Infendo

Some lucky Mexican game site got their FINAL Wii retail box for early testing and reviews and have posted “opening the box” pics over at Gamespot. Envy begins now…

Devron provides a fairly comprehensive guide to camping out on Launch Day. It’s a little PS3-centric, but a good guide for those of us without a pre-order for Wii. Do you have any tips that Devron didn’t cover? [Thanks, Jimmy.]

While the American video game press corps plays Zelda to their little hearts content in Seattle Redmond this week, they do so under a Nintendo embrago, unable to report whether or not they enjoyed this latest version of Link. The embargo lifts late this week, apparently, but that didn’t stop some Japanese pubs from putting their first impressions up on the Net. In a word, they say it rocks (...

Late Tuesday night Nintendo quietly informed CNET that the Wii would see a very healthy 62 titles in the first five weeks following the Nov. 19 launch. Thirty-two of those titles will be classic titles available via the Virtual Console, Nintendo said. And, wouldn’t you know it, Cubed has some breaking news tonight regarding those Virtual Console titles (available in December 2006): NES: Base...

Sure, the Wii is sleek and white and cleanly designed, and everyone is going to want one in 12 months, but look deeper than that. Already there’s talk from Nintendo of a DVD version 2.0 due out in Japan in 2007. And there’s that pesky lack of HD capability Infendo’s been kicking around lately, and whether or not Nintendo is going to be hurt in the long run because it doesn’...

Print off the above barcode, and have a Walmart electronics clerk scan it and tell you how many Wii’s they’ll be. Awesomeness!

If you haven’t already read Jack’s hidden costs of HDTV, do it now. Shoo! Otherwise, check out what Red Herring has to say on the issue of HD gaming: “Console makers are embracing HD because consumers want it’at least on their TVs. Research firm iSuppli pegs yearly worldwide shipments of HDTVs (720p and higher) at more than 103 million by 2008, up from 51.2 million this year and ...

Today BusinessWeek won a new subscriber, me. Their recap of what’s coming down the pipeline from Nintendo in the coming months is well-written, factual and above all, says this: “The battle of the gaming consoles will commence in November, when Nintendo launches the Wii and Sony its PlayStation 3. The contest will pit two competing ideas about the future of the $30 billion video game m...

Similar to an ad campaign for Snakes On A Plane, the Sensei from Red Steel can call your friends and enemies. It works rather well and is actually pretty funny. Who are you going have the Sensei call?

GameSetWatch has an article up about a song written on Pocket Music for the GameBoy by James Kochalka Superstar. The song is currently available for free download in honor of Halloween. Kochalka has done other songs based on Nintendo music and has written a few tunes with his toddler son using Electroplankton. Have you written any music using a GameBoy or DS? Let us know and we might feature it on...

Sorry Wii launch day campers, if Best Buy was your particular poison for launch day on Nov. 19, there will be no midnight opening for you!Instead, it will be one hour earlier than normal opening time, or 9 a.m. I guess this just means the wait will be a few more hours than expected for Wii-Day to arrive (for all of us who decided to hold off on pre-orders). Was this news what you expected would ha...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_rAm7cYgNQ]And catchy to boot…