Archive for the ‘Nintendo’ category

GH: Warriors Of Rock! It’s Almost Time To Rock Out With Your Errr… Socks On!

Note: Before complaining to my editor about the title picture, if you look closely you will notice a guitar. It’s Monday (no make that Wednesday, thanks Eishkom) and I’ve had the 2nd most awesome news of the day! The 1st most awesome news involves a certain editor in chief’s mom and… oh wait I can’t [...]

Published by Fatbob on August 26, 2010 12:45 am3 Comments

Japanese “Commission’s” Thoughts On The 3DS

The following was difficult to obtain, but with a few strings pulled here and there we were successful in getting close to their recent meeting and this is what we heard. The following are the thoughts collected from the Made Men of the secret Japanese “Commission” of the gaming world regarding the 3DS. The Commission: [...]

Published by M0fla on July 19, 2010 8:50 pm1 Comments

Nintendo’s 3DS Will Fight Piracy With Technology

THQ’s publishing boss Ian Curran said that the Nintendo 3DS will in fact help ‘combat piracy’. “What excites me even more [than 3DS games] is that there’s technology built in that device to really combat piracy,” Curran said to CVG. “The problem with the DS market in the last few years, particularly with the DS [...]

Published by dean0 on July 13, 2010 2:03 pm0 Comments

Xbox 720 and Wii 2 will beat PS4 to the market, says Sony

Sony predicts that Microsoft and Nintendo will launch their new home consoles before it gets round to unleashing the fourth generation of PlayStation. The three platform holders are still to publicly discuss a new iteration of their core gaming hardware, which leaves gamers to speculate over what technology a ‘Wii 2′ or ‘Xbox 720′ may [...]

Published by M0fla on July 12, 2010 2:06 pm2 Comments

3DS Can Store Games On Internal Memory

It has come to attention that the 3DS has an internal memory, which allows multiple games to be stored on it at once. This is according to Japanese financial paper Nikkei, who says that although the feature didn’t get any air time at E3, players will be able to copy games onto the internal memory. [...]

Published by M0fla on June 23, 2010 9:49 am2 Comments

3DS Is Not For Young Children

Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo America President, has said that the Nintendo 3DS  has “no health-issues” …except for children under the age of 7. “We will recommend that very young children not look at 3D images,” Fils-Aime said at E3 yesterday. “That’s because, [in] young children, the muscles for the eyes are not fully formed.” “This is [...]

Published by M0fla on June 21, 2010 11:08 pm1 Comments

E3 2010: Nintendo 3DS, All You Need To Know…So Far

It appears that the 3D DS that Nintendo was working on is called well, the Nintendo 3DS. The 3DS is the successor to the successful DS line. This is Nintendo’s fourth general handheld gaming system after the Legendary Game Boy, Game Boy Advance and the Nintendo DS. Here’s what is known: • The Nintendo 3DS [...]

Published by M0fla on June 15, 2010 9:01 pm0 Comments

Nintendo Market Has “Collapsed”, says Namco Bandai

Are the batteries about to fall out of Nintendo software market? Namco Bandai certainly thinks so, saying the market for games on both the Wii and DS has “collapsed”. He went on to say: “It’s a tough market,” Namco Bandai’s Olivier Comte told MCV. “We had a lot of product, and the average quality of [...]

Published by M0fla on June 10, 2010 1:27 pm2 Comments

Ex-Square Enix Dev: Nintendo Digging Its Own Grave

Former Square Enix writer, Masato Kato, believes that Nintendo’s dominance of the handheld console market is about to be brought to an abrupt end. Kato, most famous for Final Fantasy VII, Xenogears and Chrono Trigger, believes that Apple’s iPad will be the one to end Nintendo’s handheld dominion. “With the iPad going on sale, the [...]

Published by A-G Sonday on June 3, 2010 8:58 pm2 Comments

Is This A Wide Screen Nintendo 3DS Prototype?

A possible Nintendo 3DS platform was filed with the FCC about half a month ago. The new board reveals parts from the Nintendo DS which includes two screens, a controller and a camera. These components have been added to a rather large motherboard. So, this is probably a test unit. Or someone has pimped their [...]

