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Promising online stripped from Worms Wii
It didn’t take THQ long to capitalize on the good press and success of its latest handheld Worms title. Only days after the critically acclaimed Worms: Open Warfare 2 released to market on DS/PSP and reinvigorated the long-running strategy franchise, THQ and Team17 Software announced an exclusive and surprisingly ambitious Worms title would be coming to Wii in early 2008. In a Sept. 6 interv...
Smash Bros. Brawl is the anti-sore loser
Do you hate it when someone purposely disconnects just as they’re about to lose to you in an online game? Does it irk you to no end? If it does, Super Smash Bros. Brawl might have an answer. Kotaku summarizes the Dojo update for today: Masahiro Sakurai is a freaking genius. In the Smash Bros. Dojo!! update today he reveals details on the With Anyone mode of online brawling, which basically a...
Infendo Online Game Night – Medal Of Honor: Heroes 2
Good game everyone who stopped by! Thanks! It’s war!!! We’ll be playing the new Wii hit, Medal Of Honor: Heroes 2 online tonight (11/30) at 9PM Eastern time. It’ll be a DeathMatch and the Game Name will be: infendo, password: infendo So join me, Blake, and all your Infendo friends online tonight at 9PM! PROTIP: Get your EA Nation registration figured out before 9PM if you haven...
Nintendo web site feels different …
Because for some lucky blokes it is different. Loading differently anyway. Could this be a first look at the changes Nintendo promised when it summarily ripped the NSider forums away from us over the summer? No word yet on the fate of the late, great forums (depending on who you ask, of course), but this does appear to be some kind of beta for the newly designed Nintendo.com.
Metroid Prime 3 ‘Dread’ reference a ‘coincidence’
Lovers of a Metroid 2D revival were hit with a setback today as a reference first pointed out by IGN’s Matt Casamassina was squelched in an MTV interview with Retro. MTV: What’s the story behind the apparent reference in “Metroid Prime 3? to “Metroid Dread,” the rumored but never-confirmed 2D game some fans hope is being made at Nintendo? Pacini: “It’s not what you think it mean...
NSider Forums, closing shop, and the Phoenix
Quick show of hands: Who here visits the NSider forums? Correction, who visited the forums, since Nintendo just made them read-only and plans to disable them indefinitely on Sept. 24? That’s right, I used the doom word in business, “indefinitely.” More often than not what that really means is “gone the way of the Dodo bird,” and that’s exactly what all the Negat...
CONFIRMED: Smash Bros Brawl is online!
The Smash Bros Dojo officially confirms that online multiplayer will be available for Super Smash Bros Brawl. You can play with friends you know or ‘anyone’ in a random bout. The random battles will not be ranked and you will not know the names of your opponents. Other features revealed are: in-game taunts can be pre-programmed and triggered using the + Control Pad a Sandbag punch...
Online or Wiimote — which is more important to gaming’s future?
The installed base numbers don’t quite agree with Peter Molyneux on this point, but he’s out there saying it anyway. Maybe he’s one of those 3rd party chaps who just doesn’t “get” the Wii yet. There’s still time, Peter. Start thinking outside of that box. Start looking at the facts. If Live was the driver you say it is, then 3rd party developers would be c...
The cities that love Nintendo’s WFC the most
According to Nintendo, the above cities have played more games on the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection (including both DS and Wii games) over the past two weeks than any others. Will someone please explain to me what is going on in Struthers, Ohio? The city only has 12,000 inhabitants??!!
Madden ’08 online broken?
I’m seeing scattered reports from Joystiq, GoNintendo and elsewhere that say the online play in Madden ’08 for Wii is, in a word, broken. EA (via GoNintendo): “Now that Madden NFL 08 is available, the development team at EA is doing some tweaking to make sure our online experience is as smooth as possible. Since there is currently a high volume of people playing online, this is the bes...
Play Mario Strikers Charged tonight 11pm EST!!!
Alright, Infendoians! Come play Mario Strikers Charged tonight at 11pm EST. All are invited. Ensure that your friend codes are properly entered in (codes here), and we’ll see you chronies in a bit…
The video game media’s obsession with sameness
I was browsing the Gamerankings.com site today, seeing how my favorite game of the moment, Mario Bros. Strikers, is doing, and I couldn’t help but notice how busted the current “rating” system is. Don’t be confused, I’m not defending Strikers, or any Wii game for that matter, while simultaneously bashing fine games like Ninja Gaiden Sigma (PS3), which I single out onl...