12 posts tagged “wii”
The photograph was recently taken to promote Nintendo's upcoming game Super Mario Galaxy for the Wii. Seeing as in this game Mario takes to the universe and defies all common concepts of gravity by whipping himself from planet to planet, it would only make sense to put a humanoid version of the character in an anti-gravitational flight. But why is Buzz Aldrin there?
In this day and age, video games have become the scape goat of societal violence in our youth. Replacing comic books, pulp fiction, and metal music, the mass media has taken to pointing the finger at video games to explain the backwards perversion of violence in media (while simultaneously leaving violent news broadcasts, movies, and television shows conveniently out of the picture).
While I certainly think that video games mark an interesting shift in mediated influence when it comes to violence, there are clearly larger societal issues at stake and it's comes off as pure ignorance to blame games exclusively. This being said, the parental responses to the pristine and stylish looking Wii zapper make it inherently clear that a lot of folks just don't know what they're talking about. Besides, with my experience with the Wii zapper, I doubt folks have much to worry about since the peripheral can't aim accurately for beans.
When googling 'iPhone Tiffany Chow' to see if any of the various interviews or photos that were taken showed up, I discovered that I was misquoted by Advertising Age. I told the guy who interviewed me that the line was much less worse than the Wii or PS3 lines. Now it has my name and Destructoid up there and it's incorrect. I sent the writer a corrective e-mail...hopefully he'll make the change.
Have to run out to go to a free Blue grass concert at Prospect Park, but wanted to let ch'all know that I will be attending the Wiimbeldon tournament tomorrow at Barcade with my friends Phist, Pidge, and Hushgush (squee!) to represent the Destructoid Army and probably fail major at playing Wii tennis (as I havn't played the game for at least 4 months now). But! I will be there in a little tennis outfit, ready to play. Ready for W1N if it comes my way (we'll see!).
If you're in the area, are a wii lover, or just want to watch a whole bunch of geeky hipsters get all competitive in their various retro tennis outfits, then come!
First things first! If you havn't glazed over my previous post please take a look and if you can help out, I'd really appreciate it!
Now...for Cooking Mama!
When I first encountered the almost psychopathically kawaii glare emitted by the female chef mentor in Majesco's Cooking Mama: Cook Off for the Wii, I had little to no understanding of what a 'cooking' game could possibly entail.
Lacking the culinary skills to begin with (hey, I'm a college-kid and subsist on ramen and quick-dials to the pizzeria), it took me a while to adjust to slicing, dicing, and meat grinding. But with a little practice, I'm no longer culinarily (is that a word?) challenged. Hey, Cooking Mama herself said that I was, “Wonderful! Better than Mama!”
In fact, I have been entered into the Cooking Mama's Cook Off gaming competition to be held this Saturday, March 31 at the Nintendo World store in Rockefeller Plaza. Will I aptly make the G-Hole crew proud and become a virtual iron chef? Shall I be utterly owned by a Cooking Mama obsessive who can mince polygonal shallots effortlessly? Only time will tell. Though I hear they're serving complimentary deserts at the event, so there's no question I'll be partaking.
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I know Team Vox already covered the phenomenal publicity Saska's personal experience about Nintendo's customer service, but I was ecstatic to see the story show up on Destructoid, the gaming blog I tend to read the most these days. Vox is all over the interwebs!
Congratulations Saska and Vox! Voxers, lets keep up the good work!
Ah, St. Valentine's day. We may all be accustomed to the more
commercial tradition of chalky candy hearts and overpriced roses, but according to
the Legenda Aurea (circa ye olde days of
1260), before St. Valentine was beheaded after refusing to deny Christ, he
valiantly cured his jailer's daughter of her blindness. Sigh. How
romantic.
We may not all have the capability to restore sight to our loved ones, but fear not: there are many other ways to feel the love on this Valentine's Day, particularly for our beloved next-gen consoles. Luckily, the handful of muses over at poetwii have masterfully composed several heartfelt poetic tales of romance, hard love and gamers' lust for the Nintendo Wii. With plenty of haikus and limericks, poetwii evokes some of the most tender moments of gaming, guaranteed to make Wii lovers a little more twitterpated than before.
And now dear readers, a short excerpt from poetwii to set your hearts ablaze:
"Lovers' Quarrel"
Bemused the others all may be
Whenever I press A+B
And dangle you
precariously.
You kicked me out and took my key,
And think you got the best of
me.
But who will save your precious Mii?
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