Games
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...
Rumor: Factor 5 working on new Kid Icarus
“A new Kid Icarus game.” Without doubt or rival, it has become the long-sought Holy Grail of Nintendo gaming. Even the slightest possibility of its eventual existence – and, as the stubborn would argue, inevitable brilliance – has fueled the unswerving, seemingly hopeless desires of fans for almost 20 years. It may have been an entire era ago, but fans never forget. And fin...
Wii Fit motivates other Wii titles into Japan’s top ten
Are you one of the doubters? When you saw Wii Fit debut earlier this year, did you scoff and sneer like 95% of the “enthusiast press?” News today from Japan goes a long way towards making people like you the left out in the cold variety, as Wii Fit has not only sold decently, it also boosted the sales of other Wii games that many people were ready to right off as disappointments in the...
Tabloid says video games make kids dumb
There’s something inherently ironic about a tabloid reporting on mediums that make people dumber, but for the sake of this post I’ll continue. Basically, U.K. tabloid The Sun is blaming videogames for England’s drop in literacy rates. The article cites a study that claimed 37% of English ten-year-olds play videogames for more than three hours a day, for more than other European c...
Indianapolis Legends looks like poop on a stick
Has anyone seen the video for Indianapolis 500 Legends on Wii? It’s a visual mess of a game stuck in the time continuum of 1994, no kidding. The trailer looks and feels like one of those DOS games I played as a kid. The footage is reminiscent of a time when the only file sharing tool available was a 3 .5 floppy disc and a bus ticket. To prove my point, I grabbed the best looking still from I...
IGN’s Wii Games of Summer
IGN profiles their favorite games hitting shelves this summer. They are as follows: The Bigs (June 25) Madden NFL 08 (August 14) Mario Strikers Charged (July 30) Transformers: The Game (June 26) Manhunt 2 (July 10 ?) Tiger Woods 08 (August 28) Metroid Prime 3 (August 20) Mercury Meltdown Revolution (June 26) Pokemon Battle Revolution (June 25) Harry Potter (June 25) And several more. Read on for t...
New Wii games in stores this month (June)
As compiled by Infendo forum member, FnbyDstryr: Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree 49.99 6/11/07 Chicken Shoot 29.99 6/12/07 Scarface: The World is Yours 49.99 6/12/07 The Sims 2: Pets 49.99 6/12/07 Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer 49.99 6/15/07 Escape From Bug Island 39.99 6/19/07 Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition 29.99 6/19/07 Harry Potter OoP 49.99 6/25/07 Pokemon Battle Revolution 49.99 6/25/07 T...
Nintendo media day: The gaming press gets left behind
Did anyone else get the impression that Nintendo’s big media day was kind of like one of those meaningless photo ops that politicians do these days just because they “have to?” (bear with me, I’ve been sunning it in the Outer Banks for the past week and I’m playing Infendo catch up today). From Game|Life: One longtime mainstream journalist who I spoke to was really di...
There are gobs of promising Wii games coming
The recent July issue of Nintendo Power is the best issue I’ve read since first resubscribing a year ago. The thing is packed to the gills with promising Wii games and pretty much kills the conventional wisdom that Wii is only good for party-games. Granted, announcements and previews do not a great final game make, but I’m giddy at the prospects of all the games profiled. Says Managing...