Month: August 2006

Ravenous wolves (Read: Nintendo fans) have been scouring the Internet the past couple days for any morsel of news they can sink their teeth into. It has left many fans wondering just when Nintendo will reveal the remaining cards in their hand? Only a few “anonymous cousins of Nintendo janitors” have been able to quench our desire to find out the truth. However, Matt Casamassina from IG...

One sentence of an IGN preview of Tony Hawk’s Downhill Jam has the haters all in a frothy tizzy of anti-Wii sentiment today. The sentence? “Gamers hoping for an online component, however, are in for bad news, because one isn’t planned. Activision would not say why, but IGN has separately learned from multiple development sources that Nintendo will not release Wii Wi-Fi Connection...

Another Wii-only title is getting some love in Leipzig. This time it’s Konami’s as of yet unnamed game featuring those strange little bundles of energy, the Elebits. We’ve already heard a few tidbits about these Elebits in the past, mainly that the world is an interactive one where you sneak up on the energy-dealing creatures or scare them out into the open, but the “new...

Here’s a sentence I never thought I’d type: Check out this awesome quilt! One lucky gamer’s mom crafted this rad Link wall hanging based on a Wind Waker stained glass design that appeared in the game’s promotional materials. He proudly displayed his mom’s hard work on his blog, while his brother shared his jealously with Kotaku, claiming the gift proves his mother lov...

When it was revealed that one of the most promising 3rd party Wii launch titles, Rayman, was going to be a pseudo-party game and not a platformer, I freely admit that I kind of lost heart. The screenshots were gorgeous, and I unfairly assumed that this title was going to be a platformer with some Wii-exclusive goodies thrown in. But then the rumors started, and then became fact: Rayman was a party...

Hold onto your hats Infendo, apparently the Wii price was revealed today to Reuters. Oh wait, no it wasn’t. All that happened was a few hundred blogs of much lower ilk than Infendo jumped the gun and started posting entries with the wildly inaccurate and misleading headline “Nintendo reveals Wii price.” It’s days like this where I really hate the rumor mill. I want to kick ...

With my Leipzig lack of Nintendo information hangover finally over, I have decided to return to my post and report to you that North American audiences could be seeing Pink and Black DS Lites for the holiday season. Currently, North America is the only venue outside of Autsralia that does not have more than one color, and that’s sad. Granted, it’s all rumor (rumors? From Nintendo? No w...

Yeah, I know, the game conference part of Leipzig has only barely just begun, and I’m already on the soapbox doing a “reflections” piece. I felt I had to, because there’s been some venting and ranting (deservedly so) going on here at Infendo, and I felt there was some fire control necessary. First, the title was glaringly misleading, there’s no defending that. I’...

Good job on the rant, Jack. Now allow me to vent, as well. I wouldn’t be so frustrated about the lack of details revealed if the title of the press conference hadn’t been “Wii Prove Our Promise.” Call me crazy, but I assumed Nintendo would prove its promise that Wii would be cheap by revealing a price or prove its promise that the system will launch by the end of this year ...

Aaarrrgghhhh!!! It’s damn early where I am, and I’m a bitter bastard. I love Nintendo, but this morning’s “Wii Prove Our Promise” press conference at Leipzig was really just a formal announcement for Super Mario Strikers Charged and Batallion Wars 2. Yes, that’s it. No release dates, no spilling of the beans, and certainly no pricing information to be found. How...

Just a public service announcement, if you’re surfing the internet late this evening trying to get a Nintendo fix, Go Nintendo has compiled a list of live German Games Convention coverage links of Nintendo’s “Wii Prove Our Promise” keynote on tonight at 4:15am EDT (coverage type in parenthesis): IGN (text) Eurogamer (text) AMN (text) GC (booth 5 live cams) Giga (video) THQ ...