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Wednesday, Nov 11

Mario Bros. 3 Better Than Galaxy, And Other Discussions In Today's Podcast

Thumbnail Our latest podcast is ready for you to download. Details below. Listen and hear a caller provides the possibly incorrect answer to "What is the best Mario game ever?" McWhertor explains the Demon's Souls review situation. And more. Talk Radio: It's-A Mario! [iTunes]

Sunday, Nov 8

Fils-Aime: New Super Mario Bros. Wii Will Outsell MW2 — with One Stipulation

Thumbnail That stipulation is, it'll beat either the 360 or the PS3 versions of the game, but not both, the Nintendo boss Reggie FIls-Aime told Gametrailers TV. Still, that's a hell of a Pepsi challenge. Or maybe he means it'll outsell Modern Warfare: Reflex on the Wii?

Tuesday, Nov 3

The 10 Most Avidly-Played Wii Games In America (As Of Nov 1)

Thumbnail Where's all this from? (AKA an explanation of the above chart for stat junkies only): In a move somewhat surprising for the generally secretive company, Nintendo makes all of this data public. Any Wii owner can download the Nintendo Channel to their Wii and begin browsing for games. Any gam...

Build A Mario Church For This Window

Thumbnail Building a Church of Mario to put it in, however, will be the real drain on your wallet. Especially if you expand the concept to a Church of Nintendo and commission Radiance Art for Pac-Man and Zelda stained glass windows. Stained Glass Mario Mushroom Powers Up Ordinary Windows [Technabob]

Thursday, Oct 29

Disney Considering Movie, Comics for Epic Mickey

Thumbnail We are putting a lot of muscle behind this. We have an advantage that no one has. You say Mickey and Disney and the whole world changes, everything changes. If anyone has a chance of really delivering something special on the Wii, Nintendo-level special, it's us."

Tuesday, Oct 27

New Super Mario Bros. Wii Dated For North America

Thumbnail While the game is rumored for a December 3 release in Japan, New Super Mario Bros. will be coming to North America and coming next month. The game is dated November 15. Here we go!

This article also contains excerpts from Nintendo Wii Zone, Go Nintendo, GameTrailers.com, Cubed3, WiiNintendo, vgmdaily (WordPress)

Thursday, Oct 22

Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack In Time Review: The Leap, At Last

Thumbnail The Ratchet gameplay is improved. The Clank gameplay is a revelation. Two years ago, Ratchet & Clank Future showed how good Insomniac could make this series look on PS3. A year ago, Ratchet & Clank: A Quest For Booty showed that Insomniac was still prepared to innovate with gameplay....

Wednesday, Oct 21

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games Review: Going Through the Motions

Thumbnail Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games was developed and published by Sega for the Nintendo Wii and DS on October 13. Retails for $49.99 USD. A copy of the game was given to us by the publisher for reviewing purposes. Completed Festival mode and tested the game with the Balance Board on the...

Wednesday, Oct 14

Live-Action Mario Dead At 76

Thumbnail Wrestling fans know him as the WWE Hall of Famer who managed more than 50 wrestlers in his day, with more than two dozen championships won by athletes taken under his wing. 80's music fans might remember him from his appearances in many Cyndi Lauper music videos, including "Girls Just Want T...

Lucidity Micro-Review: Beauty Is Only Skin-Deep

Thumbnail Anyone who spies even a single screenshot of this easy-on-the-eyes offering will be hard pressed to escape its visual charms. However, once in Sofi's world, players might find the actual gameplay to be more a nightmare than a dream.

Friday, Oct 9

Your Amazing, Disturbing Wii Play Times

Thumbnail readers, you never let me down. I asked you yesterday to share your Wii playing history — as determined in the Nintendo Channel — and you provided the disturbing details. Blkpaladin (combining numbers from two Wiis played by multiple people in one home): Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess...

Thursday, Oct 8

Show Us Your Wii History

Thumbnail I'll show you which nine games (and non-games) have gotten the most play time on my Nintendo console. Mind sharing yours? The oddest entry on this list is the Nintendo Channel. I'm on it for a couple of hours each month, pulling stats like these.

