Posts Tagged Nintendo

  • Nintendo Wii is back in black Nintendo Wii is back in black

    Those familiar with Nintendo will remember that starting back with the GameBoy Color the company has had an obsession with releasing their systems in every color imaginable.  While this has mostly been true of the portable systems, we did also receive a Pikachu flavored Nintendo 64 console.&...

  • The fate of fan games, and why movie studios get fan media right The fate of fan games, and why movie studios get fan media right

    If you’re questioning exactly what a fan game is, then it’s likely you've never heard of fan fiction or fan films.  Fan media, as a broad term, is when fans of a media property take it upon themselves to recreate the or expand upon the experience of that media.  In other words, when two gu...

  • The future of “touch” games

    Nintendo may catch lots of flack for bringing gaming to the casual market, but their methods have certainly not fallen on death ears.  While the DS was far from the first touch-screen device, it was one of the first mass-market commercial ones.  It has since been followed up by Apple's iP...

  • Video of the day: old school Paper Mario

    Ever wondered what some folks did before video games?  Before they had a DS or a Wii to draw all those pretty graphics for them?  Well, they drew their own.  It seems some folks simply can't give up that old lifestyle, though, as they've taken to creating their own hand drawn video g...

  • The future of the Wii2 may already be showing

    Johnny Lee is a nerd's nerd.  He wasn't simply satisfied with owning the hard to find Wii.  No, Mr. Lee wanted to make a cool little gaming system even cooler.  And he succeeded.  That's a nerd's nerd. Specifically, Mr. Lee is behind the famous tech demo using a pair of glasses ...

  • Video games and the battle against being irrelevant

    The Globe and Mail has an interesting column up by Chad Sapieha about the timelessness, or lack thereof, of video games.  Basically, his argument is that video games, unlike film and literature, are not timeless.  That a game played today will not echo with the same resonance ten years ...

  • Get a DS in any combination of colors you desire

    Ever wanted a Nintendo DS with a hot pink top, but a black bottom? Sure, who hasn't? Now, thanks to Colorware you can have just that. Or, basically, any other horrid combination you can imagine. Colorware is offering an online custom paint application for the DS. Using it you can color just a...

  • The Great Games: Super Smash Bros.

    In The Great Games column we look back at titles that have defined video games over the years and earned a special place in the history of the medium. It is easy to forget in the shadow of its younger brothers just how revolutionary Super Smash Bros. was at the time of its release. It wasn't that ...

  • Super Monkey Ball on iPhone

    Sure, rumors that the iPhone was prepared to take on Nintendo and Sony may have been scoffed at in the past, but is anyone laughing now? Sega recently premiered a demo of Super Monkey Ball (perhaps their best creation post-Dreamcast) running on Apple's iPhone. Developed using the iPhone's new soft...

  • Image of the day: chalk Mario versus Bowser

    As the first generation to not remember a time when Nintendo was a household word, those in college today apparently spend a great time of making Nintendo art of their campus surroundings. Today's image, for example, covered bricks at the College of New Jersey in chalk to create the above image o...

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