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Miitomo Launches In the United States This Thursday

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After a successful launch in Japan, Miitomo will be headed stateside this Thursday March 31st. Miitomo is a smartphone app that allows you to build your Nintendo/Mii profile and connect with your friends. The power of the app is in your ability to customize your online persona and Nintendo lets you do a bit of it for free and a lot more if you pay. I hope this is part of a big Nintendo push to harmonize all our devices together, but for now it's just a new way to create Mii's.

I'll be grabbing the app on Thursday and if there is a way we can friend each other let's discuss digits in the comments.

https://miitomo.com/en/

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 03/30/2016 at 01:57am

I'm looking forward to seeing what this really will be. I downloaded the Japanese version (in English), but couldn't connnect my account to it, so I was very limited to what I could do. Basically I created a new Mii, then shopped for some clothes. The game will ask you random questions like "What's your favorite food?" and when you answer them, you get some coins that you can buy various outfits with.

There was something called "Quests," but I couldn't go into that menu without a Nintendo account, and I couldn't friend anybody, so it was a pretty boring game as you can imagine.

But, I look forward to seeing how it is when it's actually released here this week :)

Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member wrote on 03/30/2016 at 05:31am

I keep reading the title as "Miyamoto". :)

Do I need this?

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 03/30/2016 at 05:30pm

Probably not, but it couldn't hurt to check out when it's available, since it's free :)

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 03/31/2016 at 12:09am

@Will_Ball: I think Miitomo was intentionally similar to Myamoto.

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 03/31/2016 at 08:09pm

Just set it up on my phone. Waiting for friends. Looks like the only way to add people is through Face-to-Face, Facebook or Twitter. So if any of you have Miitomo set up, my twitter is https://twitter.com/AdamPFarnsworth :)

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 04/01/2016 at 01:01am

I just associated Miitomo with Facebook and Twitter so hook that up and add me.

Adam: I have a friend request pending for you

Timogorgon Member wrote on 04/04/2016 at 05:52pm

Fun fact: 友だち(Tomodachi) means friend or companion in Japanese. So Miitomo is a mashup between "Mii" and "Friend". The kanji 友 (tomo*) is suppose to look like two hands meeting in friendship.

*tomo is just one of the ways to pronounce it. Kanji are hard.

scrypt Supporter wrote on 04/04/2016 at 06:13pm

I think "Miitomo" must also translates to "text addict" in some alien language.

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 04/04/2016 at 06:20pm

#AlienRacismTriggerWarning

Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member wrote on 04/05/2016 at 06:43pm

The voices in the game are creepy. That and the fact that my Mii keeps dreaming about jdodson.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 04/06/2016 at 03:47am

I agree. Many people have oddly chosen voices that make the game odd at times.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 04/06/2016 at 03:47am

That said, I don't find it strange at all people dream about me. Makes absolutely perfect sense...

*cough*

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EA Origin Gives Away Medal of Honor Pacific Assault

EA will apparently give away each of it's classic games from it's On The House program as there seems no sign that it is stopping. Recently they started giving away Medal of Honor Pacific Assault and if you have an Origin account, I recommend you pick it up.

"Survive the Pacific Theater. Experience the attack on Pearl Harbor, battles at Guadalcanal, and much more, all from the eyes of a U.S. Marine trying to survive World War II."

https://www.origin.com/en-us/store/free-games/on-the-house

Cheerful Ghost Roundtable S4 E3: The Future of VR & Farming

2016 is the year of VR and we talk about what's out there and what we think about the future of VR. Is this going to be a real thing or is it just fluff? Along the way we also talk about Stardew Valley the Indie farming mega hit as well as what we've all been playing and watching.

What are your thoughts on VR? Is this something you are going to get and if you've experienced it what are your thoughts?

Show notes:

http://stardewvalley.net/
https://www.playstation.com/en-us/exp...
https://www.google.com/get/cardboard/
http://www.htcvive.com/us/

Travis Admin wrote on 03/29/2016 at 01:36pm

Regular soccer is boring? IMO it's one of the very few sports that isn't boring! :D

scrypt Supporter wrote on 03/29/2016 at 07:44pm

I thought Jon was being sarcastic (I can never tell!).

