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Feb 12, 2008

Top 20 Nintendo Cameos

Wii Feature | Wii

Did you know that the number of games Mario has made brief cameo appearances in vastly outnumber those in which he is a playable character? Pictures of him adorn the castle walls in Ocarina of Time for example, and there’s a colossal ice statue of him on one of the 1080: Avalanche slopes. From tiny Pikmin upwards, our favourite Nintendo characters can’t stop elbowing their way onto our TV sets on someone else’s shift. In ...
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Jan 11, 2008

World of Nintendo

Wii Feature | Wii

Jan 11, 2008 Top array of stuff here this month, but not a single cake. Well probably have that fixed by Easter, when itll be Galaxy eggs and chocolate controllers all round. The No More Heroes toilet paper is a particular highlight this month, even though it looks like it would dissolve at the first hint of trouble. 1) Wii rock This amazing music video from Detroit band Philo-san sort of passed us by in the summer, but the internet has given it eternal life on YouTube and we just ...
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Nov 19, 2007

How the Wii has changed gaming, one year later

Wii Feature | Wii

Nov 19th, 2007 While most celebrating their first birthday have achieved very little during the preceding year bar the production of a variety of venomous smells and a lot of drooling, the Wii has had a pretty eventful time. With its radically new approach to control input (not to mention controversial attitude towards the console industrys traditional generational horsepower boost), it was clear from the start that the machine was going to be death or glory for the then-struggling Nintendo. ...
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Nov 15, 2007

Gaming Archaeology

Wii Feature | Wii

Nov 15, 2007 Following the recent discovery of large amounts of unused content within every retail copy of Super Princess Peach, we take a look at what other development secrets are tucked away inside your Nintendo collection. From modes to graphics to entire levels, things are constantly tweaked and changed during a game's creation. And because it's time-consuming to remove all traces of these early features before a game hits the shelves, hackers are able to dig into finished games and ...
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Nov 12, 2007

Famous safety innovations, infamous recalls

Wii Feature | Wii

Nov 12, 2007 In honour of those new rubbery flotation devices for Wii remotes, heres our fave gaming safety innovations and product recalls. 1) Warning Every game manual comes with a seldom-heeded warning to take regular breaks during play. The agonising Virtual Boy was the only console that actually enforced the rule, activating a pause screen every few minutes so users could rest their aching eyes. 2) Blister glove Nintendo famously offered special gloves to protect against shredded hands ...
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Nov 12, 2007

The Top 7... Mario spin-offs

Wii Feature | Wii

Nov 12, 2007 When it comes to running and jumping, Mario is the undisputed King of Hop. Every five years or so Nintendo gets around to releasing a new platformer, and each and every one is something special. Super Mario Galaxy is the latest in a long, long line of ultra-successful entries, but how does the plumber fare when he's taken out of his hop-n-bop element? Surprisingly well, actually. Despite the choking amount of Mario-related products, many of them are quite good and deserve to be ...
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Nov 7, 2007

World of Nintendo

Wii Feature | Wii

Nov 7, 2007 1) Samus Wii Probably the most elaborate Wii mod weve ever seen - and thanks to the razor-sharp prongs of the metal ‘S logo, the only one you could actually use as a weapon. But the potential ninja application isnt the only reason it went for more than $2,000 on eBay. Theres a built-in recharger stand for the Wii Remote, lots of cool LEDs so you can find it in the dark, and the A button actually pulsates with orange light LIKE ITS ALIVE! The genius who made it has also ...
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Oct 22, 2007

Dealing with ad-versity

Wii Feature | Wii

Oct 22, 2007 Ten years ago, Nintendo asked us if we were going to save the girl, or play like one. Five years ago, Nintendo proudly announced that the Game Boy SP was “For Men.” This year, however, the posterchild for the Nintendo DS is certified girlie Nicole Kidman, who, like most 40 year-olds, has turned to Dr. Kawashima in order to delay the inevitable reality that hits all people once they hit the big four-oh. (A withered, atrophied brain resulting in a complete inability to ...
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Oct 3, 2007

Try Before You Buy

Wii Feature | Wii

Oct 3, 2007 Oh, those game developer types, they be tricksy all right. If they're not releasing reiteration after reiteration of past hits, then they're pilfering the internet for inspiration. But this also means we have a secret gateway into what's coming before it arrives. So without further ado, let's get a free taste of things to come... Tumuki Fighters Not to be confused with a raccoon-based brawler, this "sticky 2D shooter" heralds from the slightly mad mind of famed homebrewer Kenta ...
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Oct 3, 2007

A Nintendo fan's wet dream

Wii Feature | Wii

Oct 3, 2007 While they're certainly not a new toy, PixelBlocks are a Nintendo fanboy's best friend. If you have yet to experience the joy of building your very own Mega Man out of these LEGO-esque blocks, it's high time you gave it a whirl. Like LEGO blocks, these snap together but also click adjacent to one another, allowing for horizontal as well as vertical building. Their perfect square shape makes them ideal for recreating objects one pixel at a time, hence the name. Creating an 8-bit ...
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