December 2013 Nintendo Direct

Well, Nintendo Direct just concluded with it and once again graced by Satoru Iwata who announced new games and things coming for future Nintendo titles and DLC! Here are the main highlights that I feel need to be mentioned. 

The team behind Dynasty Warriors will be working closely with Nintendo to create a Dynasty Warriors style game using the Legend of Zelda characters. Link was displayed slashing around and destroying armies of enemies and using special moves, before the placeholder name of Hyrule Warriors was revealed. Certainly going to be a Wii U seller.

A Yoshi's Island game is in development for the 3DS titled Yoshi's New Island and is being created with help by the man who helped in creating the original Yoshi's Island.

Cranky Kong got reannounced for Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze, along with the announcement of special moves that turn enemies on screen into items.

New information on the Pokemon Bank and PokeTransfer features include that for people that get the feature during a special time period (likely during the time to get a free month) you will also be gifted a free Celebi. This is something I'm happy for being the Pokefan I am, and getting one of rarest Pokemon ever.

The Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright game got a European release date of March 28th 2014.

Luigi gets his own new game again! This time being Dr. Luigi. It's a similar game type to Dr. Mario, but it uses L shaped pills instead to add more strategy and difficulty for both single and multiplayer.

NES Remix is a downloadable 'game' on the Wii U which takes 16 popular pieces of gameplay from 16 games from the NES era and adds new twists. Link trying to rescue the princess while jumping over DK's barrels? How about Super Mario Bros in a mirror mode? Certainly a cool idea indeed.

And finally, Princess Rosalina from Mario Galaxy has been confirmed to be joining the rosters of both Mario Kart 8 and Super Smash Bros Wii U and 3DS!

This was Eoin bringing you new updates, I'm out!

LOLing about with Eric part 2

Hey guys its that time again. i was hoping to make this weekly and here i am so thats good. This week i just wanted to explain a few more basic things that might confuse you if your just starting out, i certainly know i was quite confused but i had a friend who was nice enough to help me out and explain a few things to me.

Firstly i want to start with what they call pre-game meta. This revolves around a few small things and ill explain them as best as i can. one thing that you can do to boost your champions in battle is the masteries trees. You may recognise something like this if you've played an RPG. A mastery tree is basically a bunch of behind the scenes abilities that boost various stat's for your champion such as how damage an attack can do or how much health you have and so on. in league the masteries tree look a little like this.

LOLing about with Eric part 1

hey guys, i wanted to bring ye something new from us so i thought what better than to help others out with league of legends. You might think why league of legends? Well you see I've not been playing long i kinda wish i had thought of this earlier when was a lower level in the game and help ye not make the mistakes that i did. Anyway league of legends is an extremely popular multi-player online battle arena of MOBA for short.

In league of legends you are a summoner and you summon champions to fight on the fields of justice. Now i feel i show lay out some ground work so you can understand and catch up to where i am currently. You have the game and created a profile you can start straight away, but i wouldn't throw myself into playing just yet id read a little bit and start with playing the tutorial. im pretty sure it actually asks you if you want to play to tutorial once you have set up. This feature is really useful, you choose from one of three champions and basically teaches you how to play the game.

With basic's like how move your champion, how to attack, how to unlock your abilities and how to use your abilities. it teaches you that your champion Gains levels, gets stronger and can rank up abilities just like you would in a RPG really. Next after all this excitment you get battle tutorial which teaches you things like Lane's, minions, turrets, the jungle, inhibitors and the nexus. you see the basic and most played arena in this game is the summoners rift, which places you in 5 vs 5 battle with and against other players. The summoners rift has 3 lanes top, mid and bot all of which is self explanatory these lanes however have a jungle between them all. the jungle is home to neutral minion's, creatures that hold no allegiance to either side, you can kill these "camps" for XP, gold, and with the more powerfull ones like the Lizard Elder and Ancient Golem grant you buffs that aid you in battle and make you more powerful for a short time.