I played soccer for years, growing up. Then I got old and tried to play. I almost exploded my thighs, because the people I played with were NOT the casual players they said they were.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 03/29/2016 at 08:42pm

Uh. Hey, WhiteboySlim said Soccer was boring, not me! Proof? Check 1 m 58 s

But seriously I didn't say it was boring, Slim did.

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 03/30/2016 at 02:33am

JON HATES SOCCER AND LOVES EPISODE 1!!!!

scrypt Supporter wrote on 03/30/2016 at 12:17pm

Apparently my memory glands exploded, too.

Sorry, Jon! WBS loves soccer-ball, I know it!

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 03/31/2016 at 12:12am

> Sorry, Jon! WBS loves soccer-ball, I know it!

I accept your apology.

> JON HATES SOCCER AND LOVES EPISODE 1!!!!

There is a truth out there somewhere between those statements.

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I Never Knew I Wanted StarCraft Legos

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Flicker user Cecilie Fritzvoid has some photos of some created StarCraft themed lego sets and after checking them out, I am ready for the official Blizzard sanctioned set. Sometimes you never know you want something until you see just how cool it could be, so yeah, can this happen? Plz blizz, blizz plz.

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Behind The Scenes With Everyones Favorite Tentacle Simulator

Day of the Tentacle Remastered is out today on Steam, GOG and Playstation. Day of the Tentacle was a game my friends and I played quite a bit of and traded secrets about how to complete. One of my friends actually beat it back in the 90's but I always found these adventure games to contain some part I could never figure out. A couple years ago I found an original CD copy of the game and played a bit of it using a SCUMM VM emulator but now with the remastered version, you don't need to do that.

Double Fine released a great behind the scenes documentary about the Day of the Tentacle remastered process and how they wen't about updating the game for modern systems.

Hyper Light Drifter Will Come To PC and Mac March 31st

Hyper Light Drifter is a Indie game that came to Kickstarter asking for $27,000 and ended up raising an impressive $650,000. I bought in after the Kickstarter and was allowed access to an early Steam build. The game is beautiful but I wasn't as impressed with the initial builds as i'd have liked. I imagine they haven't been sitting on their hands and the game has advanced in terms of gameplay, story and setting such that from this trailer it looks just as great as i'd hoped.

Hyper Light Drifter will finally launch on PC and Mac March 31st.

The New Overwatch Video Short Is Incredible

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Serious Sam games on a Serious Discount

I don't normally write about Steam game deals when a major sale event isn't happening, but this one is too good to pass up.

Every Serious Same game that Steam has, including all the DLC, will only set you back $9.99 until Wednesday at 1PM Eastern, 11AM Pacific. That's 90% off.

I've loved this series since the very first installment, and played so many hours massacring wave after wave of bizarre enemies.

If you haven't played these games, you owe it to yourself to try them, and with this price you have no reason not to! Mac and Linux players, keep in mind that most of these games won't work on your chosen platform, but Serious Sam 3 is cross-platform and (for me) the... Read All

Doom 1994 VS Doom 2016

YouTuber Yangyugi cut up a video comparing the original 1994 Doom to the 2016 remake and it's pretty fun. Most of the same stuff can happen in both games but it's fairly obvious the new game is a remake of the old one. Which isn't a bad thing at all.

Starship Rubicon And The Holiday Of Green!

Greetings lovers of the Irish and all things green! If Warwick Davis’s Leprechaun taught us anything is that you don’t get between the little green people and a pot of gold or gamers and great gaming deal. So keeping in Saint Patrick's Day Holiday season we are marking Starship Rubicon to 60% off! WHAT? THAT’S SO CRAZY! The luck of the Irish won’t be with you forever as this sale packs up and walks back over the Rainbow Monday March 21st.

And really, what were you going to spend your money on anyway? You can only buy so much beer dyed color green anyway. We're not saying don’t buy a ton of green beer but buy a ton of green beer AND Starship Rubicon too!

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