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N+ Design: November 2009

By Anton. Thursday, 5. November 2009, 03:19:40

Good news and bad news. The good news is that our header looks fantastic and should be getting everyone excited about New Super Mario Bros. Wii coming out! Yeah!

The bad news? Well, it's the first and hopefully only time that we didn't do the artwork ourselves. It's the official background image for the NSMB Wii website. Sorry guys, this last month all of the artists got a ton of work piled up on us, but you are OK with that, right? I mean, just look at how great our page looks now!

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N+ Theme: Halloween 2009

By Anton. Thursday, 1. October 2009, 02:42:19

Haloween, N+, design, seagull ...

Hey everyone! I hope you like the header! It a tiny bit of editing to get it to fit right, so this is V2, I know a few of you saw V1 - Check out the wallpaper if you want, I think it's pretty cool but i'm a bit partial myself. I had a different header in the works for October featuring Kirby in a different "power up" but I wasn't going to be able to finish that on time, it might just make an appearance later... maybe.

Anyway, jack-O-lantern Kirby has spotted something in the distance.... what is it that approaches?

- Seagull

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Costume Contest 2009

By Anton. Sunday, 13. September 2009, 00:59:52

N+, contest, members, halloween ...

THIS POST WILL BE UPDATED FREQUENTLY IN LIME GREEN!
CHECK OFTEN!
Everyone get ready for the 2009 Halloween Costume CoN+est! This year, we have decided to open up the rules a little bit to get more people in on the fun. Just some basic rule changes though. The biggest thing we have changed is to open this to all video game characters! I know, I know, this is a Nintendo blog, right? We just can't contain our nerdy selves when we see other nerds in video game garb. You wanna be Master Chief and compete against Waluigi and Wario? Do it, we dare you! Are you a Sackboy fan? We bet you can't go toe to toe with Infernape! Oh, and what if you don't wanna dress up, but your puppy or kitty does?! DO IT! I swear if I see a pug dressed up as a Shy-Guy, I might die crying out of laughter! Oh, and the animals are allowed to pick any game character too. However, due to the complex nature of PC and Mac related characters and what IS or IS NOT related to the "game-machine" we will not be able to accept any characters from these "consoles". As you know, we also take costumes related to machines themselves (one very close runner up dressed as a Wii-Remote, another dude dressed as an item box from Mario), so items and physical real life relations count - just not from computers. Sorry guys a USB Keyboard costume is not up for entry (however we will still show the photos

).

So yeah, all you fans who wanted to go as a Sony, Xbox, or old time Sega exclusive can enter this year, and so can your pets! Just remember this, if you enter as a team, you win as a team - no triple prizes Pikmin Team! Enter together or as rivals!

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September N+ Banner: Metroid Prime Trilogy

By Justin. Wednesday, 2. September 2009, 00:15:15

metroid, JV, banner, N+

Alright, I really wanted to make a Kingdom Hearts Banner for this month, but my Illustrator is not functioning at the moment. So I searched through my files and found an old drawing I did for Metroid Prime when it first came out. So I decided to use that picture and Photoshop it up to create the banner you see above! Wallpaper will be coming soon! All in all I think it turned out well after the Seagull's magic touch!

So I encourage all to go out and purchase Metroid Prime Trilogy!

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N+ Avatar Challenge

By Anton. Monday, 6. July 2009, 16:50:12

N+, avatar, seagull

Hey everyone! I just wanted to let you know that I have taken some of the photos I took in Animal Crossing and cut them to perfect size to use as MyOpera avatars! As everyone should be able to guess, the avatar I am using is actually my character from the game; I designed a Star Trek shirt, blue style (science), and cut my hair like Spock

. The new movie is totally rad. I also got my character to look angry in the picture.

I compiled a Avatars.zip file for you all to download that has some characters ready to go (none of them are me don't worry; they are all villiagers). I wanna see more than just Animal Crossing though! Enplussers, I challenge you all to come up with the coolest Nintendo avatars!

