Midway Gamer's Day: This is Vin Diesel and Batman near Vegas
PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360
Chris Hudak and a gaggle of other game journalists were recently treated to a trip to Vegas under the auspices of Midway and the "Gamer's Day" event that allowed said journos a sneak peak at several forthcoming Midway games. Ironically, they weren't actually in Vegas per se, but at least one game, made up for it.
Midway Gamer's Day: This is (near) Vegas
PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360
What happens in Vegas stays... a good 15 miles off the actual strip, just to be sure. Or such was the case with Chris Hudak during his orchestrated visit with big huge game publisher, Midway. This is his story.
DFC: Nintendo looks to conquer Europe
PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Wii, Windows PC, Xbox 360
Game industry analyst group, DFC Intelligence, is readying forecasts for release over the next few month. In this overview, DFC notes that Nintendo Wii is expected to dominate Europe, the PlayStation3 might start to recover but never regain its former dominance, and the Xbox 360 will just sort of dither about in all European markets other than the U.K.
Mario Kart Wii
Wii
Have Kart, will race. Have large noggin, will chortle. Have Mario Kart Wii, will frame Page 13 of the manual and add it to the Princess Peach shrine in the basement next to the holographic likeness Farore, Goddess of Courage, Bane of Ganondorf. Take your pick.
Wii Wheel
Hardware, Wii
For those keeping score, here's how Nintendo Wii-paraphernalia is stacking up these days: Wii Remote, remarkably innovative. Wii Fit Balance Board, genuinely useful. Wii Wheel, crap.
NPD reports Nintendo Wii tops Canadian sales charts
Nintendo DS, Wii
According to NPD Group, Nintendo's little white console that could has surpassed its Canadian competitors (i.e. PlayStation3 and Xbox 360) in lifetime sales. Welcome to the Great Wii North.
Nintendo Media Summit: Low-key, no martinis, too much sushi
Nintendo DS, Wii
The Nintendo Media Summit, recently held in San Francisco, went something like this: I fit, you fit, we all fit for Wii Fit and a buttload of other gaming goodness. No booze though, much to Chris Hudak's chagrin, but he stuck it out and filed this report nonetheless.
Nintendo Media Summit: Hands-on Fit, Guitar, Kart, Eat, more
Nintendo DS, Wii
At the San Francisco leg of Nintendo's Media Summit, Evergeek's Chris Hudak and Emily Balistrieri spent some low-key hands-on time with many forthcoming Nintendo games, some obvious A-listers like Wii Fit and Rock Band, plus some typically surreal Nintendo gems-in-waiting, like Major League Eating: The Game. You read that right.
Furu Furu Park
Wii
Funny, but Majesco usually has a knack for instilling gameplay "value" into their "value priced" games. So it follows that Furu Furu Park begs the question: what the hell happened?
Nintendo leads, Brawl rules March
Nintendo DS, Wii
Funny, but there are industry analysts trying to go against the grain by suggesting the Nintendo has "peaked," that the House of Mario can't possibly sustain its current hotcakes sales streak. Makes for alluring headlines, but then Nintendo goes ahead and breaks a few more sales records.