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String ’em up. The FanMan has gone too far!
OK, OK! I get it. You guys love your online play. In deferrence to the rabble, I have become an old school Atari developer and will soon release a new game. It will feature online play for 1,000 simultaneous mutliplayer and HD graphics. 1080p or nothing, I say. And yes, I tried to find the worst picture possible. I deserve it. This is me being K-Fed, right before meeting the actual K-Fed, at Gypsy...
Wii Internet system update — who cares?
It could have just been my Wii, through chance or some weird defect that barred it from receiving the full firmware update from last week, but tonight as I prepared for bed in my Nintendo fanman Mother Brain boss chamber bedroom the ol’ blue light flickered to life once again. That’s three times in the past week and a half, for those of you still up and keeping score. Anyway, after I f...
Quick question: Nintendo’s spot at GameStop?
I bought a used copy of Phoenix Wright for my flight out to San Francisco earlier this week, but before I bought it I noticed something: Wii and DS were at the front of the store. Both of the front columns were filled with Wii peripherals, games, empty console boxes (still sold out), DS stuff and games, and used games for both systems. Question is, when did this happen? I know it happened over in ...
Metroid 3: The hype is here (you’re just not a part of it anymore)
I seriously think that the video game media, as it exists today, needs to stop trying to predict what Nintendo’s going to do for a while. Instead, what they need to do is start taking some real notes, pay attention, and do some research. We’ll all be better off when that happens. Until then, Nintendo seems content to basically not give a flying focker. And that seems to be working out ...
Boogie gets review of 80, 30 on the same day
Without having played the game, this is looking like it could be another Excite Truck in terms of widely varying review scores. I’m actually laughing inside. Not a creepy Dr. Evil laugh; just a little chuckle.
LinuxWorld keynote features Wii shoutout
I’m “vacationing” from Infendo this week due to the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in foggy, cold and generally miserable San Francisco, but a keynote from this morning drove me back into the Infendo fold, if only briefly. While talking about data centers and virtualization and all manner of skull numbing technology fare today, Amazon’s CTO Werner Vogels gave a shout out of...
The greatest Tecmo Bowl touchdown run of all time
Now that’s what I call solid game design. [Thanks, Tim]
The video game media’s obsession with sameness
I was browsing the Gamerankings.com site today, seeing how my favorite game of the moment, Mario Bros. Strikers, is doing, and I couldn’t help but notice how busted the current “rating” system is. Don’t be confused, I’m not defending Strikers, or any Wii game for that matter, while simultaneously bashing fine games like Ninja Gaiden Sigma (PS3), which I single out onl...
Of stock and baseball, A Nintendo story
Stock market stories have a special place in my heart right now. I don’t know if its the fact that I own a few of my own at the moment, or if it’s because the stock market is basically professional gambling, or what — but I do love a good stock-related story. Today’s — being found on Infendo — is naturally a Nintendo-centric story of wealth, philanthropy and bas...
Throwing InvisibleMan a Pokemon bone
InvisibleMan, let no one criticize or mock you for your unabashed Poke-love ever again! DS Fanboy: Nintendo announced that Pokemon Diamond and Pearl have sold 10 million units worldwide. That’s one for every dollar in this year’s Publisher’s Clearinghouse sweepstakes. The games have sold a collective 5.2 million copies in Japan, with the US making up most of the rest. Diamond and...
Rich people buy the cheaper video game console
If I were to tell you that the richer a person is, the more likely they are to have purchased a Wii over the obsidian superbox PS3, would you believe me? After all, Ken Kuturagi informed us all in the early goings on of the 2006 calendar year that people would work second jobs to get their greasy paws on the fingerprint adverse PS3, so it would only make sense that the more money you had, the more...
It’s good times for mocha-drinking Nintendo execs
Hilarious, son. (Thanks, Jack!)