Club Nintendo accepts Third-Party 3DS games

Now you can finally get some coins , from other companies that aren’t Nintendo…for the 3DS.

Nintendo UK has confirmed that gamers who wish to buy a third-party game for their 3DS will be able to redeem Club Nintendo coins for their purchase. So if you wish to buy Super Monkey Ball 3DS(i am getting that) , Rayman 3D , Ridge Racer 3D or other third-party 3DS games , don’t forget to redeem those coins. Now let’s just wait till they finally accept Third-party Wii games…

Source: Gamersleak.com

We Dare: The Ultimate Video Game For Swingers

Wanna have spicy and or frisky time with your friends? Not only dudes, but girls too? Well go ahead and get a copy of We Dare. Ubisoft is behind this innovative game,  and interestingly it will only be released in Europe! UK has officially canned this title, but don’t be sad it will still be out in mainland Europe.

“Following the public reaction to the 12+ rating of We Dare, Ubisoft has made the decision not to sell the game in the United Kingdom,” Ubisoft said in a statement issued to The Daily Telegraph.

Even though Ubisoft disapproved access to this video in America, we managed to find it for you. This video is not safe for your boss to see, unless you hang out on Friday nights: Bottom Line: Sign me up! Just kinding…..not really. Many American adults have been complaining about this trailer. They think that their children will be playing this with their friends. First of all, I assume that all parents approve their child’s video games before purchase. Secondly this game is marketed towards adults (obviously). The Wii target market includes many different ages, I even know some elderly people that play the Wii. Regardles of that satement I personally would not want to see a trailer of this with 50+ year olds.

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    Nintendo 3DS strategic advertising campaign

    Nintendo is going BIG with the advertising campaign for the 3DS. According to Nintendo UK marketing director Dawn Paine, “The campaign is a celebration of the 3D experience.” Nintendo claims that 85 percent of the UK will see TV ads for 3DS before its launch later this month. This is a very strong move, and will give them a big marketshare for handhelds over Sony’s NGP. Check out the following ad below:

    “In the campaign we will be showing consumers, real people, getting their first hands-on with 3DS at one of the events. And that in turn drives the people who see the ads to the sampling push. It’s a virtuous circle.”

    Bottom Line: Nintendo’s 3DS ad Campaign will be “fresh and different.” Personally speaking I think that their promotion strategy will be very efficient. The try before you buy engagement is very promising. Also the ads (like the one above) urges me to see the screen. This marketing tactic make the viewer anctious to try the device and want to posses it. However don’t think we are stupid Nintendo, those adults do not really act like they are 8 years old. You can get your 3DS hardware device in the states on March 25th.

    33% of US and UK Adults are Mobile Gamers

    A new survey from PoCap, the makers of Plants vs Zombies, Bejeweled 3, and Feeding Frenzy, shows an incredible percentage of adults from U.K. and U.S. are strongly into mobile gaming. Due to the recent growth of Android and iOS, over 31% of Americans own a smartphone. In the US research 52% of 2,425 respondents, have stated that they have played a mobile game on their friends or own device. The survey gathered 2,425 respondents, of those 73% were from U.K. and 44% from U.S. The most engaging part of the survey was that 83% of smartphone-owners said they had played at least one mobile game in the past week. Unlike the console market, where the male gamers are dominant over females, there is no much of a gap between mobile female and male gamers. The survey mentions that smartphone users spend $25.57  a year, compared to $15.70 from feature phone owners. Check out the other stats from the press release:

    * 84% of all mobile phone gamers, and 97% of avid mobile phone gamers say they play games on their phone at least once a week; 92% of smartphone owners who play mobile games say they play at least once a week, and 45% say they play daily (compared to 35% of all mobile phone gamers). In the 2009 survey, only 13% of mobile phone gamers said they played daily, and 40% said they played weekly or more often. * Among all mobile phone gamers, 50% said that the amount of time they spend playing games on their handset has increased over the past year, and among smartphone owners the figure climbs to 63%; in the 2009 survey, only 20% of mobile gamers indicated their consumption of mobile games had increased. * Among all mobile phone gamers, 78% indicated that playing mobile phone games had become a regular part of their weekly activities, and more than half (59%) indicated that they saw such games as a regular part of their daily activities; for smartphone owners the figures were 84% and 68%, respectively. * When asked which gaming-capable device they play games on most often, 44% of mobile phone gamers chose their phones, catapulting handsets past video game consoles (21%) and computers (30%) to the top of the list. 51% of avid mobile gamers and 55% of those mobile gamers who own smartphones indicated they played games most often on their phones. This compares to just 17% of mobile gamers who chose their handset as their most frequently used gaming device in the 2009 survey. * 43% of all mobile gamers, and 49% of smartphone gamers, said they had upgraded a free trial game to the full (paid) version in the past year; more than a quarter (27%) of all mobile gamers, and a third (34%) of smartphone gamers, said they had paid for additional content for an originally free game in the past year. * Among mobile phone gamers, the average smartphone owner purchased nearly twice as many games as those with other types of phones (5.4 games vs. 2.9 games) in 2010, and spent almost $10 more ($25.57 vs. $15.70) on phone games. * 19% of all mobile phone gamers said they played one or more social networking games via their phone daily, and more than a third (37%) said they play a social networking game via their phone at least once a week. * Among all mobile phone gamers, 23% of all mobile phone device usage time (excluding phone calls) is spent playing games.

    Bottom Line: With these encouraging stats, mobile gaming development will be growing rapidly in the next few years. Kind of like gaming consoles, i feel that in the future we will have exclusive games for different mobile software devices. For example, Apple paying Rovio to create Angry Birds for only iOS devices.

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