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With my Leipzig lack of Nintendo information hangover finally over, I have decided to return to my post and report to you that North American audiences could be seeing Pink and Black DS Lites for the holiday season. Currently, North America is the only venue outside of Autsralia that does not have more than one color, and that’s sad. Granted, it’s all rumor (rumors? From Nintendo? No w...

Yeah, I know, the game conference part of Leipzig has only barely just begun, and I’m already on the soapbox doing a “reflections” piece. I felt I had to, because there’s been some venting and ranting (deservedly so) going on here at Infendo, and I felt there was some fire control necessary. First, the title was glaringly misleading, there’s no defending that. I’...

Good job on the rant, Jack. Now allow me to vent, as well. I wouldn’t be so frustrated about the lack of details revealed if the title of the press conference hadn’t been “Wii Prove Our Promise.” Call me crazy, but I assumed Nintendo would prove its promise that Wii would be cheap by revealing a price or prove its promise that the system will launch by the end of this year ...

Aaarrrgghhhh!!! It’s damn early where I am, and I’m a bitter bastard. I love Nintendo, but this morning’s “Wii Prove Our Promise” press conference at Leipzig was really just a formal announcement for Super Mario Strikers Charged and Batallion Wars 2. Yes, that’s it. No release dates, no spilling of the beans, and certainly no pricing information to be found. How...

Just a public service announcement, if you’re surfing the internet late this evening trying to get a Nintendo fix, Go Nintendo has compiled a list of live German Games Convention coverage links of Nintendo’s “Wii Prove Our Promise” keynote on tonight at 4:15am EDT (coverage type in parenthesis): IGN (text) Eurogamer (text) AMN (text) GC (booth 5 live cams) Giga (video) THQ ...

Unless you’ve lived in a cave for the last five years or are just getting into (or re-entering) the console scene, Associate Content has compiled a strength and weakness analysis of the GameCube compared to the PS2. From the article: “They both are great systems, but I was far more impressed with the PlayStation 2’s gaming library. Every once in a while a game comes out for the G...

Tomorrow could be the biggest day yet in terms of Wii news, with Nintendo giving a presentation at the 2006 Games Convention in Leipzig entitled “Wii Prove Our Promise.” Here’s what your friendly, neighborhood Infendo team is hoping to hear tomorrow: Blake: Spill the freakin’ beans already!!! (Multiple exclamation marks requested by Blake.) Jack: Obvious ones: Price and ava...

Though Madden catches a lot of flack from the hard-core gamer, this doesn’t look that bad on the DS. Anyone picking up this version?

Nintendo received yet another stamp of approval for Brain Age this week, as U.K. gaming mag EDGE gave the brainy DS title the best game award at the Edinburgh Interactive Entertainment Festival. Even better than that were the words of EDGE editor Margaret Robertson, who said the pick was “the most overwhelming decision to date” by the panel of EDGE judges. “Who would have thought...

Speaking at the Leipzig Games Convention in Germany, Lionhead Studios head honcho Peter Molyneux asked a fair question on the minds of many who have actually played Nintendo’s new console: Will it make me tired? But before you jump all over the guy, know that he was asking the question to motivate developers NOT to take the easy way with the controller. “I think it’s a more creat...

I love to hate on Sony and the PS3. It’s a sad little hobby I cultivate via my alias J B Cougar on other gaming blogs on a fairly regular basis. My pet project for hatred began almost as soon as the PS3 was announced, because I despise arrogant corporations that demand my hard-earned money without showing any kind of real return on investment for me the gamer. Rendered screenshots on high-en...

Promoting this month’s release of the Warioware team’s music title “Rhythm Heaven (Risumu Tengoku),” Nintendo has posted five web exclusive commercials for the game in addition to it’s eleven TV commercials which are also accessable on the site. To be honest I’d only seen a gameplay video of Rhythm Heaven and really didn’t understand how it worked until I ...