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Infendo Radio #56 Is A Shocker!!!
Shockingly good, that is. We’ve got tons of new segments including This Week in Gaming, News From the Frontlines, The Sony Scoop, The Microsoft Minute, Infendo Europe, and more! Plus all the important Nintendo goodness you need to know from week’s past. It’s tons o’ fun, folks. Get this! Radio Feed iTunes Feed MP3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (44.4MB)Subscribe: Em...
Kojima: Super Smash Bros. could be released tomorrow it’s so good
Nintendo director Masahiko Karai invited Metal Gear Solid director Hideo Kojima to play the Super Smash Bros. for Wii at a recent event in Japan. CVG has the scoop: Speaking in a recent podcast Kojima is quoted as saying that the Wii bruiser feels “very complete”, “a lot of fun” and claims that it could be released tomorrow, selling millions if Nintendo desired to be so rad...
We’re Number One – top sellers for the week
Here are the number one Wii and DS games sold around the world this week: WiiNorth America: Super Paper MarioEU/UK: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight PrincessJapan: Super Paper Mario DSNorth America: Pokemon DiamondUK: Cooking MamaJapan: Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings On the DS front, Pokemon and Final Fantasy dominate with their franchises’ newest offerings. Wii-wise, Super Paper Mario conti...
Nintendo’s wild success = bad news for big name publishers?
There are rumblings today in the investors arena that Nintendo’s wild success is going to be bad for video game publishers. From Seeking Alpha: The DS and the Wii are taking the video game industry by storm. Both appear to be bringing new gamers into the market. However, this may not be a positive dynamic for the major video game publishers. Nintendo has not only increased the size of the ma...
Virtual Console Friday UK/EU – Final Fight, Battle Lode Runner, and Mighty Bomb Jack
Final Fight – SNES – 800 Points There’s trouble in Metro City. The members of the Mad Gear Gang have kidnapped the mayor’s daughter Jessica and the clock is ticking. The mayor, an ex-street fighter himself, calls in the big guns to help, enlisting the iron fist team of Cody and Guy. It’s a race against time to scour the city, defeat an army of the Mad Gear Gang’...
Nintendo acquires Xenosaga developer Monolith
There’s some RPG-related Nintendo news from IGN this morning: Nintendo may have just become a major player in the RPG field. Bandai Namco Holdings issued a press release today announcing that it will transfer 80% of its 96% stake in Monolith Soft to Nintendo, effective May 1. I’ve always had this tiny Square shaped hole in my heart left over from the days when Nintendo and Squaresoft (...
Top 10 3rd Party Nintendo Games
A lot has been said about Nintendo’s love/hate relationship with 3rd party publishers. Infendo decided to take a look at review scores for 3rd party games released on N64, GBA, GameCube, DS, and Wii. Comparing the aggregate scores from Metacritic, we were able to mathematically determine the Top 10 3rd Party Nintendo Games: 10 Final Fantasy VI Advance [GBA] 9 International Superstar Soccer &...
Wii is opening new doors
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksi4jm_Gkjk]Just wait for number three. [Via Engagdet]
Could I have a match? Try Apple and Nintendo
No, Apple and Nintendo aren’t merging, but their profits for the fiscal year are quite literally blowing investors’ minds. Seriously, I think there have been a few exploding head fatalities on Wall Street. Truly, the human brain can only handle so much profit forecasting. Apple posted 88% profits this week, while Nintendo is sitting pretty with “a group net profit of 174.29 billi...
Nintendo snaps up space at the TGS
Get ready for more lines, readers. Nintendo is reportedly buying space at this year’s TGS. It’s not quite what we’d call confirmed just yet, but Kotaku is saying some highly placed sources (“multiple, highly placed insiders confirm that the company will be in attendance” to be precise) at Nintendo have all but came out and said the hottest video game company of the mo...
Pok̩mon destroy America Рsell 1 million copies in 5 days
Apparently, the Pokémon franchise isn’t fading out: Within just five days of availability, more than 1 million copies of Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl for the portable Nintendo DS have sold in the United States since Sunday’s launch. That’s roughly 500,000 copies of two different games, but that’s just in America! The games have been out in Japan since September and ...
Nintendo posts record year – DS is mostly to blame
From a release by Nintendo today: Nintendo Co., Ltd., today reported final consolidated fiscal year revenues of 966.5 billion yen and operating profits of 226.0 billion yen for the year ending March 31, 2007, an increase of 90 percent and 150 percent, respectively, over the same period one year ago. Both numbers are record highs for the company. An increase of 90 percent and 150 percent! But how? ...