Hasta La Gadget!

Nintendo’s Wii U platform is doing so hot at the moment and there are a variety of reasons why. It could be the hardware which is limiting developers from creating games on it. It could also be because there aren’t that many games on it that are causing developers to shun the platform as it could be a sign that there is no money to be made. It could also be due to a lack of gamers as gamers feel that there aren’t many games available, so why should they both? All of this is pretty much a vicious cycle that Nintendo needs to figure how to get out of, but in the meantime, a poll conducted for the GDC (Game Developers Conference) has revealed some rather disturbing numbers for Nintendo’s platforms.

According to the numbers, less than 5% (4.42% to be exact) of developers have expressed their interest in developing games for the Wii U. The numbers also show that less than 2% (1.9% to be exact) have shown interest in developing games for Nintendo’s 3DS platform. These numbers show a very disturbing trend and attitude towards Nintendo’s platform and definitely can’t be good for the confidence of gamers and current developers for Nintendo’s hardware. Perhaps as Wii U sales pick up with the release of Mario Kart 8 and Super Smash Bros., developers might see a reason to return to the platform, but until then, we can’t say we like where this is going.

Less Than 5% Of Developers Show Interest In The Wii U [Poll] original content from Ubergizmo.

You can easily find NES emulators for Android devices, but you’d have to jailbreak an iOS device if you want to install a similar program on it. Until now. WebNES is a web-based emulator that runs on mobile browsers, including Safari on iOS devices.

Conrad Kramer, Jared Wright, Bogdan Vitoc and Evan Klein made WebNES during the 2014 PennApps hackathon. The site lets you play a few homebrew games by default, but you’ll get the most out of it if you load NES ROMs on your Dropbox account then play them on WebNES.

It sounds neat, but it’s not quite perfect. As you’ll see in iDownload Blog’s demo video below, WebNES can’t run games at full speed and slows down a bit more as you play. You also won’t get any sound unless you plug in speakers or a pair of headphones to your mobile device.

Enter the Konami Code and head to webn.es to get your 8-bit fix.

[via iDownload Blog]

Shoutout to all Pokemon fans around the world! Do you think that you know about every single Pokemon in existence? Do you? Well it seems that Nintendo might have a couple of new Pokemon up their sleeves that have actually been hiding in plain view. This is thanks to a fan, who after the launch of Pokemon X and Pokemon Y, decided to poke around the game’s files, only to discover that there could potentially be three new Pokemons and two new Mega Evolutions that Nintendo has yet to officially announce, at least until recently.

Nintendo has taken to YouTube to officially reveal the hidden Pokemon that was hiding in their game files ever since. The company has officially revealed one of the hidden Pokemon which has been revealed to be a mythical Pokemon known as Diancie which has been described as a Rock and Fairy Pokemon. Additional details of this Pokemon is expected to be unveiled soon, but in the meantime if you want to check out Diancie in battle, check out the short teaser video above for the details. Either way stay tuned as hopefully over the next couple of days/weeks Nintendo will have more details about the new Pokemon! In the meantime who’s excited?

Nintendo Announces New Diancie Pokemon original content from Ubergizmo.

This Super Mario themed drum kit was built by Josh Fry and it looks amazing. I can see Mario, Luigi, the Princess and even Toad all rocking out together.

Now Josh just needs some other Mario themed instruments and he can get a band together. They could call themselves the Peach Cobblers, or the Toadies, or Plumber’s Tape. It would sound great and for their finishing act, they could all disappear down a warp pipe.

Can I be your manager, Josh? I’ll only take 50% and demand that you lose that talentless brother of yours, Luigi.

[via Geekologie]

Earlier in January, it was revealed that Nintendo’s upcoming Mario Kart 8 title for the Nintendo Wii U would be seeing a release in May. The game was originally given a vague spring release but now thanks to an announcement made by Nintendo’s president himself, Satoru Iwata, it has been confirmed that Mario Kart 8’s release will be on the 30th of May, although we’re not sure if this is an international release and will be available around the world, or if the game might see a release in certain markets first before making its way to other parts of the world, but either way the 30th of May is definitely a date Mario Kart fans will want to mark down on their calendars.

Nintendo has also confirmed that all the Koopalings will be playable racers in the upcoming title, which for those unfamiliar are the level bosses that appeared in games such as Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World. The Koopalings include Iggy, Morton, Lemmy, Ludwig, Roy, Wendy, and Larry, so if you were ever bored of the usual Mario Kart roster, perhaps the addition of the Koopalings should shake things up a bit. With Mario Kart 8 announced, the next title we are looking forward to will be Super Smash Bros. which has yet to receive a definite release date.

Mario Kart 8 Given 30th May Release Date original content from Ubergizmo.