Witness our amateur cinematography! As promised, we have the conclusion of the Wii Music demo, featuring Shigeru Miyamoto and pals as they motion-control their way through the Super Mario Bros. theme. Apologies for the occasional bouts of blurriness — it’s not your eyes, we promise. Click ahead to witness the waggle!
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Every E3 press conference finishes off with a big, knock-em-dead final announcement, intended to leave the crowd cheering and come away remembering your company fondly. Nintendo had a couple of interesting announcements this year at their press briefing, but their ace-in-the-hole wasn’t an unannounced title — instead, Shigeru Miyamoto made an appearance to give the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 8, 2008
It is said that you should never look a gift horse in the mouth — but if you choose to get your news from the same equine orifice, you might want to check the animal’s pedigree. That’s what GameSetWatch did in November 2006, when it noticed that PlayStation-friendly blog ThreeSpeech was a “semi-official” media outlet, and [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 25, 2008
As the kid-tested, mother-approved — hell, grandmother-approved — game console whose demand continues to outstrip supply over a year after release, the Nintendo Wii has certainly caused a stir — but not quite the all-out Revolution its creators originally hyped. Wii online sucks. There are few compelling hardcore games. For every critically acclaimed title that [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 12, 2008
In an interview with Wired’s Game|Life, Shigeru Miyamoto paid tribute to the American spirit of innovation with his statement that “America has always been better at creating unique products.” This might seem odd coming out of the mouth of Miyamoto, he of endless creativity, but the point he is trying to convey is that most [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 1, 2008
Fellow gamers, you’ve done a superb job. Pat yourself on the backs, for it is by your nearly two million votes that living legend Shigeru Miyamoto has been crowned the Time 100 champion.
Continue reading...Monday, April 28, 2008
Britain’s The Sunday Times conducted an interview with Shigeru Miyamoto, designer of all things Mario and, most recently, Wii Fit. The newspaper asked him a number of things about the new workout game’s ability to bring families together through the power of fitness, joining Wii Fit to your existing workout routines, and other tidbits, but [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 17, 2008
I ate up every minute of Pandemic Studios’ original Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction, simply because it satisfied my long-held desire to blow anything — and everything — to smithereens. And in an interview with Next Generation, Pandemic’s Cameron Brown reveals that was his exact goal from the very beginning. But his inspiration didn’t come from [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 14, 2008
In that great, yet ultimately pointless internet popularity game the Time 100, gaming’s very own Shigeru Miyamoto is currently in second place, right between political comics Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart, respectively at first and third.
Continue reading...Thursday, April 10, 2008
This week we look back at one of the foundational titles in the Zelda series: A Link to the Past
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
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