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Yoshi’s New Island

Yoshi and youngsters, BAFTAs and Vorderman – it’s the week in pictures

Categories The Week In Pictures

It’s a giant egg, but there’s no Billy Hatcher in sight. This was a Nintendo of America PR event for Yoshi’s New Island, where they got young celebrities to throw what look like paint bombs at a giant egg. The end result was actually quite effective, don’t you think? A good PR event, then, but …

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Pull the curtains and praise the sun – Dark Souls II is here

Categories This Week's Games

From Thief to Fable Legends, this year has already seen a fair few big hitters. This week however sees not one but two of the most anticipated releases of the year – Titanfall and Dark Souls II. There’s also Yoshi’s New Island on 3DS, which of course is aimed at entirely different demographic. Arriving the …

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Yoshi came in like a wrecking ball. All he wanted was to eat them all

Categories New Nintendo Downloads

It’s a reasonably busy week for new arrivals on the Nintendo eShop. That’s where the 3DS is concerned, anyway – the Wii U sees just two Virtual Console releases and a few discounts. Those two new additions to the Virtual Console catalogue are the NES iterations of Double Dragon and Super Dodge Ball, priced at …

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