What’s going on in this picture? Submit your guess in comments and if you’re correct, you’ll have bragging rights for a whole week!

Check it out: mym6 of the Infendo Forums whipped up a great Infendo news widget for Dashboard on Mac OS X. This thing looks great and works like a charm. Download it and bask in its glory! (Sorry non-Mac folks .. he said he might do up one for Vista Sidebar if enough folks are interested.)

Huge thanks, mym6!

Welcome to Infendo Radio’s first annual donation drive (because the show doesn’t have any sponsors)! In an effort to subsidize our podcast costs, reach episode 200+, and compensate (more like financial encourage) the deft production work of Scott Johnson, Kyle Crane, David Cole and my soothing verboseness, generous podcast listeners are asked to…

DONATE NOW!

We’re hoping to raise $1 million dollars by week’s end, or whatever we can get (wink, wink). Skeptics are encouraged to read how the money is used and to think of the drive as PBS-like fundraising and/or a really big tip jar (but not like those Nigerian email scams). Thanks, everyone!

[Many thanks to Dustin Rue, Infendo’s first generous donor!]

Joshdad has an ongoing game over in the Infendo Forums. Basically, he posts a scrambled picture and you have to guess what it might be. We liked it so much, we’re going to bring it to the front page here at Infendo on a weekly basis.

Take a look at today’s picture above, and submit your guess is comments. For bonus points, submit a link to the original image! Winner gets bragging rights, but future contests might see some fun prizes.

[If you can’t wait another week for the next puzzle, hit up the Forums for another fresh one. Big thanks to Joshdad!]

[UPDATE] Good job to everyone who guessed correctly.  Neko To Kuruma was first to figure it out. The correct answer is posted after the jump. (more…)

Find everything you need to know about Will, the newest writer for Infendo, after the jump.

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Hey podcast listeners: as you probably already know, Scott, Kyle, and myself will record Infendo Radio show 100 next Monday (after a well-deserved week off) and we’d like you, the listeners and readers, to help make it special.

If you have a moment, please call our Nintendo line at 206-338-BIGN to send name checks, reactions, questions, feedback, and ideas (calls longer than 30 seconds will be thrown in a pit of fire). You can also participate via email by sending an MP3 recording to tips@infendo.com.

See you guys next week!

PS — We’ve got some goodies in store for any aspiring technician who wants to compile a three-minute audio file highlighting the best/funniest moments of Infendo Radio over the last year. Winner takes all.

I’ve sat back down and replayed through the series to deliver what I believe to be the top ten greatest Zelda games. As a huge Zelda fan, I have loved every single title Nintendo has feed us, (minus the CD-I titles) but there are some that are just built better than others. Click over to find out if your favorite made it towards the top. (Note: This list does not include spin-offs such as the Four Swords series, etc.)

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Taken a few months back at the Computer Game Museum in Berlin, Germany.

sweetness…

David Cole, associate editor at Infendo World Industries, is currently on vaca in Deutschland. But that hasn’t stopped him from geeking out over all things Nintendo and envying our European friends that can already purchase Mario Kart Wii.

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Besides the daily dose of Brawling, what are you currently gaming? Maybe a little Mario Kart DS to prepare for the upcoming Wii version, or maybe mixing it up with a little WarioWare: Smooth Moves…it’s all good! I’m currently replaying through the Zelda games (split timeline order) with various shots of Tetris DS, and Super Mario World in between. Don’t forget the VC is always full of great (and not so great) classics for download. Just don’t spend all your points (Wiiware next month!).

So Infendo readers…What are you playing?

Infendoites … I present to you, Infendo IRC! Hop in, create a nickname, and get to chatting with out Infendo pals. Strike up a discussion of the latest news, share some friend code, talk trash about a Brawl … whatever! You never know who will show up.

So hit this link and head on in: http://www.infendo.com/irc/

[Big ups to Mibbit for a great app!] 

Prediction? Guitar Hero IV will be one of the biggest Wii games of 2008. Call me crazy, but I have a hunch.

Activision hasn’t specified a release date, and despite the occasional rumor, we haven’t heard any definitive word on possible song inclusions. But we’ve played through each track on Guitar Hero III about a thousand times, and since speculation always makes the wait more fun, what better time than now to discuss which songs we’d like to see in the next Guitar Hero?

Join us at the Infendo roundtable and listen in as we elders deliberate on the ten songs we’d like to see added to Guitar Hero IV, complete with links for YouTube samples of each song for your enjoyment.

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Hey everyone. In addition to Infendo, GamePro, and my occasional Next-Gen work, I’ve started freelancing for a new gaming community called Crispy Gamer. The site is still in beta (more like alpha given some broken links and functionality), but it’s still a worthy visit and its editorial is ambitious — the publisher promises to never accept sponsorships from game companies to completely avoid advertiser influence.

In addition to the occasional game review and feature, I have a column called, “On The Bright Side: Blake Snow examines gaming benevolence and creative development twice monthly.” The first edition is scheduled for publish this week, followed by a feature I wrote on the excessive use of subtitling in video games, an idea that was born on Infendo Radio. Stay tuned for that.

But “why are you wasting my time with this, Blake, and where are the Pokemons?” you ask. Well, Crispy is sponsoring a megaton sweepstakes (first prize takes home six systems including a Wii, 15 games, and a 52″ plasma), and in an effort to be nice to my new friends, I thought I would voluntarily share the link with older ones. Let me know what you think in the comments.

DISCLOSURE: I have a vested interest in Crispy’s financial success; the more traffic they get, the more freelance work they can offer me. The site is currently venture funded.

Infendo reader Dave writes: “I was at a book sale the other day and picked up The Macmillan Visual Dictionary, which is an amazing resource with picture references of anything you can think of. There is a section called ‘indoor games’ which includes a ‘Video Entertainment System.’ It’s actually the greatest console ever made by Nintendo, the Super NES! Too bad the picture on the TV looks like something off ATARI.”