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It is said that the young man goes through numerous stages. His best childhood friend is Mario. Then during his teens years his best friend is latex. Then he moves past both, but now there's no need to move on because the two have been combined for your adult life. No, we're not talking about Mario themed condoms like we have posted in the past, we're talking about a life-sized Mario made out of balloons. Come inside for the full-sized image....

Before I get into the news on Ocarina of Time, some breaking news on Project Café. We recently posted that it was rumored the codename Café had been abandoned. In fact, this has just been a big misunderstanding. It was never called Project Café - it was called Project Kafei. Okay, so it's just a joke. Thanks goes to Ethan Perea for that one on Facebook. Now to get down to business, inside you'll find some of my thoughts, comments and impressions on the recent Japanese Ocarina of Time videos. Don't expect an Alex Plant commentary, just notable stuff that stands out to me. Come on in....

The Nintendo 3DS eShop is less than a week away now, being released worldwide the day before Nintendo's E3 Press Conference. For North America that's June 6th, and for the rest of the world (including Japan, Europe and Australia) that's June 7th. So taking time-zone differences into account, its pretty much a same time everywhere, international launch. Now for the big news about the eShop. Two big launch titles have been confirmed to be available from launch, and the best thing of all they're free. The two titles are a Pokédex in full 3D, and an enhanced port of the classic NES Excitebike in 3D. And yes, it's all free. Come inside for details....

The folks at Nintendo Everything have uncovered another new trailer for Ocarina of Time 3D. This time giving us almost four minutes of gameplay spanning several parts of the adventure. Included are many examples of the various menus, screens, cutscenes, and 3DS hardware in relation to the game. Overall this video gives us an incredible [...]

That's right, we've got some fresh footage for you here from Japan, courtesy of GoNintendo. The first video is the Japanese overview trailer of Ocarina of Time 3DS. The second video is a Japanese commercial for the game. Step inside for another look into Ocarina of Time 3D....

If there's anything that Emily Rogers is known by, it's making predictions that are wrong... well most of the time anyway. She has released her final predictions for E3, based on what her "sources" tell her. Some of them are extremely obvious - like Café has enhanced online capabilities - and so are really out there - such as 20 playable Café titles on the show floor. What's interesting is that Emily has said she will "never write an article again" if her predictions are wrong, so something must be going on - either she's confident, or just wants out of here. Predictions inside....

No need to get excited. These aren't even a rumor, because they've already been confirmed as fakes. Mass Effect 2 mods actually. Nevertheless, they do look pretty awesome. We might even see something like this on Café for Metroid. It will be interesting to see where the series gets taken after its deviation into Other M. Come on inside and let us know what you want to see in a Project Café Metroid title. Are these screenshots along the lines of your desire?...

E3 is getting so close now, and the media is predicting things all over the place. This time around Nintendojo brings a feature called "Green Switch Palace: The Trials & Titillations of E3 '11". It's "An impromptu panel of gaming heavyweights on Nintendo's E3 presser." They have a lot of different things to say ranging from whether the vitality sensor will appear, to believing that the codename "Café" has been changed, right through to saying Nintendo will focus mostly on 3DS and Wii games, with a brief announcement of Café. More inside....

Adam Sessler from G4 certainly thinks it's a possibility. AS: I think the new Nintendo Console, just to satisfy my curiosity. I've been pontificating on what they're going to do with it and I definitely believe that this is not a successor to the Wii. It's probably closer to a successor to the GameCube, to kind of get to that core audience that Nintendo kind of lost with the Wii. I'm assuming it's going to be a system with a more traditional interface and a more traditional controller. A lot of developers are trying to make games with a little more complexity. Nintendo can make games. If they do go in that direction, that's kind of a first; the idea that you can have two parallel consoles in one cycle, because I don't think it's there to replace the Wii. I think it's yet another pillar in Nintendo's arsenal. Thoughts inside....

I was at my local GameStop earlier this morning to see some of the latest Zelda goodies. First off, it still seems that there is no news on any type of Ocarina of Time 3D bundle or pre-order bonus. Since we are now less than 3 weeks away from launch, I’m suspecting that we’re not [...]