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Wii running OnLive? Can it work?

OnLive, The Future of Gaming?

Maybe, but it probably wouldn’t be a big deal. I thought about it a little, and there are a couple of things you could do to alter the experience. One idea is that the balance board is placed on a stand and is balancing slightly in the air; obviously it’s attached to something, maybe a [...]

Videogame reviews ought to be more “context sensitive”. Look, it’s pretty strange that so diverse type of genres as puzzles and action adventures are reviewed using the same kind of categorical framework. I mean, it’s not crazy, and it’s probably not even lazy, it’s just something that has been overlooked in my opinion. This practice [...]

Do not read the article that is posted on the Wall Street Journal site about the book David Shippy (chief architect and technical leader of the PowerPC microprocessor for the Xbox 360 and PS3) and Mickie Phipps have written. The book recounts the “through his eyes” experience encompassing the tumultuous years Shippy experienced designing the Cell microprocessor chip as well as the 360 microprocessor chip. Check inside for more details.

Let’s make a simple app for the Wii: a table tennis game. Great. That has to be a simple endeavor… or not. Exactly how much horsepower do you need for the AI?
I mean, the computer needs to think and behave like a human with lifelike racket swings where you place the ball and do stop [...]

The game made me do it
link to an article over at Versus CluClu Land that I base this article on.
An article about narration in games with shooter mechanics; now that’s always an interesting read, or at least I tend to like articles on such topics, or similar topics. In a sense it’s a bit like [...]

Obviously not a complete lack of memory, just not enough for software and games that would require more than 88mb of memory… bc there isn’t more memory :)  This doesn’t mean the end, Nintendo could of course allow external SD storage sticks to work as memory, a pretty cheap solution but a functional one.
But is it [...]

Why haven’t we seen this on Wii? And don’t tell me it’s because the Wii motion sensing is so lacking in precision that it hasn’t been possible to do anything remotely similar to what Sixense showed at CES. That’s not a viable explanation, it only explains the obvious: that Sixense tech is possible of more [...]

The Wii has a high precision 3D cursor, and it is getting better with the new attachment next year. Okey, so I wrote not long ago that I wouldn’t write any more game related ideas, but I’ll just write one here for the sake of this article.
Example of a genre that benefits tremendously from this [...]

Obviously the DSi is Nintendos late attempt at trying to keep up with what Apple is doing on the handheld side. In a sense it doesn’t matter much to them anyways, people will still buy the DS, but they do it more to show that they are awake and aware of their suroundings, and they also [...]

It’s a fact we all can agree on. “Hey, we haven’t played the game yet!”. I’m not interested in your opinion since it’s wrong, but if you reason this way you’re really just one in a million. Yeah, you can write a comment below about how wrong I am.. if you want to stick out [...]

It’s easy to mock me for writing this post. “Hey, this guy think’s he’s really creative, and have creative ideas, and now he makes an article where he laments about how dead the industry is.” It’s true but unimportant as a critisism towards me, since it doesn’t point at anything negative about me as a [...]

This doesn’t mean I wont continue writing articles, but there wont be any about ideas that I have, since that’s just an exercise in frustration. Until recently I felt that it was good to write about fairly original ideas so that anyone could read about them, such as in articles on news sites like this one. [...]

When the Gamecube had been on the market a while and had sold poorly, Nintendo made the decision to let 3d party developers keep a large majority of the revenues from their game sales, which doesn’t sound like that a big deal, but on their previous consoles Nintendo took a hefty share of the profits [...]