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Riddick Producer: “Nintendo Wii Is An Effing Genesis”
Well, his language was a little more colorful. In a podcast with GameTrailers’ Invisible Walls, developer Peter Wanat talks about Nintendo and the Nintendo Wii. Wanat, whose credits include Scarface, Chronicles of Riddick and the forthcoming Wanted: Weapons of Fate, points out how most third party developers aren’t finding success on the Wii — save…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 23, 2009 -
February’s Top-Selling Games, Accessories By Platform
You’ve devoured, then processed the lists detailing the top-selling games and consoles for February. But do you want to know the best-selling games by platform? Or the games that didn’t quite make the top 10? Wired have published a series of charts provided by the NPD Group, which show the games that finished 11-20 on…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 23, 2009 -
Team Rocket Sent Blasting Off from Poké-Launch
Some bogus flyers promising “exclusive Mystery Gifts” caused quite a foofaraw at yesterday’s Pokémon Platinum Launch in New York. Team Rocket is being blamed for the disturbance. Yes, really. The slightly ‘shopped flyer mentioning gifts (above) went up outside the Nintendo World Store launch party yesterday. Why, who could be behind such a plot? None…
By Owen Good Published March 22, 2009 -
Super Nintoaster — It’s for Breakfast Now!
The Nintendo toaster modder is back at it, deiivering a Super Nintoaster that is part of your nutritious breakfast, assuming you already serve nutritious breakfasts in your home. Modder Vomitsaw (I went back to the original source on this, just so I could share that word with you) on the Ben Heck forums gets the…
By Owen Good Published March 22, 2009 -
The Most Deranged and/or Offensive NES ROM Hacks, Ever
Warning, a few on this list make Beat ‘Em and Eat ‘Em look like Metal Gear Solid 4. But there are some genuinely hilarious winners among a mostly despicable list of deranged NES ROM hacks. The -Minus World swears that none of these are made up. Which is good, because No. 20 is a joke…
By Owen Good Published March 21, 2009 -
New Nintendo Patent Looks Like Picture Pages 2.0
A new patent application Nintendo has filed in the U.S. tips its hand to a potential new focus for the game-maker, and no, it is not core gamers. I’m no patent inspector or IP attorney, but what’s being described here looks like an application of the Wiimote, not some new hardware or peripheral. By using…
By Owen Good Published March 21, 2009 -
More People Pre-Ordering DSi Than The Original DS
We’ve picked up on the fact many of you aren’t feelin’ the DSi. But you know what? Lots of other people are, because according to GameStop, pre-orders for the handheld are off the charts. According to GameStop senior vice president Bob McKenzie, DSi pre-orders are double the size of the original DS: We’ve seen some…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 20, 2009 -
Nintendo Responds To February NPD Sales, Seems Pleased
Yes, the Wii and Nintendo DS continue to sell slightly better than hotcakes in the United States, moving more than 1.3 million units last month. But it’s Wii Play that gets the kudos from Nintendo. Nintendo brags that Wii Play, which has been bundled with a Wii Remote since day one in the States, has…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 20, 2009 -
New Wii Punch-Out!! Details Sneak Out From Nintendo
The Wii re-imagining of the NES classic Punch-Out!! will come with a new two-player mode and see the return of more well-known old-school boxers, according to information released by Nintendo of Europe. According to a press release from the publisher’s web site, which has since been pulled, Punch-Out!! for the Wii supports “1-2 players.” Nintendo’s…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 20, 2009 -
Wii Fit Officially Topples Halo 3 in Sales
Yesterday’s news that Wii Fit continued to ride high on the U.S. video game sales chart last month told only half the story. I just confirmed with the NPD Group that the fitness title’s lifetime sales has topped Halo 3’s. As of the end of February Wii Fit has sold 6 million copies in the…
By Brian Crecente Published March 20, 2009 -
DSiWare Game Will Bring Manners To The Masses
If you’ve never been, you can probably still imagine: Japan is one polite country. A level of politeness like that isn’t just “there”, it’s earned, and it’s earned through hard work and diligent instruction. This is Kuukiyomi. It’s a DSiWare game (so you download it to your DSi), and will be out this Spring in…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 20, 2009 -
Get Godlike Control Of Super Mario Bros. With Your Mouse
FCEUX is a cross-platform NES emulator. It supports Lua, a lightweight embeddable scripting language. Look, that’s not important. What is important is what it does, allowing you never-before-seen control of Super Mario Bros. Using the mouse, players can wield Goombas and Koopas like some sort of Mushroom Kingdom deity, often with amusing, potentially brain-melting results.…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 19, 2009 -
Nintendo Wins Hearts Again In February, Wii & DS Dominate
February was very kind to Nintendo, as U.S. consumers brought home over three quarters of a million Wiis home with them, making the motion controlled console the bestselling hardware last month. The Wii’s take of 753,000 units in February was a huge boost over its take from the same month last year. In February of…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 19, 2009 -
Nintendo Pushing Third Parties To Focus On DSiWare Apps, Not Just Games
Your Nintendo DSi is going to do more than just play games out of the box. Built-in apps for photos and music will provide minutes, if not hours of fun. Expect the same of DSiWare. Already available in Japan, the online DSiWare shop lets Nintendo DSi owners download bite-sized games at bite-sized prices. That includes…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 19, 2009 -
Nintendo’s Big GDC News
With the Game Developers Conference less than a week away, it’s time to start thinking about what we all expect to hear at the big show. As we’ve mentioned before, this will be Nintendo’s year at the show, meaning they will be the company with all of the splashy news. With the DSi due out…
By Brian Crecente Published March 19, 2009 -
GameStop: Wii Supply Finally Meets Wii Demand
Video game retailer GameStop finally has enough Nintendo Wii consoles for everyone, and it only took around three and a quarter years to get there. In an interview with Gamasutra, GameStop’s senior VP of merchandising and hoseheads Bob McKenzie says that the company’s supply of Nintendo Wii consoles has finally caught up with demand. “You…
By Mike Fahey Published March 19, 2009 -
Punch-Out Dated For Europe
Nintendo just let us know that Punch-Out!, the Wii remake/re-imagining of the classic NES title, will be out in Europe on May 22. To get Europeans suitably psyched for the event, Super Punch-Out! will be released on the PAL Virtual Console on March 20. That’s a lot of punching.
By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2009 -
Now The Mushroom Kingdom Is In Russian Doll Form
The Matryoshka doll is the cake/custom action figure of 2009. Not the most obvious of pioneering creative avenues to pursue, true, but we can’t direct these artistic waves, only react to their flow. Where last week we saw the zombies of Left 4 Dead transformed into stackable little dollies, this week, it’s the inhabitants of…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2009 -
Nintendo Discovers That Wii Fit Is As Good As… Walking
In this ad, Nintendo says it had Wii Fit researched by Japan’s National Institute of Health and Nutrition. About time! The game’s only been out for over a year. The researchers found out that doing the Wii Fit hula hoop game was the equivalent of “light walking” or playing golf without using a golf cart.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 19, 2009 -
Ex-Nintendo Man Howard Phillips Finds A Seat At Chair
Howard Phillips, former “President” of the Nintendo Fun Club and Nintendo figurehead, has a new gig. He’s the new studio director at Chair Entertainment, the development house snatched up by Epic Games last year. Phillips other gigs include a stint as one half of the comic duo Howard and Nester, a long-running feature in Nintendo…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 18, 2009