Senran Kagura Burst's Miiverse community sadly doesn't allow screenshot sharing

This is an awful pity. Miiverse is great for 3D screenshots and it's usually the only place where they can be found, apart from the .MPO images that Jools Watsham occasionally Tweets.

The images and trailer on eShop aren't in 3D either so we can't get any impression of what these busty girls are like in 3D.

It's interesting how only Europe has a Miiverse community for this game.

Official Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection for Wii and DS is ending soon

Well there we go. Haven't played many games from these systems online but we should take note of stuff like this in the future with our increasing reliance on Internet services.

YouTube, the web browser and the Shop Channel will still be available so that's a good thing. Home brew stuff as well.

Koji Igarashi will resurface to talk about Metroidvanias

http://schedule.gdconf.com/session-id/828360

It's a speech titled "There and Back Again: Koji Igarashi's Metroidvania Tale".

I am going to love this!

What's the "anarchy" and "democracy" all about on Twitch Plays Pokémon?

I can't make head nor tail of it.

Twitch Plays Pokémon is getting a good bit of attention

Some mainstream news sites are all abuzz about this thing, which they hail as some kind of social phenomenon. I suppose it is. I had a look at it and they spent ages trying to use CUT on a bush so I had to stop after a while. It's a cool thing that's happening certainly and it's getting loadsa views.

Someone upload the end of stage music of Tropical Freeze to YouTube please!

I can't find it anywhere and it's a lovely theme.

Time Attack is tough from the beginning in Tropical Freeze!

You get bronze, silver or gold medals depending on how quickly you get through the stage in this mode. It was tough to even get the very first gold medal! I wonder how much harder the game will become...

Tropical Freeze has some long load times

This is one of the things everyone has noticed straight away. Nintendo games are better known for fast loading but it's been a plague of longer loading times during this whole generation, including Wii U and 3DS.

The online stuff loads surprisingly quick in comparison. Not only best times but replay videos too, which download really quickly.

Cranky Kong in character on @NintendoAmerica's Twitter right now!

Man, Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze is out tomorrow and I'm itching to play it. Until then though we have Cranky Kong's character doing some Tweeting. Go there now and have a look.

Brian Blessed ad for Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze!

Horray! He did a splendid ad for Returns 3D last year and now there's this lovely one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKwdboz4TVw

Game Grumps encounter Aran Ryan, the Irish boxer from Punch-Out!!

I didn't know someone from Ireland was in this Wii game! He seems crazy too with his feisty movements and headbutts. He doesn't speak Irish though between rounds, just English. (The other contestants speak in their native language)

The Grumps should play Syobon Action/Cat Mario!

Right now Ross and Arin are playing Eryi's Action and it's one of those mean comedy platformers. It's more like Ross is playing and Arin is laughing. Syobon Action is the only one I've played and even though it's mean I can't stop laughing when I play it!

What to do with those who dare rate Tropical Freeze lower than 9/10?

If this happens then it's torch and pitchfork time.

Although if you don't have those then the delete option in your bookmarks to their site will do.

Romance in the air with Date Grumps and Single Train!

Arin and Suzy featured in a couple of videos for Valentine's Day. One was Suzy showing off her amazing skills in Lion King for SNES and the other was Puzzle Fighter, which is incomprehensible to me in the same way Puyo Puyo is.

Better still were Danny and Barry with My Boyfriend 2 on Single Train, a special edition of Steam Train with the single members of the Game Grumps troupe. We never saw just Danny and Barry so it was pretty cool and I'm glad that those of us fans who are single weren't forgotten either :)

They were all good fun and had different intros too, which were brilliant! Give 'em a look!

3DS eShop 62% sale on some LEVEL-5 published games

This deal is pretty insane. With that percentage you can save a ton by buying a bunch of these games together. Have a look.

