Friday, May 30, 2008

Multiplayer: What? No frogger?

MTV's Multiplayer blog, along with blog contributors from Kotaku and Joystiq, a Capcom senior producer, and someone from "I Can Has Cheezburger" have come together to debate a controversial topic that is highly pertinent to video games today. Who is the greatest reptile in video game-dom???



Slippy, Bowser, Yoshi, Frog from Chrono Trigger, and some random creatures all duke it out on the round table (somehow Gex placed second when the tallies totaled up). Slippy won the reader poll, but you gotta see the blog post to see who won over the panel.

Monday, May 26, 2008

Wii Wii: a video that has to be seen to be believed

It seems even blogs take the day off on memorial day because there are hardly any updates on the Wii blogosphere. The only exception would be this, a video that is mindboggling in it's construction and deserves to be seen at least once. It's kind of hard to explain what it is...okay not really, it's a level-editor Super Mario World thing but it's best to watch without any preconceptions (Also it's longer than 10 minutes but it won't seem so).

Saturday, May 24, 2008

Wiifit: gettiing fit and so much more

Wiifit is not the official website for the Wii Fit (that would be this site), but rather a blog I stumbled upon. It has many entries on Nintendo's latest peripheral and a few reviews, including one that has the opinion from a professional trainer. Though, oddly, it also contains pretty random blog posts, including the all too familiar "Nintendo hyping the Wii with fake shortage" thoery (Though to be honest, it seems the article was originally somewhere from Kotaku.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Nintendo Channel goes the extra mile

MTV has a videogame blog called Multiplayer that covered the Wii's latest channel today. The "Nintendo Channel" allows you to purchase games, download games to the Nintendo DS, and make recommendations based on what you play and when you play it. There is a lot more to the blog post, including how detailed Ninendo is at summarizing games (Castle of Shikigami III - Welcome to the castle of nightmares!)

Thursday, April 24, 2008

But will it come here to the US? Please?

WiiWii has a blog post about new version of Final Fantasy IV coming to the DS (Yeah, another version for a handheld, but this one will have some fancy, 3D graphics).

It's looking nice but the blog only talks about it heading into Europe. It will certainly head over to the US but not for months. Too bad......even though I already have a playable version of FFIV within reach. Still, I can play an RPG twice.

Friday, April 18, 2008

Do Wii still have a problem?

Anyone who owns or have even heard of the Wii are probably aware of the flying controller incidents that happened post-console release, in which wiimotes and nunchuncks flew out of gamer's hands and through a T.V., out the window, and even at animals. That's where Wii Have A Problem came in, documenting the damage caused by Wii controllers.

However, after about a year and a half after the Wii's release the blog has slowed down considrably. It's most recent post was from December of last year (a Wiimote flew out of an apartment building window). Posts before that also showed some major damage, but they are few and far between and there are even a few posts that don't really have much to do with wii controller accidents. I guess that whole recall they did with the controller straps was really effective.

All in all, I'm glad that there is less Wii violence. The worst part out of all of this is what happened to people. I clicked on the People section of Wii have A Problem I saw a few cuts and scrapes, but when I saw the person with the black eye I didn't want to see anymore.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Okami review

Wiispin posted a X-play video review of Okami for the Wii. Okami didn't get much recognition from the gaming crowd when it was on the PS2, so perhaps things will be different this time.

I hear though that X-play doesn't always give favorable reviews to games on a Nintendo system. So what did did they say about the Okami port? Click the link to find out!

http://www.wiispin.com/2008/04/16/x-play-reviews-okami/