January 27, 2012
Nintendo’s third quarter financial briefing just spilled the beans on the recently spied Nintendo Network , causing Nintendo fans everywhere to collectively sigh, “It’s about time.” Company head honcho Satoru Iwata says the network will offer “competitions and communication among users, as well as the sales of digital content,” and in the case of the Wii U, will introduce personal user accounts. Iwata stopped just short of confirming that the Nintendo Network will end the company’s policy of tying downloaded titles to Nintendo hardware, rather than individual users, but mentioned that it packed an infrastructure that supports not only add-on content, but fully downloadable retail games as well. “This concept was built into the design of the Nintendo 3DS, and we already have the necessary infrastructure,” Iwata said, “We will prepare the same infrastructure for the Wii U
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January 27, 2012
The Transformers: Dark of the Moon Blu-ray doesn’t hit the streets officially until next week, but you can get a look at one of the special features early right here. In this video clip director Michael Bay and other members of the production team explain some of the special challenges that came with shooting the special-effects heavy movie in 3D. It required changes to his usual frenetic cutting style with fewer pans and longer shots, as well as extra work by the editors on each element of animation overlaid on each frame
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