Welcome to the current generation of consoles. Now you can put away that PS2 you’ve been lovingly keeping alive all these years and start gaming for real. Nowadays, it’s rare not to have a couple of games in your stocking, especially if your loved ones are any kid of coordinated but that doesn’t mean they’re [...]
Tag Archives: Nintendo Wii
Rumoured Sequel to House of the Dead: Overkill
The one thing my Wii gets used for is light gun games. It’s the perfect console for it. So rumours of a sequel to House of the Dead: Overkill is enough to get the Wii out of the cave it is stored in and actually use it once more. Sources at Nintendolife have hinted that [...]
Nintendo Lowers Profit Forecast
Nintendo today cut its profit forecast by half for their current fiscal year, ending March 31, 2011. The announcement came on the same day Nintendo announced pricing on the forthcoming 3DS handheld. The company previously projected a net income of $2.39 billion, but now expects to bring in about $1.08 billion. Nintendo claims the accounting change [...]
ESRB launches iPhone App to help parents’ holiday shopping
The Entertainment Software Rating Board today released a new App for the iPhone and iPod touch. Targeted at parents, the App allows users to search the ESRB database for information on games while at the store, theoretically allowing them to make proper decisions about games for the children in their lives. In addition to showing [...]
Stuff they didn’t teach you in school: Hooking up a console
We begin Nukoda’s tutorials with something so easy and so straight forward that we shouldn’t even have to bother with it: Hooking a game console into a TV. For those who grew up with TV peripheral devices, this is second nature. For the parents and other clueless individuals out there, this can prove to be [...]
New Nintendo Channel hits the Wii
Nintendo just dropped a new Nintendo Channel on the North American Wii Shop channel. If you don’t have a flashing blue light yet, you can go and manually download it to replace your old and busted one. This new spiffy revised channel sports not only a new look, but added functionality! You can now rate [...]
Head Tracking – The Future of Wii?
If there’s one thing I love about the Wii, it’s that Nintendo keep coming out with new technology to build upon what’s already there. First it was the Wii Balance Board, a creation that I had very little faith in when it was first announced. But boom! It’s become an instant hit, and is definitely [...]
New 360 Dashboard to Hit in November
Microsoft has told RPG-TV that the Fall Xbox 360 Dashboard Update will be arriving on home consoles in November. Technically, it is still fall. Announced at this year’s E3, the new update completely redefines the Xbox 360 experience by removing the ‘blades’ and creating a smoother, more visual interface. Microsoft hopes it will enable gamers [...]
Samba de Amigo Gives Gamers More Fake Instruments
A recent Amazon listing for attachments shows that gamers will finally be able to add some color to their Wii accessories other than white soon. Amazon has listed stand-alone maracas for the upcoming Samba de Amigo as available September 23 for US$14.99. For those in the dark, Samba de Amigo was originally developed by Sonic Team and released the arcades in [...]
Share Your DS with the Kids!
Cherry Tree Lane is a new brand being marketed by Koch Media UK, with their focus being entirely on making gaming a family affair, promoting family values and teaching children to use their imaginations with both the DS and Wii. Their target audience lies mainly in the 6-12 age group, specifically girls. There are four [...]
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