Category Archives: Gaming

Wii Art Thou?

It’s been many months and I still don’t have a Nintendo Wii of my own, but I’ve played one several times, had fun doing it, and still want one. Meanwhile Nintendo continues to sell them like cake – perhaps if I was willing to get up early and stand in line I’d have one, but [...]

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The Death of the Arcade According to Wil Wheaton

The internet has given us so many things, including some welcome but also unexpected things like the emergence and rise to power of Wil Wheaton. Yes, you know, that formerly hated portrayer of Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Turns out Wesley Crusher was holding him back or something and now he writes [...]

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Answers.com Album Credits

It looks like answers.com has been inputing album details with all the credits. They’re being pretty thorough or someone there has preferences that get a bit obscure. While checking Google’s cache of my web site I discovered some of my older album artwork freelance jobs are now in the answers.com database: The first Vanderhoof album [...]

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“Isn’t it just fun to bash things” – Thoughts on the Nintendo E3 2006 Keynote

So I watched the whole Nintendo E3 event, the first time I’ve watched an entire E3 presentation. I did this to see for myself what everyone had been writing about regarding the Wii controller. First off the presentation was sort of like something Apple would do, but not as slick since Jobs has nothing to [...]

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The Nintendo Wii at E3 ’06

As hectic as it all sounds E3 is panning out with lots of information. Many eyes were on Nintendo after Sony’s announced PS3 pricing and (surprise) motion-sensing capable but not too different from our old friend the Dual Shock II controller. Nintendo did their thing in true form following up on their new “gaming for [...]

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Is Nintendo’s Wii Controller Innovative?

I picked up the following bit of info from GoNintendo in my RSS feeds just now: Business Week has an inteview with Microsoft’s Peter Moore on the topic of innovation. The question posed to Mr. Moore was related to just how innovative Microsoft sees the controller. Mr. Moore’s answer… “If the controller is different and [...]

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Metroid Prime Hunters Mini-Review

Metroid Prime Hunters is a Nintendo DS game that was announced and demoed with the initial release of the “fat” DS almost two years ago but only recently was finally released. The wait was worthwhile. The game is slickly produced, not perfect, but impressive especially when you consider the DS specs and that FPS games [...]

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Advance Wars Dual Strike

I picked up the new Mario Kart + Nintendo DS bundle back in November and promptly raced Mario and his pals for a while. During this time a trickle of a buzz about Advance Wars Dual Strike kept my ear and I eventually picked it up. The short of it is that this game is [...]

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