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Indianapolis Legends looks like poop on a stick
Has anyone seen the video for Indianapolis 500 Legends on Wii? It’s a visual mess of a game stuck in the time continuum of 1994, no kidding. The trailer looks and feels like one of those DOS games I played as a kid. The footage is reminiscent of a time when the only file sharing tool available was a 3 .5 floppy disc and a bus ticket. To prove my point, I grabbed the best looking still from I...
Iwata: Nintendo must not be arrogant
Anyone who’s followed video games and, by extension, Nintendo for the past 20 years (like the entire senior staff of Infendo, for example) can tell you all about how the house that Mario built became rather arrogant in the 1990’s. It’s not tough to see why this was: Nintendo was enjoying immense success in the industry, and when kids wanted to go play video games at a friend̵...
Harvey Birdman for Wii
In case you didn’t catch this, Capcom is bringing this Phoenix Wright clone to the Wii. The way IGN puts it here makes it sound as though there aren’t going to be any real differences between the PSP, PS2 and Wii versions, since they’re all being developed simultaneously. There really aren’t any other details, such as control Wii-ification, like banging the wiimote gavel-st...
New Mario Galaxy box art is more coordinated
[Via Wired; Thanks, Seth!]
How one mass retailer describes game consoles
I stumbled on an advertisement from Circuit City a while back and got a chuckle in how they described current-gen game consoles, namely the Xbox 360, the Wii, and the PlayStation 3. Not that there’s anything wrong with plain, familiar (albeit cliched) language; it’s just funny to read the following marketing copy from a minutia-obsessed perspective (read: us). Here’s what the ret...
Wii Fit coming January 1, 2008 say retailers
While I despise using online retailers as release date sources, the newest EB Games and Amazon listings for a January 1 Wii Fit launch have added merit; Nintendo would be stupid not to release a health product on the same day as New Year resolutions, 99 percent of which are to lose weight. Additionally, both retailers list WiiFit at $70. Call me casual — I don’t care — but this t...
“The Wii is officially a monster”
N’Gai Croal’s Monday Morning Quarterback email conversations are always enlightening, so it was with some chagrin that I noticed they had not been filtering into the Infendo mailbox for the past three months. Today, however, we get a megaton update that covers basically every base in the video game industry notebook. As is to be expected of me, I gravitated towards the paragraphs that ...
Jam Sessions mini-amp spawns fit of joy, high kicks
Video gaming, alive and well? That’s what I thought when I saw Jam Session’s mini-amp today anyway. It’s also what I thought when I played Guitar Hero 2 for the first time a few months ago. And it’s what I think when I pick up my Wiimote/nunchuck combo and play Metroid Prime 3 (on advanced settings, obviously). Mini amps? Revolutionary FPS controls? Family rooms packed with...
Console war arms race — hurting or helping the consumer?
This console war is truly a slippery slope. On the one hand, people often welcome sharp new graphics and processing speeds with open arms, because we humans absolutely love getting to that next plateau and fulfilling our manifest destiny wherever it may take us. On the other, we have our wallets; those mangy, leather bound bifolded containers of cash that we oft stick on our back pockets, or, if w...
Infendo Radio #72: Is Nintendo expanding the market?
Hey everyone! Listen in this week as Scott and I discuss Metroid Prime 3 goodness, a special discussion examining if Nintendo is really expanding the market, New Game Get!, this week in gaming history, 2 cents in 60 seconds, and listener calls. Radio Feed iTunes Feed MP3 Get that. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (31.6MB)Subscribe: Email | RSS
SEGA boss: Most innovative games will be on the Wii
Even today, after so many years have passed since Nintendo and SEGA battled for the living room, it still strikes me as a little odd to hear SEGA execs heaping praise on their once bitter rival. It’s almost as weird as when I think about Mario and Sonic competing in the Olympic Games later this winter. *shudder* Today, SEGA’s North American president — who is not actually Dr. Rob...