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Regarding Nintendo of Europe’s marketing budget, UK-based NMA reports: “Nintendo is preparing an all-out web assault to promote its Wii console… allocating a significant portion of its marketing budget online… ‘We’re just in the final stages of putting our media plan together for Wii, but in terms of online our spend is way more than anything we’ve done be...

Infendo reader Will was kind enough to scan this old skool 196-page Legend of Zelda comic for us to share with the community. Download now (200mb pdf) and nerd out with the Nintendo franchise that is arguably more popular than even Mario. [If you enjoy, send Will a digital high-five in the comments]

The Infendo newsletter is launching soon. I know what you’re thinking, “Great, now Infendo wants to spam my inbox with crap…” Well, we don’t. We just want to send you a weekly newsletter with the week’s top stories, additional Nintendo linkage, and some exclusive goodies. The newsletter is in perpetual beta, so we’ll continue to add new features, update de...

Earlier this week we found some of the first photos of a Wii Party, hosted by Wii Ambassador Tracey Clark and her family. Clark represents the non-gamer sect Nintendo is trying to reach with the Wii console, a label she freely admits is true on her own blog and in emails with Infendo. For editorial purposes wand=Wiimote in this interview 🙂 That said, here’s Infendo’s exclusive intervie...

Flickr user oceanpark claims the above Game Boy was damaged in the Gulf War and still plays Tetris. Amazing. [Update: Whoops! Someone tell Blake there is this cool company that makes elf-like and plumber games that are really fun. I guess you can’t know everything about Nintendo, although I’ve been to Nintendo World Store and lived online for the past 10 years, this one must have slipp...

I just discovered The Wiikly today, and I’m floored. So, I’m going to take the last few paragraphs of one of its articles, print it here, and encourage you to hit the SOURCE link at the bottom. The name Nintendo means ”˜luck from Heaven’. The name Revolution means ”˜overthrow of a ruler’. People still ask, “Why didn’t they just keep ”˜Revolution’ as the name of ...

Image demographic: Interracial couples who keep consoles as close to their couch as possible. While effective, I’ve always thought the Wii lifestyle promo images were pretty silly. Video Lamer adds their parody on what demographic Nintendo might be targeting with each image.

Want to get dizzy? Try completing the Wii version of Twilight Princess and then go play the GameCube version — they’re complete mirror images of one another! Said Shiggy: “Although Link is [traditionally] left-handed, at E3 we noticed people seemed to be using the right Wii controller to swing his sword. That’s why we decided to make Link right-handed. The interesting thing...

If you listened really hard today, you would have heard one less exclusive title hitting the shelves for Sony in the next gen. And it’s a cash cow if I’ve ever seen one. Via EuroGamer, we learn that Activision has confirmed it will bring Guitar Hero to “every significant new format” in 2007. Guitar Hero DS? Guitar Hero Wii? My Mii avatar rocking it out old school to Megadet...

This just in: A Wii console, armed with an Uzi and covered with gang tattoos, was seen carjacking an Inferno sportscar over on West 43rd and Vine… Ok fine, so I made that up. But a little bird told me today that Reggie Fils-Aime let slip he would be talking with Take Two Interactive about M-rated titles for the Wii. Take Two is of course the publisher behind GTA, as well as a number of other...

There are less than two months until Wii is unleashed upon the Americas. Nintendo confirmed that their first party titles in the US will retail for no more than $50. If recent updates at EBgames and Best Buy are any indication, it looks like the third party publishers won’t be slapping on the $10 ‘next gen tax’ as seen on PS3 and Xbox 360 titles. Now that we’re getting a be...

Before the controversy of Twilight Princess being designed for GameCube only to be ported over to the Wii and released for Wii first, the GameCube endured perhaps the biggest controversy in Zelda history: Celda Link. At SpaceWorld 2000, while showing off GameCube tech demos (then known as Dolphin), Nintendo revealed a video of a fight sequence between a realistic, older Link and a dark and evil Ga...