Rumors
Nintendo snaps up space at the TGS
Get ready for more lines, readers. Nintendo is reportedly buying space at this year’s TGS. It’s not quite what we’d call confirmed just yet, but Kotaku is saying some highly placed sources (“multiple, highly placed insiders confirm that the company will be in attendance” to be precise) at Nintendo have all but came out and said the hottest video game company of the mo...
Is Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree the first online Wii title?
Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree drops on June 11, which is before Pokemon. This is the official Nintendo box art, as supplied to us by Play Nintendo. Are the folks at Nintendo planning a little surprise? NOTE: With all of the “real” video game blogs out there still reeling after running with a satire article as real news last week, I am stamping this post with a RUMOR tag. UPDATE: A gent...
Is a Wii USB drive coming for realz now?
Cubed has a scoop today involving a press release from eSOL. The press release says: (Tokyo, Japan – April 4, 2007) eSOL Co., Ltd. announced today that their leading embedded middleware products, “PrFILE2” FAT file system and “PrUSB/Host” USB host stack, were selected for the “Wii”, from Nintendo Co. Both software products constitute fundamental functional...
Should Nintendo buy Take Two?
Take Two Interactive, the company behind GTA, is in trouble. Microsoft was floated as a potential buyer, but today Infendo reader Gaumer asks, why not Nintendo? Gaumer’s email to the Infendo Tip line: I assume you have heard of the probable (and from what I have read as recently as today, inevitable) sale of take 2 interactive the great publisher/developer of games like GTA and Bully and Tab...
Director leaves Castlevania movie
Paul W.S. Anderson, director of such films as Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil, and Alien vs. Predator, has apparently left development of the Castlevania movie. Check out Dread Central for more information. Who do you think should replace him? [Thanks, Garth!]
NGamer: No Wii Friend Codes. Bwa- Whaa?
I really don’t care what the eventual Wii Friend Code outcome is, but seriously this friend code debate (or is that fiend code to some?) is getting me downright dizzy. At first each console had one code, then each game had their own code a la the DS, and then today GoNintendo digs up yet another magazine scan that shows NGamer dropping a new bomb on the pile. This whole “controversy...
NiGHTS confirmed for Wii
If by “confirmed” you mean maybe, the NiGHTS is already in development for Wii and is coming soon! Spong, via Cubed: Quick News – Following years of speculation, it has finally been confirmed that a brand new NiGHTS from Sega is coming to Nintendo’s Wii. Whilst both companies refuse to comment at present, Spong has it on good word that is definitely in progress right now. S...
Nintendo: No Wii hard drive, new DS peripheral soon
There was the tiniest of external hard drive rumors scampering about the floor over the weekend, but Nintendo quickly stomped that out existence. Then they did the ol’ bait and switch and left a little DS rumor in its place. Nintendo has denied suggestions that an external hard drive is currently in development for the Wii – but confirmed that a new peripheral is on the way for DS. The...
New Mii Channel launches in April
Via Siliconera: During the Nintendo keynote Shigeru Miyamoto mentioned that a new voting channel where people can vote on their favorite Miis was in the works. A message was sent to Japanese Wiis with the date of the new channel, April 29. In the channel players can pick one of two Miis as their favorite and results will be shown online, similar to the Everybody Votes channel. Are you ready? Are y...
Wii shortage: Supply chain issue or cold, calculating Nintendo?
Normally I’d dismiss this tip to Infendo as a “just because it happens to you don’t mean it happens to everyone” event, but because it’s theJON I’m listening: “I got a job at my local Gamestop recently and last week, the Nintendo Rep stopped by and talked to us a bit about the Wii and DS (and how our kiosks weren’t on). One of the things he told us w...
IGN’s Casamassina fires off rumor #14,628
Matt C. is having some fun with the rumor mill again, but who knows what the heck it means or if it has an semblance of truth to it, right? “There are some potentially crazy-awesome games coming down the pipeline for Wii, by the way. You guys have no idea. I know that’s vague — has to be, but I’ve seen some stuff that you simply have no idea even exists and frankly, if you ...
Perrin Kaplan dishes on future Wii hardware
The Perrin Kaplan Show continues in earnest (Matt C is nowhere to be seen in this interview, however): BIZ: Why is Nintendo planning on releasing a DVD enabled Wii so long after the launch of the console? I don’t think many people will care. What’s the point? PK: I think it’s just to give them a choice. We’ve not yet come out with a firm date; we haven’t talked about ...