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Nintendo Humble Bundle Live!

Tuesday, May 26th, 2015

A surprising and excellent move from Nintendo today as they team up with Humble Bundle to allow gamers to pay what they want for a bunch of indie games for Wii U and 3DS.  This is the first ever console-specific Humble Bundle and if Nintendo can do it we can probably expect to see bundles from Sony and Microsoft in the near future.

The charity this campaign is supporting is code.org that seeks to expand Computer Science education in both elementary and high schools around the world.

So, if you’d like some indie games for Nintendo systems on the cheap, or with the added bonus of donating to charity, you can pick up the bundle here.

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AiRace Speed (3DS eShop)

Tuesday, September 24th, 2013

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Developer: QubicGames
Genre: Airship Time Trials
Players: 1
Console: 3DS eShop
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Launch Price: $4.99
Progress:  Passed the first 14/18 levels in 51 minutes

With Nintendo’s eShop getting increasingly popular on both the 3DS and Wii U there are more developers than ever scrambling to get a piece of the potential revenue pie.  Amongst these hoards of new developers are a few mainstays who have stuck by Nintendo’s online distribution platforms for better or worse and one such developer is QubicGames.  Having made games for WiiWare and DSiWare in the past they recently made their 3DS eShop debut with the third entry in their AiRace series, AiRace Speed.  Surely with such a long history developing original downloadable games for Nintendo platforms their latest offering would be worth at least a cursory glance… or would it?  Read on to find out what we thought of our less-than-one-hour of gameplay playthrough of AiRace Speed.

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