Sorry to poke you all (and myself) in the ribs by showing you what those lucky Japanese have that we don't... Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Some import gamer has posted the game's intro, which you...
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by Robert Howard on January 29, 2008
Here's a portion of the Gamedaily review of Endless Ocean, thankfully free of silliness: Nintendo provides you with lots to do. As you run across different forms of aquatic life, you can log them...
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by Robert Howard on January 28, 2008
There is something different about the House lately.... and you can see it in the "comments" field. Some of you guys have started to post comments, and that frankly rocks. It makes my job...
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Matt Casamassina of IGN.com wrote a blog this week, defending his buddy Mark Bozon over his No More Heroes review. Why? Because Bozon had the temerity to give it a 7.8. As usual, the response from...
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by Robert Howard on January 26, 2008
Here is yet another example of the bias running rampant against Nintendo in the print media. EGM magazine, instead of actually reviewing "Endless Ocean," decides to rip it, for being a...
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Image from www.metacritic.net It hasn't been forgotten here at House of Nintendo that No More Heroes is out for Wii this week, marking the first major big time release for Wii this year. While I...
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Image from Joystiq.com Atlus USA first landed on this gamer's radar with a couple of excellent Gameboy Advance titles, Double Dragon and River City Ransom. Both enhanced the original games in...
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by Robert Howard on January 23, 2008
Image from www.nintendowiifanboy.com Nintendowiifanboy.com is reporting that several more characters have been confirmed for Super Smash Bros. Brawl: Ness from the SNES game Earthbound. This should...
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Image from IGN.com Tomorrow is a big day for Nintendo DS owners. The Advance Wars series has been a bellwether of terrific strategy gaming on Nintendo's hand held systems in America since the...
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by Robert Howard on January 21, 2008
Image from gonintendo.com. Endless Ocean is a fascinating experiment from Nintendo. Essentially a budget priced, sandbox "scuba diving" game, you wander around the ocean studying the...
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by Robert Howard on January 20, 2008
Image from www.gonintendo.com Note: This is a fan-made image. First, let me apologize for an unusual delay in HoN posts. Yes, I'm just starting the grueling Guildhall program (a game development...
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by Robert Howard on January 15, 2008
Read the official story from IGN.com.......
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by Robert Howard on January 14, 2008
Odd. This fellow, who used to work for Midway, is suing Nintendo because he claimed that he had the idea for the Wii before, obviously, Nintendo did. His evidence (I guess) involves this...
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by Robert Howard on January 11, 2008
So much for Nintendo losing its dominance in Japan, seen as almost inevitable back in November. Nintendo took all ten positions in the latest Media Create charts, which looks something like this: 1 3...
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by Robert Howard on January 10, 2008
Image from www.smashbros.com Gonintendo.com is reporting that Smash Brothers Brawl (Wii) might be delayed until March. Obviously, this being, you know, the most anticipated game on Wii since Zelda,...
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by Robert Howard on January 08, 2008
Floating around the ether is yet another report of Sony looking to fight Nintendo's success by using their old PS2 console. Kaz Hirai, between marathon sessions of "Riiiiidge...
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by Robert Howard on January 07, 2008
Image from money.cnn.com NeoGAF user Mandoric translated an interview with Nintendo president Satoru Iwata. As usual, the Nintendo chief sounds friendly and affable: utterly impossible to dislike. He...
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by Robert Howard on January 04, 2008
Image from outhousegraffiti.com Where does all the, ah, um, "budget" Wii titles come from? Such as the now legendary Ninjabread Man? From publishers like Destineer, who has agreed to...
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by Robert Howard on January 03, 2008
Image from Gameinformer.com Game Informer magazine has always had a sketchy vibe when it comes to Nintendo stuff. For instance, in one issue, they said the only thing Wii Sports was good for was...
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I'm a big music fan: in fact, music was my first vocation in life. Since getting involved in video games, I've begun collecting video game soundtracks: a great combination of my first love...
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