Month: November 2007
Infendo Online Game Night – Medal Of Honor: Heroes 2
Good game everyone who stopped by! Thanks! It’s war!!! We’ll be playing the new Wii hit, Medal Of Honor: Heroes 2 online tonight (11/30) at 9PM Eastern time. It’ll be a DeathMatch and the Game Name will be: infendo, password: infendo So join me, Blake, and all your Infendo friends online tonight at 9PM! PROTIP: Get your EA Nation registration figured out before 9PM if you haven...
Was 2007 the best video game year ever?
Next Generation had an article up this week that asked if 2007, with its bevy of traditional, off the wall, and outright incredible videogames, was in fact the best year ever for the medium. If we just take my own experiences as an example, then the answer is yes. Over the past 12 months (I’ll round up and include December), I’ve purchased or played more videogames than I had over the ...
Gamers don’t want honest reviews, they want fanfare
I spent the last hour reading allegations that Eidos dangled a six-digit advertising deal over GameSpot’s head in order to have long-time editor Jeff Gerstmann fired for the critical tone of his now-pulled 6/10 video review of Kane and Lynch (a text-only review remains). Whatever the real story, Gerstmann is currently out of a job. Truth be told, game makers have long since pressured gaming ...
To find Wii, stalk the UPS man
To get yourself a Wii this holiday, you should not stalk the UPS man, but you should stalk the UPS man. Get it? So says George Harrison in an interview with Wired’s Chris Kohler today, during which he also responded to that lingering conspiracy theory about fake Wii shortages. Game|Life: “Typically, we’d have begun stockpiling console hardware back in August” for the holida...
Tabloid says video games make kids dumb
There’s something inherently ironic about a tabloid reporting on mediums that make people dumber, but for the sake of this post I’ll continue. Basically, U.K. tabloid The Sun is blaming videogames for England’s drop in literacy rates. The article cites a study that claimed 37% of English ten-year-olds play videogames for more than three hours a day, for more than other European c...
Snagging a Wii on “Black Friday”
I told Blake once I arrived in Japan I would do a guide to buying the Wii- which was still quite sought-after when I left the US. After a few months I finally waded through the necessary bureaucracy to get my own apartment and so I figured what better day to grab a Wii than “Black Friday,” the worst shopping day of the year…
Nyko’s Perfect Shot Wii glock looks fun
Having already been sold on cheap shooter peripherals with the release of Link’s Crossbow Training, this impending $13 plastic Wii gun made by Nyko and shipping in January looks fun. It even has a pass-through port for Nunchuck movement. Sweet and cheap, as I like to say.
Wii horse racing
I love clever home brew, even if it isn’t hi-tech.
Nintendo web site feels different …
Because for some lucky blokes it is different. Loading differently anyway. Could this be a first look at the changes Nintendo promised when it summarily ripped the NSider forums away from us over the summer? No word yet on the fate of the late, great forums (depending on who you ask, of course), but this does appear to be some kind of beta for the newly designed Nintendo.com.
The crate game review system is ingenious
Infendo likes to criticize the standard 10-point game review system for taking itself too seriously. Is a game exceptional, good, average, or poor — that’s all what we really want to know. But Old Man Murray devised a great way to critique video games — by how long it takes before the player encounters an uninspired power-up crate or barrel. All games contain crates, therefore al...
Capcom fumbles Phoenix Wright pre-orders
The latest entry into Capcom’s popular courtroom drama series, Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations was released for the Nintendo DS on October 23. As with most games from major publishers like Capcom, stores nationwide stocked their shelves with the game almost immediately, and most fans were able to easily obtain a copy and get to sleuthing. Unless they pre-ordered one from...
Nintendo reports record sales week
REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 27, 2007 – In the first week of the 2007 holiday shopping season, Nintendo of America has sold more Nintendo products than at any other time in its history. This includes more than 653,000 Nintendo DSâ„¢ portable video game systems, 350,000 Wiiâ„¢ home systems and millions of games and accessories throughout the United States – and the season is just getting starte...