Kid Icarus

Kid Icarus headlines

• Smash Bros Wii U & 3DS gets Kid Icarus stage screen

  Super Smash Bros. Wii U and 3DS director Masahiro Sakurai has posted another new screen on MiiVerse, this time it’s of the game’s Kid Icarus stage.

• Nintendo adds Kid Icarus, Chain Blaster to North American eShop

  Nintendo has updated its eShop offerings for North America with Kid Icarus for Wii U Virtual Console and Chain Blaster for 3DS. The aforementioned is also available in demo form. For 3DS you can grab Angler’s Club: Ultimate Bass Fishing, PICROSS e2, and Cute Witch! Runner which is also available for DSiWare.

• Nintendo Downloads Europe: Mario & Luigi: Dream Team leads the week

  Nintendo has published this week’s 3DS and Wii U eShop additions, bringing Mario & Luigi: Dream Team Bros, and NES classics Donkey Kong, Metroid and Kid Icarus into the fold.

• 3DS XL: making Nintendo make sense again

  3DS’s miniature form factor crippled Nintendo’s latest handheld, but XL, the machine’s first major revision, finally makes good on the excitement we all felt at E3 2010. Patrick Garratt tries it out and comes up grinning.

• Kid Icarus: Uprising developer shuttered

  Project Sora, an independent studio founded by Masahiro Sakurai to develop Kid Icarus: Uprising, has quitely closed up shop.

• Nintendo downloads, April 19 – Kid Icarus, I Must Run, Dinosaur Office

  Nintendo has updated its eShop and DSiWare offerings this week with 3D Classics: Kid Icarus ($5.99), and I Must Run! ($1.99), respectively, along with the season two premiere of Dinosaur Office (free) on Nintendo Video.

• Kid Icarus: Uprising has hundreds of AR Cards, new video released

  Nintendo has announced how to discover and collect hundreds of special AR Cards to use with Kid Icarus: Uprising, which feature characters, enemies, bosses, weapons and other items which appear in the game.

• Extended trailer released for Kid Icarus: Uprising

  Nintendo has released an extended trailer for Kid Icarus: Uprising. It’s posted below. The game is out on 3DS on March 23.

• Original Kid Icarus gets eShop launch this week

  Nintendo’s announced it’ll launch the original Kid Icarus for the European eShop as of this coming Thursday for £4.50. The title was previously only available from eShop as part of those who’d registered two Nintendo games, but is now yours for £4.50 as three days time. There’s also the release of DSiWare titles, such as […]

• Quick Shots: Nintendo releases a cluster of Kid Icarus: Uprising screens and renders

  Nintendo has released a large set of screenshots and character renders for Kid Icarus: Uprising. The game, which was developed for 3DS, will be released March 23 in the US and Europe. You can view all 74 shots in the gallery below.

• Story, gameplay details revealed for Kid Icarus: Uprising

  Nintendo has released new details regarding the storyline and single-player gameplay in Kid Icarus: Uprising.

• Get 3D Classics: Kid Icarus for free when you register two eligible 3DS titles

  If you register two eligible 3DS titles online by Christmas, Nintendo will give you 3D Classic: Kid Icarus for free when it launches January 5.

• 3DS: Nintendo confirms 10 minute 3D filming, Hulu Plus

  Nintendo has confirmed 3D video capture, which is part of the November firmware update for 3DS, will let users record up to 10 minutes of 3D video, and enable the creation of 3D stop-motion animation videos. The firm also confirmed Hulu Plus will be hitting the system in the US along with Wii.

• Saturday Shorts: Kain, SR3, LBP2, Zelda timeline, Vaz

  Loads of stuff out of Japan today, and loads of stuff regarding Sony as well. However, there was more stuff. Get that stuff in short-form after the break, and stuff.

• Kid Icarus: Uprising to address industry's "creativity problem", says Sakurai

  Masahiro Sakurai has said that he’s using Kid Icarus: Uprising as a way of addressing the lack of creativity in the gaming industry.

• Kid Icarus announced for 3DS

  M-M-M-Megaton! Kid Icarus has just been announced as a 3DS title, known as Kid Icarus: Uprising. It has huge environments and, according to Nathan on our liveblog, it has a “beautiful sense of scale.” The trailer shown at the press conference is below.

• Nintendo would "happily" bring Kid Icarus to the Wii if it "makes sense"

  It’s been nearly a year since anyone from Nintendo tossed around the words “Kid” and “Icarus,” and we’d by lying if we said our hope engines weren’t running on fumes at this point. But just when we were ready to give in to despair, along came Yoshio Sakamoto, who just happens to be one of […]

• Miyamoto wants fans of Kid Icarus to be patient

  During E3, Shigeru Miyamoto was asked by Nintendo Power if there were plans to bring a new Kid Icarus to Wii or DS. “Wait, please. I’m really surprised how popular that is,” Miyamoto told the mag. “But you are the first person to ask at this E3!” Kid Icarus Wii rumors and concept art have […]

• Matt Casamassina dresses up in armour on the internet

  This will no doubt be taken as meaning Kid Icarus is going to be announced for Wii tomorrow, but read into it what you will. As you can see in the movie after the break, IGN’s Matt “Icarus” Casamassina has dressed himself and one of his cohorts up in armour and posted a movie on […]