Nintendo’s history with online gaming is like a mail-in rebate. You get your product at a value (in this case, free), but have to put in some cumbersome time to reap the benefits. I’m talking about friend codes, Nintendo ‘s numerical code that players must swap with each other to do battle online. Oh, and they have to do a different code for each and every game.
But according to IGN’s Nintendo Podcast, that could soon end. They claim a “major” upcoming game will go live sans the codes, thus ending the need to pencil and pad your way into online battles. Yet “major” doesn’t necessarily mean “first party,” so perhaps this is just a Third-party title going against the Big N’s muddled standard.
Patrick once saved a drowning dog from an icey pond, so he is probably better than you. 
Gaming and beverages have a wide and varied history, from 7up mascot Spot’s 16-bit adventures, PlayStation’s Pepsi Man and the Donkey Kong Jungle Juice energy drink. I believe in the business world they call this synergy. In the 90′s SEGA and Coca-Cola took such cross-promotional teamwork to the next level, releasing a complete beverage-branded console bundle. In it, you got [...]
Man, Nintendo certainly had a lot of awesome merchandising back in the day. In game-branded food alone there was Nintendo-themed cereal, mac-and-cheese and fruit snacks. Way better than those shitty mint tins they now sell at FYE and Newbury Comics. But here’s a Nintendo product you definitely should not eat: The Legend of Zelda Model Set. Currently [...]
(NOTE: This was a contribution to a feature that ran @NintendoLife about the 25th Anniversary of the NES. You should go read it.) The first video game I ever saw was Kung-Fu for the NES. My older sister’s friend down the street had just gotten the system, so she kindly escorted me down to their [...]
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