Wii Channels

WiiWare service due in 2-3 months

Just when I thought I was getting a hold on the pile of video game paraphernalia I received over the holiday a Netherlands-based developer said today that the mysterious WiiWare download service will definitively arrive in “2-3 months.” My wallet quivered a little in fear at the news, but as it has been so many times in the past 12 months, it was overridden by my blind loyalty to video...

Give the gift of Virtual Console games this holiday

Live in Japan? Give the gift of Virtual Console games this holiday season with the latest feature to grace the Wii.

Open Letter to Nintendo: Revive the Player’s Forum

There’s word today that Nintendo will update a Nintendo 64 game on the Virtual Console with some modern day features. Over at Wired’s Game|Life, Chris Kohler reports that Pokemon Snap, due out soon for the VC, will come complete with some Wii-specific content, including the ability to send snapshots of your little monster things to friends. Sounds exciting right? Right?! No, of course ...

Minna No Nintendo Channel First Impressions

So I had a long day at work and didn’t actually hear about the “Minna no Nintendo Channel” until I got home this evening. Immediately hearing the news I downloaded the channel so that I could see what the buzz was about and deliver it straight to the Infendo readers. When you log in, the channel gives you the same messages as the Mii Contest Channel (i.e. do you want to recieve m...

Check Mii Out Channel to be released Nov. 11

It’s no secret that fans of Nintendo’s Wiiâ„¢ system love their Miiâ„¢ characters ”“ those adorably cartoonish caricatures of friends and family members that can be used in games like Wii Sportsâ„¢. Some of the more artistic fans have even taken it upon themselves to make Miis of celebrities, politicians and fictional characters. Nintendo supports consumers’ creative spirit with ...

Japan Everyone gets USB keyboard support

Dan in Japan writes us today with some cool news out of Japan: USB keyboard support has arrived for the Internet Channel! I live in Aomori Japan and I noticed that lovely blue glow hit my Wii just about 15 minutes ago. Looks like Nintendo just released a new updates for parental controls as well as new versions of the Internet and Everybody Votes Channels that finally allow for USB Keyboard suppor...

Metroid 3: Darker, more mysterious, and the marketing’s just fine

Tycho over at Penny Arcade sums it up nicely: I keep hearing that Metroid Prime 3: Corruption isn’t being promoted very well, but the person saying this always seems to know about it, and then when people share this complaint in the thread those people also seem to be “in the know.” It ships on the twenty-seventh of August, if you weren’t aware – but since you almost ...

What happens to Metroid Channel after the game launches?

A quick question… When Metroid Prime 3: Corruption launches next week, what is going to happen with the preview channel? I have a few ideas kicking around in my head, but I wanted to hear what you guys thought. Something has to happen, right? The preview is a real live Channel on the Wii’s menu screen. Are we all just going to delete it when the game launches? I think not. What’s...

Dream Wii Channel

Fellow Nintendo ninjas over at Nintendojo are asking an interesting question today: What’s your favorite Wii Channel? So far, I think the whole Channel thing’s been hot and cold for a lot of people. Whereas I enjoy periodically checking the weather (from 7 hours ago) and surfing the Net for a few minutes from my couch, others see it as the plague. Well, something like that anyway. But ...

Wii’s Opera Browser has Flash vulnerability

According to a recent PC World article, the version of Flash included with the Opera-powered Internet Channel on Wii is vulnerable to an odd video attack. Nintendo Wii consoles that run the exploit completely freeze up while browsing a specially crafted video, said Symantec. Videos of the different effects of the bug on different platforms can be found on YouTube. Should we expect an update from O...

WiiWare developers, meet the Wii Balance Board

The speculation and discussion has already started in around the WiiFit Balance Board it seems, with Square/Enix, of all companies, expressing interest in the peripheral today. And that’s to be expected; it didn’t take a video games genius last week to see that there was massive potential beyond WiiFit’s mini-games and BMI indexing abilities. Button-less, hands-free strafing in F...

Nintendo’s Harrison: WiiWare in 2007, Game Boy retired?

Some interesting/sad news from Nintendo today. GameIndustry BIZ tells it like it is, or might be: “It’s hard to say in the future if we will ever bring back the Game Boy trademark,” he told GameDaily BIZ. Harrison also informed us that Nintendo’s WiiWare service could actually still launch this year. When the announcement was first made, Nintendo made it seem like we wouldn...