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TechnoratiOn Friday, our Wii was returned to us from Nintendo. When I powered it on, I was pleased to see nary a blinking pixel and heard no loud buzzing noise when a disc was spinning. In summary, our Wii left Kitchener on the 7th and was at Nintendo’s repair centre in Scarborough the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Nintendo'
a return to how wii used to be
January 21st, 2008 · 3 Comments
ow-wii
January 6th, 2008 · No Comments
I’ve heard about it. I’ve read about it. Lo and behold, it happened to me.
On Friday evening before venturing to the airport to get Dena, I decided to pass the time by trying to make some progress with Metroid Prime 3. After an hour or so, I began to hear a loud [...]
so now i can’t saw through an inmate’s neck with my wiimote?
June 21st, 2007 · No Comments
As an update to my last post about the banning of Manhunt 2 in the U.K., it appears that the AO rating that the ESRB recently gave to the game effectively prevents it from being played on Nintendo and Sony’s console. Nintendo and Sony both have a policy in which no AO-rated games can [...]
Tags: ESRB · Manhunt 2 · Nintendo · Rockstar Games · Sony · censorship
working for free @ futureshop
November 28th, 2006 · 1 Comment
This weekend, Dena and I were wrapping up some Christmas shopping, which included a visit to the Futureshop over on Gateway Park Drive. As we were preparing to leave and Dena was headed to the checkout, I ventured over to the game area in the hopes that they’d have a Wii demo station. [...]
Tags: Futureshop · Nintendo · Wii
wii can expect it in november
September 21st, 2006 · No Comments
Nintendo has announced that the Wii will be available in Canada (and elsewhere in North America) on November 19th for $279.95 CDN. I haven’t been an avid console gamer since the days of the SNES, but I’m definitely interested in the Wii, and I’m rooting for Nintendo to inform Microsoft and (especially) Sony what [...]