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N+ Design: Beas+ie Bros

By Anton. Thursday, 2. July 2009, 10:50:40

N+, design, beastie bros, seagull ...

It's the Beastie Beastie Beastie Beastie Bros gettin' live on the spot, puttin' all kinds of shame in the game you got! So this month's design reflects absolutely no particular game release, it just celebrates the Mario Brothers, and is a sneaky way to get another passion of mine into the scene, The Beastie Boys! They've got a new album coming out called "The Hot Sauce Committee", and they are touring in Europe (and hopefully North America) for it, so I am pumped!

When the best (three) MC's (and one DJ) in Hip-Hop mash up with the best brothers in gaming you get the Beastie Bros. I have this insanely over-sized poster in my bedroom of, from left to right, "AdRock" "MCA" and "Mike D". The poster is related to the record "Licensed To Ill" - however I cannot find it anywhere on the net! I think I may have a super collectible here. Anyway I hope you dig the new look, it's doubly fun for me this month. We of course have a Beastie Bros Wallpaper for you. It was a very difficult decision whether or not to go black and white to stick with the original source poster, but I decided for it. The original design was in color!

If you want Read More... for a most ill music mash-up!

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Everbody Votes at N+: Ultra Edition

By seaempty. Saturday, 13. June 2009, 06:50:52

seaempty, N+, poll, members

Last week, we wanted to know what other consoles you owned. It was one of the most popular polls we've ever run, so thank you for taking part! The full results can be found after the break, but it's clear that whilst you guys are clearly Nintendo fans, you do own other consoles.

It's a similar situation for us mods, and with this week's poll, it should become clear why we asked the question. We are considering expanding N+ to cover all consoles, not just Nintendo's, and we would like to hear your thoughts on this idea. We have gaming interests outside Nintendo, like a lot of you, and hopefully you'll enjoy reading about them here, as much as we would do covering them. We do realise that N+ has been a bit neglected of late, mainly due to changes in the mod's personal lives, but we hope that this will be the case no more!

In some respects this is the most important poll we've ever run, because it could affect the future of this group in a massive way.

So let your votes do some talking, and choose one of the following options. Any comments would be greatly appreciated!

Would you like N+ to cover other consoles?

Yes, I would like N+ to cover all gaming news, reviews, and previews!
No, N+ has always been, and always should be, a Nintendo only group!

As always, votes can be cast in the sidebar on the right, and you must be a member of N+ to vote.

I'll reiterate than any comments, or justification of your vote would be very welcome!

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Everbody Votes at N+

By seaempty. Saturday, 6. June 2009, 07:50:09

seaempty, poll, N+, members

It's been a while since we've done an "Everybody Votes" poll, but this one's important. Although we asked this question a while back, we want to ask it again!

Which of the following current generation gaming platforms do you own?

Wii
DS
DSi
PS3
PS2
PSP
XBox360
iPhone/iPod Touch
Other

As always, votes can be cast in the sidebar on the right, and you must be a member of N+ to vote. You can choose all options that apply, and whilst I know the iPhone is not specifically designed for gaming, it does have some cracking titles!

Feel free to comment on your choice below!

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June Punch-Out !

By Justin. Monday, 1. June 2009, 03:55:26

N+, banner, JV, punch out

This month, I was put in charge of the banner! So what better then last month's release of Punch-Out?

At first, it was going to be for Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver, but me and Seagull decided to hold off for now from posting those up. So I brainstormed at work for a while and eventually got the idea to have Little Mac hit me in the face for the banner! I chose myself instead of another Punch-Out character simply because June is my birth month (June 16 is the exact day if you N-Plussers want to get me a present!) and also because I have yet to be featured on a banner! Overall I think it turned out much better then my December Animal Crossing one. I hope you all enjoy it!

BTW, I am not wearing a peach shirt for anyone who is wondering... those are my tan lines! I push carts 40 hours a week and have developed a wonderful farmers tan! If you don't believe me, just ask the Capn'!

