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E3 Nintendo

June 03, 2009 By: houkah Category: Videogames

Nintendo has morphed from a game company into some sort of bastardized combination of Apple, a game company, and a fitness company. So how did they fare at E3? Did they return to their gaming roots?

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Waggle is the New Buttonmashing

May 13, 2009 By: houkah Category: Videogames

Rather than write a console review of the Nintendo Wii i think i’d rather just talk about it’s main defining features. The motion controller. In a word, it sucks. What it really needs is 1:1 control, so whatever you do with the controller happens on screen exactly. Instead what you have is an accelerometer based pointing device. What this lends itself to is incredibly imprecise control of games.

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