Infendo

According to this Kotaku post, Japanese news site Mainichi has reported that Nintendo has stopped airing their DS Lite advertisements because they are creating too much consumer fervor to handle. The DS Lites sold out so quickly that Nintendo pulled the ads in order to dull the current mad rush to obtain a DS Lite system. The two new colors are supposed to debut tomorrow so we’ll see if they...

Well, it’s official. The GBA will get repackaged classic games under the Player’s Choice name for $20. IGN writes: “Starting April 2nd, the series will make its debut on the Game Boy Advance. Three games in the company’s library will go Player’s Choice on this day: Super Mario Advance: Super Mario Bros. 2, Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, and Yoshi’s Island: S...

This by far is the most ambiguous Nintendo Spotting since the feature’s Infendo debut last summer. All I can say is that it’s in the clouds. So do good clouds have you thinking SMB?

Follow the link for a personality test to determine which Nintendo game character you are. I’m being profiled as a Bubble Bobble. Great, out of all the cool game characters, I’m a freakin’ Bubble Bobble. Somebody shoot me.

Webchats.tv is hosting a webchat with Shigeru Miyamoto on March 17th from 7-7:30pm (questionable standard time). Inquisitive minds can submit questions for the chat before it begins and it seems like the “live” portion will be Shigeru answering questions “live,” online. So live answers, but not questions. Fortunately that you don’t need to know Japanese to understand ...

4 color rebellion has posted probably the coolest photo ever in order to illustrate the upcoming knight-hood of (soon to be) “Sir” Shigeru Miyamoto. Oh yeah, game designers Michel Ancel and Frédérick Raynal will also be knighted, but there are no cool pictures of them on the sight. Le sigh. I really hope all of Miyamoto’s following games have his name in big shiny gold letter&#...

This just goes without saying. Very nice art depicting the Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft “battle.” Via Flickr.

[Update: To clarify, “chump meter” is a nickname for what’s called the Connection Percentage. Everyone starts out with 100%, then that number lowers as you drop out or more and more matches.] Nintendo apparently listens to consumer complaints, because in Metroid Prime Hunters’ wifi mode, players will have a “Chump” statistic that tells others of their sour quitt...

There are seven different train stations scattered about Japan with DS download access points where you can get what the Japanese website calls “Really Fast Ghost Data.” The courses are either ROB on Mushroom Highway or Yoshi on Peach Circuit. Of other interest is an ongoing time trial tournament that’s run similarly to the internet ranking system used in a lot of Konami music ga...

For those of you that have yet to check out the Nintendo World Store in New York City, Kotaku has recently posted a whole bunch of photos of different store goodies, from the Nintendo Van to custom GBA’s and DS’s. My personal favorite is the deck of hanafuda cards under glass that Nintendo used to manufacture before they started creating games. Apparently hanafuda style card-games are ...

Kevin over at the Revolution Lifestyle has posted a preview of the UK’s Official Nintendo Magazine. The article claims that “huge Zelda update[s]” are on the way, including “new screens and [game] details.” But what could it be? Oh, what could it be? Any guesses from you savvy readers?

Nintendo President Satoru Iwata was interviewed by a Japanese newspaper, Sankei Shinbun, and had this to say regarding the Revolution’s release date: “We can’t disclose the Revolution’s release period yet, but we have no plans to miss out on the year-end sales battle. As for North America, we need to release it by Thanksgiving, or otherwise we won’t receive support fr...