First GBA Virtual Console Titles Coming to Wii U April 3rd March 26, 2014

Nintendo’s Virtual Console is one of the best features of their modern consoles and handheld gaming devices.  It gives today’s gamers the chance to play the nearly hundreds of amazing games that Nintendo released over the past twenty years for a reasonable price on modern systems.  When the Wii U’s Virtual Console was announced in North America, Nintendo promised that they would be able to bring over games from the original NES, Super Nintendo, and Game Boy Advance systems.  While the Wii U’s Virtual Console saw a pretty decent official launch last year with titles like Super Mario World and Excitebike, up to this point we have only seen games get released on Wii U from the NES or SNES, with no GBA titles getting a release up to this point.  The GBA has one hell of a great back catalog of exclusive titles including Pokémon Emerald, and Metroid: Zero Hour, and it has been a shame we have been waiting as long as we have for GBA games to get relereleased on the service.  That is about to end.

Nintendo announced today they will start to release games previously exclusive to the Game Boy Advance for sale on the Wii U Virtual Console starting April 3rd, 2014.  Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga and Metroid Fusion will be the first two GBA games released through the service.

Each GBA game will cost $7.99 US, the same price a Super Nintendo game costs on the Wii U VC.

All God of War: Ascension Multiplayer DLC Free Until April 1st March 26, 2014

In honor of the first anniversary of the release of God of War: Ascension on the Playstation 3, Sony Santa Monica has announced that all multiplayer downloadable content items for the game will be free to download until April 1st.  That includes all special armor, tattoos, and weapons that you can customize your multiplayer champion with.  The only thing that hasn’t been made free are the Double XP bonuses, but they are at a reduced price right now, and if you choose to download the complete multiplayer DLC pack (which is also free with the promotion), you should get a limited time Double XP voucher along with it.

Finally, Sony Santa Monica is giving away an exclusive item to anyone who participates in this forum post.  Anyone who enters an answer will get e-mailed a download code for two exclusive items, the Marked One Tattoo, and Studio Cape, which will never be available to purchase or download again after this promotion concludes.  So click the link and post your answer!

The cool thing about God of War: Ascension’s downloadable content is that there’s really nothing extra to download.  Once you purchase or redeem downloadable content for the game, it is automatically tied to your Playstation Network account, and will become unlocked in your game without the need to download anything extra to your Playstation 3 Hard Drive.

God of War: Ascension is out now exclusively to the Playstation 3.