According to an anonymous source at Ars Technica, long-running Nintendo Power Magazine is ceasing publication.
FORBES: Nintendo Power Magazine Is Shutting Down According To Source [Update: Confirmed]
Update: Nintendo has confirmed that publication of Nintendo Power magazine will cease this December.
FORBES: Nintendo Power Magazine Is Shutting Down According To Source [Update: Confirmed]
Now-deleted Tweets from members of the Nintendo Power staff seem to confirm this, though no official statement from the magazine has been posted.
FORBES: Nintendo Power Magazine Is Shutting Down According To Source [Update: Confirmed]
To make the hoax more authentic, they asked Michael DiMotta, a freelance illustrator, to create an ad that looked as if it had been published in a 1990s issue of Nintendo Power magazine.
Nintendo Power is one of the longest-running game magazines in the country, having been published continuously since the summer of 1988, when it started as a bi-monthly outgrowth of the previous Nintendo Fun Club newsletter.
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In wearable technology news, a brilliant 17-year-old developed a 3D-printed prosthetic arm using Lego bricks and a Nintendo Power Glove, and a new biomimetic fiber inspired by pine cones could lead to activewear that keeps you dryer for longer.
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By contrast, franchises such as Mario and Zelda should give Nintendo staying power.
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The Power Grip Pro for Nintendo 3DS will be available at select retail stores nationwide in October 2012.
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Asian pop culture began seeping into the West in the 1990s, with a stream of Japanese imports: "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, " Nintendo's Pokemon, "Iron Chef" and anime cartoons, notes Adam Ware, CEO of Mnet, a new U.S. cable channel featuring only Asian content.
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The Power Grip Pro for the Nintendo 3DS is an analog slider controller case with extended battery.
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Finally, the fact remains that Nintendo is simply not that interested in producing an expensive, high-power machine.
He adds that though many consider the Nintendo DS handheld line mainly for casual games, the upcoming 3DS will have the power and potential to support core games.
We hoped to drop by the outfit's CES booth to see if it's upcoming Vita Power Grip could do for Sony's next generation portable as it did for Nintendo's 3DS, but we were told that the grip wasn't quite ready for prime-time.
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After all, Skylanders has been enormously successful, spawning two major console releases, two handheld games on the Nintendo 3DS, and a bevy of mobile iterations including one that utilizes its very own Bluetooth Portal of Power.
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