Month: May 2009
Atlus Rolls out Shin Megami Tensai: Devil Survivor screens!
Atlus has released a batch of screen shots for the upcoming DS release of Shin Megami Tensai: Devil Survivor. This is the first time Shin Megami Tensai has been on a Nintendo System since the SNES release in Japan, and the secret Game Boy Color release “Revelations: The Demon Slayer”. Shin Megami Tensai: Devil Summoner (SMT:DS for short) fuses the tactical RPG elements with traditional...
Shaun White Snowboarding: World Stage Announced
Shaun White Snowboarding for the Wii had good visuals, awesome use of the Wii Remote’s motion sensing capabilities, and the best implemented Wii Balance Board support seen yet on the console. If you liked it, get ready for more: Ubisoft announced Shaun White Snowboarding: World Stage today exclusively for the Nintendo Wii: Players will hit the slopes with Shaun White and his crew, but this...
Nintendo aims to increase third-party support
Nintendo has a message for its third-party partners—there’s still plenty of room in the Mushroom Kingdom. Speaking Tuesday with the Wall Street Journal, Nintendo of America president Reggie-Fils Aime said he hopes to increase the percentage of Wii games published by third-party companies by 15 percent. Fils-Aime’s goal would raise the third-party Wii share from 55 to 70 percent, ...
Infendo meetup at E3?
Infendo reader Used Cisco wants to know if any other Infendo readers are going to E3 this year. If so, it would be cool to do an informal meetup with Will, Sean, and myself during our stay. Would anyone else be interested, say local area LA readers? Let us know.
New Zelda (or Mario), Wii Fit Plus likely for E3, says unheard of Japanese research company
Talk is cheap. Nevertheless, some Japanese research company is predicting that a new Zelda or Mario game will be announced next week, in addition to Wii Fit Plus. GameDaily distills the important stuff. The research company asserts that Wii Fit Plus will be announced, available in a bundled version with the Wii Balance Board and as software only. Macquarie also expects “Nintendo to learn its...
Sweet looking Left 4 Dead knock-off coming to Wii
Three games in the works and not a single review score. Only a day after announcing Gladiator AD for Wii, developer High Voltage has announced another game for Wii, dubbed The Grinder, before releasing its first major Wii title next month (The Conduit). IGN has the story: Today we’ve got a special treat that we think fans of the Left 4 Dead series are simply going to love. It’s called ...
What do You Readers Like to be Called?
Joshdad, one of our main Infendo forum contributors and an awesome moderator posted a thread a few days ago. He basically asked what the readers of the forums and infendo would like to be called? What are we? Infendoites, Infendonites, Infendonians, Infendoians, Infendoists, Infendoans, Something else? What do you think we should be called? I vote for Infendonites. (Maybe we could be the Knights w...
German revealed, Australia banned: strip poker, in my WiiWare?
Apparently last month’s update to the German USK ratings service revealed that Gameloft’s “Sexy Poker,” a strip poker video game, is in development for WiiWare, and Australia isn’t happy.
Nintendo details its E3 press conference
Briefing to Unveil Upcoming Products at the Video Game Industry’s Premier Trade Show WHAT: Consumers responded to Nintendo this year, as evidenced by continued growth of the Wiiâ„¢ home video game system, record-breaking sales of the Nintendo DSâ„¢ portable franchise and the introduction of the newest hand-held iteration, the Nintendo DSiâ„¢ system. Nintendo will provide information about up...
Virtual Boy named “epic console failure” by Tom’s Hardware Guide
From the article: Even the greats like Nintendo are not immune from making horrible, horrible system choices. The Virtual Boy is probably the most ridiculous looking system on this list… To our friends reading this that may be prone to motion sickness or epileptic seizure, you may want to avoid these puke goggles at all cost. The not-so-portable handheld system released by Nintendo in 1995 w...
Early reviewers like EA Sports Active more than Wii Fit
If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. That’s what EA is trying to do with EA Sports Active, the publisher’s “Western fitness” alternative to Wii Fit, which has been the best-selling game every month for an entire year. And from early scuttlebutt, it seems EA may have beat Nintendo at its own game. “I am happy to say that EA Sports Active finally bridges t...
Infendo to devour E3 next week
Have you ever asked yourself the following: “Will Nintendo finally unveil a proper Zelda game for Wii at this year’s E3?” “What upcoming Wii and DS games are worthy of my radar?” or “Where are video games headed?” If so, don’t forget to stop by Infendo next week for our on-site, breaking coverage of E3 2009 in Los Angeles. We will have three reporter...