Archive for December, 2008

Wii Shop Channel Update 12/29/08 (NA)

Wii Shop Channel Update 12/29/08 (NA)

Wii-KLY UPDATE: TWO WiiWARE GAMES AND ONE VIRTUAL CONSOLE GAME ADDED TO Wii SHOP CHANNEL Dec. 29, 2008 – Champagne? Check. Confetti? Got it. But you’re not fully prepared for New Year’s revelry unless your Nintendo game library is stocked with games to please everyone under the sun. As always, the Wii™ Shop Channel is [...]

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LIVE Stream: Animal Crossing: City Folk and Wii Speak

I haven’t really gotten much of a chance to use Wii Speak yet, so now is the time. I’ll be playing Animal Crossing: City Folk and Wii Speak, so check out the live stream below. Jingle the Reindeer should be appearing in my town later tonight as well! The live stream will begin shortly. Free [...]

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DSiWare – Moving Memo Pad

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcVJQS4ocqY&eurl=http://gonintendo.com/?paged=4&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Share

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Rock Band 2 DLC Info

Rock Band 2 DLC Info

According to the Rock Band forums, we’ve got this info from HMXSean, a developer: “We’ve noticed a bit of confusion on the forums regarding add-on content for Rock Band 2 on the Wii. The downloadable content is in the final testing stages and Harmonix is working as fast as possible to deliver the 20 free [...]

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DSiWare – Pyori

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Super Mario theme played on an Oud

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRg8XngrQLU&fmt=18[/youtube] From the YouTube comments: “It may be too much to hope for, but maybe someday, when all of us are on YouTube, talking about Super Mario, maybe we’ll all realize how much we have in common, rather than how different we all are. Maybe then, the world will know peace.” Share

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Off Topic: I’m going to be a dad

Off Topic: I’m going to be a dad

I went off topic once since WiiNintendo started in April ’06, the first was when I got married (but I posted footage of the Wii being used on our honeymoon cruise ship), so I was still slightly on topic. Well, once again I’ll go slightly off topic; I’m going to be having a baby boy, [...]

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Best Video Game Christmas Gift

Best Video Game Christmas Gift

My Story I can’t remember the actual year.  It was probably around 1985 or 1986.  I was around 4 year old.  We had already opened gifts at both grandparents’ houses.  I remember my cousin getting an NES, and we even played it a bit while at my grandma’s.  It was the first time I had [...]

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Animal Crossing: City Folk – Christmas Email Advert

Animal Crossing: City Folk – Christmas Email Advert

It looks like Nintendo is definitely pushing City Folk as their big holiday game this year.  Do you expect to get it for Christmas (or do you already own it)? Share

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IGN Poll: Naughy or Nice?

IGN Poll: Naughy or Nice?

So what do you think? Who has been naughty, and who has been nice? Nintendo? Electronic Arts? Capcom? Sonic the Hedgehog? Strong Bad? Harmonix? Casual Consumers? Vote Here! Share

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GamesRader’s: “World of Nintendo” ’08

GamesRader’s: “World of Nintendo” ’08

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_DRfHnC0_8&fmt=18[/youtube] 1.) Mega paper animation 2.) Bob-omb bag 3.) Smash Bros. bento 4.) Mario steel drums 5.) Cart art 6.) SNES PSP 7.) Console destruction 8.) Guitar Hero drum mod 9.) iPhone ocarina 10.) Game Boy iPhone 11.) LEGO balance 12.) Toadcake 13.) SNES clock 14.) Mario on Xbox 360 15.) Pushpin Mario 16.) Wii [...]

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Tony Hawk: New game will be more interactive and realistic

Tony Hawk: New game will be more interactive and realistic

Q: How do you feel about the video games? Hawk: I really like how they represent skating. I like how they brought skating to a new level. In the past, the only fans of skating were skaters themselves. With the success of our games, people have learned to appreciate the sport without actually skating themselves. [...]

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Chinatown Wars bigger than GTA on PSP

Chinatown Wars bigger than GTA on PSP

If you dream of INCREASED SIZE and LONGER SATISFACTION, there’s only one place to turn for your portable Grand Theft Auto thrills: and it’s not the PSP. Rockstar Leeds president Gordon Hall has told Nintendo Power that Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars will be “far bigger” than any of the GTA games on the Sony [...]

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EA gives holiday gift, Boom Blox Cheats

Instructions from EA: At the BOOM BLOX title screen, hit up, right, down, left on the D-pad button. Type in the codes below using the keyboard: Pandoras Blox – Unlocks all levels in the game Tool Pool – Unlocks all the toys in Create Mode Nonstop Props – Unlocks all the props in Create Mode [...]

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World of Goo and No More Heroes make Gamasutra’s Top 10

World of Goo and No More Heroes make Gamasutra’s Top 10

Nintendo grabs 3 spots in Gameasutra’s “Top 10 of 2008″: 10. Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (Konami, Nintendo DS) Order of Ecclesia isn’t dramatically different from any of producer Koji Igarashi’s other Castlevania titles — almost every release follows Symphony of the Night‘s template — but it adds and changes enough to make this latest refinement [...]

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