I was in the gift shop of a small art gallery the other day when I bought a postcard depicting a bunch of different keys. The postcard turned out to be a reproduction from the six-volume dictionary and encyclopedia Larousse du XXe siècle (me neither) and the keys come in a gorgeous range of shapes and sizes. The Roman key is broad and boot-shaped. The Merovingian looks like part of a crank.
Hello and Happy New Year - is it okay to say that now? I'm not sure where the cut-off point is. Some people still have their Christmas trees up. We had ours out before New Year. Welcome back to What We've Been Playing! Or as I like to call this particular edition of it: What We Played Over Christmas, because it's been a couple of weeks since we've talked.
Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've been playing. This week it's not about what we've been playing, but what we hope to be playing on Christmas Day (you're reading this now, but we wrote this back in June or something as we plan ahead).
Where the Wii was one of Nintendo’s biggest, money-printing successes of the modern era, the Wii U was something of an ugly duckling. I’ve heard various reasons for its less-than-stellar performance; casual gamers didn’t see the point of the expensive game pad, and hardcore gamers had been alienated by the Wii’s family-friendly vibe. I also heard that some people didn’t even realize it was an entirely new console, believing it was just a peripheral for the Wii they didn’t need.
Just this very moment, the first official photos from The Legend of Zelda live-action film were shown on the Nintendo today app.
