Posts Tagged ‘Impression’

The Wii’s Weather Channel went up a few days ago, and now the trial version of the Opera browser is available. Yes, this is just a “demo” that can be downloaded for free until March and will remain free until June. Then it’ll cost you 500 Wii points ($5) to keep it, so the story [...]

I love my Wii. The remote and nunchuck combination is the most comfortable controller I’ve ever used, and Excite Truck and Wii Sports are now ingrained into my daily schedule. But the Wii is not perfect. While that $250 machine is a great value and provides some good fun, it has its problems, as well. [...]

I am ever protective of my games. They were, after all, an expensive investment, and I’ll go to great measures to ensure they remain in like new condition. As such, I spend a great deal of money on game cases. Nintendo 64. Game Boy. Game Boy Advance. As long as they were available, I bought [...]

Since mid-July, I’ve been doing a work experience placement at Instock Magazine, a games trade magazine based in London, which is written for retailers and is only avaiable to those on the mailing list. On the first day of my new placement, the editor started sounding me out about what consoles i have, what next-gen [...]

In China, piracy runs so rampant, many stores openly admit they have bootleg DVDs for sale. I don’t think it’s even possible to buy a legitimate DVD there. Games, on the other hand, do appear in authentic form in some locations, but the famous markets in Beijing and Shanghai offer a wide variety of ripped-off [...]

Aluminum/Leather Case: Proporta’s aluminum-lined leather case, with its soft leather cover and open-sided design, looks reminiscent to the leather cases used for PDA and PocketPC covers. This isn’t surprising, considering that Proporta also provides covers for those devices. Still, it’s nice to see a sleeker cover than the ones usually reserved for videogame handhelds. In [...]

I was one of the lucky people to nab a “pearl pink” Nintendo DS last Christmas. Those systems were hard to find, and it was pure happenstance that I got what I did. I don’t even really like the pearl pink color–it’s more of a metallic purple–but I hung onto it because of its rare [...]