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With a current average review score of 75 (via MetaCritic), here’s what early Contact reviewers are saying: GameZone – 85%: “Contact has an easy to grasp control scheme, making it simple for anyone to pick up and play. However, the game is still incredibly deep, with tons of customization options for your journey.” Modojo – 60%: “The freshness of the self-refere...

The pre-order demand for the Wii has taken another victim. After GameStops across the U.S. were stripped of their 12+ console allotments by the ravaging mass of Nintendophiles (and a few Infendo readers, I might add), we learned over the weekend that the Nintendo World Store in Mahattan has stopped taking preoders as well. No word yet on how many orders were taken, cuz Nintendo ain’t saying....

The results from last week’s poll are in and the vast majority of you are going the wireless router, um, route. How will you connect your Wii to the Internet? Wireless router 70%Nintendo Wi-Fi USB Connector 14%Wired with Ethernet adapter 14%Holding out for dial-up adapter 1%I’m not! I’m keeping my Wii off the grid 2% Now this week, Infendo needs you to use your imagination. Let&#...

Welcome to Club Infendo. If you’re looking for a good time, you’ve found it. Come hang with us tonight, bring some friends, and enjoy yourself. We’ll supply the games, you supply the beer. But behave yourselves, we don’t want no trouble (or phallic drawings in the chat). It’s Saturday night, so why the hell not? Blake’s dealing blackjack, Jack’s at the dar...

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Infendo Radio #30 is hot and live! Listen in as we discuss the GBA, Wii sunlight concerns, impressive DS sales, new Wiimote development tool, 2 cents in 60 seconds, Wii preorder lines, and listener calls and emails. Enjoy the show! Radio Feed iTunes Feed MP3

Well the GameStop/EB Games Wii preorder came and went this morning. Several reports claimed longer lines than the recent PS3 preorder in some areas, and that several gamers were turned away. Though not mass hysteria, an encouraging showing for the little console that could. Though Scott and I are going camping come November 19, did any of you preorder today? What was your experience? Post thoughts...

I said the portable war was in effect over given the DS’s dominance in Japan and N.A., but this number from the same NDP report is almost unbelievable. Apparently, if you were to remove the DS hardware and software sales numbers from overall industry growth over the past nine months, it would fall from 11% to a mere 1.6% (otherwise known as stagnant). Reggie seems to think that these numbers...

Infendo Forum member Basil gives us the inside scoop on what we can expect to see at Target in a few weeks. Items include a Wii Sling Bag, Large Home Organizer Kit, Small Home Organizer Kit, Glove Kit: Mario Colors, Glove Kit: Zelda Colors, Wii Metal Tin w/ Magnets, Wii Dog Tags & Pin Set. There will also be Wii Target gift cards and Virtual Console Points cards on the display. Most of these p...

There’s something reassuring about the cold, lifeless and emotionally dead hardware sales numbers that come out every month here in North America. People can argue about the meaning of an executive’s quote all day, or whether a future system will do well, but statistics are simple and effective. With that said, here are last month’s surprising hardware sales for North America: 1....

Reuters has posted an article which begins by mentioning the online strategies of the three next-gen (buzzword) players, and then basically the rest is a feature about Nintendo. “While the designers behind the Playstation 3 are expected to follow a model similar to Xbox Live with a robust online component offering games, music and movies, Nintendo is taking a different approach with its cons...

Nintendo announced a new Wiimote development tool that aims to make programming motion-sensing controls easier and with less time. From the release: “Nintendo and AiLive Inc. announce the immediate availability of LiveMove, a groundbreaking Artificial Intelligence product, that enables the Wii Remote to learn. Instead of complicated programming, developers need only take a few minutes to tra...