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YouTube Spotlight: Super Mario Bros. beat with lowest possible score, no continues
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kvT0dywaF8[/youtube] Gamers typically want to get the high score, but YouTuber NotEntirelySure has uploaded a video of an impressive feat that requires exactly the opposite: getting the lowest possible score in Super Mario Bros. without using any continues. The final 500 points in this unique run come from touching 5 of the game’s flagpoles at the ver...
‘Console Wars’ book to be adapted to the big screen
Booktrade has reported that Blake Harris’ upcoming novel Console Wars will be made into a feature-length film. The book will be a retelling of SEGA’s rise to prominence during the late 80s and early 90s as they challenged Nintendo for market share of the video game industry. The film project, which will be helmed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (their last endeavor was the 2013 surpri...
Infendo Radio Episode 301: Inside Developer
Welcome all to episode 301 of Infendo Radio, with Harrison Milfeld, Colin Crompton and myself, Lewis Pugh. On this weeks show we have What we’ve been playing (Professor Layton, Steel Diver Sub Wars and NES Remix), the Nintendo News covers the latest Nintendo Direct and finally we answer more of your questions in Community Comments, including some ‘Inside Developer’ discussions – ...
Diddy Kong will return to the fight in Smash Bros. Wii U/3DS
Any fans of Diddy Kong as a fighter in Super Smash Bros. Brawl can rest easy: the little guy has been confirmed for a return to the Super Smash Bros. line-up for the series’ 4th entry. The timing for this reveal appropriately coincides with the release of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze for Wii U. Will you be fighting as Diddy later on this year when the new Smash Bros. games are releas...
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is out now! Can you convince a non-believer to buy it?
E3 2010: I saw the announcement trailer for Donkey Kong Country Returns and was ecstatic. I grew up mostly with Super Nintendo games, and Donkey Kong Country 1 and 2 were family favorites. I have fond memories of playing them, and they are fantastic games to this day. A come-back of the beloved series was a dream come true. Until I actually played Returns. I know the Wii revival is loved by many, ...
Community Corner: Nintendo – State of the U-nion
Welcome to Community Corner where someone from the Infendo Community has come to us with a guest article, if you would like to write a guest article for us, please email us at [email protected], The following was written by Jason Novak ( RisinDevil ) Why the Wii U’s problems are not due to the GamePad So, let’s face it: the Wii U is struggling. It’s no real secret. Sales are sluggish, support is...
YouTube Spotlight: Lovely Wii Fit Trainer – Smash Bros Animation
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVO4woYcZF0[/youtube] If you’ve been paying close attention, you know that I have been putting up YouTube Spotlights on Tuesdays (fits the whole “YouTube Tuesday” tradition), but the nice thing about doing Spotlights is that there’s nothing confining them to Tuesdays! (Honestly, though, I just plain forgot.) *Ahem* moving on. In the s...
Will Rare ever return to Nintendo?
Back in 1994 the Super Nintendo Entertainment System was at its height with Super Metroid having just been released. It was during this period when Nintendo acquired Rare as a second party and their first title for the SNES was Donkey Kong Country. Following the company’s success with DKC, Rare continued creating successful games like the two Donkey Kong Country sequels as well as Killer Ins...
Infendo Radio Episode 300: You Gotta Go Long!
This is episode 300! We are joined by co-founder of Infendo Radio Scott Johnson, with Harrison Milfeld, Holly Fellmeth and myself Lewis Pugh. We kick off with a long intro, talking about Infendo Radio and Nintendo in general. We then move onto our normal structure with; What we’ve been playing Zelda trio of A Link Between Words, Wind Waker and Tingles Rosy Rupee Land. Then we have your commu...
Nintendo Direct 2.13.14 Announcement: Little Mac punches in to Smash Bros. 4
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmtrmAvL5aw[/youtube] The first and arguably biggest announcement made during today’s Nintendo Direct was the inclusion of Little Mac in the Super Smash Bros. Wii U/3DS roster. Little Mac’s first and most revered appearance to the video game world was in Punch Out!! for the NES, in which the player controls him to take out various opponents in b...
Nintendo Direct 2.13.14 Announcement: Mario Kart 8 roster welcomes 7 new characters
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=631c1fz87I8[/youtube] Mario Kart 8 will undoubtedly boast the series’ largest roster of playable characters, judging by today’s announcement of 7 new additions. Joining their long-time boss (the Koopa King himself, Bowser), the 7 Koopalings will be familiar faces to anyone who played Super Mario 3 back in the day or more recent releases like New ...
Nintendo Direct 2.13.14 Announcement: Pokemon Battle Trozei
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HifNwwr8NoQ[/youtube] My personal hope and prediction for today’s Nintendo Direct broadcast was for some clue as to what type of Pokemon spin-off game we can expect for the Wii U. I’m just as pleased, however, to learn about Pokemon Battle Trozei, a sequel to the well-received DS game Pokemon Trozei. Both games are of the puzzle genre, but Battle...