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Shiggy Miyamoto, the 9th most important person of all time
TIME had their fun a week or so ago, and asked Internet users to navigate the tubes and nominate who they thought was the most important person of the year. According to Internet voters, who are comprised of anyone from Average Joe to Man in his underpants, Miyamoto got 9th overall. He was bested by the likes of Sanjaya Malakar, Harry Potter author and billionaire J.K. Rowlings, and 24’s Kie...
What’s your favorite console logo?
Video Lamer profiles console logos from the past to present. Some of my favs include Atari, Saturn, Playstation, Dreamcast, and GameCube. Wii’s nice, but in a less is more Helvetica-ish type way. What’s your favorite console logo?
Iwata says Nintendo of America underperforming
Woe be Nintendo of America today, for Satoru Iwata is very disappointed in them. During an earnings call this week, the head of Nintendo lambasted his American brethren for the red headed stepchildren that they are. Iwata: When I received a report from the U.S. that they sold 1 million Pokémon Diamond & Pearl already, I asked them, “why did you sell only 10,000 Brain Age last week, when...
Wii Needs – PC-style RPG games
With a look similar to Neverwinter Nights, Call for Heroes: Pompolic Wars has been announced for Wii and is due for release in Q4 2007. It’s being developed by Quotix Software, a games developer based in Serbia and Montenegro and will also be released for PC this summer. It’s great to see a PC-style RPG coming to Wii, but having never heard of Quotix Software before this, we’ll h...
Sam and Max contest slams Square, E3
Telltale’s Sam and Max had a contest recently, with the help of Wired’s Game|Life. Some of the entires were Nintendo related, some were not. Most were funny, and a lot attacked E3 for being pitiful, which it now is. So it’s really a mix of reality, comics and Ken Kutaragi jokes. All good fun, in other words. The winners can be found here, and the rest can be found here.
NES wallet … ?!
Will the butchering of vintage NES components never end? These things are almost historical artifacts, and modders are going hog wild trying to turn them into all manner of purses, wallets and European carry-alls. What’s next, a pair of shoes you can plug old NES cartridges into?
Developer finds developing a challenge on PS3, Xbox 360
In an interview with Official PlayStation Magazine, Rockstar’s Creative VP, Dan Houser: “To be honest with you we haven’t solved all those riddles yet.” The difficulties aren’t limited to working on Microsoft’s box, as Houser explains that “both have enormous challenges” and that “both have their own particular pleasures and pains”. And s...
Impossible Mission – coming to Wii Shop Channel
According to the Preview section of the June 2007 Nintendo Power, a remake of the classic Epyx game, Impossible Mission, is coming to Wii via the Shop Channel. The game was announced by developer System 3 several months ago, but this is the first confirmation about how it will be released to Wii owners. It’s something Nintendo hinted at a while ago, but this is the first confirmation of a no...
Super Smash Bros. Brawl – 11th character revealed
Nintendo Power quietly revealed another new character for Super Smash Bros. Brawl last month (in the May 2007 issue). A non-Zero Suit version of Samus was profiled in the magazine’s monthly Smash Files feature. We already knew that Zero Suit Samus was going to be in the game, but we had yet to see any confirmation of plain ol’ orange Samus showing up for the fight. Not a huge revelatio...
EA reveals new Wii/DS exclusive; EA Playground
EA has unveiled a new game EA Playground ”“ “a sports game compendium including many playground style games and already compared to Nintendo pack-in title Wii Sports.” IGN has the first preview of the game. Here’s hoping this one delivers…
Super Mario Bros. — without using your eyes
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dWhaTacxFQ]Not bad. But I’d like to see you do the same with two-handed Ikaruga.