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N+: E3 2009

By Anton. Thursday, 28. May 2009, 21:24:18

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Ready for E3? IT'S HERE! - Well it starts at 9:AM PT

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Want to participate in the conversation? Type your comments in the text box below, or simply tag any tweets with #N+E3 and they'll automatically show up in the chat box.

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N+ LIVE UPDATES BELOW

6:55 - Getting things triple checked and prepped, stay put!

7:27 - Ook! Just so everyone knows, purple times represent basic news updates, pink will represent DS/DSi/Lite news, and Blue will be for Wii news

7:33 - Leaving for a minute to get all washed up. Be back towards the start of the show.

7:48 - about 1 hour and 10 minutes left, be ready!

7:50 - Testing colors...

7:50 - Great!

8:22 - About half hour of waiting left until scheduled start

8:37 - Mmmm Donuts

8:54 - Getting Antsy

8:56 - CRAP! Live box technical difficulties! text blog still go.

9:01 - Stage effects are on, still dark

9:05 - Cammie Dunnaway is on stage. talking about a connection to games in our lives.

9:08 - "4 is the key to Marios next suprise ("New Super Mario Brothers for Wii") Multiplayer! Sidescroller style, proppeler suit is a new item for mario. Mario flys into air and drifts back down.

9:12 - When one player reaches the end (flag pole) 3 seconds are left for other players to grab the flag, give you tallies for all stats achieved. Cammie looses tells crappy joke.

9:14 - Wii fit being told as best selling game around the world. 15 million sold, some analysts call it it's own system. Wii Fit+ announced

9:16 - Keeps track of calories burned, helps give you a routine. Alot of fun, 15 new balance game: juggling, skateboarding, swing hips "perfect ten", obstacle course

9:18 - Fall release - bundled with board, and one without board. Reggie shows up

9:20 - Talking About Wii remote, nunchuck, BBoard, and talks about WiiMotion+

9:21 - "Precision Control" - shows boating, frisbe, golf, bow/arrows in Sports Resort.

9:23 - Sports Resort starts by you skydiving out of a plane, you use the motion+ to spin your guy and float to other divers, dive straight down, flatten out, looks pretty fun! chutes open!

9:26 - Archery, hold wii remote in front like the bow, nunchuck like the arrow! looks so cool! 3 shots per target, must arch a shot if targets are further, wind plays a role.

9:28 - Basketball being showed off. Just Wii remote. Reggie takes a name... and kicks an ass! - July 26th release date. Tiger woods uses Motion+ - also has its own bundle, Virtua Tennis on Wii using Motion+

9:32 - Red Steel 2 ONLY can be used with M+. Wii had more 3rd party games than anyone else, DS was second.

9:34 - Final Fantasy:Crystal Barers announced - Wii. Kingdom Herats on 29th for DS

9:35 - Mario and Luigi: Bowser Inside Story for DS (supersaga style) Fall in North America and Europe.

9:37 - Golden Sun: DS - looks SO good!

9:39 - Goofy Cammie is back announcing "Womans Murder Club" (october launch) "Games of Passion" - Mystery Novels as Games by James Patterson

9:41 - COP: New Recruit - looks like GTA3 but as a cop.

9:42 - Style Savvy - Run your own boutique, more than 10,00 fashions to sell. Dance in rose petals, customise a shop, compete in runway walkoffs, etc...

9:43 - DSi sold more than a million units in 2 months. DSi is personalized.

9:47 - FlipNote Studio (DSiWare) - a video making game announced! NEED TO GET THIS!

9:48 - WarioWare DIY: design your own games from scratch, characters, action, all of it made by you!

9:49 - Summer activation of DSi photo upload straight to facebook.

9:50 - LOZ: Spirit Tracks re-announced, nothing new here.

9:52 - Satoru Iwata shows up! - says 3 types of people "those who play, those who say they will never, some who say one day maybe i will play games". Talks gaming expansion data.

9:59 - Wii Vitality Sensor! haha, put you finger in the WiiRemote!

