Month: January 2010
DS pirate sentenced to 12 months in prison
Pirates beware! A UK man was sentenced to 12 months of jail time for importing and planning to resell 26,500 R4 DS cartridges. While it is safe to say most pirates use a few less R4 cartridges than the aforementioned offender, pirates should take notice since this shows that authorities are cracking down on video game piracy more than they have in the past. “Intellectual property theft is a...
Do you really want a HD Nintendo System? I mean honestly, who wouldn’t want to play a Zelda game in HD!
Recently Reggie Fils-Amie has gone on the record to talk about the recent speculation about Wii HD happening, and about the future of Nintendo in general. “[The] next step for Nintendo in terms of home consoles will not be simply to make it HD, but to add more and more capability and we’ll do that when we totally tapped out all of the experiences for the existing Wii and we are nowhere...
Think you are a Master at Tetris? Well then I would like to see you make it to level 9
As everyone probably knows Alexey Pajitnov was the man who made Tetris. This game is made by someone else and is simulating the fact that you are the tetris block. Spinning moves the entire world around you, which can be disorienting, and also invert the controls. It’s a pretty hard, yet an interesting game, I wanna see if any readers can make it to level 9. If you do, take a screen shot and...
Video game sales down 8% to $20B last year
NEW YORK’According to leading market research company, The NPD Group, U.S. retail sales of video games, which includes portable and console hardware, software and accessories, generated revenues of close to $19.66 billion, an 8 percent decline over the $21.4 billion generated in 2008. Retail sales in the PC game software industry also experienced declines, with revenues down 23 percent, generating...
Want an HD Wii? Too bad! You’re gonna have to wait, says Nintendo
Prospective and current Wii owners hoping for an enhanced (cough, cough “HD capable”) successor will likely be heading to building ledges after reading what Nintendo President Reggie Fils-Aime told Business Week yesterday: “Wii has a very long life in front of it.” Now, that’s not rock solid evidence that a follow-up console is still years in the making. But it defini...
Important Moments – Nintendo’s History
[Via Tiny Cartridge]
Youtube IGN Tuesday – What if… Tatsunoko Vs Capcom was a classic Arcade Shooter?
Oh wait! It might just be built into the game! Tatsunoko vs Capcom: Ultimate All Stars will be featuring what I will be calling the first “Medi” game, a medium sized game featured in a bigger game. This TvC: Ultimate All-Shooters is a classic 2D shoot-em-up in the style of past Capcom classics such as “Legendary Wings” and “Commando.” The game takes place on the...
Nintendo 2010 first party calendar: Too packed?
Super Mario Galaxy 2. The Legend of Zelda. Metroid Other M. What do these three titles have in common?
Rumor: No More Friend Codes?
According to Craig Harris of IGN on a recent Nintendo Voice Chat Podcast, Nintendo may be getting rid of having friend codes for each individual game on your system. “I’ve heard rumors that friend codes are going away. It’s going to be a universal system code but its still going to be a code…There’s no online account, it’s just your system has the number.”...
Deep blue thoughts
If developers today really cared about the consumer—nay, the gamer—there’d be a 2D NEW Sonic the Hedgehog title on the Wii, complete with mass marketing and viral advertising, akin to what Nintendo did with NEW Super Mario Bros Wii. Just Sonic vs. Doctor Robotnik. No voice acting and no filler. No experimenting. No worthless online features or over-hyped, under-delivering multipl...
Discussion: What’s the longest you’ve ever paused a game?
Game blog Kotaku asked an interesting question yesterday: “What’s the longest you’ve ever left a game on pause?” I’m pretty sure I left Castlevania on for a good 24 hours one time in the NES days. But with so many save points these days, I haven’t paused a game for more than a few minutes in decades. What about you?