With Nintendo Network, online gaming will finally come to Wii
According to Satoru Iwata, president of the Nintendo Company, announced yesterday that the experience on Nintendo Network will be on par with that of Xbox Live and PlayStation Network. Iwata also stated that Network will be available on all next-gen Nintendo products being released later this year, including new shipments of the 3DS and the Wii U (set to launch this year’s holiday season).
Currently, any wireless communication that goes on between Nintendo devices is through shoddy connections on very specific networks- Nintendo consoles don’t allow connection to WPA protected networks- so this would be a huge step up for Nintendo in the online gaming market.
Iwata nipped certain functionality rumours in the bud when he said that the 3DS already had the hardware functionality to use Nintendo Network, and that it would be pre-installed on the Wii U.
Added Bonus!: NFC
What is NFC? NFC, or near-field communication, is a system that sends small bursts of information through nothing but proximity. The most commonplace examples of NFC are Mastercard Paypass and Google Wallet, both used to make payments wirelessly and quickly. However, Iwata said that the Wii U tablet controller would come with NFC capabilities built in. According to Iwata, NFC “[will make it] become possible to create cards and figurines that can electronically read and write data … to expand the new play format in the video game world.”
(via: Mashable)
What are the real effects of digital gaming to our fingers, hands, and bodies?
As I read into this a little more, I’m now very curious about these individual cases. Did they have conditions in their medical past that would make them more likely to develop these kinds of conditions? What does “their DNA is now compromised” actually MEAN?
I’m not saying this cannot or does not happen, but I can’t immediately jump to blame Nintendo for someone dislocating their shoulder without a little more evidence or a larger study sample size.
(Source: thesmithian)
Update: New Nintendo Console Codenamed "Project Café", Controller To Include Touchscreen?
Most of you by now have heard about Nintendo’s plan to unveil a new console at E3. Now more news are coming out of the woodwork.
According to Joystiq, unconfirmed reports from French news site 01net says Nintendo’s new console will be codenamed “Project Café”. The hardware will also be…
(Source: populationgo)
Serena Williams’ gaming ad deemed too sexy for TV
A new gaming commercial featuring Serena Williams has been deemed too sexy for television. In a related story, people who don’t give a damn about tennis are about to buy the hell out of 2K’s “Top Spin 4”.
The 60-second advertisement was made to promote Top Spin 4, a new tennis video game, but the game’s maker, 2K Sports rejected it because it was “too raunchy”.
The opening sequence introduces Williams, clad in a high cut black body suit - which, when you think about it, is pretty conservative compared to what she’s worn on the court - as ‘the world”s sexiest tennis player’ and her opponent, Rileah Vanderbilt, who is dressed in a similarly revealing outfit, as the ‘world”s sexiest tennis gamer’. This matchup is already one-sided.
Grunting, perspiration and lots of body shots shown in slow motion are interspersed with clips from the actual video game.
On Monday, actress Vanderbilt tweeted a link to the raunchy video.
“Check out my newest commercial with serenawilliams! Directed by : waltercmay http://tinyurl.com/4shvgue,” she posted.
On the same day Serena tweeted: “Stay tuned for a (sic) awesomely sexy video I am tweeting later….. Stay tuned……”
But the video (shown here) never came.
Right. See you at GameStop. But a PR rep for 2K games says:
“As part of the process for creating marketing campaigns to support our titles, we pursue a variety of creative avenues. This video is not part of the title”s final marketing campaign and its distribution was unauthorized.”
So it looks like we’ve uncovered a new area for filmmakers to make money! Just get a game publisher to spend around $100,000 on an ad that has no chance in hell of airing! Money in your pocket, fodder for social media! It’s win-win, baby!
