SEGA All Stars Racing arcade is now in Leisureplex Cork

I took a quick walk to the city centre's arcade today and saw that they had a twin version of this arcade cabinet. I guess it's nice and modern enough to have this there but...

When are they going to put in an Outrun 2 cabinet??

Ubisoft needs to do Wii U stuff properly

We now have available to us the very first footage of an actual confirmed game for the Wii U and it's Rayman Legends, a sequel to Rayman Origins.

Remember the very first images of a Wii game ever? It was Red Steel, another game by Ubisoft.

I think we need to be careful about these guys. Whenever I was trolled about Wii, more often than not it was because of a game Ubisoft made. What will Rayman Legends do? Will it end up damaging everyone's first impressions of the Wii U? Or will it just be something that's as boring as it looks and noone will notice?

New Super Mario Bros 2 will be downloadable as well as retail

I just heard this from some investor meeting or other where Satoru Iwata was speaking.

This is interesting I suppose and it will be like a way for Nintendo to experiment with things. As for me though I'm going to buy the full boxed copy from a shop!

Nobody likes Kid Icarus Uprising's controls

Just look all around you at game review sites. It's still the high hype season where reviewers will say nice things about a game. Looking at some of the more positive reviews of Kid Icarus Uprising you can tell they're really straining to be positive about the controls.

At some point in the future retrospective features will be written and Kid Icarus Uprising will be in several of those "top worst" lists that you see online now and again.

3DS Folders!

Got the new system update with the folders and everything. Now I can organise that big mess of software I have on the menu.

The first thing I did of course was to put the Health and Safety Information into a folder on its own and labelled it "Rubbish".

Nintendo's hotspot finder

I had a look at Nintendo of Europe's new hotspot finder. There's absolutely none in Cork or even in the whole country so it's pretty much useless to me.

Nintendo Gamer magazine has "The games that will save Nintendo" cover

One of the games is Fire Emblem. Urrgghhhhhhhh.

How could Fire Emblem "save" Nintendo? I'd say most people don't know Fire Emblem exists. I'd put my money on a new Sonic the Hedgehog game over this. (I betcha a new one will be announced at E3)

I mean, Fire Emblem fans must be the quietest around.

Another thing, do Nintendo even need saving? Actually don't answer that. I'd say the truth is that it's the magazine that needs saving. When it was NGamer it was one of the lowest selling games magazines for quite a while. Maybe the top 10 list is for them? So they have stuff to write about?