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Poll – Getting online with Wii
[REMINDER: If you haven’t already, don’t forget to vote in this week’s poll. Results will be relayed via Infendo Radio this weekend!] Wii owners are getting impatient while waiting for online gaming. Just imagine how much more fun Mario Party 8 would be if you could challenge a friend in another state. Who doesn’t think Red Steel would’ve sold better if it had online ...
Dewy’s Adventure – new for Wii from Konami
IGN has the scoop about Dewy’s Adventure, a new Wii game from Konami. It looks like a combination of Elebits and a Kirby platformer. The Elebits comparison is fair since both games share the same illustrator. The game also uses the “Excite Truck” style of holding the Wii Remote, something we’re starting to see more titles use. Of special note, though, are the graphic effect...
Spore confirmed for DS
Spore on the DS. It was but a rumor once upon a time, but now it’s fact says Next Generation. “We have shifted and acquired resources and are attacking these successful platforms,” said EA CFO Warren Jenson, referring to Nintendo’s platforms. My Sims will be coming to both the DS and the Wii, and SimCity will also be coming to the DS. Formerly a PC-only release, a version of Spore wil...
Wii and Tupperware
I believe it was my man Denzel Washington who once said, “Tupperware ain’t got nothing on Wii!” before he and Ethan Hawk took out 30 thugs in the movie Training Day, but I could be wrong. What I do know is people are starting a new trend — with the Wii at its center. Kris Smith called it “the equivalent of a man Tupperware party.” In early December, he and a few...
EA plays catch up
Holy smokes, the Wii is a profitable system to develop for. At least, that’s what EA is now claiming in the drive to become the number two Wii developer. Via Joystiq: Speaking during a financial results follow-up conference call, EA CEO Larry Probst discussed the publisher’s plans to increase support for Wii and DS. “Clearly Nintendo will always be number one on the Wii and Ninte...
Nintendo statment on Mario Kart 64 glitch: Get over it
Nintendo goofed on the Virtual Console version of Mario Kart 64 and has decided to tell people who have already purchased it to go take a hike. From Nintendo: “Due to unavoidable technical reasons unfortunately it is not possible to save ghost data from Mario Kart 64’s Time Trials in the Virtual Console version of the game,” reads the statement issued to Pro-G. Nintendo has ̶...
Wii Channels and niches
Everyone talks about the potential of Wii Channels — what could come to be, what’s already here; how wild ideas will probably never see the light of day but sound really, really cool (Wii Cricket Channel, anyone?). The reason I ramble today is that IGN Wii has some slick mock-ups on their site today of pipe dream future Wii channels. Examples include the Wii Stock Channel, Sports Chann...
Headspinning Wii Sports boxing K.O.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab-MbbAkL4E]Neat video of a Wii Boxing glitch. Why the YouTube comment thread for this video turned into a racist schmorgisborg smörgÃ¥sbord I haven’t a clue. I blame Jack Thompson. [Via Joystiq]
Nintendo’s Wii — the impulse buy
Today, having a product that is so good people cannot help themselves but buy it without thinking of their finances or well being became a bad thing. I’m talking about the term “impulse buy,” because today a Sony exec (see also: barking mad) said the Wii was an impulse buy. “Wii could be considered an impulse buy more than anything else,” said David Karraker, SCEAR...
Konami game surge imminent
Chris Kohler over at Game|Life talks Konami games on the Wii: “Should we prepare for the Konami flood on Wii? The word on the street, the latest rumor, is that the publisher will announce “a bunch of” games for Nintendo’s console this week. Given that their first title was Elebits, might we be looking at more new franchises? Or might they bring some of their hit properties ...
NY Times on Wii’s unexpected success
From the article: “Some of the video game industry’s smartest minds thought that couch potatoes wanted richer graphics and more challenging virtual worlds. It turns out that a lot of potatoes simply wanted to get off the couch… [But] is the Wii expanding the video game market, or is it stealing customers from Sony and Microsoft?” Read on for some excellent discussion on how...
Cricket on Wii movement started
An Australian multimedia designer is starting a movement to get a Cricket game made for Wii. So far, he has contacted EA, created a website, and put together a promo video. It looks like a good number of Aussies are behind him, too. EA already makes a Cricket game, so I can’t see it being terribly impossible for them to port this to Wii. Are any of our international Infendonians out there in...