Month: November 2006

Are you ready yet?

As part of my effort to appease outspoken fellow Infendo blogger Rollin and atone for my fanboy sins, I did something unthinkable last night. Such was my angst at causing an Internet-wide firestorm with recent posts that I dipped my soul into the lurid underground scene of Wikipedia vandalism, and set my sights on the Nintendo entry. I am ashamed, but hope my penance can help right this ship, whic...

Less than a week and a half to go.

Despite my best efforts, I was unable to spin this sour note about the Virtual Console into a positive light for Nintendo. I kid, of course. The news? CVG is reporting that Virtual Console games will NOT support force feedback for N64 games. CVG: “The Rumble Pak was one of the N64’s many great innovations, accentuating in-game crashes, bumps and explosions by shaking the controller. Bu...

I’ll take one, please. And do you really think Nintendo believes they’ll sell out of units as Kaplan suggests, or is the company trying to create false scarcity to increase initial sales?

Let’s call Nintendo advertising what it has traditionally been (with the exception to some stellar DS ads): Corny. This advertorial, or paid advertisement pretending to be an article, is no different and is even misleading. Don’t get me wrong, advertorials are trash to begin with, but that makes the decision by Nintendo to use them all the more lame. Hit the source for the full comedic...

Infendo reader Nerdswerth goes beyond the headlines today with his dissection of Wii’s recent pick up of one of the coveted Best of What’s New (BOWN) awards from Popular Science Magazine. Nintendo’s great white hype the Wii came away with the win in the Home Entertainment category. That’s news in its own right, but Nerdswerth goes deeper. “To put this feat in historic...

I like Nintendo President Reggie File-Aimes. He reminds me of a wealthier, more popular version of myself. And we’ve both killed things with our bare hands, so there’s that too. Today, at the Montreal International Game Summit, Reggie — ironically enough after yesterday’s posts — talked about the narrow path the game industry now walks, and how he’d like to see ...

Hop onto Nintendo Wi-Fi around Wii launch time for a free gift in Animal Crossing: Wild World. From 1UP.com: “Animal Crossing faithful, Nintendo has not forsaken you. To help celebrate the launch of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, the company will be distributing an exclusive item in Animal Crossing: Wild World starting on November 17th and running through November 24th. In order to ...

It’s the final countdown.

Just a bit of tidying up in the Virtual Console space. Today we have some info on new VC classic games. From Gamespot: Pro Wrestling Kirby’s Adventure Kid Icarus Hogan’s Alley Wild Gunman Duck Hunt PilotWings Note that a few of those are light gun games. Certainly not poopsky by any stretch of the imagination. Oh, and there’s Punch Out too, non-Iron Mike edition. All games are ra...

Infendo forum pirate Master Nintendo posted several new promotional images sent out by Nintendo to agitate geeks like you and I. Hit the source link to see all the goods.