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Nintendo and GameStop to issue Wii rain checks
Sick of heading to your local big box store on Sunday mornings? Reggie Fils-Aime said that Nintendo will be partnering with GameStop to make rain checks available on December 20th and 21st. Systems must then be picked up by January 29th. As long as GameStop doesn’t force you into a bundle, this sounds like a pretty good idea. Too bad they didn’t implement it back in late October ...
Nintendo Distribution Center busier than Santa’s Workshop
Employees at Nintendo’s distribution center in North Bend, Wash., prepare thousands of boxes of Wii for shipment to retailers across the country. Nintendo has tripled its distribution workforce to meet consumer demand for the holidays. Nintendo’s current production run is 1.8 million Wii systems a month, almost twice what was produced at launch last year.
Nintendo’s plush new San Francisco office
Here it is, the new Nintendo office in San Francisco. Everyone around the Internet seems to think his is a very clean, simple office compared to what went down in Redmond. It would make sense. New digs, new image, new office atmosphere. Has Nintendo softened its image to fit in with the new “everyone plays” approach?
Opinion: Square Enix backed the wrong horse
When you’ve built your entire business around grandiose, movie-like fantasy titles with huge, in-depth cutscenes, what do you do when a graphically inferior console is currently eating up the entire video game industry? Did you say lash out? Complain? How about whine and moan? If so, you’re correct, and Yoichi Wada, CEO of Square Enix, deserves a prize. On Wednesday, Yoichi told CNET t...
Worst Nintendo release week in months
Well, it was bound to happen. Only three weeks after the best release week ever, we’re stuck with these beauties for the week ending December 8th: DS American Girl: Julie Finds a Way Alvin and the Chipmunks Draglade Left Brain Right Brain Pocket Pets The Golden Compass Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2008 Strawberry Shortcake: The Four Seasons Cake Wii Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 Alvin a...
Was 2007 the best video game year ever?
Next Generation had an article up this week that asked if 2007, with its bevy of traditional, off the wall, and outright incredible videogames, was in fact the best year ever for the medium. If we just take my own experiences as an example, then the answer is yes. Over the past 12 months (I’ll round up and include December), I’ve purchased or played more videogames than I had over the ...
To find Wii, stalk the UPS man
To get yourself a Wii this holiday, you should not stalk the UPS man, but you should stalk the UPS man. Get it? So says George Harrison in an interview with Wired’s Chris Kohler today, during which he also responded to that lingering conspiracy theory about fake Wii shortages. Game|Life: “Typically, we’d have begun stockpiling console hardware back in August” for the holida...
Nintendo new release relapse – Black Friday aftermath
Black Friday has come and gone, and so has the onslaught of weekly releases for Nintendo’s systems. This week there are less than ten new games released! They are: DS Master of Illusion Boogie Geometry Wars: Galaxies Chicken Hunter Wii Cranium Kabookii Cruis’n Game Party History Channel: Battle for the Pacific Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords Not much there, but a few fun ti...
$79 Wii at Amazon
Did anyone here get a chance to vote on the $79 Wii at Amazon? It beat out PS3 and Xbox 360 during the online retailer’s annual Customers Vote event. Only 1,000 units will be made available through this contest promotion to a randomly selected group of winners consumers who voted for Wii. It’s hard to imagine they’re going to sell Wiis for almost 70% off the usual price, but ther...
Nintendo releases for the week Zap and Party their way into stores
Hot stuff coming through for both Wii and DS this week! DS CSI: Dark Motives Mario Party DS Petz: Hamsterz 2 Clue / Mouse Trap / Perfection / Aggravation Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings Godzilla Unleashed: Double Smash John Deere: Harvest in the Heartland Strawberry Shortcake: The Four Seasons Cake Wii Link’s Crossbow Training with Zapper AMF Bowling Pinbusters! Geometry Wars: Galaxies Gho...
The best Nintendo release week of all time
Another huge list of games, as the holiday season draws near. I could literally spend hundreds of dollars this week with titles coming out like Super Mario Galaxy, Medal Of Honor Heroes 2, Rayman Raving Rabbids 2, Geometry Wars, Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles, Tomb Raider: Anniversary, Contra 4, and Cooking Mama 2. You must be buying something this week .. what’s on your list? Full list ...
Nintendo releases for the week ending November 10th
Lots of hot stuff coming out this week. Check out the massive list of releases for this week: DS Bratz 4 Real Build-A-Bear Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker Enchanted Horse Life Hot Wheels: Beat That Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga LifeSigns: Surgical Unit My French Coach My Spanish Coach My Word Coach Ontamarama Panzer Tactics DS Puzzle de Harvest Moon World Series o...