Is Single-Player Gaming In Danger Of Extinction?

Thumbnail While the latest Nintendo platformer may not be the first game in the series to sport a multiplayer component—portable games Super Mario 64 DS and New Super Mario Bros. both featured wireless multiplayer modes in a much more limited capacity—rarely has a Mario Bros. game focused so heavil...

New Super Mario Bros. Wii Dated, Priced For Japan

Thumbnail Other news that supposedly leaked out include new Wii Remote colors hitting Japan that same day in shades of pink and blue. On December 5, Poké Park Wii Pikachu no Daibouken (Pikachu's Big Adventure) will be released. Wii「ニュー・スーパーマリオブラザーズWii」12月3日発売決定 [忍之閻魔帳]

Wednesday, Oct 7

Frankenreview: Wii Fit Plus

Thumbnail Wii Fit Plus is an enhanced version of the game that saw people who normally wouldn't be caught dead in a video game store flocking to them in droves. Along with all of the original game's content, Plus adds 15 new balance board activities, strength training and yoga, a calorie counter, work...

Monday, Oct 5

Wii Fit Plus Review: Now I’m A Believer

Thumbnail Nintendo has been very careful to call Wii Fit a fitness "tool" not a fitness "solution" for obvious legal reasons. Neither Wii Fit nor its successor, Wii Fit Plus, will magically make you thinner or more easily able to resist tasty food.

New Super Mario Bros. Wii Preview: All The Modes, All The Chaos

Thumbnail The tossing of fireballs and iceballs — earned via classic-syle power-ups — don't hurt other players. In one level, I found a barrel that did. Of course I picked it up and hurled it at my "friends" from Nintendo. New Super Mario Bros. is set for release on the Wii on November 15.

Sunday, Oct 4

K8

Thumbnail Sports Ads: Everything You Want in a Video Game - and LessMadden Launch Returns to Its Roots - for One Weekend Only?In a League of Your Own, Where Your Word is LawThe Art of Calling an Unseen Game/a>In the Preseason, 2K Sports Reports FirstSo I Went to a Fight, and a Video Game Broke Out ...Whe...

Wednesday, Sep 30

Where Are All The "Next Gen" Games?

Thumbnail Wii Sports/Wii Sports Resort – To this day, the only games that have truly delivered on the promise of the Wii Remote, integrating it so naturally within the gameplay experience that you can't imagine playing the games without it. So as good as Modern Warfare is, as good as Mario Galaxy is, I...

Monday, Sep 28

The Hotness That Is Females From Fighting Games

Thumbnail These are the guys who brought us amazing Mario art and a lot of Links to consider. Now they're onto the theme of "most attractive female fighters from popular games." Long-winded, I know, but how else are you going to encourage artists to look at all fighting games for inspiration instead of...

Zuma's Revenge Micro-Review: Bridging The Mom And Son Gap

Thumbnail I was happy to play Zuma's Revenge, even if I wished for a little more progressive free-thinking and a little less adoption of some ideas I wish could just collect dust in the past. I feel like I understand my mother just a little better now. Plus, Zuma's Revenge has one of gaming's magically pe...

Thursday, Sep 24

Wii Price Drop Timed to Wii Fit Plus Release

Thumbnail While the $200 price tag makes the Wii the same price as Microsoft's entry-level Xbox 360 Arcade, Kaigler says that the experience out of the box for the Wii makes it a better value. While Nintendo says the price drop was timed to the upcoming release of Wii Fit Plus, Nintendo currently has no...

This article also contains excerpts from Go Nintendo, The Tanooki

Monday, Sep 21

Bakugan: Contender to the Pokemon Throne?

Thumbnail Pokemon, Nintendo's most popular game franchise after Mario, was initially created by Nintendo in the mid 90s as a video game and later spawned movies, cartoons and a collectible card game. Bakugan, though, started out as a cartoon and went on to spawn a card and toy game and finally a video...

Sunday, Sep 20

Frankenreview: Halo 3: O.D.S.T.

