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Hit the jump for new information regarding Black and White 2, including the announcement of a World Tournament featuring old Gym Leaders!

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This was leaked a few weeks ago, but better late then never! An employee from Traveller's Tale Games leaked a picture of the updated Wii-U Controller on his Twitter Account (which is now gone since he got fired). But the picture has since been confirmed as real and shows a few tweaks from E3 last year. As stated in PC Mag, Nintendo's gone and updated the controller's thumb sticks from small (ugly) nubs to actual analog sticks, akin to what one would already find on the original Wii's nunchuk controller. The "Wii U" name has been stamped on the bottom portion of the controller's front side, and the "select" and "start" buttons previously sandwiching the controller's "home" button have been relocated to just underneath the cluster of "A," B," "X," and "Y" buttons on the controller's right-hand side. Finally, there's a new and mysterious square-shaped button on the controller's left-hand side, right underneath the directional pad.

So what do you guys think of the updated controller? Better or worse then last year at E3?

Gaming site Gaming Unwrapped, may have received information about three possible games that will be shown at Nintendo's E3 Press Conference. Those games are F-Zero, Starfox, and Super Smash Bros. Its unknown if they are for Wii-U or 3DS. Also, G4 leaked that Super Mario will be a launch title for Wii-U. While Smash Bros is a given since its already been announced, I think a new Starfox or F-Zero would be amazing. The last time we had a new Starfox or F-Zero was on DS/Gamecube.

With E3 around the corner, what games do you want to see Nintendo announce for Wii-U or 3DS this year?

A new game has been announced for Wii-U... Injustice: Gods Among Us! Its a fighting game made by the creators of Mortal Kombat that features DC superheroes fighting among each other! Check out the trailer and Press Release below!


Hit the jump for the Press Release!

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“Old School” gaming has a special place with many gamers for many different reasons, but the biggest draw is nostalgia. For some reason the magic that games had in the SNES / Genesis era has faded out in recent times, and when we boot up anything from Pokemon: Red / Blue on Gameboy, Donkey Kong Country, or Sonic (and Knuckles) the Hedgehog 3, I would venture to say even the N64 days had that magic, but towards the end it started to fade. We instantly feel the gratification of a masterpiece when we push the lever into place and hear our favorite title-cards appear on screen. What was it that made these games stay good... forever? You would think that by now game designers would have nailed what it takes to make the forever-proof game, but in reality most of the games we play today last us one play through, then we never want to return, and when we do it's for minutes at a time, and then they start collecting dust again.

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Pokemon Black and Pokemon White players in North America can catch Darkrai right now through the WiFi Mystery Gift feature! He's so scary! Also don't forget to visit the N+ Pokemon Event Database for all upcoming and current events! With the help of the Navibox on the right side of the site, you can always find it! When Navi is shouting "HEY!" it means there's an update!

Pokemon: Darkrai (LV.50)
Dates: May-8-2012 through June-10-2012
Region: North America, Europe
Get Via: WiFi Mystery Gift
Games: Black and White
Extra Info: Darkrai will arrive in a Cherish Ball holding a Enigma Berry and wearing a Classic Ribbon.

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This month we have a special treat for you! the introduction of the Navibox! The new box you see on the right side of our page will direct you to some of the more important posts we've had, like the N+ Mario Kart 7 Community post, or a quick link to the Animal Crossing DLC list! This nifty box not only navigates you to these great posts, but Navi will also let you know what's hot or updated inside the box, like if the DLC list changes... Navi will get your attention! Dustin Wilson and I worked pretty hard to design this bad boy so treat it nice! We also tore down the MyOpera Navigation bar and King Sticky, freeing up more space for news and art! Another neat feature built into this months update is that smaller screens will get a smaller sized header art, so it's just as nice, and when viewing N+ on devices like cell phones, the site will lay itself out in a much better fashion, and ditch the art completely giving the site a much more compact style on those devices.

As for the art portion of the show, we have the editors of N+ in the 3DS Mii Plaza with some readers and some musicians and other celebs. Gold Pants Man, Rush, Prince, Beastie Boys, Quentin Tarentino, iJustine, Meghan, Dustin R, New York Ashley, Jackie Chan, Naked Snake, HG, Geoff Goldblum, Olga, Anton, Iwata, Miyamoto, Reggie, Leon Kennedy, ZombiAnton, Hajime, Joel, Mason, Geoff, MK, Zarick (and the rest of the Ass Coin Kids), Nikki, Koko Des, Asoko Des, Karen, Jayvee, Nathan, Dustin W, Ed, Travis Touchdown. - Yeah, that's the whole lot of 'em.

Check the N+ art gallery for the wallpaper version.

NWR reports that Nintendo is getting ready to sell digital copies of the "packaged" games (those that come in boxes) as downloadable titles. This is a sign of maturity by the company to get on board with this style of sale. Not only is it beneficial to them in terms of cost of production, but it also passes benefits along to us, such as possible lower prices, having Animal Crossing living inside your 3DS means never leaving home without it... even when the game-card in the slot is Mario Kart 7.

This could also mean that WiiU is going to use this strategy as well. For those of us who usually stand in-line at midnight openings outside of game stores because of impatience, we can now buy the game the minute it is released, and play it as soon as the download is finished.

All the speculation comes from "Nintendo's consolidated financial statements for the previous fiscal year [in] the note, "Forecasted sales units of Nintendo 3DS software and Wii U software... include the quantity of the packaged software by means of digital distribution." - NWR"