Community Showcase: Matheus and Jade, two Project Café mockup artists
You may or may not be aware of Wii 2 Blog’s mockup gallery (if not, you should go check it out!), which features over 100 fan-made mockups of Project Café. I’ve been fortunate enough to have had two artists email their work to me personally for inclusion, and I’d like to showcase them on the […]
Brilliant post on NeoGAF about the advantages of a personal touchscreen
The user Retro over at NeoGAF made a great post yesterday which I think is worth every Wii 2 Blog reader’s time. It’s a lengthy but incredibly well thought-out piece that aims to convince any last skeptics of the advancements a touchscreen controller could bring to the gaming table. The obvious uses like privacy in […]
IGN “predicts” the Project Cafe launch lineup
Nintendo has taken on a fair amount of criticism after the 3DS’s launch, in that the selection of games for the system was mediocre at best. I’m sure a lot of you will agree that we don’t want the Wii’s successor to suffer from the same launch blues next year that the 3DS did. With this in […]
Emily Rogers’ fishy list of Project Café developers
Remember Emily Rogers? Sure you do. After all, she’s given us some of the most interesting stories about Project Café in the past couple of weeks. Now, though, she’s hung her credibility over a cliff with a document she just published. It is supposedly a list of third-parties with Wii 2 dev kits that Nintendo […]
Nintendo likes buttons, and isn’t going to ditch them
Most gamers will agree that physical buttons are a necessity for any kind of serious gaming, and dislike buttonless devices like the iPod Touch and iPad for the very reason that they lack tactile controls. With all the rumours about Project Café sporting a touchscreen controller, there’s no need to worry about losing the very […]
GAME predicts ‘huge interest’ in Project Café
Speaking to CVG, the UK retailer GAME shared its predictions that there would be massive widespread interest in the Wii’s successor. Neil Aschurst, the head of the company, commented on how the Wii left its mark on living rooms across the world, and what that means for its successor. Here’s the full quote: The Nintendo […]
Has EA been developing for Project Café since August 2010?
A listing on LinkedIn (dug up by PixlBit) seems to confirm some very interesting information. Timothy Randall, a programmer at EA, apparently worked on audio support for an “unannounced Nintendo platform” as far back as August 2010. The 3DS had definitely been announced by that point, so that leaves Project Café as the only possibility. […]
Another leaked image of Project Café
Exclusive: a Wii 2 Blog reader shared a picture of what he claims is an early, pre-final build of Project Café.
Retro Studios is not working on Eternal Darkness 2 or Zelda, Wii 2 may fall prey to flood of ports
Emily Rogers has made quite the name for herself over the past week or so, starting by giving us hope for Pikmin 3 finally seeing the light of day on the Wii’s successor, followed by an outpouring of tempting tidbits. Today, her sources confirmed that Retro Studios‘ secret project is neither Eternal Darkness 2 nor […]
Sony: “We’re not afraid of a little coffee stain.”
An unknown Sony employee (well, not entirely unknown; we know her first name is Sandy) has just gone on record trash talking about Nintendo’s next console with the following line: We’re not afraid of a little coffee stain. Oooh, Nintendo’s not gonna like that, Sandy. Does the line imply that Sony has secretly been working […]
