Nintendo woke up this morning and saw some of the moaning about Metroid Prime 3’s utter lack of hype. So they dispatched their elves to cook up something for the true believers. Unfortunately Nintendo has deigned once again to put the Canadians on the back burner, so unless you are reading this from the US, [...]

Hot on the heels of the larger-than-expected Xbox 360 Canadian price drop, and number three’s post regarding the pricing of Warhawk on the PlayStation network, I decided to see what the nearly-at-par Canadian-US exchange rate is doing in terms of the “points” the various online services use.
What I found is not amusing. Some words that [...]

So for us, online’s going to be always one of those things that’s peripheral to gaming.
-Nintendo Marketing Director, George Harrison (source: NextGen, Kris Graft)

So here’s Nintendo, with a golden opportunity in their hands (on their hands? in their pants?). They’ve sold more Wiis than they know what to do with. They have the [...]

¡Jesu Christo!, what a stupendously actionless press conference.
It was equal parts 3AM infomertial, obnoxious condo lifestyle ad and motivational training seminar. Suffice it to say nothing was announced for the Wii that would alleviate its current pseudo-drought.
(My favourite moment: Nintendrone asks the crowd, after showing off the Wii Fit Balance Board™ – “Now, I know [...]

The “staff” of the LeveUp blog over at Newsweek have a great scoop on Nintendo’s plans for downloadable content on the Wii platform – finally.
Original article here. Follow-up interview here.
The main points are:

DLC is coming for the Wii at long last; first titles to arrive in 2008
it will use the standard dev kit, not a [...]