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DS has potential to be best-selling interactive entertainment platform ever
The portable gaming market has exploded with worldwide revenues expected to exceed $10 billion in 2007 and Nintendo’s DS is leading the way. David Cole, an analyst with DFC Intelligence, says: “The DS has the potential to be the best-selling interactive entertainment platform ever.” I guess it really does print money. To be honest, when I first saw the DS I never thought it was going to tak...
Poll – GameSpy and Wii
This might be old news, but I was on vacation last week (hence no poll for a while). GameSpy and Nintendo are in cahoots for Wii’s online capabilities. I’m still not really sure what that means (apparently they’re involved with DS, too), so I thought I’d ask Infendo Nation. How does GameSpy’s involvement with Wii make you feel? Frightened Excited Confused I don’...
DS Lite cake gets A for effort, C for accuracy
It’s a great cake, to be sure, but it’s not accurate. Where’s the heck is the infamous DS Lite hinge crack? Where are the pedophiles sneaking about on the outskirts of the DS cake’s 300 foot wi-fi range? These are the things I need to know before I bestow on this cake the title of “best Nintendo cake ever.” Oh, and apparently it plays a mean game of darts:
Nintendo Spotting: I’m too sexy edition
In the day of Cafe Press, etc., there is no greater thing on this planet than the birth of a sweet t-shirt.
Wii: Bringing gaming back to respectability, one game at a time
I’d be a hypocrite if I didn’t mention that in addition to hundreds of Nintendo games, some of my fondest gaming memories are of other fare like Soul Caliber for Dreamcast, and Halo for Xbox (a fighter and a FPS, respectively). With that said, here’s a cool column clip that caught my eye in a Blake Snow-provided Infendo news tip today: As a gamer for 15 years, I’ve had my f...
Wii Generations
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_mBLWpdwnI]First there was the DS and the Touch Generation. Now I think it’s safe to say the Wii Generation has officially begun. Hat tip to cuteness. (wait for the 15 second mark…) [Thanks, rokerovakero]
New Japanese VC list > U.S. List
The Japanese VC list: SNES:Actraiser NES:Adventures of Valkyrie: Legend of the Key of TimeGalaga ’88 Genesis:Virtua Fighter 2Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle OK, so the Japanese list is not that much better than the U.S. list, save for that little SNES gem called Actraiser. It was one of the first games I got for the system way back in the early 90’s, and I got it because of a sole sc...
Open source conference lures in peeps with Wii, not so much with PS3/360
Our in-field correspondent Chris sends word from Novell’s open-source Brain Share conference this week in Salt Lake City that Wii’s are being heavily featured in an effort to entice attendees to vendor kiosks. Chris reports that even though both 360s and PS3s are being raffled away, at least six kiosks are demoing Wiis in an effort to lure in attendees. “No other consoles were be...
Building the best video game podcast of all time, and we need YOU!
This has been brewing for a little while now, and we are getting closer to making it a reality. Podcaster extraordinaire Scott Johnson, and yours truly are gearing up to launch a new weekly podcast in addition to Infendo Radio focused squarely on the broader video game industry. Our intent is nothing short of building the very best show possible, and your first stop for the latest and greatest vid...
Reggie boasts too hard
News that doesn’t directly affect my gaming habits hardly ever amuses me. Of all the industry news that pours onto the internet daily, sales boasting is at the bottom of the barrel, and more often than not it’s just arrogant corporate mudslinging, no matter who it’s from (with varying degrees of severity, of course). This is one of the less drastic times. Reggie said: 360 is sell...
Defective Wii? No problem, says Joystiq
Lucky for us all, Wii bugs and malfunctions have not reached the levels of say, the Xbox 360. There are some, to be sure, including that infamous error message from November that roughly translated into “you are screwed” but far and away things have gone swimmingly on the hardware front. But, when a Wii does go to that console heaven in the sky, what happens to your Wii points, MiiR...
NiGHTS confirmed for Wii
If by “confirmed” you mean maybe, the NiGHTS is already in development for Wii and is coming soon! Spong, via Cubed: Quick News – Following years of speculation, it has finally been confirmed that a brand new NiGHTS from Sega is coming to Nintendo’s Wii. Whilst both companies refuse to comment at present, Spong has it on good word that is definitely in progress right now. S...