Thumbnail Master Chief is such an iconic gaming figure that it almost seems wrong to have an FPS with the Halo name on it without him. It's like a Mario game without Mario in it, or a Team Ninja game without breasts. Yet here we are, with a brand-new single-player adventure in the Halo universe with no sign...

Monday, Sep 14

Nintendo's Unusual 2009 Wii Strategy: Publishing The Oldies

Nintendo-Published Wii Games In 2008 Endless Ocean (new game) Super Smash Bros. Brawl (new game) Mario Kart Wii (new game) Wii Fit (new game) Mario Super Sluggers (new game) Wario Land: Shake It (new game) Wii Music (new game) Animal Crossing: City Folk (new game)

Friday, Aug 21

Modern Warfare Wii Gets Coop With a Catch

Thumbnail It's kind of like a shooter's version of Co-Star Mode, the cooperative two-player option in Super Mario Galaxy that had one gamer playing while the other fired off stars to help out the main gamer. The Wii title also supports the same sort of fully customizable controls first seen in Wii sho...

Wednesday, Aug 12

Mario And Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games Preview: Luigi Controlled with a Rear End

Thumbnail As Luigi, I led a team also consisting of Yoshi, Knuckles and Amy Rose to a bobsledding victory over Sonic, Mario, Tails and Peach. Then, as Sonic, I beat Peach in speed-skating (after she first beat me). Graphics: we've seen Mario and Sonic look better. The first game didn't look cutting edge....

Saturday, Aug 8

Mario was Put in Punch-Out Without Permission

Thumbnail Satoru Iwata: You could get away with a lot then. (laughs) Shigeru Miyamoto: We didn't have an approval system when using Mario images back then and it went right past my check. (laughs) Wada: That's why it is a slightly strange looking Mario.

Sunday, Jul 26

Punch-Out Devs Talk Graphics, Difficulty, Nixed Princess Peach Idea

Thumbnail Credit for the inclusion of a certain famous Nintendo character as an opponent, however, came from an executive at Nintendo of America, with support from Next Level. Tanabe revealed to Kotaku that he had a different idea for who to include from Nintendo's library of icons: "Princess Peac...

Saturday, Jul 18

33 Months Of Motion Control, The Wii's Hidden StruggleVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Thumbnail A new Zelda down-played it. A new Mario limited its motion-control element, as have so many Wii games, to the occasional vibration of a player's right hand. This fall's New Super Mario Bros. Wii, made in the two years since the last Wii Mario, uses motion control no more than the last.

Tuesday, Jul 7

Nintendo's Newest Mascot Is The Wii Sports Resort Island

Thumbnail Shigeru Miyamoto, general manager of the Entertainment Analysis & Development Division—the team responsible for Wii Sports Resort—tells Nintendo president Satoru Iwata that the destination in the Wii sequel is essentially the star of the show. Wuhu Island, Miyamoto says, is de...

Demo Play Coming To Nintendo Handhelds

Thumbnail The new system, described in a patent filed by Nintendo Creative Director Shigeru Miyamoto on June 30, 2008, but made public in January and confirmed by Nintendo at E3, solves the issue of casual gamers losing interest in a game before they complete it, while still maintaining the intere...

Wednesday, Jun 24

How Much Of New Mario Vs. DK Is Actually New

Thumbnail In my review for Mario Vs. Donkey Kong: March of the Minis I made the educated guess that Nintendo had recycled the boss battles from its earlier Mario Vs. Donkey Kong 2 DS game. But there had to be more, or else Nintendo wouldn't have included the warning in its shop, right?

Tuesday, Jun 23

Fifty-Seven Flights Up With New Super Mario Bros. Wii

Thumbnail I played that same E3 build last night, high above my old work neighborhood in Times Square. I played as the blue Toad three Nintendo reps controlled Mario, Luigi and the Yellow Toad. You hold the Wii remote sideways and control things like you're back playing the Nintendo Entertainment Sys...

