Grab the saltshaker because Gamememo is claiming that Nintendo will release two more MotionPlus-compatible titles by the end of the year. Other than Wii Sports Resort, Nintendo hasn’t really said too much about first party MotionPlus titles coming out this year. Gamememo hints that Cosmic Walker and Spam Smasher could be the two rumored titles, but who really knows?!
New to Tiger Woods PGA Tour on the Wii this year is the “Disc Golf” feature, which allows you to play all of the in-game courses as a disc golfer. I figured it’d be gimmicky at best.
Well, I was wrong. It’s fun, and it’s a great use of the MotionPlus add-on. If you’ve ever played disc golf before, you’ll probably enjoy playing it in the game. If you’ve never played, it’s not rocket science: throw Frisbee at target, repeat.
Check out the above video for a gameplay demo. I get a triple bogey on the 1st hole at St. Andrews, then follow up with a birdie on the famous 17th hole island green at TPC Sawgrass.
Our own Bryce found this funny commercial from 1991 featuring none other than Paul “The Animal” Rudd, star of stage and screen. How many of us wouldn’t have killed to be able to play Super Nintendo in the jail set from Red Dawn while wearing a fashionable blazer? Exactly.
Wedbush Morgan’s Michael Pachter is prognosticating that the price of the Nintendo Wii will drop to $199 in time for the holidays, pointing out that the console’s supply has finally eclipsed its demand. Meanwhile, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata recently said that his company plans to introduce great games instead of lowering the price of the little white box.
Sure Shigeru Miyamoto is a god in the pantheon of game manufacturers but he’s always up for a little competition. Look at how he’s eyeing the PSP Go. He looks like he’s thinking about buying one.
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Oh, to be young again and be playing Super Mario Bros for the first time. Not possible, unfortunately, but at least I can play New Super Mario Bros for the first time — and I just did. The new side-scrolling Wii Mario game was playable here at E3 and we spent a good amount of time checking it out. Watch closely and you can see Peter twice die on the first two things in the game that can possibly kill you. Nice job, Ha.
You guys down with Wii Fit or what? Loose talk around the internet seems to indicate that we’ll all be hearing about something called Wii Fit Plus at E3 next week.
I don’t think you are. If you’re willing to plop down $14.99 for some red hot stickers then I suspect you might be, however, and you’d do well to do so before any one of us decides you’re too chicken.
Swedish developer A Different Game announced today that the DSi will soon aid ghost hunters on their quest to vanquish and/or send back the ethereal to the underworld. Ghostwire will utilize the DSi’s camera and mic to help you hunt down the ghosts haunting us all and determine why they’re still creeping around our plane of existence.
Induction charging equals magic. OK, not really, but if you were to show such a thing to a caveman he’d probably keel over and die. Actually, he/she/it would probably freak out and club someone, which is the exact opposite of what Brendan Fraser did in Encino Man. Sorry, I’m delirious from malnourishment.
Anyway, I’ve had a week with Energizer’s Induction Charging System and so far it works as advertised, sort of. Charging time is, in fact, around four hours. However, I’ve also been using Nyko’s Wand over the last week as well but the Energizer battery pack doesn’t work with it. In fact, you can’t even charge the pack if it’s installed on the Nyko Wand.
No matter the device Nintendo makes, there is always some company attempting to improve on it. Usually this is ill-advised, and that’s why licensed Nintendo products are always your safest bet. Sometimes though, you just have to take a chance, throw caution to the wind, and buy a DSi grip.
Portable 8-bit gaming sort of hits the mainstream with ThinkGeek.com now selling the $50 Retro Mini Handheld NES System. Unlike those far more convenient, yet far less legal portable emulation machines that you have to purchase from far away lands, this handheld ships right from the U.S. of A. and plays actual NES cartridges.
“Dance like a fly, bite like a mosquito.” Those inspiring words come from Coach Doc, played by The Wire’s Isaiah Whitlock, Jr., in a very well done viral video for Punch-Out!!, set to make its triumphant comeback on the Wii next Monday, the 18th.
Nobody wants to read “businessy” news on a Friday afternoon on CrunchGear, so let’s keep this one short: Nintendo only had an okay year last year; this year, it expects sales to be flat. It chalks that up to a decline in the software tie-in ration for new DS and Wii consoles. That is, the sheen of Wii Sports has worn off, and people are no longer compelled to buy the four game per Wii (2 per DS) that they had
The slightly bizarre, but probably popular, Wii-no-ma video service debuted on Friday the 1st in Japan, possibly to acclaim (no way to know, it’s Golden Week over there and the whole country goes silent). It’s not entirely clear what it will end up being eventually capable of, and video streaming devices are already thick on the ground here in the states, so they’re probably doing a little more market research and tweaking before launching it here.
I refuse to play any game for the Wii that requires a gun unless it’s Duck Hunt. With that being said, Penguin United will launch the CrossFire Remote Pistol for the Wii at E3 this June. What makes this pistol accessory different from all the others is that it has a built-in Wii Remote.
Update: After the jump is a rendering of the CrossFire Remote Pistol.
If you’re prone to fits of rage triggered by lackluster updates from Nintendo then steer clear of this post, friend. I can’t be held responsible for you throwing your computer out the window or head-butting it.
Today, Nintendo updated the DSiWare channel with Animal Crossing Calculator and Animal Crossing Clock. I don’t speak Animalese nor do I wish to speak Animalese. Just give me Virtual Console for the DSi. However, both are available now for 200 DSi points each.
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As I was doing my business at some establishment in San Francisco I noticed that the mirror above the urinal was warped. Upon closer inspection I found that it was an advert for the DSi. Needless to say it creeped me out.
