Month: March 2011
High Voltage says Grinder still coming…needs someone to pay for it
High Voltage software was on hand at last weeks Game Developers Conference and was showing off Conduit 2, which is scheduled for release April 19. When asked by Siliconera about the status of The Grinder, Eric Stoli had this to say: The Grinder wasn’t on display because the game is in “vertical slice status,” Eric Stoli, Level Designer, explained. Since High Voltage Software is s...
Mysterious Nintendo 3DS Demo Pod schedule revealed
UPDATE: The pods are now open, anyone check one out yet? And if you have a crippling fear of pods, you can visit one of the roaming Demo Squads listed in this schedule. Besides this weekend’s showing at PAX East in Boston, Nintendo will begin to show off the 3DS at mysterious Demo Pods in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, on Friday morning. Do you live in one of those cities...
You can control 3DS music player with iPhone earbuds
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McrsYA9EWE0[/youtube] Nintendo 3DS Blog discovered (via YouTube) that you can use iPhone earbuds to pause or skip tracks on the 3DS music player. Kind of a neat feature that hasn’t been touted by Nintendo. Just another reason, like SpotPass, StreetPass, and the pedometer, to get you to take your 3DS everywhere you go. I know it isn’t a really big...
The great Infendo Pokémon friend code giveaway!
Have you been finding yourself attempting to catch ’em all these last couple of days? Yeah, me too. I can’t stop in fact. As far as I am concerned, the only problem I have with the game so far is that I have yet to make any trades or partake a single Pokémon battles! This is where you come in, dear readers. In the comments jot down your digits for Pokémon Black/White so we can all ...
Review: Black & White represent Pokemon at its best
You’ve crossed the desert to find the Vegas-like city of Nimbasa in turmoil as the Pokemon-rights thugs wreak havoc. They’re hiding in the amusement park. You really should take action right now, but”¦You have a chance to feature your Pokemon in that stage musical across the street, and you want to see how your Krokorok looks in a top hat. Saving the world can wait. Welcome to the weir...
Reggie speaks on slumping Wii sales and more
In an interview with IGN during last weeks GDC, Reggie Fils-Aime answered a number of questions about the condition of the Wii. Â He dodged the tough questions by talking of how well the Wii has already sold, reminding us that the console sold over 35 million units in North America alone. He also let us know that Skyward Sword was still on its way, saying that the game will be innovative and help ...
Nintendo is doomed… to record-breaking first day Pokemon sales
From the sounds of this press release, Nintendo’s unstoppable Pokémon franchise shows no sign of slowing down. Man, Nintendo is so doomed. Maybe they should just make a sequel to Doom since they know the subject so well. Iwata can only dab his tears away with fistfuls of money as he watches the entire company go down in flames! Click through for the full press release.
Why do gamers surmise Nintendo’s doom before every new hardware cycle?
(Latest case in point.) It’s not like you hear people speculate Xbox’s or PlayStation’s doom before every new hardware release. Why Nintendo then? As a recap, the viability of Nintendo was debated after the Genesis was released, before the release of the Super Nintendo. It was debated before the Virtual Boy and changing of the seasons to N64. It was certainly debated before GameC...
Infendo tour de art
Concept art for video games is where it all starts. Before any pony-tailed programmer writes even a single line of code, there is the concept art to show what the vision of the game is. I have always enjoyed the art gallery unlockables that many games today seem to have to see what the game designers had envisioned for the game before it became, well, a game. In the entire history of video...
Report: Japanese 3DS owners turning off 3D because of tired eyes
Why? Eye strain. Specifically, stereoscopic 3D fatigues the eyes more than normal, says Bashcraft of Kotaku: The anecdotal conclusion I’ve reached is that [eye strain] is the result of having two screens. The top screen can display the 3D effect, while the touch screen is in 2D… This focusing, re-focusing and then focusing again on each screen could be the cause of [eye strain] I̵...