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7 things you didn’t know about your Wii
Tech Radar today has published “smart trickery to get more from your console,” listing seven things you might not have known your Wii was capable of. I especially like the indefinite blue pulse tip. Have any others to add to the list? Do share in the comments.
Interview with Conduit developer: If we aren’t listening to the fans, we aren’t doing our jobs
Eric Nofsigner, Chief Creative Officer of High Voltage Software, has long been an advocate of better gaming on the Wii. “Most of the games on the Wii look like crap.” Nofsinger told IGN last April, “We want to change that. ”¦Our goal is to be the most technically innovative Wii developer on the planet.” High Voltage has spent the last year developing The Conduit, the much hyped independent ...
Top 10 Things That Annoy Me About the Wii
Over the past two years the Wii, and by extension Nintendo, has enjoyed immense success. Massive sales, new avenues of consumer adoption, grannies boxing grannies, and soccer moms getting fit on a video game controller–it’s all here, and the impact is undeniable. Why then, I ask, am I still so annoyed with this amazing machine? Before I jump headfirst into flame land, however, hereR...
Infendo interviews Tommy Tallarico
At Infendo we try to bring you the most positive and informative news we possibly can. When my review of Video Games Live was being plagued by some imposters who were pretending to be Tommy Tallarico, I took the initiative to get in contact with him and try to find out what exactly was going on. When we finally started talking we managed to have nice conversation about Video Games live and gaming ...
The Wii Fit Balance Board is a console
“I have an idea for an Infendo post you should do…” — Sean Malstrom And so began this simple post on an extraordinary idea. Perhaps a bit crazy too, but then again all disruptive technologies are labeled as such before they’re accepted en masse. The idea? That the Balance Board packaged with Wii Fit isn’t an accessory at all. It’s a console, just the like ...
Nintendo and its ingenious plan to gimp online gaming
Nintendo and its approach to online gaming has been pretty perplexing to guys like us, huh? Friend Codes head us off at every pass like some small town sheriff drunk with power; servers groan and creak when we attempt to Brawl with friends and strangers alike; and don’t get us started on trying to chat in-game, right? Most of us are optimists, I’d like to think, and deep down we give N...
Top 10 Mario Power-Ups
I know what you’re saying. “All of Mario’s power-ups are necessary and awesome, and there’s no way you could possibly whittle away such goodness to come up with a top 10 Mario power-ups list.” To which I would reply nay, you are incorrect — there are certainly many, many useless and easily forgettable power-ups, and truly there are ten amazing ones that deserve ...
Subjectivism v. objectivism; can a game suck?
I stuck around after Thursday’s lecture to ask my philosophy professor a brief question. But as often happens, a brief question turned into a fascinating conversation. It’s always a treat to get her insight, and this was no different. But as interesting as discussing philosophy can be, it will always be usurped by the mid-evening need for pizza and french fries. My mind’s thirst ...
Why do elite development teams avoid Wii?
Industry analysis and corporate hyperbole aside, there is something to be said for logic. Nothing deductive or philosophical, either. Just simple, basic logic. The kind of stuff kids learn between finger-painting and cookie breaks in first grade. Logic as it operates in the minds of seven-year-old boys; back then, we weren’t exactly sure what impact “cooties” would have on our health and we...
Casual, hardcore and the significance of 1/22
While plodding past towering white curtains and glaring at dangling chandeliers of Mii characters, something finally snapped inside of Jem Alexander. As the Joystiq writer emerged from the ivory-coated Nintendo booth at Leipzig last August, the frustration boiled over. “While Microsoft and Sony both held press conferences during the Leipzig Games Convention, Nintendo decided to take a more p...