By Joey Davidson |
Welcome to the third and final installment in our three part series featuring the best console exclusives of this generation. We end with what currently stands as the best selling system between the three, the Wii. We’ve already learned that the Xbox 360’s exclusives were…
By Ron Duwell |
Nintendo has taken to the WiiConnect 24 messaging service found on their old console to remind users that the Wii U is an entirely new system. Turning on your Wii gives a message stating what might be common sense to the average gamer but news to…
By Joey Davidson |
I remember when I was a child, and my biggest thrill was going to the local supermarket to rent a video game for my NES. Without the internet or even access to magazines at the time, I had no idea if I would be picking…
By Ron Duwell |
Don’t count your Nintendo Wiis out just yet, although the backwards compatibility on those fancy new Wii Us might be able to help you with this one. Nintendo and XSEED still have one more noteworthy game up their sleeves for the quickly dwindling system. Pandora’s…
By Joey Davidson |
Disney Infinity is essentially an open playground for gamers to mix and match Disney properties and have them interact with one another in unique and weird ways. It’s like Activision’s Skylanders line in that it requires physical toys in order to unlock in-game goods. One of…
By Ron Duwell |
XSEED has announced a pricing plan for the Nintendo Wii’s long lost Japanese RPG, Pandora’s Tower. The fans have demanded an American localization for years now ever since the quality European localization proved the game could make the jump into English. After the exciting reveal…
By Ron Duwell |
Don’t count the Nintendo Wii out just yet! The last of the three big Japanese RPGs demanded by a groundswell of angry Nintendo fans calling themselves Project Rainfall is finally making a Stateside appearance thanks to the hard working folks at XSEED. Pandora’s Tower is…
By Joey Davidson |
Disney Infinity is a new game that its publisher and developer hope will present an almost infinite toy box of Disney franchises to fans. The aim is to give players access to classic Disney stuff, and then take away limitations on how they can be…
By Joey Davidson |
Whether or not the Wii U will remain a successful console throughout its full lifespan is obviously something only that cool carnival machine from Big can guess at; however, the first six weeks for Nintendo’s newest home console appear to be strong, at least in the…
By Eric Frederiksen |
On a fanciful whim, TechnoBuffalo’s Senior Gaming Editor Joey Davidson asked me, “Would you like to stare at a spreadsheet for 8 hours?” Well of course I said yes. But no, I wasn’t playing Disgaea. Instead, I was data-mining Wikipedia’s various lists of games by platform…
By Ron Duwell |
The Wii will be getting miniaturized as soon as next month if the report from a recent major retailer proves to be true. Nintendo World Report claims to have stumbled across an internal release schedule from an undisclosed major retailer that suggests a miniature version…
By Killian Bell |
Those of you who picked up a Wii U this week will likely be spending some of your free time this Thanksgiving enjoying your new console. You’ll be pleased to know, then, that you can now use it to show off your favorite YouTube videos…
By Jon Rettinger |
The Wii was innovative, novel and introduced an element to gaming that has helped differentiate Nintendo from its competitors. But the system’s capabilities, after a certain time, became dull and limiting in comparison to competing systems. So six years on from the Wii’s introduction, Nintendo…
By Brandon Russell |
Nintendo’s Wii… was decent, and certainly had many highlights. But up to a certain point, Nintendo finally seemed to concede that yes, graphics do matter in a console war. One of the Wii’s biggest criticisms was its lack of HD support, always making it look…
By Eric Frederiksen |
Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata announced during an earnings call yesterday that the Wii U will be selling below production cost, though he didn’t go into just how far below cost. Historically, Nintendo has sold consoles and handhelds at a profit while its competitors sell at a…
By Joey Davidson |
Nintendo’s brand new home gaming console, the Wii U, is set to launch this coming November. The company is presenting a piece of hardware that’s taking the stage after the fastest selling gaming machine of all time. The Wii. That brings with it the problem…
By Joey Davidson |
Nintendo has elected to send the Wii off to pasture this holiday with a price cut and brand new bundle. The Wii currently sells at $149.99, but it will hit $129.99 before the month’s end. The new Wii package will include Wii Sports and Wii Sports…
By Joey Davidson |
Sony announced during their press conference at the Tokyo Game Show that they will be bringing Japan a port of Muramasa: The Demon Blade to the PlayStation Vita on March 28th, 2013. Developed by Vanillaware, Ignition Entertainment brought Muramasa: The Demon Blade to North American Wii owners in the…
By Ron Duwell |
We reported earlier that trading in your Wii to Gamestop will land you $50 credit towards the purchase of a new Wii U. However, you will need to keep your Wii if you want to transfer save files, Wii Ware, and Virtual Console games. Gimmie…
By Ron Duwell |
Gamers demanded it, but Nintendo squashed the idea of bringing Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi’s latest JRPG The Last Story game to America like a bug. A lot of scorn was thrown at the decision to deny its publication in America because Nintendo “didn’t see…
By Joey Davidson |
A while back, Warren Spector and the folks at Junction Point announced Disney Epic Mickey 2. At the time, they said they were working on a musical game. Back then, we weren’t sure what they meant. Now? We know. Musical numbers are an actual plot…
By Brandon Russell |
Nintendo on Tuesday sent out press invites for a Wii U Preview set for Thursday, Sept. 13. The follow up to the immensely popular Wii has made brief appearances at trade shows over the past several months, and as we edge closer to its promised…
By Joey Davidson |
Last year, TechnoBuffalo ran a Back to School series very similar to the one that’s going on right now. I was approached by our duty-bound Editor-in-Chief and asked to come up with a short list of games that are great for dorm room play. This…
By Ron Duwell |
ARGH! What do I have to do to finally play this game?! We battled the foul clutches of Nintendo to get the thing to come to America in the first place. Then it took an entire year to localize for Europeans. Now that the shipment…
