deux!
Mii men of action return...with a vengeance. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Lee, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal form the new motley crew of fleshy bipedal tanks. Scanning these QR Codes with your 3DS is like loading it with incendiary ammunition. More
Could Nintendo Bring Surface Computing to the Masses?
A look into the future of Nintendo's tablet controller and how it could become the equivalent of Microsoft's Surface. More
3DS Miis: Action Edition
Mii Bravo Company consists of hardened veterans of the most explosive action movies: Chuck Norris, Machete Cortez (Danny Trejo), Black Dynamite (Michael Jai White) and Jason Statham. Add them to your army of Miis with these QR codes. More