Published by dean0 on May 17, 2010 4:01 pm0 Comments

South Africa Will Get The Nintendo DSi XL Late Next Month

Core, a local distributor for technology, has announced that the Nintendo DSi XL will hit the market in the April month. The new gaming device will arrive during late April, where it will have 4.2-inches of gaming LCD, and this means a 93% larger viewing area when compared to the DS Lite. Similar to the [...]

Published by dean0 on March 30, 2010 9:41 pm0 Comments

Nintendo Politely Declined Project Natal Technology Back In ’07

Nintendo execs have apparently said that they were given the option to benefit from the same technology which powers Microsoft’s Project Natal, however they declined as camera technology was a bit too pricey. A trustworthy source around the matter said that Nintendo’s boss, Satoru Iwata saw the technology at the end of 2007 where he [...]

Published by dean0 on January 27, 2010 2:22 am2 Comments

EA Sports licence peripherals and accessories

For those who like to customise everything from their consoles to their watch straps, you will be pleased to know that EA games have signed multi-year licence agreements with three electronic accessory manufacturers. The accessories are EA SPORTS-branded and available for consoles, mobile platforms and even PC. This will also include EA SPORTS Active’s line [...]

Published by Togosis on January 10, 2010 12:31 pm1 Comments

Tune those Plastic Guitars, a new GH is out soon!

Good news for all you Guitar Hero fans out there! A new GH is coming out if you didn’t know, and as always it promises to be orrsum! As with the last releases, it will have lots of different multi-player options and modes to keep things interesting when jamming with friends. Availability, if the useless [...]

Published by Fatbob on December 10, 2009 11:58 am10 Comments

Nintendo’s Wii 2 could feature Blu-Ray… But only in 2010

Rumours revolving around the next-generation Wii, or the Wii 2 state that there might be a Blu-Ray player which supports 1080p. Nintendo are apparently looking towards Blu-Ray as it not only helps stop prevent piracy, but the Japanese company is also seeing it as a viable format for the future. A high-definition Wii would be [...]

Published by dean0 on October 30, 2009 1:50 pm1 Comments

Nintendo has unveiled their Big Screen DSi

It seems as if our Pokemon dream will in fact come true. Nintendo has officially revealed information regarding their revised, and resized DS console. The new Nintendo DSi LL has been unveiled with a 4.2-inch screen, and it should go on sale around the December month of this year. The Japanese console creater revised the [...]

Published by dean0 on October 29, 2009 3:22 pm2 Comments

Is Nintendo’s DSi With A Bigger Screen Only “Speculation”?

According to reliable sources, the new Nintendo DSi will apparently come with a larger screen for more enjoyment. While everyone knows, bigger is better, it seems as if Nintendo do not want to blow their big idea just yet. The DSi is said to have a 4-inch screen when it is released later this year, [...]

Published by dean0 on October 27, 2009 1:26 pm3 Comments

E3 Predictions

E3 is just around the corner and there are rumours flying around the interwebs of what is going to be announced. Here is my list of what I think is going to happen: *Sony -PSPGO! -PS3 Slim -Lots of God of War 3 footage *Microsoft -Next Gen XBox announced -Halo 3 ODST footage -Motion controller [...]

Published by fluKe on May 31, 2009 5:43 am2 Comments

Research shows that Action Games improve Eye Sight

Researchers have recently discovered that people that constantly play action games are actually improving their eye sight. The video-game training which players under go actually improve their ability to notice subtle differences in shades of gray, and this might help people that find it difficult to drive at night. The quick pace from action games [...]

Published by dean0 on March 30, 2009 10:22 pm3 Comments

New Nintendo Wii update now with SD card channel

Yes you read the topic correctly, run a system update on you console and after it restarts check out the new “SD channel” located next to the Wii system channel. And yes if you are thinking what I am thinking, you can now run your virtual console and Wiiware games off your SD card. And that is not all; the new Wii system update also adds support for SDHC cards up to 32 GB! That is a crap load of virtual console games…

Published by Larch on March 26, 2009 12:51 am0 Comments
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