Infendo

Standing while playing Wii: Just do it. Granted, I don’t do this with Zelda, Excite Truck, or like games, but for software that encourages full-motion, you’ll have more fun by doing it. Stop “keeping it real,” gamers! We’re already nerdy enough as it is and the refusal by some to stand and move our glorious limbs is both archaic and makes us look even nerdier. [T-shir...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaeS8qhsttk]Chuckle. [Via Joystiq]

After a brief Wii-flavored hiccup, the DS muscled its way back to dominance in Japan this week. Again. Do I hear a bunch of bloggers getting ready to revisit the “DS cannibalizes Wii sales” stories? Zelda: TP is no longer on this list, so maybe, maybe not. The top 10 from Media Create (via Kotaku): 1. Pokémon Diamond (DS) – 123,573 / 2,119,8482. Pokémon Pearl (DS) – 97,40...

Wrap it up and ship it, for Nintendo has taken the top spot in GamaSutra’s “Quantum Leap Awards: Most Important Games, 2006.” Which game was the lucky winner? Why it’s Wii Sports, everybody’s favorite pack-in (outside of Japan, where it was just everybody’s favorite). More importantly, the winners were picked by the readers of Gamasutra. I think it’s a pre...

The Guardian today has a nice wrap up of the Wii’s success so far, with a few choice quotes that sum everything up quite well. “The past couple of months have seen a flood of adoring coverage. Breakfast TV presenters have thrown themselves into live Wii Sports sessions, while highbrow pundits on the Late Review shamefacedly admitted the genius of the machine. As a console manufacturer,...

It would appear that Wii wrist strap has not only managed to weed out and expose the utterly brain dead of our community, but the brazenly greedy as well. From GameIndustry.biz, my personal fix for all things games, industry and business: The suit claims the wrist strap for the controller of the recently released Wii console is ineffective for its intended use and Nintendo has breached the warrant...

[via Kotaku]

Spider-Man and friends visit the Mushroom Kingdom in a Toyfare comic posted at PoisonMushroom.Org. Hilarity ensues. [PoisonMushroom.Org via Kotaku]

I think IGN hit the nail on the head with their assessment of Twilight Princess for GameCube: “As someone who has played both the GameCube and Wii versions of Twilight Princess, I can confidently state that I prefer the latter for its handful of extras, including what I consider to be enhanced controls and an exclusive 16:9 widescreen mode. That being said, though, I can certainly understand...

Says Dean Takahashi, a games writer, when asked how important marketing is in video games (or everything for that matter): “Marketing is very important. It is the reason that Nintendo lost the last round. Nintendo had a nice and powerful system. But it made the box purple and made it seem like a toy. So it was stereotyped as a system for kids. Adults, who were the growing part of the market,...

Unfortunately for me, Madden’s weather is controlled by the Wii’s internal clock and region encoding, not the Wii Weather Channel as I reported earlier. The double edged nature of Digg’d stories, no? What I reported earlier: The newly updated Wii Weather Channel has god-like power over Madden, and makes it snow when snow is falling outside your window. But here’s what reall...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bb5rERCfJ0]When I have too much time on my hands I go outside. That’s just me. [YouTube, via Kotaku, with a right turn at wha?!]