Tag: nintendo
Games Roundup: today's key Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360 stories
From Xboxer.tv: HMV has opened first Gaming Zone arcade in Edinburgh, featuring 27 Xbox 360 consoles playing latest titles, playable in an hour-long session for £3, or £5 for three hours.
From WiiWii.tv: Silent Hill has been…
Virtual Worlds Week: Five companies who SHOULD launch virtual worlds
The metaverse is an increasingly crowded place, given the number of startups keen to take a slice of Second Life’s hype and revenues. We’ll be profiling some of the main rivals later this week, as well as taking a look at the hot young guns showing their worlds off at the Virtual Worlds Forum Europe conference.
But what about companies who should be launching their own virtual worlds, but haven’t yet? I’ve had a think, and come up with five firms for whom it’d make sense to go virtual. Starting with…
Ridiculously "urban" Nintendo clothing from Torrel
Now, Nintendo, you can’t have it both ways. You’re either a family console for kids, mums and old people, or you’re an edgy system for underground youths who are into skateboarding and sniffing various adhesives.
The new Torrel clothing Nintendo range is moving away somewhat from the family-friendly image the console company has been chasing with it’s cute little Wii…
Super Smash Bros. Brawl delayed until 10th Feb, 2008 for Wii
The world’s most anticipated video game has been delayed. No, not Halo 3, that’s out already. Do you not read Xboxer, sheesh!
Ninty’s George Harrison confirmed recently at a media summit in San Francisco that Super Smash Bros. Brawl has been put back on the shelf to collect dust, and will be made available to the North…
Brush up on your Wii skillzorz, as Nintendo's launching the Britain's Brainiest Family competition
What could be more geeky than huddling in your lounge room in front of the TV once a year, watching X X present Test The Nation: The National IQ Test with your family or housemates, perving on Phillip Schofield or Danny Wallace (or even Anne Robinson, if you’re mentally deranged)?
Nintendo has come up with the answer, by launching the Britain’s Brainiest Family competition, which kicks off this Saturday. The idea behind it is that you and your family (oh, how I wish they’d accept groups of friends – surely friends are the 21st century family?) compete against other families across Britain, playing…
Itsa me, Mario! Dressed as an air freshener! Mama Mia!
Super Mario Bros. purists might get a little angry when they see these air fresheners – check it out, Luigi is made from the same mould as Mario, just painted differently! Mama Mia!
Unfortunately the site doesn’t say how they smell, but WiiWii has predicted it’s either ‘the fragrance of stale mushrooms’,…
Wii gets hacked: modchip on the way imminently
I never buy the ‘backups’ excuse for modding your console. It’s about buying 20 pirated games from Dodgy Dave down the local market for £15, surely. Who backs up their games, seriously?
Anyway, there are reports that Nintendo’s Wii has been well and truly hacked, with a modchip coming out imminently called the Wii D2C Modchip Actel. However, it only works with around 80% of region-protected games, and it requires you to do complicated soldering stuff to install.
Get the Monster Munch ready, as it's Nintendo 64 controller/bong hybrid time!
You’ve got to wonder whether this kid ever considered the fact that a picture of a handmade bong created from an N64 controller would fly around the interweb faster at the speed of a, well, unstoned kid, and more than likely get back to his parents somehow. No dessert for you for three weeks!
Obviously we’re not condoning the use of drugs (but excessive boozing, smoking and coffee-swilling is A-OK by us, and actually…
Top 10 handmade cases for your Nintendo DS over on Crafty Crafty
It’s approaching Winter, which means your Nintendo DS is getting chilly and needs rugging up. What? I’m not the only one who anthropomorphicises (it’s a word!) their DS, am I? Talks to it, dresses it, hugs it, makes sexy time with it…
Obviously I’m lying about the latter part, but dressing your portable games console is pretty fun, especially when there’s so many brilliant handmade efforts floating around teh interwebs. Abi at Crafty Crafty has created a top 10 list of all the best DS cases…
Nintendo employee sacked for content of personal blog: anonymity fails
In one of the latest cases of employees being fired as a direct result of their blogging activities, a Nnitendo employee was sacked last month allegedly for content posted on her personal blog. Jessica Zenner's “Inexcusable Behavior” blog, though written…
