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Medal of Honor Heroes 2 keeps getting better
I’m almost done with Medal of Honor Heroes 2 (it’s a short game), but the further I get in, the more I like this cliched shooter with stellar controls. Weapon surprises abound throughout the game to keep things fresh, and the wealth of options such as the on rails shooter and fast-paced 32-person online multiplayer are much appreciated bonus. Even though enemy behavior is some of the m...
Open Letter to Nintendo: Revive the Player’s Forum
There’s word today that Nintendo will update a Nintendo 64 game on the Virtual Console with some modern day features. Over at Wired’s Game|Life, Chris Kohler reports that Pokemon Snap, due out soon for the VC, will come complete with some Wii-specific content, including the ability to send snapshots of your little monster things to friends. Sounds exciting right? Right?! No, of course ...
Nintendo Spotting: Polar Express DS edition
My wife and I took our two little girls to Heber City, Utah on Friday for a “Polar Express” train ride complete with hot coco, snow-covered mountains, delicious chocolate chip cookies, and kids in pajamas. Our box car even had an unrelated man and young girl simultaneously playing Nintendo DS. If it weren’t for the inaudible sleigh bells, not to mention the highway-crossing deer ...
Penny Arcade gets sappy about grandma’s DS
Check out the latest strip from Penny Arcade. Do your grandparents play DS or any other video games? [UPDATE] The articles that go along with this comic are a must-read, especially Gabe’s. His statement that “I don’t play games to beat them I play games to see them.” was completely spot on for me.
Mario ornaments complete any tree
How about hanging a little nostalgia on the ol’ pagan Christmas tree this year? Well, that’s what Craftster forum member ArtFiend is doing, and the theme is Mario and his zany friends– as clay ornaments! This almost rivals the official Infendo tree, which is decorated with life-sized, moving and speaking Mario figures that we borrowed liberally from a recent launch event at the N...
Wii has more kiddie titles in first year than GameCube
What to make of this news? Gamasutra has a bunch of pie charts up today comparing the distribution of ESRB rated games for this and last generations’ consoles. By the looks of these charts the Wii, when compared to the GameCube, looks like a Chucky Cheese’s game room. Meanwhile the ‘cube is Studio 54 in the 1970s.
Virtual Console Monday – Zanac, Eternal Champions, and The Dynastic Hero
Complementing this week’s great new games, the Virtual Console release list for this week seems a little dire: Zanac – NES -Â 1986 – 500 Wii Points Zanac is a vertically scrolling shoot-’em-up game that was released in November 1986. Take control of the state-of-the-art fighter, Zanac, with the objective of destroying the bases of the mechanized enemy forces. Eternal Champ...
Worst Nintendo release week in months
Well, it was bound to happen. Only three weeks after the best release week ever, we’re stuck with these beauties for the week ending December 8th: DS American Girl: Julie Finds a Way Alvin and the Chipmunks Draglade Left Brain Right Brain Pocket Pets The Golden Compass Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2008 Strawberry Shortcake: The Four Seasons Cake Wii Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 Alvin a...
Review: Rayman Raving Rabbids 2
The first Rayman Raving Rabbids was a Wii launch title and, while it was very creative, suffered from Ubisoft’s lacking full grasp of a new control system. Now, barely a year later, they’ve released a sequel that fixes some issues, but creates new ones. Some of the new minigames are extremely inventive. The ‘cellphone in a movie theater’ game is simple, but hilarious. Gamep...
IGN’s new No More Heroes media are delicious
The first step on the path to recovery is admitting you have a problem. So those of you with self-destructive penchants for flamboyant assassinations and slicing your foes in half with crude glowing lightsabers should probably stop reading. Really, it would be for the best.
Infendo Online Game Night – Medal Of Honor: Heroes 2
Good game everyone who stopped by! Thanks! It’s war!!! We’ll be playing the new Wii hit, Medal Of Honor: Heroes 2 online tonight (11/30) at 9PM Eastern time. It’ll be a DeathMatch and the Game Name will be: infendo, password: infendo So join me, Blake, and all your Infendo friends online tonight at 9PM! PROTIP: Get your EA Nation registration figured out before 9PM if you haven...
To find Wii, stalk the UPS man
To get yourself a Wii this holiday, you should not stalk the UPS man, but you should stalk the UPS man. Get it? So says George Harrison in an interview with Wired’s Chris Kohler today, during which he also responded to that lingering conspiracy theory about fake Wii shortages. Game|Life: “Typically, we’d have begun stockpiling console hardware back in August” for the holida...