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Nintendo speed linking

Here are some scraps on the day: Zelda.com gets a big update (nice looking site!) Sweet Castlevania package! 15 new Zelda screenshots The dark-side of Nintendo’s touch-generation approaching Wii demo kiosks use composite not component cables (pictured) [Thanks, Drew, Adam, and John]

Kotaku gets a Wii

Hit the source link for full images including everything they scored. Ours will be here soon (in nine days after I spend $250).

Looking forward: Hyrule Field?

Are you ready yet?

I do the unthinkable

As part of my effort to appease outspoken fellow Infendo blogger Rollin and atone for my fanboy sins, I did something unthinkable last night. Such was my angst at causing an Internet-wide firestorm with recent posts that I dipped my soul into the lurid underground scene of Wikipedia vandalism, and set my sights on the Nintendo entry. I am ashamed, but hope my penance can help right this ship, whic...

Nine

Less than a week and a half to go.

Nintendo denies rumble to N64 Virtual Console titles

Despite my best efforts, I was unable to spin this sour note about the Virtual Console into a positive light for Nintendo. I kid, of course. The news? CVG is reporting that Virtual Console games will NOT support force feedback for N64 games. CVG: “The Rumble Pak was one of the N64’s many great innovations, accentuating in-game crashes, bumps and explosions by shaking the controller. Bu...

Wii production line video

I’ll take one, please. And do you really think Nintendo believes they’ll sell out of units as Kaplan suggests, or is the company trying to create false scarcity to increase initial sales?

Embarrassing Nintendo advertorial is misleading

Let’s call Nintendo advertising what it has traditionally been (with the exception to some stellar DS ads): Corny. This advertorial, or paid advertisement pretending to be an article, is no different and is even misleading. Don’t get me wrong, advertorials are trash to begin with, but that makes the decision by Nintendo to use them all the more lame. Hit the source for the full comedic...

BOWN award winners go on to greatness (Hint: Wii’s one of ‘em)

Infendo reader Nerdswerth goes beyond the headlines today with his dissection of Wii’s recent pick up of one of the coveted Best of What’s New (BOWN) awards from Popular Science Magazine. Nintendo’s great white hype the Wii came away with the win in the Home Entertainment category. That’s news in its own right, but Nerdswerth goes deeper. “To put this feat in historic...

Reggie talks industry expansion in Montreal

I like Nintendo President Reggie File-Aimes. He reminds me of a wealthier, more popular version of myself. And we’ve both killed things with our bare hands, so there’s that too. Today, at the Montreal International Game Summit, Reggie — ironically enough after yesterday’s posts — talked about the narrow path the game industry now walks, and how he’d like to see ...

Ten

It’s the final countdown.

Animal Crossing gift to be timed with Wii launch

Hop onto Nintendo Wi-Fi around Wii launch time for a free gift in Animal Crossing: Wild World. From 1UP.com: “Animal Crossing faithful, Nintendo has not forsaken you. To help celebrate the launch of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, the company will be distributing an exclusive item in Animal Crossing: Wild World starting on November 17th and running through November 24th. In order to ...