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The double-edged sword of Wii Sports
Wii Sports changed gaming. To some that might sound like an opinion, especially coming from someone like me, but it’s not. Wii Sports, for all intents and purposes, is selling the Wii right now. Software sales for the system are relatively OK, I know that, but Wii Sports is the game that gets people to buy the system. It’s what they see on CNN when grandma is bowling a perfect 300 in W...
Human Tetris in Japan
Okay, this barely qualifies as Nintendo-related, with the exception of it being Tetris-esque. FYI: 218 cm = approx. 7 feet [Thanks, MissusInvisible!]
Infendo Reader Reviews: McClain on Super Paper Mario
Welcome the first in an occasional (read: when we feel like it) series of Infendo reader reviews. From time to time, we’ll take a few well-written, intelligent and objective reviews from the Infendo Forums and throw them up on the main page for the whole world to enjoy. Super Paper Mario is the mostly successful sandwiching of traditional Mario platformer with the whimsical RPG style of the ...
Penny Arcade on marketing
The recent comic at Penny Arcade is spot-on, but for once I’m linking to the commentary that’s provided alongside it by Tycho. He discusses how uncomfortable everyone’s become now that Nintendo has rewritten the rule book on gaming (tore it to shreds with its bare hands, then manifested a new one out of thin air is more like it, I suppose). No one, aside from Nintendo, really kno...
Zelda director: Wii won’t alienate core gamers
In an interview with Nintendo Power this month, famed Zelda director Eiji Aonuma had this to say when asked how Nintendo can expand the gaming market without alienating its core base: It’s because of gamers that games have come as far as they have… it’s not Nintendo’s intent to alienate those people… We think we can involve everyone — people who played games in ...
ZOMG: Banana Peels!
A startling revelation on the Smash Bros. Dojo site today: there are banana peels as items in the game and they can cause someone to slip and fall. Sure, not every day can be a revelatory as what Zelda will look like, but banana peels?! Would you rather see the Smash Bros. Dojo site pumping out daily information if it includes inane updates like this? Or should they just keep quiet unless it’...
WiiWare, the indie developer’s dream
If you build it, the indie developers will come. Nintendo’s betting on it, and today there’s some big news coming out of Redmond (or is that San Fran/NYC now?): WiiWare is officially an indie developers dream. “Small shops with big ideas” — that’s the spin from Regggie and company, and I’m pretty confident that with the Wii’s present success, we̵...
Fire flower t-shirt is so hot right now
I’m not usually one to give up free advertising, but it’s a fire flower. I am powerless.
“Extra Baggage” by VG Cats
Don’t know how I missed this gem from VG Cats. Respect points to the first reader who chimes in with their best “my PSP is now a coaster” story.
About those PS2 “Wii controller” rumors…
I’ve discussed this via the comment section with some Infendo readers in the past, but today I’m coming back at it because Wired’s Chris Kohler and EGM are reporting on the PS2 Wiimote-like controller *allegedly* due out at Christmas time. As I said in the past, this kind of controller would be a colossal failure for Sony. The last minute addition of motion sensing to the PS3 con...
The Nintendo Years: 1980’s to 2006
As I read the first part of a great 20-year recap of Nintendo’s successes and foibles over at Next Generation today, I couldn’t help but ask myself, “was Nintendo ever really out of the game?”
Dinosaurs love Nintendo
Dinosaur Comics loves Nintendo! And really, who doesn’t these days?