Smartphone Games Are Worthless: I Disagree


Updated 03/05/11 8:50 PM · Posted by · 1 comment

Satoru Iwata on Smartphone Games

Dissing your competitors seems to be the name of the game for CEOs lately. Not only did Steve Jobs call other tablet makers "copycats" during yesterday's iPad presentation, but across the way at the GDC keynote address, Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata was discussing the difference between traditional gaming consoles and the new breed of smartphone and social media platform games, saying that there are Read more

GDC 2011: Netflix and Free WiFi Coming to Nintendo 3DS


Updated 03/02/11 2:40 PM · Posted by · 0 comments

Free WiFi and Netflix on Nintendo 3DS

Everyone may have been talking about the iPad 2 today, but there was something else brewing at this year's Game Developers Conference in SF — a Netflix partnership and free WiFi coming to the Nintendo 3DS! The 3DS doesn't launch for another few weeks, but these are some exciting developments. First up: the Netflix partnership. According to the keynote speech yesterday, you can watch movies via Read more