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Labels for gamers: a discussion
Oh, the things you do and say when you should really be working. From a conversation about the PS3 between David and Jack: [While discussing the PS3 and it’s future…] Jack: it’s a stale system that has “potential” in 2008 David: IF they put some games out Jack: exactly David: MGS4 is too far away Jack: right now, i haven’t heard of any must have games since th...
Nintendo, the Wii, and the ‘golden age of development’
If you aren’t already a subscriber to GameIndustry.biz’s weekly editorial, I suggest you find out a way to get on that mailing list yesterday. Today’s was a look at Nintendo, and how they have officially become a company developers can no longer choose to ignore. Statements like that aren’t opinions anymore; or hyperbole; or fanboy wet dreams that can be easily dismissed wi...
Wii won’t cramp your core gaming style
In the latest issue of Nintendo Power, managing editor Scott Pelland makes a great point on why even though Wii changes things, it doesn’t necessarily spell doom for core gamers. And I quote: Just as bears aren’t really the number-one threat to America as asserted by Stephen Colbert on the Colbert Report, Wii isn’t the number-one threat to gamers as many industry pundits have rec...
Best gamer setup of all time
🙂 More here, here, and here…
Wii bubble? The Nintendo revolution has only just begun
Thanks to a healthy dose of E3 hype, the Wii has coasted past the Xbox 360 to become the console with the most “exclusive titles”, according to Gaming Target, which has tracked such things since last year. “Yes, the Xbox 360 is no longer the leader in exclusive titles for the first time since we began tracking them in October of 2006. Nintendo’s little white behemoth has pu...
Awesome Wii Sports and Vanilla Ice mashup
This, my friends, is most awesome.
Wiimbledon crew to start Wii Bowling League
From the ‘why the hell hasn’t someone thought of this already file’ comes news that the Wiimbledon gang in NYC is set to unleash some Wii Bowling League goodness to the masses in the near future. Steve Bryant, half of the duo behind the recent smash-hit Wiimbledon event, has gone in with Internet media guru Tim Shey to create Wii Bowl NY, a new Wii Bowling League. Details are sli...
Martha Stewart makes a Wii cake with Wired Magazine
Just over eight months ago, Ellen DeGeneres was giving away a Wii on her show while we were still camping out. Now Martha Stewart shares the Wii love with this lovely cake shaped like the world’s hottest video game console. The Wii gets even more mainstream … and that’s a good thing! [Image lovingly borrowed from Kotaku]
Urban Dictionary Word of the Day: Nintendonitis
Every day in my inbox there’s an email from the Urban Dictionary featuring their Word Of The Day. Today, their featured word is Nintendonitis. A chronic painful condition that effects the muscles or joints in the hand, fingers and/or forearm after playing videogames too much. Dude, I played Final Fantasy for three days straight, but my Nintendonitis flared up so I couldn’t play anymo...
Camp Hyrule will not open in 2007
According to the official site, Camp Hyrule is plagued by too many disasters to risk opening this year for its 13th season. Instead, you can enter a contest in August to win a life-sized Link statue. Since Camp Hyrule was mostly staffed by Nintendo Power writers and Nsider moderators, does this serve as an indicator that Nintendo Power is definitely going away?
GamePro’s Jack Tretton ‘interview’ is a lollipop
Before you head over the GamePro interview between Vicious Sid and Sony Computer Entertainment of America President Jack Tretton, you have to close you eyes and do a little imagining for me. First, picture Jack Tretton shirtless and lying down on a massage table. Yeah, I know, it’s frickin’ weird, but bear with me on this one, please. Next. imagine Vicious Sid standing over him, massag...
Nintendo Wii NASCAR debut in August
From a Nintendo press release: Nintendo’s record-selling Wii video game system takes video gaming to a whole new level with a partnership with Roush Fenway Racing and NASCAR Nextel Cup driver Greg Biffle. Biffle will debut the Wii-themed Ford Fusion at Watkins Glen in August and then provide an encore performance at Dover’s Monster Mile in September. Nintendo’s partnership with R...