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Happy Wii-niversary!
Happy Wii-niversary, everyone! One year ago today, I walked into my local Target at 8AM after camping out all night and bought one of the dozen or so systems they had that morning. I’m still surprised how much fun the camp out was and even more surprised that a whole year has gone by already. Share your recollections of the Wii launch with us in comments!
Is anyone remotely interested in Smarty Pants?
This was one of the games that had my interests piqued at E3. It came out last week, has no reviews in, and looks like a lot of fun. Bad trailer acting aside, anyone interested in this?
Virtual Console Monday – Wrecking Crew, Sonic 3D Blast, and Super Air Zonk
It took Nintendo exactly one year since the launch of Wii to cough up my most anticipated Virtual Console title, Wrecking Crew. Check out this week’s releases: Wrecking Crew – NES – 500 Wii Points In the days before Mario and Luigi became sports stars in their downtime between plumbing and saving the Princess, they tried their hands as one-man wrecking crews. With a hammer as the...
Review: Contra 4 is a cruel, loving mistress
For a few hours today, as I played through the first three levels of Contra 4, I was transported back to the late 1980’s in mind, body and gaming experience. For a moment, I had reverted back nearly 20 years into the immature little troll that had stamped his feet on the floor of his parents bedroom (that was where the NES was back then). Almost immediately, I realized I was using language s...
Nintendo releases for the week Zap and Party their way into stores
Hot stuff coming through for both Wii and DS this week! DS CSI: Dark Motives Mario Party DS Petz: Hamsterz 2 Clue / Mouse Trap / Perfection / Aggravation Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings Godzilla Unleashed: Double Smash John Deere: Harvest in the Heartland Strawberry Shortcake: The Four Seasons Cake Wii Link’s Crossbow Training with Zapper AMF Bowling Pinbusters! Geometry Wars: Galaxies Gho...
Happy belated birthday, Shigeru Miyamoto!
The Nintendo Trinity just took the top three spots on Game Rankings? I couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate Shigeru Miyamoto’s birthday than that. On Friday, the master of all things Nintendo turned 55. More than half a century old, and he’s still pumping out masterclass games and influencing a billion dollar industry? Pretty amazing. We wish him well, and we hope for many...
Hand crafted Bob-omb earrings explode onto the scene
Are you looking for the perfect gift this holiday season for that special someone? Something explosive, perhaps, to ignite a little fire in your relationship? Or something that could fuse the two of you together in ways only a Mario character could? Yes? Well, then do I have a link for you! It’s an eBay auction, so it could be expired by the time you click it, but maybe all the attention wil...
You review Contra 4
There have been a spate of reviews on Infendo lately, each written by several different Infendo writers in their own unique style. Today, I’m adding a twist. Do you have Contra 4 yet? Have you played it inside and out? Do you have an opinion about it? Coincidentally enough, I too am about to embark on an alien ass kicking mission of my own, and like the Borg want to combine your biological u...
Club Nintendo members get official SNES controller for Wii
It’s official: Nintendo hates Westerners. No no, it has nothing to do with traditions or buckaroos or our obsession with large, useless SUVs — it’s Club Nintendo, the Japanese-only club that gives its members all kinds of freebies everyone else only gets to see in pictures. Case in point, members today can get a Mario desk calendar, a 2-disc Mario Galaxy soundtrack, or an officia...
How lasting is third-party support on Wii?
Wii was largely written off after it was announced in 2005. As a result, game makers (with exception to Ubisoft) decided to put all their eggs in the PS3 and 360 basket. I’ll spare you the details, but after surpassing head start 360 sales in less than a year and putting the thump on the costly PS3, publishers are finally on board. But will they stay on board?
Follow these three simple steps and Mario Galaxy will look like an early Xbox 360 game
This post goes out to my boy Ben Fritz from Variety. He caught flack on Monday for panning Super Mario Galaxy in his review saying the game “looks old fashioned and lifeless” when compared to PS3 graphics. Aside from dismissing the fact that Nintendo has long since marginalized the importance of HD graphics, I don’t think Ben was following my guide to playing Super Mario Galaxy i...
Vote for Amazon’s crazy deal: Wii for $79
They’re at it again. Just like last year’s site-killing Xbox 360 deal, Amazon is again asking customers to vote on which products they’d like to see get an insane discount. Round 1? Three video game consoles. The Wii is being offered for $79, if it wins. Right now it’s in the lead by a good margin, with the PS3 trailing in second and the Xbox with 14%. Other notable contest...