Guy calls cops on public videogame auction, gets arrested
Sometimes, justice does exist.
This time it took place a few weeks ago, in front of a GameStop store in Texas about 2 hours before the official midnight launch of Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
ScrewAttack was there, filming a webcast where they attempted to publicly auction their copy of Brawl. They had hoped to raise some [...]
Nintendo DS finally gets a cool new colour in North America
White.. okay
Black.. cool, but total fingerprint magnet
Pink..
Gold..
Metallic Rose.. ugh..
Crimson/Black.. Nice try, but the shade of red just isn’t right
Is this better?
Today, Nintendo announced a new colour of DS Lite for the North American market. As you can see, it will be another two-tone colourway, and should I say, just a bit more macho than the [...]
Wii hacker develops head tracking desktop VR with Wii Remote
We all agree that Nintendo’s Wii Remote design is ingenius in its effectiveness and simplicity. Many first-party titles are using it to make certain games more immersive than ever. Unfortunately, 3rd party publishers see the Wii as nothing more than shovelware bait though, since so many people own one.
It took an independent engineer though, to [...]
Nintendo spends $17 million to uglify the world’s Wii Remotes
Yesterday, Nintendo announced that they intend to offer free Wii Remote covers to everyone who owns a Wii, and will be bundling them with future consoles. Their reasoning is that, I guess, people are still unable to keep a grip on the things. Actually I can attest to this; at a party this summer, some [...]
Virtual Console releases two previously Japan-only titles today
At first you might be taken aback that there were only two new games released on Virtual Console this week. However, these games are special. They are both games that have never been released in North America before, in their original form.
That’s right, Nintendo finally decided to give import gamers a break, and tossed [...]
Video game sales for June: Nintendo still rules
Last month, Nintendo ruled the gaming world (in the US at least), with the DS Lite and Wii selling for a combined 761K units in the US. Games for those systems took up four of the top five places in games sales as well.
NPD numbers are in for June, and well, things are good [...]
Sound the alarms! Nintendo Wii has been hacked!
Uh oh, things are looking grim for Nintendo; CVG is reporting that hackers have found a security hole in the Flash Player of the Wii Browser, opening up the console to run unsigned code. Of course everyone says they want to run homebrew apps on it, but you know what is really going to [...]
