Month: January 2009
Analyst: Recession-proof Nintendo saved Christmas with more than 50% of sales
There’s no doubt that Nintendo is currently the king of video games, but news this morning about just how important the company has become to the industry as a whole is amazing, to say the least. How amazing? Well, if the sales preview from analyst group Electronic Entertainment Design and Research (EEDAR) is to be believed, Nintendo literally saved the gaming industry from the “full w...
Wii Shop Channel Monday – Jungle Speed, Planet Pachinko, and Castlevania III
This week’s biggie has to be the long awaited Castlevania III. Also in the store are Jungle Speed (a video card game update of the classic “Spoons”) and Planet Pachinko (which takes place in “the future of the future”). Head past the break for full details.
Bob’s Back, but let’s leave him alone.
After supposedly locking himself in his office, going fake-crazy, and fake-giving up, Robert Pelloni is fake back – but at least “Bob Week” is over.  What first looked like a protest aimed at getting Nintendo to cough up a DS SDK now seems to be the first Chapter of the new hype machine behind “Bob’s Game.” In the most recent update, Pelloni Challenges R...
Man with five hats, violin and plenty of time creates Zelda masterpiece
It must be crazy video day here on Infendo. Regardless, this one-man band is also impressive. A timeless theme if there ever was one (but please Nintendo, no more midi soundtracks!).
Impressive Live-Action Super Mario Level
The power up sequence is especially impressive.
New Game Get – Nintendo releases for the week ending January 17th
A couple decent looking DS titles coming out this week with Moon and The Lord Of The Rings: Conquest leading the way. DS Personal Trainer: Math Moon The Lord of the Rings: Conquest Jumble Madness Wii Neighborhood Games Deal or No Deal Anything here you’d buy?
“Bob’s Game” Protest Ends
Robert Pelloni announced the end of his 100 day sit-in protest today, leaving his former prison in shambles. With a toppled desk and chair, drawers, and a seemingly carefully placed computer monitor chair and desk overturned and papers everywhere, the once busy workstation is no more. In his final post he vents one more quiet frustration at Nintendo, and bemoans the stunt became regarded as so...
Google surfs the Earth with Wii Balance Board
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U794gq3_IQ[/youtube] You may have seen this in the Infendo Newsletter today, but here’s the scoop if you missed it. A developer at Google tapped into a few apps and wrote some code of his own to allow the Wii Balance Board to control Google Earth. Pretty interesting concept, plus it’s nice to see the Balance Board getting some use. Outside o...
New Nintendo patent could be next-gen Counselor’s Corner
A Nintendo patent filed by Shigeru Miyamoto last year, but unearthed today by a bevy of news sites, could be the beginning of a resurgence for the now defunct Nintendo Power feature Counselor’s Corner. As a refresher for you youngins, Corner was a place where fledgling gamers could write for hints and tips on Nintendo games. Nintendo Power actually had on staff a bunch of lucky guys who got ...
Tokyo Beat Down mixing brawls with bawls March 10
Funny, before I read Wired’s recent Tokyo Beat Down announcement in full, I was already seeing parallels to SNES classic Final Fight too. Go figure. Anyway, if you made Final Fight portable and added a healthy dose of humor, you would apparently have side-scrolling brawler Tokyo Beat Down. Arrives in the States March 10, although it’s been a Japanese delight since last September. Anyon...
Motionized Ghostbusters coming to Wii June 16
NEW YORK, Jan. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Atari, one of the world’s most recognized video game publishers, announced today that the highly anticipated Ghostbusters: The Video Game is set to release across North America on June 16, 2009 followed by the worldwide release on June 19th. Working closely with Sony Pictures Consumer Products and acclaimed development studios Terminal Reality ...
Miyamoto Patents some type of Hint System?
A new Nintendo patent has showed up on the blogging scene yesterday. What is really interesting about this is that it was not filed by Nintendo. It was actually filed by the game design honcho himself, Shigeru Miyamoto. The patent goes on to describe a lot of things, here is an excerpt. [0008]Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a computer-readable storage medium having stor...