Archive for the ‘Incoming’ Category

Setting up your Wii for Homebrew

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

The Twilight Hack works by employing a lengthy character name for the horse in the game ('Epona') in order to facilitate a stack smash. This gets triggered when talking to the man next to you when you start the savegame as he loads the name to use it in his ...

10 Reasons To Stay Loyal To Nintendo

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

How do you feel about Nintendo at the moment? Probably not too great, we'll wager. We've had time to properly reflect on just how bad the future might be for the dedicated Nintendo fan. And we've found that things may not actually be so bad at all. Don't believe us? ...

The 5 Most Embarrasing Moments Of Nintendo’s E3 Conference

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

It’s easy to just forget this year ’s Nintendo conference, pretend it never happened, or ignore it entirely. That won’t change the fact that by and large, it was a miserable trainwreck of failure and easily the company’s worst in history. What went wrong? Oh, about a thousand things, really, but ...

Nintendo Seizes Lead In US Console War, Xbox 360 Tanks

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Big announcements at E3 cannot hide that Microsoft had a rough June with its game console: Nintendo ’s Wii surpassed the Xbox 360 as the most sold current game console in the U.S. every other game console, including the PSP and Nintendo DS, sold more units. Has the Xbox 360 lost ...

Hacker makes Wii-friendly NES, SNES, N64 controllers

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

The RetroUSB NES/SNES controller adapters enable gamers to easily attain a more genuine Virtual Console experience through the ability to use original controllers. Some hackers have gone even further, building custom circuitry into old equipment. Custom Nintendo themselves have contributed the Super Famicom Classic Controller to the cause of authenread ...

New Wii update hacked, homebrew lives on

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Earlier this week, Nintendo released firmware version 3.3 for the Wii in the hopes of deterring some of the homebrew work being done for the console. The update nixed the commonly-used "Twilight Hack," which made use of a modified save file to launch homebrew applications. It didn't take long for ...

Chrono Trigger officially coming to the DS

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

A new page on publisher Square Enix's Japanese web site reveals that the company is planning to port its acclaimed SNES RPG Chrono Trigger to the Nintendo DS. read more | digg story

ROCK BAND for the Wii!!!

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Releases June 22!read more | digg story

Nintendo DS to Release Allen Carr’s Easyway to Stop Smoking

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

If you thought video games were addictive, here’s a good reason to play oneread more | digg story

Firefox + Nintendo = Epic Firefox Addon FireNES

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

FireNes allows you to play around 2500 Nintendo games, without the need to download anything or emulator or roms. Super addictive - prepare to do no work whatsoever!read more | digg story

StillAliveDS: Portable 2D Portal for DS

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Portal on the go? HUGE SUCCESS.read more | digg story

Sim City Creator Building its Way to Wii

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Sim City Creator will be making its way to the Wii as revealed by Famitsu.read more | digg story

DIYer Builds NES Coffee Table Controller

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

In this exclusive interview, Kyle Downes explains how he built a better controller, which doubles as a coffee table.read more | digg story