Fish Plays Pokemon is Mind Numbingly Upsetting

   Fish Plays Pokemon, another spin-off of Twitch Plays Pokemon, has started and has not made almost any progress. Unlike the original, their is no way to really get much done, as so far a starter was picked and the fish has been stranded talking to his mom. As crazy as it is, the comments are enough to hold your attention and make you throw your arms up as a fish stumbles around a bowl never managing to hit the down button. Lets see how Grayson Hopper, the fish who wobbles through Pokemon Red, can get to the elite 4 with no help and his charmander, whos name happens to be AAABBK.

Check it out:
http://www.twitch.tv/fishplayspokemon

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Xbox One being released on Amazon first in India

   The Xbox One will be launching in India on September 23rd, and unlike many other countries, it is exclusively available online. Amazon has exclusive rights to the launch and the orders have other special offers including accessories and preorder bonuses. If you would like to order one now or you would like to check out the webpage on amazon.in, click the link below.

Check it out:
 http://www.amazon.in/gp/feature.html/

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Play Nintendo Tour 2014 - In Review

   Today the team visited the Play Nintendo Tour 2014, an event hosted to show off the 2DS system and the whole game library available for anyone who wants to  buy one of the systems. For starters, they handed out small packets with a few things to bring home with you, a 10% off any Nintendo item at Target stores, a Tomodachi Life Demo code, and a sheet of paper that you can collect station stickers. These stickers are collected when you answer a trivia question for any of the 6 games being displayed around the event, along with a bonus sticker from the Tomodachi Life booth. 2DS systems are placed at every stand and you can demo any of the select 2DS titles, such as Yoshi's New Island, Super Mario 3D Land, Kirby Triple Deluxe, Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D, Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, and Pokemon X and Y. If you request a ticket, you can join the Mario Kart 7 trial races that happen during the event. If you have one of the best times out of the group you are in, you are allowed to move up to the semi-finals, and at that point you switch to the Wii U. You race across 4 tracks chosen by either staff or another player. If you pass the semi-finals, you move to the finals with narrators and a crowd watching. The winner of the finals wins a Mario Kart 8 poster and a small doll of Mario.

The seats for Mario Kart 7 Time Trails

Kirby running to the event

The finalists seats for the Mario Kart 8 Tournament

       We had an interview with Cory Alexander, a Nintendo employee working at the St. Louis Play Nintendo Tour event.

 Tyler: Do you have any Nintendo sneak peaks to share?
Cory: Maybe; next question.
Me: What's your favorite game here?
Cory: Kirby Triple Deluxe. I've been playing for the last 4 days straight now.
Tyler: Have you played Splatoon yet?
Cory: No, but on this tour I've mainly focused on the games here so I can demonstrate them to the consumer.
Tyler: What do you think of Yoshi's New Island?
Cory: Yoshi's New Island? I enjoy it. It's a side-scroller and is very much like the classic Super Mario Bros, where instead of playing as Mario or Luigi, you play as Yoshi with the help of Baby Mario to save Baby Luigi.
Tyler: Thank you!
Cory: Alright,

 If the tour is coming close to you, I recommend checking it out and to see more like this you can leave a comment about what you think.

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Kickstarter's "Potato Salad" has been funded at $55,492

   The kick-starter project known simply as Potato Salad has been funded well over it's initial $10 goal. Zack Brown, from Columbus, Ohio. He has a promise to fulfill, and by that he must make quite a lot of Potato Salad. He once had original "stretch" goals which now look really small compared to the $55,492 that he has raised in total.

Stretch Goals:
$35 - I will make 4x as much Potato Salad. I know $40 isn't 4x $10, but you guys have earned it.
$75 - Pizza Party!
$100 - I will try two different Potato Salad recipes. 

Now that his crazy promises have been blown far out of proportion, he can't manage every goal so he has invited everyone that donated $10 or more on his kickstarter to a party hall to celebrate and eat some potato salad. What probably is the funniest think about this all, his biggest risk is that he has never made a potato salad.


 

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Get Heracross for Pokemon X and Pinsir for Pokemon Y via Special Distribution

   On the Nintendo Press website, they have announced a new release that is to come soon. Serial codes for Mega Pinsir and Mega Heracross, both level 50 with the mega stones will be distributed some time from now to September 17th.

The Pokémon Company International and Nintendo today announced that beginning August 13 in the United States and Canada, the Bug-type Pokémon Pinsir—normally only encountered in the Pokémon X video game—will be available to players of Pokémon Y via a special wireless Internet distribution. During the same wireless Internet distribution period, the battle-tested Bug- and Fighting-type Pokémon Heracross—typically only encountered in the Pokémon Y video game—will be available to players of Pokémon X. Fans of these powerful Pokémon will need to act quickly as this unique distribution is only available for a limited time, ending September 17.

    Nintendo Press
 
The Heracross, a Y-version exclusive, will be available to Pokemon X players with the moves Bullet Seed, Pin Missile, Close Combat and Megahorn. A Pinsir will be available for Pokemon Y players as it was only available in Pokemon X. It has the moveset of X-Scissor, Earthquake, Stone Edge and Return.

Players who visit participating GameStop stores to pick up the code can also pre-order the Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire video games, releasing November 21, 2014, for the Nintendo 3DS family of systems, and receive a special pre-order bonus poster. Codes for the Heracronite and Pinsirite Mega Stones and the bonus poster are available while supplies last.

   Nintendo Press

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