Infendo

This popular video, Mario Unleashed, features a group performing Mario songs in front of a live audience. It has been circulating all over various websites. For whatever reason, I hadn’t taken the time to watch it until someone emailed it to me. If you haven’t seen it, this video is awesome! It features drum solos, a marimba, dramatic reenactments, and even fireballs. Best of all, the ...

After only a week of sales in Japan, Animal Crossing: Wild World for the DS has sold about 350,000 units. Along with the popularity of the game, the weekly sales for the Nintendo DS nearly tripled to about 160,000 units. I’m definitely getting this game for myself, so I’m wondering how it’s going to sell here in North America. Hopefully, just as well as in Japan, because sales li...

Motely Fool has a bit of advice for Nintendo. According to its article, Nintendo Needs a Revolution, “Nintendo will have to market its way out of its demise.” The author goes as far to say, “At this point, I don’t think the key to success lies in the Revolution specs or its snazzy controller … What should Nintendo do, exactly? For starters, the company had better foll...

Oh man, this is gonna be sweet. Jonathan S. Harbour, author of “Programming The Nintendo Game Boy Advance“, has e-book PDFs of his book– which was originally meant to go to stores, but legal problems with Nintendo prevented its sale– on his site up for download now. Soon he’ll have a CD-ROM for sale containing the e-book, source code, utilities, and compiler tools. Un...

This month’s EGM features the following in the rumor mill: “The Q hates being the bearer of bad news, but it comes with the territory (at least that’s what the rumor monger handbook says). During a recent pow-wow with a few game makers, some discussed their hands-on time with early Revolution development kits. OK here it goes: According to those fellas, the graphics that Nintendo...

Rumor has it that Angelina “Mother Theresa 2” Jolie, and her boy-toy Brad Pitt have met with Nintendo to discuss plans of creating a game to promote the United Nations. Mizz Jolie intends for the game to raise money for impoverished countries. Calls have been made to Nintendo by other sites, but it has not been confirmed whether this true or not. Could we see a U.N. game on the Revolut...

I can remember staying in hotels and seeing SuperNES controllers hooked up to the TV. Guests could pay large sums of cash to play really old games. I can even remember seeing the same setup with a N64. Now, a GameCube has been spotted in a hotel room. It works much like these gadgets have in the past, but the selection of games appears to be more appealing. Glen Bayer writes, “They had title...

Business 2.0 has a nice little plug for the DS in their most recent issue (Dec 2005). The article starts off by saying: “There’s a truism in the video-game industry: Fancy hardware doesn’t sell game machines; it takes great games to sell fancy hardware.” The DS and PSP comparison couldn’t prove this anymore. The PSP is technically superior, (despite touch and dual scr...

Forbes recent assignment of Nintendo’s 21% profit drop contains an interesting definition behind the meaning of the root Nintendo. From the article: “Ninten, the Japanese word from which the Nintendo name is derived, is roughly translated as leave luck to heaven or in heaven’s hands.” Maybe that’s why the company is so good at turning a profit. [Source: Forbes]

An old Game Boy cartridge found in a landfill. Just how many Game Boy cartridges could there be in existence, and any guesses to what game it is?

A Miyamoto signed guitar from his Nintendo World Store signing is being sold on Ebay with a whopping $700 reserve. Who knew Shiggy strummed the guity? And how much will this thing cap off at? [Thanks, Mike. Source: Ebay]

Not sure if this is for Mario Party 7 or the New Super Mario Bros. game for the Nintendo DS due sometime next year. My money is on the former.[Source: Flickr]