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The perfect place to send gaming grandparents before it’s game over
I especially like the enlarged and added buttons for increased accessibility.
Spray-paint controller for Wii?
Looking less like a plastic shell and more like real technology, check out the Wiispray graffiti controller featured over at PSFK: Wiispray is a prototype, currently under heavy development as part of a final-thesis design work by Martin Lihs at Bauhaus-University in Weimar, Germany. The virtual spraycan simulates real spraying characteristics and comes with a range of different caps and of course...
Boss pays for employee’s WiiFit
If you can even get your hands on one, Red Mozzie may have come up with a way to get a WiiFit on the cheap: [My] office has a health and fitness policy, which allows employees to claim an allowance of $150 per year for fitness-related equipment or services: sports clothes, gym memberships, that sort of thing. Well, I submitted my form to apply for a reimbursement for Wii Fit. And it came through n...
New York Times immortalizes Miyamoto
As the creator of the Donkey Kong, Mario and Zelda series (which have collectively sold more than 350 million copies) and the person who ultimately oversees every Nintendo game, Mr. Miyamoto may be personally responsible for the consumption of more billions of hours of human time than anyone around. Thanks, Shiggy! You can read the complete glowing profile and a scrumptious little update on Wii Mu...
Your intelligence is “collecting dust”
You don’t have to like something to respect it. Sadly, many dedicated gamers seem set on drawing parallels. You see, there are two types of non-Wii gamers. Let’s call them John and Mike. Both like video games and have played them for many years — well before motion-controls entered the mainstream. They may or may not consider themselves “hardcore” gamers. John, the fi...
Fight! Which is better: Nintendo DS or Wii?
Ever since the release of the underrated Kirby: Canvas Curse in July 2005, the DS has been my favorite Nintendo system. Even after the release of Wii, which I’m equally a big fan of, the DS remained my Ninty platform of choice. But I think I finally changed my mind (and probably did earlier this year), as I’ve really enjoyed my time playing Wii over the last eight months. So I wanna kn...
Hardcore gamers begin to accept, love Nintendo Wii
Either the “passionate gamer community at large” is tired this week, or the Wii has turned a corner. Why? It’s just a hunch, nothing concrete really, but the public perception of that little white console appears to be changing for the better. Infendo freelancer Samfish (read: meaning he gets paid even less than zero!) was out in the field this week, taking notes, names and other...
Penny Arcade dumps GTAIV for Boom Blox
The inevitable press lovefest that followed (and led up to) the Grand Theft Auto IV launch predictably fell off a cliff in the days after its release, and I found it amazing and un-amazing at the same time that the game filling the void was Boom Blox. I suggest that it plays well for a tech demo, which I meant as a joke, but it is ridiculous how much entertainment there is to be had – even i...
Nintendo Spotting: Mario car “casemod” edition
More images of this custom Mario paint job here. No word yet on whether US automakers will begin to offer this as selection for their cars.
Wii Fit Is It blog will chronicle Infendo reader’s WiiFit experience
Infendo reader and Forum fan Red Mozzie has started to keep an online diary of his experience with WiiFit. He’s off to a good start and we look forward to see what he has to say as we wait for WiiFit to come out in North America. Head on over and subscribe to his RSS feed to keep tabs on him!
Harvard says video games don’t create violent children
A Harvard study of 1200 children concluded that video games don’t cause children to become violent. They discovered that children who played violent video games ”“ those rated Mature or above ”“ were just relieving stress. Some children did exhibit some playful fighting after playing games, but this was similar to what children have always done after watching action or Karate-type movies. Th...
Happy Mother’s Day!
Happy Mother’s Day to all the Moms out there! Is your Mom a gamer?