Nintendo Power July 2010 Volume 256 [Subscriber Edition] (Books)

Nintendo Power V256 is the 256th issue of Nintendo Power. It features an exclusive preview of Sonic Colors for the Wii and the Nintendo DS. Some other major previews include Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, Batman: The Brave and the Bold the Videogame and de Blob: The Underground. Super Mario Galaxy 2 was reviewed and scored, and like recent reviews it has quite a few pages devoted to it.

This issue saw a significant change to one of the magazine's departments. The News section received an overhaul and a name change: It is now known as "Power Up". It's objective is to combine it's standard news coverage with unique, recurring columns.

In the Pulse section of the magazine, (where letters and E mails are printed) a new policy was introduced. If a person's letter or E Mail is anonymous the person will be punished by having the letter credited to one of the worst video game characters of all time (in the Nintendo Power staff's opinion). These are the names that were used in the magazine:

Dino Riki
Keith Courage
Big the Cat
Titus The Fox
Amagon
Chubby Cherub
Originally, all anoymous letters had the caption (No Name Given). It is not known if this policy will be continued.

Also, a new section called the "The Score" immediately followed Pulse, offering stats based on readers votes at www.nintendopower.com/polls.

There were no power profiles this month. They would return in the next issue, Nintendo Power V257.

Interesting to note, Nintendo Power V256 featured two art directors. Chris Imlay, who had resided at Nintendo Power for quite some time, would leave the magazine after this issue. John Seeger Gilman, who worked alongside him in this issue, would take his place in the next volume.

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