Linda karting
New purchase — Grand Theft Karto. So fun!

[Read more →]

High Res Super Mario 3
Nothing beats getting a new super hi-res TV; then playing an emulated 1998 video game as your first test of how fun it is !!

[Read more →]

Being idiots at the cottage (this is Jes’s turn - I admit I did it too).
The side house/garage roof had a good foot and a ½ of snow on it. How could we resist? The building is pretty old and we half joked about stepping right through the ceiling.

[Read more →]

The latest Super Mario, might be the greatest game ever made, if you believe the hype. The game is receiving average reviews anywhere from 9/10 to 10’s from most media outlets.
We picked it up, cause, who can resist a little italian plumber? We checked it out for about 2 hours last night an I [...]

[Read more →]

Interesting. Ubisoft has revealed that it makes 10x more money per $ spent on Nintendo game development than it does on PS3/XBOX. No wonder the Montréal headquartered company is ramping up it’s Wii/DS dev teams.
“He (Yves Guillemot, president of Ubisoft) also revealed that Ubisoft currently has 400-500 people dedicated to Wii development at the moment [...]

[Read more →]

This is very funny. Someone took the time (wow) to create a text only version of Pac Man, like Mac games from 1986.
The game starts off with this spooky prologue…

“Pac-Txt!
——–
You awaken in a large complex, slightly disoriented. Glowing dots hover mouth level near you in every direction. Off in the distance you hear the [...]

[Read more →]

For all us Wii/Nintendo nerds out there… The killer app for the Wii? You know it will never be as fun as you hope but…

“… Wii remote lightsaber dueling. Since the day that the Revolution was first announced, the dream of wielding the remote like a lightsaber has been a common thread connecting gamers across [...]

[Read more →]

Umm. this could take some time

[Read more →]

After causally asking about them in multiple stores downtown over the past 8 months (once a month) only to be told they were completely sold out making it one of the hardest items to buy in Montreal, last night I was at futureshop researching a new camera and checking out the latest DS games and [...]

[Read more →]

Rosemarie Fiore has taken some beautiful time lapse shots of a couple 80’s video games. Here’s hoping she does some more. She has another series that I like a lot based on “Exploding fireworks” in a controlled way over paper. And — who could not love her giant “Spirograph” project !!

“These photographs are long [...]

[Read more →]

If you liked 80’s video games, if you ever had a pad of graph paper, and if you ever drew a spaceship… well this is the game for you. I just tried it out on my G5 at work. Super smooth motion (very high frame rate) and easy controls. Even has a fun “emo-ish” soundtrack. [...]

[Read more →]

A fun quick read; Business Week asking Miyamoto and another Wi team member about the big ideas behind the Wii. I really do think they got it right. This is also worth checking out — a description of the technology behind the wiimote from CNN.

“Miyamoto: We started work on the Wii around the time the [...]

[Read more →]

I have a brand-new, decked-out, pimped up Nintendo Wii for a couple days on loan from a very nice friend. I’ll be posting some impressions and be personally deciding when/if I’ll be buying one. Linda and I fired it up for a couple hours yesterday - and we both had fun. Not groundbreaking but definitely [...]

[Read more →]

We went over to one of Linda’s friends place the other night for dinner. We had an awesome time hanging out in their loft in the village - heated stone floors and a 12 foot long “picnic-table styled” dinner table really appeal to me.
Her boyfriend writes a gaming column for a Canadian newspaper… which is [...]

[Read more →]

Over the weekend I tried the Nintendo WFC service.
I had tried to connect when I first got my DS but my old wireless router just wouldn’t give me an IP (among other problems). Our laptop also had trouble connecting also so I decided to go out and buy a new WIFI router on Friday [...]

[Read more →]