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Nintendo Power To Shut Down

Posted by Soulskill on from the thanks-for-the-dragon-warrior-3-maps dept.

stillnotelf writes "Ars Technica is reporting that the official Nintendo magazine, Nintendo Power, is shutting down after 24 years. The gaming magazine has been run by independent publisher Future US since 2007, but Ars Technica's source and deleted Twitter posts say that Nintendo is uninterested in continuing the paper magazine in today's digital age, and also unwilling to convert it into a primarily digital experience. There's been no official confirmation of the cancellation or word of how many issues remain of this bit of childhood nostalgia for so many gamers."

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  1. Noooo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now where will I get my biased game reviews from?

    1. Re:Noooo! by Lord_of_the_nerf · · Score: 5, Funny

      Gamespot, like everyone else.

    2. Re:Noooo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      No shit. This is about Nintendo Power, not Nintendo. If Nintendo were to shut down the Internet would explode and millions of gamers around the world would simultaneously commit suicide by banging their heads against bricks, jumping down random pipes, and eating strange mushrooms.

  2. Now how will I know that renting games is wrong? by Kenja · · Score: 3, Funny

    All other sources refuse to cover how renting games is "grey market" and wrong.

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  3. Package nintendopower has been deprecated. by cwrinn · · Score: 2, Funny

    This package has been superceded by the package nintendochannel, proceed with install? [Y/n]

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  4. nintendo power shutting down... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    but white power is still going strong!