Gameinformer December 2010 Cover(s) are full of Win!

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jarrod said:

outlawauron said:

DaHuuuuuudge said:

... Are there no Nintendo characters?

Sad to see no sackboy/marcus feonix

How many Nintendo characters actually qualify? The staple Ninty characters that I can think of don't.

Pikmin or Animal Crossing probably.  Both were pretty popular, Pikmin's really loved by core gamers and the industry press and AC was a HUGE seller, more than most of the games up there.

I'd have liked to see Chibi-robo myself, though he wasn't actually created by Nintendo.  

AC is most definitely not this decade. The AC game you know and love was a Japanese-only N64 game, which has been ported repeatedly with almost no changes for the last 12 years to the GC, Wii, and DS.