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Mario Kart 8 tourney night a success

The nine Mii characters you see listed above comprise almost everyone who participated in last night’s Mario Kart 8 tourney (minus a friend who played locally with me). Our numbers weren’t great, but there was plenty of fun to be had anyway. Kevin was the first to arrive, and others continued to join over the following hour or so. There were some great karting skills on display; Kevin,...

Mario Kart 8 – Official Infendo Tourney night this Saturday

To celebrate the new Mario Kart 8 downloadable content, Infendo is having another official tourney night! Join us starting at 6:00 p.m. Pacific time (image shows Mountain time) on Saturday night and see how well you stack up in the 8 new courses. If you’ve never joined an Infendo tourney in the past, use the following code to find us: 3173-6944-1208.  

Infendo Game Night: Mario Kart 8 Tourney Results

“It wasn’t perfect, but it was fun!” Those are my words in a Miiverse post from this morning. It pretty much summarizes how Infendo’s first official game night went. I feel like I didn’t properly explain “game night” yesterday. It was Lewis’s idea for us to try to have one night a week to play games and chat via Skype, without the pressure of recordi...

Infendo Game Night: Mario Kart 8

There are many reasons why an official Infendo tournament in Mario Kart 8 should take place: for one thing, it is long overdue. For another, it gives myself and the other Infendo crew members an excuse to play games with each other and with readers like you! We actually managed to pick a time that works fairly well for all of us, and that time is tonight, Tuesday the 23rd, starting at 6:00PM Pacif...

Fantasy Life to feature online co-op, Streetpass features

With release dates in September (Europe) and October (North America) looming, details regarding LEVEL-5’s highly anticipated RPG/life simulation, Fantasy Life, have surfaced. While a fair bit of information has already been released, LEVEL-5 have now revealed that Fantasy Life will contain very broad online features. The first of many online features is Link Mode, a communication tool that c...

Infendo reader hosting Mario Kart 8 tourney May 30

Longtime Infendo reader MikeIsaPoet will be hosting an Infendo-endorsed Mario Kart 8 tournament on the evening of the game’s release, May 30. Mike was involved in the creation of a Wii U-centered Facebook group that’s the main hub for the tourney. To participate, plan on buying Mario Kart 8 on release, join the group by clicking here, and follow the instructions that have been pinned t...

Katsuya Eguchi Explains Why Nintendo Land Does Not Feature Online Play

In my opinion, Nintendo Land is the perfect pack in game.  It gives us familiar characters, fun and quick mini games, as well as a great family experience.  What more could we ask for? Some have asked for online multi-player capabilities. It turns out, Nintendo Land was built for in “in home” play by design.  Producer Katsuya Eguchi says that the game was better suited to play in a roo...

Nintendo finally outlines the Wii U’s online set up

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu1kGo5j7NU[/youtube] With five days left until the Wii U’s North American launch, one question has still bugged many gamers: How will the Wii U’s online work? Finally, Nintendo has laid out the details of the Wii U’s online infrastructure and how it will affect certain games and devices. Bill Trinen leads the way in the video describing al...

Nintendo, we have a problem

In two days we will be exactly a month away from the launch of the Wii U in North America, but aside from Nintendo (and maybe including them) nobody knows how the online will work on the console. This is a problem. How is it that in 2012, a video game company who competes (whether they admit they are in a competition or not) with Microsoft and Sony can launch a brand new console without giving any...

After the Wii U preview event, mixed emotions still arise

The Wii U preview event in New York City has come and gone, and now Nintendo has rolled out their specific plans for their next-gen console. A release date, price point, and TWO different SKUs were unveiled along with the promise of Nintendo’s new video service, Nintendo TVii. At the time of the various reveals, it seemed obvious that Nintendo was finally living up to the promise of a new way to p...

Lag? No way; view it as an effect

I stand by my more-positive-than-most review of Mario Tennis Open; it’s been non-stop fun since I popped that game into my 3DS. If you’ve encountered Wilford in the Wiggler suit online, that’s me. Since my review reflected my then-current view of the game’s online play, I feel it’s my duty to add an update. Apparently, as more and more tennis fans enter the fray onlin...

Review: Mario Tennis Open serves up fast, addictive court action

Mario Tennis Open is a truly fun, hard-to-put-down game full of the charm and excellence you’d expect from Nintendo and Camelot. Its pick-up-and-play nature and smooth, fast online modes make it a perfect anywhere-anytime title. There’s a rhythm to single player progression that takes a little while to grab hold, but — once it does — Mario Tennis Open blossoms into a very f...