Wii Gifting – With Friends Like These, Who Needs Wrapping Paper?

After dragging myself home from a holiday party in Manhattan, I just wanted to sleep. Nintendo had different ideas. In the middle of the night, my room exploded with a bright and bluish light. Is it daytime already? No, there’s a new message on my Wii. The slot illuminator with holiday cheer. Nintendo was bragging about the Wii Gifting option in the Wii Shop Channel.

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12/10/2007 Virtual Console Releases – Pokemon Snap, Ghost’n Goblins and Baseball Stars 2

The Virtual Console is taking this website full circle. I reviewed Pokemon Snap (N64) over eight years ago. Today, it is released to the Wii. Ghost’n Goblins (NES) and Baseball Stars 2 (NEOGEO) are also included in this week’s Virtual Console releases.

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Super Mario Galaxy Review

Super Mario Galaxy represents one of the biggest problems in running a gaming website. In order to write a review, you have to stop playing the game. While Nintendo released Super Mario Galaxy to the Wii on November 12, and I was one of the first online to get it, I’m just now getting around to writing this article.

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Exteel Is Officially Released and Updated

Exteel, a “free-to-play” giant robot combat game from NCsoft, is now out of the testing phase. Even more surprisingly, there wasn’t a player wipe. I suppose that’s also good news for my Level 8 Corporal. With the official launch of Exteel, there’s also a new patch, which adds Micropayments or NCcoin to the game. $1 = 100 NCcoins.

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