Rumor has it that there may be a new Kid Icarus game in the works for the Wii. For those of you who have no clue what Kid Icarus is, it was a game from the golden ages of NES that featured this guy: Well, an 8-bit version of him at least. The above would [...]
The Wii helped video games sales in the United States achieve an all time high in 2007. The biggest push came from the 1.4 million units sold during the holiday season, capping off the 6.3 million unit total for the entire year. Some credit must go to Microsoft and Sony as well with 4.6 million [...]
Here’s another case where a third-party developer is not too high on the Wii. Goichi Suda, developer of No More Heroes (due out this month in the US) has been disappointed with the game’s sales in Japan and sales of third-party games for the Wii in general. “Actually I was very surprised about the reality [...]
Are you one of the many people saddened by the news that Nintendo is pushing back the release of Super Smash Bros. for the Wii? If you are… you might have a little ray of hope coming your way – in the form of Smash Bros. 64 on the Virtual Console. According to Nintendic.com, the [...]
Nintendo and Sony have become involved in a legal dispute involving the technology of their controllers. They are not battling each other, but rather a company called Copper Innovations Group (CIG) who claims it patented the “Hand Held Computer Input Apparatus and Method†technology all the way back in 1996. CIG filed lawsuits against Nintendo [...]
There is a mildly humorous GigaOm post comparing the three democratic frontrunning candidates for President of the United States with the big three gaming consoles. It is interesting to see the comparisons laid out in this clever way. It boils down to this: Barack Obama is the Wii. Hillary Clinton is the Xbox 360. John [...]