So I’m going to try this. Maybe it’s foolish, and from a commercial point of view it certainly looks that way, but I must try. As of this moment, I’m no longer doing anything useful, either for myself or for others. I’m writing full-time.

Probably not, but either way, you clicked the link.

Wayforward probably could’ve timed this one a little better.

According to the latest sales data from the UK, Rayman Legends for Wii U debuted at #14, with the 360 and PS3 versions debuting at #18 and #20 respectively. The Wii U has been selling poorly worldwide, but has been selling exceptionally poorly in the UK, so this comes as good news for Nintendo who has been struggling to attract third party developers to the Wii U platform. Rayman Legends releases to the US tomorrow.

Keiji Inafune, a man who is often credited as “the father of Mega Man”, has launched a Kickstarter to fund a game with a familiar premise.

You play as Beck, the 9th in a line of powerful robots, and the only one not infected by a mysterious computer virus that has caused mechanized creatures the world over to go berserk. Run, jump, blast, and transform your way through six stages (or more, via stretch goals) you can tackle in any order you choose, using weapons and abilities stolen from your enemies to take down your fellow Mighty Number robots and confront the final evil that threatens the planet!

Color me excited. Here’s hoping Koji Igarashi is taking notes.

Ron Duwell for TechnoBuffalo breaks down some of Capcom’s biggest mistakes of 2012. I still contend that locked on-disc content isn’t that big of a deal, but it clearly was a big topic this year.

We here, at Critical Damage, would just like to remind you that we are awesome.

Kensuke Tanabe shares this question posed by Miyamoto during the development of Paper Mario Sticker Star:

Aside from wanting us to change the atmosphere a lot, there were two main things that Miyamoto-san said from the start of the project—”It’s fine without a story, so do we really need one?” and “As much as possible, complete it with only characters from the Super Mario world.

With regard to the story, we did a survey over the Super Paper Mario game in Club Nintendo, and not even 1% said the story was interesting. A lot of people said that the Flip move for switching between the 3D and 2D dimensions was fun.

I wrote all the Wii Mini rumors off initially because it makes absolutely no sense to confuse consumers with new Wii hardware so soon after the launch of the Wii U. But this is Nintendo after all, and here we are.

That 4 title attach rate estimate is starting to look a little less unrealistic…

Ray Barnholt for 1Up has a good list of some Wii games you may have overlooked. I don’t quite agree with the inclusion of GTI club, but the remaining 5 games are all great picks. Especially MLB Power Pros, my all-time favorite Baseball game.

Kirk Hiner for TechnologyTell decided he doesn’t care for Sonic & All-Stars Racing 2 for the dumbest reasons ever and then wrote an article about it.

Just watch it.

Mizuki of Nintendo:

So we came to think that it might be better for Nintendo itself to provide a service that would be more fun to use.

Tamoor Hussain for CVG UK takes us for a stroll down memory lane listing some of the most troll-iest video game ads ever. It’s no surprise that most of the ads are from 90s era Sega, but it’s still worth a click for the nostalgia. Astonishingly, those obnoxious 90s Crash Bandicoot ads don’t make the cut.