10:00 - Mario and Yoshi (playable!) appear in a new galaxy looking game! AH! "Super Mario Galaxy 2"

10:04 - Reggie talks about exclusive wii games to launch before years end: Conduit by Sega. Capcoms Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles. DeadSpace Extraction.

10:08 - Reggie talks about publisher Nintendo making new edgier games?! Nintendo in cahoots with Team Ninja make: Metroid "Other M" for 2010 - Holy Hell! it looks so rad! Deeper into Samus' story, looks darker and grittier than Primes. Looks like both 3rd person view, and 1st. Show Ends

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GTA: N+ Wars

By Anton. Saturday, 2. May 2009, 02:39:09

N+, .ed, members, design ...

It just feels too good to make N+ artwork anymore! I love my Wacom tablet! Anyway, this month moderator Jayvee was gonna hit you up with something, and I started next month's art, only somehow I finished it in one sitting (with lunch in-between). Me and Jayvee talked about it, and since mine is ready to post and his is about 15 minutes away and his birthday is next month... we decided to just trade, so this month I bring you "Grand Theft Auto: N+ Wars" starring our leader .ed as the games hero/villain!

For a kicky sweet wallpaper visit our gallery of N+ artwork.

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N+ Theme: Animal Crossing Springtime

By Anton. Tuesday, 31. March 2009, 17:02:56

ACWII, N+, design, anton ...

This month we celebrate the start of spring by coating N+ in a hefty layer of Animal Crossing! It's a great time to visit your villages in Animal Crossing because a bunch of new fish and bugs are roaming around now! Also the snow has been gone for a little bit. As you can see, here our animal crosser boy is pretty intense with his bug collecting, I made sure to include perfect detail of a "yellow butterfly". I thought it would be cool to use the bees for such an intense battle, but it's funnier if he uses just as much energy to catch the easiest bug in the game

Anyway you can see I used the official Nintendo design character for Wild World. For a sweet wallpaper version of this months' header check it here, and don't forget to 'zoom'.

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Poll: Video Game Music

By Anton. Friday, 27. March 2009, 23:08:13

vote, N+, poll, music ...

Our new poll, which has been up for about a week now (see the right side of our page), asks about your VG Music collection. How do you store them in your MP3 players, iPods, iTunes, Windows Media Somethings, etc...

Do you keep your favorite songs from the games up front, and least fav towards the end, or do you alphabetize them? I personally go by in-game appearance.

Vote and tell us about your music collection here!

N+ Update: It looks like you guys have a funky error where it wont let you vote. I just emailed Espen of Opera about it. I guess just let us know here now for temporary?

N+ UPDATE2:

Looks like a few more votes trickled into the poll! try voting again!

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N+erview: Doujah Raze of Madworld

By Anton. Thursday, 12. March 2009, 20:19:32

N+, music, sega, raze ...

Hey guys, it's your Captain back with another musician N+erview. This time though, we've got Doujah Raze, one of the Hip Hop musicians who worked on MadWorld, which just released yesterday in North America! A word of caution before you cross the line: language is used "freely". For the most part, it's pretty clean, but if you are easily offended watch out as one or two words might spark something. Now, enough of the small talk, "Read more..." about the music behind the game, and the artist behind the music!

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N+ RSS Update

By .ed. Monday, 16. February 2009, 16:43:57

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If you read N+ through our RSS feed, we have good news. We've updgraded our approach so that, frankly, we can get statistics on our sum of readers, and better serve you. If most of you subscribe and read on mobile devices, on a DS or Wii based reader, or through a regular web browser, we can do more to generate content that fits you better. So please update your subscription to our new feed: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/nplus so we can do more for you.
Thanks everyone!

Ed

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2009-11-19 16:33:26

What happened to Opera Mail Notifications? I'm not getting them anymore :(
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2009-11-19 02:27:51

haha
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2009-11-18 23:38:13

sorry Captain....Hi Monika
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Shiggy's birthday, you say? Wow.
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hi!
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