NES Remix 2 announced in today's Nintendo Direct

This looks very good! I'm glad they're bringing this out so soon too. The inclusion of an entire remix of Super Mario Bros called Super Luigi Bros is pretty cool! In this you go from right to left and you have Luigi's Lost Levels style physics too. Really looking forward to this one!

Super Mario Bros. DX code coming soon...

The promised reward for linking Nintendo ID to devices is coming any day now! Looking forward to it :)

Dr Mario free if you've bought Dr Luigi

Nice offer here. This is the kind of thing everyone likes to see. Dr. Mario is coming out on the Wii U VC this week and if you buy Dr Luigi then you can get this for free. Also, this release of the game is in 60 Hz. Yay!

Nintendo Tweets some DKC TF image macros

Stay tuned to Nintendo's Tweets recently as they're Tweeting some humorous image macros with the kind of thing that Cranky would say. They're along the lines of "Back in my day....".

Wii Fit U uses a lot of gizmos

Before you just used a Wii Remote and Balance Board but now you use Wii Remote MotionPlus (2 for dancing games), the Balance Board, the Game Pad and the Wii U Fit Meter.

It's a lot of gizmos alright but it's easy enough to adjust and plan out which one needs to go next or isn't needed or whatever. Onscreen instructions are invaluable when you start out!

Gargoyle's Quest 2 coming to VC!

An OFLC rating popped up for this recently so yay! Gargoyle's Quest 2 is on its way! Dunno which VC but it better be in 60 Hz!

Mario Kart 8's box art looks pretty cool

It shows some of the background upside-down like the Mushroom Kingdom landmark Peach's Castle. It also has other drivers upside-down on the track behind all wanting a piece of Mario. Conveys the theme pretty well and it looks darn good I must say!

Sonic Boom animation and video game trailers revealed

Have a look for these new trailers that have been doing the rounds today.

We knew the characters from their silhouettes but now we have their final forms. Knuckles isn't as drastically changed as I had imagined but he is much more buff now. I guess they decided to make it look more obvious that he's really strong in case anyone was guessing.

Characters' eyes look slightly different and well that's the general change otherwise. It's mostly slight. Robotnik doesn't look different and the latest voices are still there (Roger Craig Smith et al).

Not really freaking out about anything as I'm cool with the changes.

First Moon Chronicles trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2RhFkOzCiY

There we go. Some footage finally. Doesn't give any real indication of gameplay but it sets the mood. Might be worth me sticking around and watching this space.

DKC Tropical Freeze - Diddy, Dixie and Cranky's roles are similar to Kazooie's in BK

Remember in Banjo-Kazooie where Kazooie nearly did all the work when doing the moves? It seems to be the same way with Donkey Kong's friends in the new DKC game. Though they probably don't do as much as Kazooie had to do.

Btw, the official website for the game is up!

http://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Wii-U/Donkey-Kong-Country-Tropical-Freeze-765383.html

Classic Game Room on Dailymotion now

It's kind of sad that this stupid YouTube flagging thing is going on right now. Mark still does YouTube stuff but links to the even better stuff which is on Dailymotion.

Dailymotion isn't fantastic but at least it's not Blip, which has never ever been good.

Seán Malstrom is pleased with the account system plan

Seán has forever been talking about how there should be an account system in place. Now that Nintendo are actually seriously talking about it, things are starting to look very exciting. The last few updates on Wii U and 3DS seem to be small steps in the establishment of that infrastructure so perhaps it won't be too long before something like this can be fully realised!

Nintendo may yet thrive in post console times.

New Sonic game coming to Wii U and other consoles in 2015 (UPDATE: nope)

Just saw a picture of some Sonic news. Some of it is regarding the "revival" sounding Sonic Boom tv show that's coming out and some of it is about the game coming to Wii U in 2015.

I wonder if it's going to be a similar idea to the new Pac-Man tv show that's been doing the rounds in recent times.

UPDATE: It turns out this was all incorrect. Fucking hell SEGA, get it together.