Month: September 2010
Apple eating into portable Nintendo sales?
When Max Batch wants to play a video game, he turns to his Apple Inc. iPhone. The 22-year-old German has shunned hand-held consoles such as Sony Corp.’s PSP and Nintendo Co.’s DS, joining a growing number of people who use their smartphones for online and other games, eroding sales of the dedicated handsets. “It’s not worth having a hand-held,” said Batch, who spends about 2 eur...
Nintendo’s next gen “console” will be strangely portable
Congrats, Blake. You inspired me this morning with your impromptu poll about Nintendo’s next console and when it might arrive. I took the poll, but here’s my guess, fleshed out all hyperbole and speculation-like: The next Nintendo console could arrive in late 2010, but an early 2011 arrival is more likely. It will be called the 3DS.
Top 50 best Mario games of all time
Or so say these guys. Out of more than 200 eligible games, Dance Dance Revolution Mario Mix takes the last spot. Super Mario Bros. 3 takes the top spot, followed closely by Super Mario World and Super Mario Galaxy 2. Regarding the list, be sure to duck through all 50 pages’it’ll take a while.
At $400, this is a motion gaming console priced to move!
UPDATE: As electricfuture pointed out, the pictured bundle is the $300 version. More palatable for the consumer, yes, but still suspect. Coming Nov. 4, here is Microsoft’s $400 version of Wii. Suffice it to say, a $400 console this late in the game is pretty laughable’with or without motion. But who am I to judge? Maybe it will sell like hot cakes. (Wink, wink.) That said, I’m glad bot...
Remember these? The best catch-phrases in video game history
How many of these classics and clunkers are you familiar with? It’s So Reeeeeeal! Thank you, Sammy Sosa, for one of the best lines ever: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBazo5uciVc[/youtube] At the launch of N64, Nintendo dared us to “Change the System!” and abandon the load-time heavy Playstation. This came after a campaign urging players to stick with SNES because, R...
Modern “Nintendo Championships” a worthwhile event, says one Infendo reader
Infendo reader Brysson Blackwell writes in: I competed in the parent teen division this weekend at the Wii Summer Games and took second place. In the final, we were on stage in front of about a 1,000 people. It was pretty nerve racking, but a ton of fun. Playable games included Epic Mickey, Goldeneye, Just Dance 2, Flingsmash, Pokepark, DK Country, Kirby Epic Yarn, and Wii Party. I got busted taki...
Apple declares itself winner of handheld gaming
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” So goes a common saying warning us about the ease with which statistical data can be manipulated to arrive at just about any conclusion one could desire. According to an article on CNBC, it appears that Steve Jobs’ infamous reality distortion field was in full swing at Apple’s Wednesday tech conference and new product...
WiiWare version of And Yet It Moves surpasses the PC version
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6q5Bb6SOyc[/youtube] And Yet It Moves came out for the PC a while ago. I played a demo of it and found the game to have incredible artwork and a fun control mechanism. The recently released WiiWare version of the game is easily the definitive edition, with greater control of your character and through use of Nintendo’s awesome Wii controllers.
It’s fun to compare video game screen sizes
Amazing to think the DS is only slightly larger than the GBA’s 240 × 160 resolution. (Thanks for the image, Will)
This NES game is freakin’ hard
As recommended by Fuzz and Mark. Beat the first two levels during my first sit down with it though.
Professor Layton issues a Ladies vs Gents Puzzle Challenge
In only a couple of weeks, Professor Layton and the Unwound Future will be on sale. To celebrate, Professor Layton apparently decided to put that doctorate to work and do some research into the age old question of “Who do you think is better at solving puzzles – men or women?” Head over to this site and then go find his red phone booth to help with his research next week!