Wii virtual console games between $5 to $10

Link: Ars Technica Sounds like a fair price to me. Especially when compared to how Microsoft is handling things on their Xbox Live Marketplace/Arcade service: Retro gaming may prove to be a big boon for Nintendo. Microsoft's Xbox Live Marketplace has already captured the attention of many gamers with games costing 400 to 1,200 Microsoft […]

The sale day of Wii, as for announcement of price September

Link: Famitsu (horrendously translated from Japanese to English by Google) Don't even bother attempting to read through that translated page. I think I understood it better when it was in Japanese. Evidently, according to gaming sites with more reliable translation sources, Nintendo is planning to announce the official Wii launch date and price sometime in […]

Nintendo planning Wii IM service?

Link: Go Nintendo A very interesting patent application has resurfaced just today, not exactly sure why. It was originally filed back in November of 2000, but has received an update on June 6th, 2006. A messaging system includes a web server computer and at least two video game systems. Each game system is configured to […]

Microsoft doesn’t get backwards compatibility

Link: GamesIndustry.biz Peter Moore on the Xbox/Xbox 360 backwards compatibility: "Nobody is concerned anymore about backwards compatibility. We under promised and over delivered on that. It's a very complicated thing… very complex work. I'm just stunned that we have hundreds of games that are backwards compatible," he said. "Under promised" and "over delivered"? I don't […]

CoH Issue 7 active

Link: City of Heroes Well, it's out now. Issue 7 of CoH/CoV is now available. Unfortunately, this issue largely caters to the villainous side of the game. Grandville (Levels 40-50, PVE, COV only) – A vertical zone, Grandville contains Spider City, the capital of Arachnos™, where players encounter mutated Arachnoids and a huge new cast […]

Wii hardware to store personal profiles

Link: Game|Life Game|Life is able to exclusively reveal that the Wii hardware will include a feature by which players can create "profiles" of themselves that include not only personal information but a caricature of their face that any Wii game will be able to access and use, as seen in the demonstration of Wii Sports […]

ATI: Wii Graphics at E3 “Tip of the iceberg”

Link: Evil Avatar Despite Nintendo's stellar E3 showing with their playing = believing tagline, ATI is honor-bound to combat some of the negative response to the Wii's sub-(next-generation)-par graphics. Since, you know, it's their chipset. However, seeing what Resident Evil 4 accomplished on the GameCube, I have no doubt in my mind that there is […]