Month: June 2011
Infendo Radio: Zelda 3D, high-tops, rotary phones, and joypad ignorance
It’s a fun filled show. Listen in as Derek and I discuss the 3DS’s first must-have title (or lack thereof), growing up on touch controls, Derek’s optimal retro controller, Blake’s new high tops and more. Enjoy. Radio Feed iTunes Feed Download links below Have something to say? Email [email protected] or leave us a voice message at 434-535-2446. We’ll play your call on ...
Do you want Xenoblade, The Last Story, and Pandora’s Tower to come Stateside? Do you have a stamp and can you write a letter?
Nintendo of America has yet to announce, or even acknowledge the existence of, Xenoblade, The Last Story, or Pandora’s Tower. This has made themightyme on the IGN Boards angry enough to write letters…on actual paper. So here is the basic premise. In the past, fans of television shows on the brink of cancellation have banded together to get networks to bring them back. How was th...
I think my 3DS came to life overnight
Finally, the first must-have Nintendo 3DS game has arrived! Ocarina of Time 3D is a remarkable game. The best part is that it seems to have given new life to everything else about my Nintendo 3DS system. I feel a lot more keen to open the thing up to do anything from taking more 3D photos to playing Face Raiders again. Ocarina of Time 3D isn’t the only thing the 3DS has going for it right no...
Tell us your favorite mystery, win Mystery Case Files for Wii
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aBjfcJgR0g[/youtube] Wanna win a free Wii game? Of course you do. Here’s how. In the comments below, tell us your absolute favorite mystery and why. Could be a movie, video game, book ’ whatever. It just has to be awesome, preferably solved. Good luck! We’ll announce the winner in an upcoming episode of Infendo Radio.
Reader Art! Lego Raccoon Mario
Just in from Infendo reader Paul Brown is this awesome lego art. I think it’s awesomeness speaks for itself. What do you think? Be sure to send in all you user created art to Infendo, we love to see how creative you all are! What do you think? What is your favorite video game piece of art?
Don’t hold your breath for Smash Bros. Wii U/ 3DS…Masahiro Sakurai says he hasn’t even started yet
Even though Satoru Iwata only mentioned Smash Bros. in passing during his E3 keynote, naturally the news of two Smash Bros. titles coming to Wii U and 3DS was the biggest news to come out from Nintendo this year. Before we get too excited, I have some bad news. As it turns out, development has yet to begin for either game. Don’t sell your copy of Brawl just yet.
Nintendo, get Gabe Newell a Wii U dev kit, STAT!
Gabe Newell, co-founder of Valve spoke to Joystiq today at New York’s Games for Change Festival and had good things to say about Wii U. Seeing as how Valve has never released a game on a Nintendo console, this should be welcome news to Nintendo fans. “Wii U seems to be a lot more powerful than the previous generation. It sort of fits better into the scalability in terms of graphics pe...
Looking at old Nintendo hardware makes me smile
We play for the games, that’s for sure. But it’s hard not to hold a soft spot for the last thing you see before escaping.Â
Review: Can a remake qualify as one of Nintendo’s best-ever releases? Yes!
The return of a classic title on a new platform rarely causes amazement. But this is no ordinary updating or simple port. It’s a complete rebuild, aimed at keeping a great game–possibly the best game Nintendo’s ever made–entertaining and relevant for a new generation, as well as Zelda’s ever-growing fan base. Nintendo did this right. The result is spectacular. It̵...
Wii U has been in development since 2007
In an interview with Gamasutra, Satoru  Iwata discusses how development for the Nintendo Wii U started mere months after Wii released. By 2007 there where already working prototypes of a dual screened console experience, but not exactly the way we know Wii U today. “Considering how expensive screens were then, it did not make sense to have this big-sized LCD. We would not have been able to ...
What 2D games, if any, are better with an analog stick?
As part 2 of my new 2D console concept, I wonder if any 2D games benefit from an analog stick. Know of any? Seems to me like d-pads are almost always the way to go when controlling 2D games. Am I wrong?
Mystery Case Files debuts on Wii next week
REDMOND, Wash.– The rich mystery and puzzle-solving fun of Big Fish Games’ Mystery Case Filesâ„¢ game series soon will be available on the Wiiâ„¢ console for the first time. With the June 27 launch of the Mystery Case Filesâ„¢: The Malgrave Incidentâ„¢ game ”“ available exclusively for Wii ”“ players can enjoy a mysterious adventure in their own living rooms, as well as test their sleu...