Official Nintendo Magazine Issue 109

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

Incoming
The Big Story - Matthew Castle - 2 pages (8-9)


 * As Nintendo increases its downloadable content, Editor Matthew Castle ponders how subs, clubs and pups can show DLC some much needed TLC.

Nintendo Countdown - 6 pages (10-15)
 * 1) I Wanna Be The Very Best... At Urban Planning - 1 /12 pages (10-11)
 * 2) The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Baker - 1/2 page (11)
 * 3) Shaken, not Slurred - 1 page (12)
 * 4) Dock Rockin' Speaks - 1/2 page (13)
 * 5) Bubble Dash washes Whiter - 1/2 page (13)
 * 6) Pokemon Arcadium - 1/2 page (14)
 * 7) Paper, Boy - 1/2 page (14)
 * 8) Game Bot Advance - 1/2 page (15)
 * 9) Cloyster Card - 1/4 page (15)
 * 10) Dual-Screen Victoria - 1/4 page (15)

Mouthpiece - Rhodri Broadbent - 2 pages (16-17)


 * Invaders from space are coming for our eShop bucks and Dakko Dakko's Rhodri Broadbent is responsible. We quizzed him to find out why.

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


 * Nintendo's Greatest E3 Moments

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)


 * We Have Real Friends, Let Us Play With Them - Kate Gray

MiiVerse Profile - 1/2 page (31)

Features
Planet Mirth - 6 pages (34-39)


 * We've been playing with Miis for almost a decade now and yet we don't know any more about their kind than we did when we first created Mussolini on our Wiis Now, with Tomodachi Life, we finally have a chance to see the Mii in its natural habitat (a block of flats), to learn its ways (weird), even to see what it dreams about (sneezing). Join us as we send a crack documentary crew to report back on 16 tiny lives.

Sunm Sea & Software - 7 pages (57-63)


 * Summer's finally here and we're already daydreaming about booking tickets to far-off, exotic destinations. We can't actually afford to, though, so here's our brochure for the best locations to visit in the world of Nintendo.

Bolt from the Blue - 4 pages (64-67)


 * After years of reboots, reheats and rehashes, has Sonic finally found his groove? ONM talks to the studio responsible for his dramatic rebirth in Sonic Boom.

Let's Play Hanafuda! - 6 pages (88-93)


 * Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a producer of Hanafuda, or Japanese playing cards and still makes them today. Should you pick up a set? Quintin Smith investigates...



Previews
Disney Infinity 2.0: Marvel Super Heroes (Wii U) - Chris Schilling - 2 pages (44-45)

Skylanders: Trap Team (Wii U, Wii, 3DS) - Joe Skrebels - 2 pages (46-47)

Forma.8 (Wii U eShop) - Joe Skrebels - 2 pages (48-49)

Pokemon Art Academy (3DS) - Chris Schilling - 1 page (50)

Ace Attorney 123 (3DS) - Kate Gray - 1 page (51)

Swords & Soldiers II (Wii U eShop) - Kate Gray - 2 pages (52-53)

Continue
How to...


 * Ace all 16 new tracks in MK8 - 2 pages (96-97)


 * Build a killer custom Kart - 2 pages (98-99)

Rewind: Super Mario World - Alex Dale - 2 pages (100-101)

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


 * Top 10 Advergames

Classic Moment - Kate Gray - 2 pages (104-105)


 * Battling Giants - The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap

The best of... Legends E3 Bingo - 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 - Trauma Center: Second Opinion - 1 page (112)
 * Nintendo DS - Harvest Moon: Sunshine Islands - 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, Chris Schilling, Chris Scullion, Quintin Smith, 'Big' John Woolford