Infendo

This is the funniest gaming related video i’ve seen in a long while. It’s not just a dumb GameCube bashing, so don’t be afraid to watch. It’s actually very hilarious. Brace yourselves, fanboys. Video here. [source: 4cr]

The Seattle Times writes: “Nintendo of America wants to expand… The maker of such video-game icons as Mario and Luigi of Super Mario Bros. fame and Donkey Kong wants to add more than 550,000 square feet of building area on its property at the northeast corner of Northeast 51st Street and 148th Avenue Northeast, according to city planning documents. In return, the city hopes Nintendo fo...

Joystiq has a nice thread going regarding the GameCube’s progressive scan/s-video feature going unoticed. From the article: “It’s not widescreen, but it’s in progressive scan on 90% of the Nintendo titles, and a good amount of non-Nintendo titles… All you have to do is load the game up holding down the ‘B-button’ and it’ll ask you if you want to enab...

Since it was launched in Japan back in September, Tamagotchi no Puchi Puchi Omissecchi (Tamagotchi: Corner Shop) has been selling quite well. The game recently hit the 1 million mark, making it the first 3rd party DS title to do so. Only Animal Crossing, Brian Training and Brain Flex (both Japan only titles at this point) have done so as well. Do we have a sleeper hit on our hands?? Personally, I ...

So the DS redesign was a rumor. Next-gen writes: “Rumors have been circulating the Internet regarding a sleeker, redesigned DS in the same vein as the GameBoy Advance to GameBoy Advance SP revision. While expected eventually, Nintendo said that a new DS model won’t be coming as soon as rumors indicated.” If not now, when? Let us all summon the collective goodness that is the Infe...

Japanese DS shortages have caused the Nintendo handheld to experience a price hike. Gaming Age writes: “In the Land of the Rising Sun, Nintendo DS systems are seeing a supply and demand flux resemblant of the Xbox 360 situation in the United States. Although the stock of Nintendo DS systems was reported to be low due to a large demand at the end of 2005, a rush after New Years’ Day onl...

Like the now defunct Apple/HP iPods before it, maybe the Macintosh maker will get into the games business someday. Would Nintendo and Apple be a good pair, or is it best that Mario & Co. always fly solo? [Image courtesy of Flickr]

Apparently, the Game Boy Advance can now play feature-length movies without the additional movie player. Where have I been? From the article: “[The GBA] has been capable of playing movies with the GBA Movie Player for some time. However, it often requires a lot of technical knowledge, and extra hardware. But Majesco now also provides full-length movies on the GBA, and it doesn’t requir...

I’ve never spent more than five minutes of my entire life watching American football on TV, and everytime anyone tries to explain the rules to me I just get frustrated and confused. But this Japanese webpage may be the thing to get me started. I just finished watching nine mini-instructional videos on how each kind of football play is executed in the up-coming anime/action/RPG/sports game &#...

Kotaku has been covering the New Generation World Hobby fair like crazy, and apparently Nintendo is drawing an incredible crowd. All though it doesn’t look like there will actually be any announcements from the company or any new information, this kind of press event is still of big import to keep the Japanese public aware that Nintendo does indeed make products besides the out-of-stock DS. ...

Nintendo’s “3-pillar” strategy is looking more genius everyday. 2005 was a record year in sales for the gaming industry hitting the $10.5 billion mark. A majority of this growth was on the backs of handheld systems, 2/3 which are manufactured by Nintendo. From the article: “Software for the GameBoy Advance, Nintendo DS and Sony PSP reached $1.4 billion, a 42 percent increas...

[Source: DS Fanboy]