Nintendo Wifi Connection
My feelings on The legend of Zelda: Spirit TracksUpdate: The E3 Hands On
Update: Hands On. From what I understood from an Nintendo of America employee, Spirit Tracks is actually not a continuation of the Wind Waker series in terms of a sequel to Phantom Hourglass. Yet the game happens one hundred years after the events of Phantom Hourglass. The one thing I was complaining about before was of course the train game play. I said it is very limiting to exploration, and I w...
Tetris Party: Mini Review and Tournament Details
Tetris Online recently announced that it would be hosting the first of series of Tetris Party Tournaments begining early next month. If you haven’t picked this one up yet, now’s the best time to decide if it’s for you. When Infendo previewed Tetris Party in early October, I told you that it was shaping up to be the best values on WiiWare, and a great Tetris Title to boot. ...
Nintendo starts initiative to get Wii users online
Friends don’t let friends keep their Wii offline and disconnected. Or so says Nintendo. A short demo video called “What You Can Do With the Wii” will be pre-installed on new Wii consoles to encourage new users to get their systems online. Nintendo also announced a campaign that awards Wii users 500 Wii Points for helping a non-connected Wii user get their Wii console connected. T...
Nintendo vaguely announces “Pay and Play”
On Friday, the final day of this year’s Game Developers Conference, Nintendo’s Takashi Aoyama dropped a proverbial “megaton” when he revealed plans to implement a “pay and play” online program for Wii. In frustratingly ambiguous fashion, Aoyama announced Nintendo will soon introduce a new service for online Wii gaming requiring players to “pay and play....
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...
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...
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??!!