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As is quickly becoming a tradition, the latest Wii channel dropped a full day early without much fanfare from Nintendo itself. Our brothers in Kyoto seem to be content with letting the blogosphere create the buzz, and we’re happy to oblige. Better your peers tell you what they think of the Channel than some cold, dead press release, right? That said, who’s kicked the tires? Who’s...

First there were the infamous IGN DS predictions, and now we have some Wii ones as well. Matt C, you crazy kid, take ’em away: New Wii System Colors Launch Metroid Prime 3’s Late Arrival (Fall) Wireless Attachments (1rst Party, no more nunchuck cord) Lots of Exercising (First Brain Age, now the Wii) Back From the Dead Franchises (???) The Return of Pikmin (GC revival?) Massive Develope...

IGN puts on the prediction cap and lays claim to several DS features they believe we’ll see in 2007. Namely: DS Interfaces with Wii Games. More Single-Cart Multiplayer Games. Opera Browser quietly ships in the US. Brand new colors. Larger sized carts coming. Game Eye is Finally Released Media Player Announced and Released No Drastic Changes to Online. Final Nail for Game Boy Nintendo hints a...

On a recent Infendo Radio, Blake and Scott discussed the possibility of Dreamcast downloads via the Virtual Console. They pretty much shot down the idea for a number of reasons, but I’d like to further examine just what Nintendo would need to do for this to happen. It would seem that the size of Dreamcast games can range anywhere from 200 to 1,000 megabytes, so the first issue that needs to ...

Attention Japanese speaking DS owners: the Nintendo DS Cooking Navigator released in 2006 got an upgrade: “Nintendo has teamed up with Imperial Hotels Ltd. to bring out the next version. This time you will be taught dishes by the master chefs of Imperial hotel as their top secret recipes will make way to your DS. The basic operation remains the same as all you need to is just select the reci...

There was an interesting morsel in the Infendo tip box this morning that I just couldn’t pass up. Seems 1UP.com, the soon be be sold and/or defunct Ziff Davis gaming site, picked up on something from a Game Informer interview with John Lee, Hudson Entertainment’s director of marketing. Near the end of the interview, Lee is asked point-blank about whether Hudson might be considering dev...

I just did an update on my Wii and am now enjoying some News Channel with my morning coffee. (I can’t believe there’s nothing about the Rage Against The Machine, Jesus and Mary Chain, or Van Halen reunions on there.) Nothing on the Wii Message Board from Nintendo yet, but clicking on the News Channel and selecting the update button did the trick. (The cat from the Photo Channel has wan...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qEotHQgUsg]The Wiimote hacks are only going to get more crazy, methinks. Now some geeks have the Wiimote controlling the motions of sword-wielding robot. I kept waiting for the thing to swing a bit too far and take off a random limb, but it just wasn’t meant to be. [Via Game|Life]

A new piece of software for Mac OS X enables users not only to convert and transver movies to their SD card for optimal Wii viewing, but it allows users to share all of their computer’s music an photos in a way that the Wii can view/play them in Opera. Mac users test your loyalty- are you still thinking about Apple TV? Check the souce to watch a cool quicktime video-demo of the software in a...

Or as Nintendo PR spins it, “nearly 9 unites every minute.” From the release: “As the fastest-selling video game system in the world, Nintendo DS now is in the hands of more than 10 million consumers in the Americas. Since launching in November 2004, nearly nine Nintendo DS or DS Lite portable game systems have sold ”“ EVERY 60 SECONDS.” They are actually shouting this! Wel...

Here are some Nintendo scraps on the day: Nintendo boosts profits again, shipped 4 million Wiis [AP] Suspect $4 deal for a year’s worth of Nintendo Power Wii shortages featured in Newsweek [Thanks, Ryan] Top 10 NES mods Mini-Mii sculptures [Thanks, Zakaria] Wii causes WaveBird resurgence When will this train slow down?