Nintendo E3 Trifecta: Donkey Kong, Kid Icarus, GoldenEye
? The guys who made the Metroid Prime games are making a new Donkey Kong Country game. I wasn’t a fan myself, but I know many people are, so enjoy. It’s certainly more interesting than the new Legend of Zelda game.
? Nintendo is launching their 3DS — that is, their 3-D DS — with Kid Icarus Uprising. As much as I have been anticipating this game for years, 1) I really don’t want to have to buy a 3DS to play one, and 2) it looks… I don’t know. I’m just not excited. The flying segments don’t look fun to me, and the ground segments look like Zelda-lite to me. Basically, nothing in this really makes me think of the original Kid Icarus. Yes, I am a grumpy old man.
? The best example of me being a grumpy old man is how I trot out the “Boy I sure haven’t turned on my Wii since I got an Xbox 360” line. Well, I will never be uttering that line again, because Nintendo is releasing a new — yes new — GoldenEye game for the Wii. Starring Daniel Craig. In GoldenEye. Due this holiday. If you excuse me, I need to dust off my Wii and apologize to it for a while.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.