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by Robert Howard on July 22, 2008
Image from popularmechanics.com You'd be hard pressed to find anyone inside the "whinecore" audience who thought Nintendo had anything to offer at E3, despite a bevy of exciting...
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by Robert Howard on July 15, 2008
E3 is always a big time of year for game industry wonks like myself, so I thought I would share my thoughts on "the other guys," since some of you definitely own the other systems....
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by Robert Howard on June 14, 2008
d Image created by Rob Howard for House of Nintendo Ah, Christian Svensson, you clever dog you. You kidded us all with the nice but perhaps not we expected Spyborgs, but it appears like that was only...
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by Robert Howard on June 10, 2008
Summer is the season for new release surprises, and we sure have one in store for you: Tenchu IV, the next iteration of the popular stealth ninja series, is appearing exclusively on Wii! The above...
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by Robert Howard on June 08, 2008
Image from Nintendo-revolution.blogspot.com Nintendo blogger extraordinaire Falafelkid (who deserves that title just for this article, really, it's impressive!) tells the tale of Crossbeam...
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by Robert Howard on June 04, 2008
Capcom has been hinting for some time about some sort of third person, action adventure game. Now, let's quickly recap what this generally means to most people: Image of Lost Planet from Digital...
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by Robert Howard on May 31, 2008
Image from IGN.com I have made it no small secret here that I really love light gun games. This is one area in which the Wii can really shine, and has, with a growing library of original titles...
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by Robert Howard on May 13, 2008
Image of LostWinds from IGN.com Today is Wii Ware day! Finally, original downloadable content is available on the Wii. And things are looking wonderfully promising. Consider today's launch list....
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by Robert Howard on May 03, 2008
Image from www.oxm.com Lego Indiana Jones is coming out for all platforms, including Wii, very soon. Of course this continues the very entertaining tradition of Lego based action adventure games. For...
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by Robert Howard on April 27, 2008
This is interesting. Jeremy Parish over at 1up has launched a pretty devastating salvo at Nintendo regarding Mario Kart Wii. In short: he seems to hate the game. Nintendo fans are abuzz over this...
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by Robert Howard on April 27, 2008
Video review from IGN.com Mario Kart was released to the teeming Nintendo masses last night. Sadly, I wasn't able to participate this time. It's finals week at The Guildhall, and I simply do...
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by Robert Howard on April 20, 2008
Image from amazon.com Running like a speeding bullet from the blogosphere is the latest slam on Wii from a games industry hotshot, this time the villain being the president of Epic Games (note: I...
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by Robert Howard on April 19, 2008
Image created by Rob Howard for House of Nintendo This has been reported all over the internets, yet it is worth repeating here: Shigeru Miyamoto let slip to 1-Up.com that the Zelda team is back at...
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by Robert Howard on April 12, 2008
The video game version of Speed Racer for Wii has been getting some buzz as a nice alternative to Mario Kart, and it hits on May 6th. While it doesn't seem to support a robust online mode, making...
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by Robert Howard on March 25, 2008
Luc-Bernard is the developer of "Eternity's Child," a WiiWare game that has received much attention due to its outstanding 2D art and the developer's iconoclastic interviews with the...
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by Robert Howard on March 01, 2008
Image created for House of Nintendo by Rob Howard David Jaffe is at it again! in a farcical conversation about what he'd do if tasked with a Mario game, the man credited with creating God of War...
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by Robert Howard on February 27, 2008
I haven't done one of these "Best of the Best" type posts in a long time. So here you go: Image from rottentomatoes.com Resident Evil 0 being remade for Wii, should be out this summer....
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by Robert Howard on February 26, 2008
Sales will be "THIS BIG!" (Image from IGN.com) I'm excited for Wii Fit. For one, I'm a fattie, I need every tool in the arsenal to fight that. Two, the potential for future games is...
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by Robert Howard on February 25, 2008
Image from IGN.com Industry insiders know that EA, among other big publishers, decided that Wii was going to fail and didn't emphasize it. Well, those publishers were burned. This is the primary...
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by Robert Howard on February 23, 2008
Image from itworldcanada.com Gamespot is reporting that Commodore64 games are coming to Nintendo's Virtual Console.... in Europe. I speculate that, just like Neo Geo in Japan, it is only a matter...
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by Robert Howard on February 21, 2008
Image from telltalegames.com. Some fresh news of interest from the GDC: Telltale Games, developers of the recent Sam and Max downloadable games (I believe primarily available via Gametap), have long...
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