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Gauntlet exclusively coming to DS with wireless co-op, voice chat
Eidos announced today that Gauntlet is coming exclusively to the DS complete with wireless multiplayer co-op and voice chat over VoIP. Take it away press release: The co-op story mode campaign features 40 maps across three realms, allowing players to experience Gauntlet with up to three friends, banding together with their powers to defeat swarms of demons and skeletons and clear a path to victory...
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...
Guitar Hero 3 is the best online Wii game so far
I’ve played quite a few online-enabled Wii games in all their varying degrees. Elebits with its basic WiiConnect24 features; Mario Strikers Charged, which is perhaps one of the most underrated Wii games, especially online; Medal of Honor Heroes 2 which lovingly bypasses friend codes like other EA games; Metroid Prime 3 (kidding); Guitar Hero 3; and most recently, Super Smash Bros. Brawl whic...
Capcom takes We Love Golf, Miis online
Capcom stroked a sweet little birdie when it announced last Wednesday the addition of an online multiplayer component to its upcoming exclusive Wii golfer, We Love Golf. According to the announcement, We Love Golf will allow players to test their golf slice against random competitors in World Play Mode or match up with friends in Friend Play games, taking full advantage of the Nintendo Wi-Fi Conne...
Could Japanese online gaming trends be affecting my online?
I’m an obvious cas-core proponent of online gaming. I don’t need voice chat, but I definitely feel more excited about a match in Mario Kart DS when I know there’s a real live human being on the other end. They usually beat me. Even so, Nintendo’s foot dragging about any kind of concrete online gaming message is frustrating for some; annoying to others; and a deal breaker fo...
Will Wii ‘Pay and Play’ finally deliver online voice chat?
4cr had a post up today that made a really interesting, if not foreboding point. Basically, the post was more fuel to the fire meant to burn Nintendo consoles in effigy over the company’s lack of what many call a serious commitment to online gaming. But then the author had this to say: Let me guess, full-blown chat is one of the features that you are reserving for upcoming “Pay and Play” ti...
Mario Kart Wii *NOT* rockin’ the text chat
Get ready for updated graphics, 12-player online racing, new motorcycles and text chatting options that will remind you of what life was like on AOL in 1999! That’s right, it would appear as though the Achilles Heel of Mario Kart Wii when it launches later this year will be the online interaction. Which will be text based. With registered friends only. Via the United States Postal Service. W...
Wii DLC finally coming to discs, WiiWare titles
A quick snippet from a snippet at Game|Life today: his address at GDC this morning, Nintendo project leader Takashi Aoyama said that Nintendo will, in the near future, allow Wii owners to use Wii Points (purchased with a credit card transaction online or on cards in stores) to buy add-on content for games. He said that add-on contents would also be available for disc-based games as well as WiiWare...
Mario Kart Wii details emerge, again
Like some grandiose fantasy novel about orcs and elves and the lands of men, our eyes are — fittingly — fixed on the West, where Super Smash Bros. Brawl is tearing up Wii sales charts, kicking ass and taking names like Reggie Fils-Aime, and otherwise making gaming better for everyone involved. However, in our haste to acquire every little morsel about Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and of co...
No online for Sega Superstars Tennis on Wii
IGN’s Ryan Clements posted a thorough hands-on preview today of Sega’s upcoming mascot tennis game, Sega Superstars Tennis. In news sure to further frustrate the often overlooked Wii audience, Clements revealed that the Wii build of Superstars Tennis “doesn’t have any online play to speak of.” The Wii version offers three control schemes selectable before the start of...
Nintendo president Iwata shoots down Wii MMO rumors
Guitar playing canines around the world went silent today as news from Nintendo President Satoru Iwata all but confirmed the company had no plans to pursue MMO games for the Wii. However, Iwata also said Nintendo would pursue MMO development only if the title could appeal to people of all ages, from “5 to 95,” just like a Christmas song. I’ll chalk his comments up in the “m...
IGN: Super Smash Bros. Brawl online is 100% lag free, 200% awesome
Sure, the infamous Friend Codes are still very much intact when it comes to online battles in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, but other than that the system is apparently working as advertised — and then some. IGN: Well, we wasted no time putting Nintendo’s claims to the test. Shortly after we received our import copies of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, we held a few contests between our San Franci...