Yesterday evening, our own Sage Lane’s recent article caught me by complete surprise. He wrote a story called “Why Shouldn’t Mario Play with Apple or Android?,” and the piece centered around his rationale for Nintendo’s flawed decision to avoid the smartphone platform. It’s a good feature, and it’s one that echoes some of the opinions that I’ve been reading around blogs, forums and...
The benefits for both Nintendo and the respective platforms appear obvious. Nintendo would make bookoo bucks on app purchases, and any Nintendo series, would add the legitimacy that the mobile app scene lacks. Let’s face it, as I’ve said before, smartphones are killing mobile gaming. The games are just not very fun or engaging. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like Nintendo is going to...
Welcome to this brand-spankin'-new TechnoBuffalo feature we're going to try and run once every week. We've got ourselves an outstanding, talkative community and we're looking to harness that and spur it along with a weekly debate topic. So, every Friday, I'll toss up a debatable challenge, you folks will vote and discuss. I'll also be posting the results of the previous week's poll...
Welcome to this brand-spankin’-new TechnoBuffalo feature we’re going to try and run once every week. We’ve got ourselves an outstanding, talkative community and we’re looking to harness that and spur it along with a weekly debate topic. So, every Friday, I’ll toss up a debatable challenge, you folks will vote and discuss. I’ll also be posting the results of the previous week’s poll...
The video above is the clue to Sega's brand new "Name That Game!" contest. It's also a tip concerning Sega's upcoming, unannounced title. If you know your retro gaming lore and audio, then you'll probably be able to figure out what's up immediately. With this veiled announcement is a chance for 10 randomly chosen, correct winners to earn a copy of the unannounced game for the...
Watching Joey and Mike duke it out over modern vs. old school gaming has been surreal. Sort of echoes the epic battle in my house, actually. I'm old school myself — I sort of peaked with Super Mario Brothers. These days, my idea of modern gaming is blowing away zombies in Rage HD on my phone or tablet. Meanwhile, my poor hubby has been beating his head into his keyboard, trying to get...
We live in a world of excessive polarity. A raging deficit parallels an omnipotent upper class. Prodigious mountain ranges of garbage and toxic waste remotely supervise vanquished forests. Cavalcades of tourists flock to my hometown during the summer and drive 12 miles an hour while snaking repeatedly across the double-yellow in an attempt to spot a moose, yet the place rivals The...
Verizon Wireless yesterday opened the doors to its Application Innovation Center in downtown San Francisco, and invited the press for a tour and some demos. VZW President and CEO Dan Mead and a handful of other execs from his company as well as the likes of Qualcomm and Chomp gave keynote speeches about the need to build hardware and software ecosystems around Big Red's 4G LTE network...
Grinding for real life loot is about to get a lot easier for diehard fans of Blizzard's dungeon crawler series, Diablo. Diablo 3, it was revealed at a preview event last week, will feature in-game, real currency, player-to-player auctions. Read that: find a sweet sword, put it up for sale, receive real money from the highest bidder. According to Blizzard, in speaking with Joystiq, this...
Following disappointing sales figures since the device launched earlier this year, Nintendo announced yesterday that it is set to slash the price of its Nintendo 3DS handheld console in a bid to spark interest in the device. However, its reductions are so generous that the company will actually take a substantial loss on every device sold, according to Bloomberg Japan. Nintendo’s new...