Official Nintendo Magazine Issue 108

This issue was cover-dated May 2014 and cost £4.50.

Incoming
The Big Story - Joe Skrebels - 2 pages (8-9)


 * As its creators look back on the making of Animal Crossing, News Editor Joe Skrebels explains how it could help developers turn over their own new leaf.

Nintendo Countdown - 6 pages (10-15)
 * 1) Blockarina of Time - 1 /12 pages (10-11)
 * 2) The Baron is Bricking it - 1/2 page (11)
 * 3) Webcomic Relief - 1 page (12)
 * 4) Pokemon take over G-Maps - 1/2 page (13)
 * 5) Ace Accessories: Jewel Destinies - 1/2 page (13)
 * 6) Mother Brick - 1/2 page (14)
 * 7) Plot your Pidgeot - 1/2 page (14)
 * 8) Ipswich and Bait - 1/2 page (15)
 * 9) Bed Rocks - 1/4 page (15)
 * 10) Do The Robot - 1/4 page (15)

Mouthpiece - Lorne Lanning - 2 pages (16-17)


 * Fingers, fauna, farts and the future of indie videogame development: Oddworld creator, Lorne Lanning, joins us to talk all things Abe.

Nin-10D0 - 2 pages (18-19)


 * Give Your Console A Little DLC

Yuga's Gallery - 2 pages (20-21)

World of Nintendo - 2 pages (12-13)


 * A load of dots in the shape of a map, covered in some stories about Nintendo.

Connect
Connect - 2 1/2 pages (26-27, 29)


 * How do you communicate with ONM? Let us count the ways...

Ask Official Nintendo Magazine Anything - 1 page (28)

MiiVerse Plaza - 1/2 page (29)

ONM Rant - 1 1/2 pages (30-31)


 * VC Forgets The Little Gems - Kate Gray

MiiVerse Profile - 1/2 page (31)

Features
Guts and Glory - 8 pages (34-41)


 * We've seen plenty of pieces along the way, but Masahiro Sakurai's only getting started. Here's how he's building the biggest Super Smash Bros. to date.

Play in Advance - 8 pages (58-65)


 * As Nintendo's famed pocket rocket comes to Wii U Virtual Console, Team ONM weighs up the first batch of games to hit the service.

With Friends Like Miis... - 4 pages (66-69)


 * ... who needs ene-Miis? ONM meets the men behind the new 3DS life sim that aims to get us talking for all the right reasons.

8 Hours with Mario Kart 8 - 6 pages (92-97)


 * Team ONM takes a Möbius trip and talks through its appreciation of fine kart.



Previews
Mario Kart 8 (Wii U) - Chris Scullion - 4 pages (44-47)

Watch Dogs (Wii U) - Michael Gapper - 2 pages (48-49)

Tomodachi Life (3DS) - Joe Skrebels - 2 pages (50-51)

Rusty's Real Deal Baseball (3DS eShop) - Kate Gray - 1 page (52)

Earthlock: Festival of Magic (Wii U eShop) - Tom Sykes - 1 page (53)

Continue
Rewind: Wario Land 4 - Chris Schilling - 2 pages (100-101)

Time Capsule - Alex Dale - 2 pages (102-103)


 * Top 10 Dystopian Futures

Classic Moment - Chris Schilling - 2 pages (104-105)


 * E-B-A! - Elite Beat Agents

The best of... Legends The ONM Forge - 1 page (114)
 * Nintendo Wii U - 2 pages (106-107)
 * Nintendo 3DS & 2DS - 2 pages (108-109)
 * Nintendo Wii U eShop - 1 page (110)
 * Nintendo 3DS & 2DS eShop - 1 page (111)
 * Nintendo Wii - Pikmin - 1 page (112)
 * Nintendo DS - Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney - 1 page (113)

Other Credits
News Editor
 * Joe Skrebels

Staff Writer


 * Kate Gray

Video Producer
 * Gavin Murphy

Production Editor
 * Jim Findlay

Art Editor


 * Dale Pratley

Deputy Art Editor
 * Will Morse

Contributors
 * Alex Dale, Tom East, Mike Gapper, Chris Schilling, Chris Scullion, Tom Sykes, Alex Wiltshire