Month: September 2009
Designer Geoff Mitchell chats about MySims
After stealthily slipping into Electronic Arts’ recording studio thanks to a handful of Infendo-branded smoke pellets, we escaped with five minutes of audio from a Simlish recording session for MySims. But Blake’s slave-driving the work of a ninja never ends. While exiting through the air ducts, we bumped into Geoff Mitchell, assistant designer for MySims Agents. He asked we keep his s...
Games We Want – Super Smash Brothers RPG for Nintendo DS
As a new writer here on Infendo, one thing I wanted to write on was game ideas that Nintendo COULD do. Lets face it, the potential of Nintendo’s vast array of franchises is near limitless, yet they seem to be limited at times to what will sell to their new-found casual market. Also, I want to clarify that this is not a hardened, perfected concept of gameplay, storyline, controls, mechanics, ...
Infendo Radio is chillin’ out, maxin’, relaxin’, all cool
This week on Infendo Radio the fellas talk about Wii Sports Resort, New Super Mario Bros, a new Pokemon Wii game, the best Nintendo sidekick, New Game Get, the 2010 release of Sony’s motion controller, and further discussion of Wii HD. Radio Feed iTunes Feed MP3 Be sure to leave some comments or shoot an email over to [email protected] after the show or hit us up on Twitter! Podcast: Play in ...
TGS – Ghost Trick DS Trailer
Here is the first look at the very stylized, and very short trailer for Ghost Trick. The word is that the game is actually a unique puzzle game. Where you use your ghost powers to posses a variety of different objects that lie around your body. You can use the touch screen to move your core, a ball of bluish glowing light, into different objects. To try and distract people from trying to kill the ...
Quebsy dinglits; an inside-look at EA’s Simlish
Remember, never yahso the patinzee. You might zanka your boolah or, even worse, yarbo your kanizdoowah—and oh, quebsy dinglits! Surprisingly, some of that gibberish is translatable. Well, about 20 percent of it, that is. It’s written in Simlish, the improvised language used in Electronic Arts’ mega-popular Sims games. While visiting the publisher’s Redwood City headquarters...
Review: Get the real inside Story withMario and Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story
Mario and Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story is the third installment in the action-oriented RPG series, and when I say action-oriented you better know about “timed hits”. This time around, the game focus’s more on the King of Badness, Bowser. Something Nintendo has rarely done in previous titles unless you count Super Mario RPG the joint Square and Nintendo venture way back on t...
Random Saturday – MegaMan goes to College
This is random Saturday where we present you with a random picture and your goal is to give it a funny caption or title. So would you kindly give this picture a caption? Find out what last weeks title was after the break.
Cops Play Wii Sports During Drug Raid
Do you see those arms in the air? That is pure happiness. You’ve just finished locking up a drug dealer and are in the middle of raiding his home. How do you celebrate? A) Play Wii Sports Boxing to relieve stress. B) Play Wii Sports Tennis. C) Play Wii Sports Bowling. For police officers in Polk County, Florida the obvious answer was “C,” play Wii Sports Bowling. Officers where c...
Limited-Edition Wii Sports Resort Bundle Features Two Wii MotionPlus Accessories
REDMOND, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Wii Sports Resortâ„¢ is all about getting multiple people involved in friendly sporting competitions. Starting Oct. 12, consumers will have even more incentive to get in on the fun when Nintendo releases a special, limited-edition bundle of the Wii Sports Resort game and not one but two Wii MotionPlusâ„¢ accessories, which bring enhanced precision to gam...
Fighting Fantasy: Warlock of Firetop Mountainthe Game the Book!
Aspyr just sent over a copy of Fighting Fantasy The Warlock of Firetop Mountain. Which is the book the upcoming DS game of the same name is based on. Fighting Fantasy is apparently a long series of choose your own adventure books that were really popular in Europe but never really caught on in the US. The real attractive thing about this book is that you actually get to make a character. It’...
Review: Scribblenauts imaginative, but not perfect
Back in June, 5th Cell (creators of Drawn to Life and Locke’s Quest) blew everyone away at E3 with their new game, Scribblenauts, and its motto: Write Anything, Solve Everything. People were amazed by the idea of a game that could conjure up any object the user could imagine (except copyrighted or profane). Boasting a dictionary of over 22,800 words, Scribblenauts promised to be the most ima...
Infendo further extends global presence, adds new writers
PRESS RELEASE ’ MUSHROOM KINGDOM’ Infendo, a fan site that features the web’s most intelligent discussion of all things Nintendo, has now expanded into another country and added two new writers. “It’s really been my lifelong dream to have an in-road to the pulse of Canada’s gaming community,” exclaimed Infendo founder, Blake Snow. Brushing the crumbs off his chin,...