Infendo

Since E3, all the chatter’s been about Twilight Princess. From the delay, to new screens, if there are two things the Nintendo community is excited about; those things are no doubt the Revolution and Zelda. So, I decided to see what the buzz was all about. No, I haven’t played with the Revo, but I did get out to the local Nintendo Fusion Tour stop, and experience some of Nintendo’...

Nintendo shot off a press release detailing their North America WiFi plans. The majority of it is straight forward news that had already been released, but one part stuck out to me: Outside of the home, players will be able to connect in a variety of ways, including at thousands of free Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection hotspots nationwide. More details about these hotspots and how to connect outside of t...

A clever GameBoy Micro owner, John Tokash, discovered a secret/hidden jack on his GBM. He speculates that it could be used for a smart faceplate. My guess is that it’s for a Micro VR helmet (I’m only joking), what do you think it does? Is it on your Micro? [Source: Gizmodo]

It looks like everwhere but the US gets good Nintendo commercials. Here’s a spot for a Canadian Micro commercial. It’s edgy and funny, but it also gives me the creeps.

IGN has posted a concept of what it thinks a Revolution controller charging cradle could look like. The real story here is that we keep seeing Revolution concepts. It seems like Nintendo’s next console is not only generating excitement but also flaming people’s imaginations. Personally, I like to imagine more exciting things than a charging cradle, but the mock-up is nicely done. [Sour...

Nintendo announced several DS games today, and Japanese magazine Famitsu has screenshots. Among the games are Mario Basketball 3 on 3, a Tingle RPG, another brain-training game, and many more interesting concepts. Update: Even more screens are posted in the Nintendo Forum. A complete list of the newly announced DS games is available at Planet GameCube. [Thanks Rollin] Here are two of my favortite ...

Nintendo of Japan held a press conference today revealing their Nintendo DS WiFi USB Connector. DS users will be able to purchase the adapter … and simply connect it to the USB port of a broadband-enabled PC and after a click or two, the PC becomes a home wireless hotspot. Therefore this creates a gateway to the web for the Nintendo DS. Sounds simple enough. How many lack a wireless router a...

Nintendo has a page to let you know their current status. So, how is Nintendo doing? “A-OK” [Source: Digg]

This is a few days old, but Nintendo has officially entered the Turkish video game market. Not that there was a huge one before. It sounds like the first title and system to get a big promotional push will be Nintendogs with the DS, although the system will retail for US$249. Ouch! FYI: At the time of writing, Infendo has had a mere 113 unique visitors from Turkey, representing only .2% of our int...

The Japanese website for Tendo Dokuta 2 has opened with a neat ‘lil feature. You can demo some of the missions using your mouse as a stylus substitute. It’s pretty basic stuff, but using the internet to demo upcoming DS games is something I’ve always been a fan of. Check it out. [by Rollin, Source: Dokuta]

Just like the numerous stacks of outdated PC’s in the world, even Famicoms and NES’s need a packing from time to time… Gaming sure has come a long way.

News broke today about a possible Sony controller knock-off. Turns out the patent was filed back in January of 2004 and probably applies towards the Sony eye-toy currently out for the PS2. This is only a couple of weeks after our MS Revolution Knock-off article that leads me to ask several questions which I’ll address below. Who’s copying who? Isn’t a lot of the Revolution contro...