Monday, Jun 8

Mario Vs. Donkey Kong Mini-Marches To DSiWare

Thumbnail Mario vs Donkey Kong: Minis March Again! (800 DSi Points): Thanks to the runaway success of Super Mini Mario World, Mario and Pauline have expanded their toy-filled theme park and invited everyone to the opening celebration. Everyone, that is, except Donkey Kong, who was too late to get i...

Wednesday, Jun 3

New Super Mario Bros. Wii Preview: Classic Mario, Endless Play

Thumbnail Classic Design: The game feels so familiar I actually had to check with Shigeru Miyamoto to make sure that the levels were all new and not reimaginings of levels we've seen before over the history of the Mario franchise. Playing Super Mario Bros. Wii is a like a big warm hug from your childhood.

Tuesday, Jun 2

What Did Shigeru Miyamoto Say?

Thumbnail Miyamoto: [in Japanese] It's okay for us to say it. Miyamoto: [in Japanese] Let's say it. Miyamoto covers his face.] Miyamoto: [in Japanese] In the New Super Mario — Nintendo PR: Nothing has been said at this point. Miyamoto laughs, puts his hands on his face.]

Miyamoto: Super Mario Galaxy 2 Will Have 90% New LevelsVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Thumbnail Miyamoto said that the original plan was to "essentially create new variations of the worlds in Super Mario Galaxy." But, over time, the developers have had so many ideas that Miyamoto estimates that 90% of the game's levels are all new. The rest, he said, are levels from the original Mario G...

Friday, Mar 20

Nintendo Responds To February NPD Sales, Seems Pleased

Thumbnail Yes, the Wii and Nintendo DS continue to sell slightly better than hotcakes in the United States, moving more than 1.3 million units last month. But it's Wii Play that gets the kudos from Nintendo. For more information about Nintendo, please visit www.Nintendo.com.

Thursday, Feb 26

Super Mario Kart: Most Influential Video Game in History

Thumbnail 1. Super Mario Kart 2. Tetris 4. Super Mario World 6. Halo 10. GoldenEye 11. Super Mario 64 15. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 17. Super Mario Bros 18. Zelda: A Link to the Past 24. Tekken 2 25. Wii Sports 27. Guitar Hero 29. Super Mario Galaxy 31. Ico 36. Ridge Racer 40. BioShock 43. God of War 44. Sega Rally Championship

Thursday, Feb 12

Dust Off Your Balance Board For Mario & Sonic At The Winter Olympics

Thumbnail SEGA has been a valued publishing partner of Nintendo for many years and Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games is the ultimate representation of that relationship," said Reggie Fils-Aime, president and COO, Nintendo of America. "We look for this game to continue the tradition its p...

Thursday, Jan 29

Nintendo's 2009 Launch Schedule Includes Punch Out

Thumbnail Japan • Nintendo DS DS Uranai Seikatsu 2009/1/15 Mario and Luigi RPG 3!!! 2009/2/11 Famicom Wars DS2(Temp.) 2009 Made in Ore 2009 Japan, it seems, is getting more Nintendo Wii games next year. Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime? Well, he got a new corporate portrait.

Let's Break Down Nintendo's Biggest Selling DS Games (Let's!)

Thumbnail Nintendo has released the financial findings for its Nintendo DS games sold last year. Mario Party DS Apr. - Dec. 2008 Total: 1,870,000 units of which Japan: 120,000 units Overseas: 1,750,000 units Life-to-date Total: 5,490,000 units

Sunday, Jan 4

Japan's Best And Worst Sellers By Platform

Thumbnail Wii Top Ten 1. Wii Sports Total Sales: 3.2 million 2. Wii Fit Total Sales: 2.8 million 4. Mario Kart Wii Total Sales: 1.9 million 6. Mario Party 8 Total Sales: 1.2 million 7. Super Mario Galaxy Total Sales: 932,119 10. Mario And Sonic At The Beijing Olympics Total Sales: 590,265 Wii Bottom Ten

Tuesday, Nov 25

It's Official, DS is Blue and Red All Over [It's Ah Fficial]

Thumbnail The Mario Red Nintendo DS bundle will include a red DS with an M for Mario printed on it's cover and a copy of the relatively old New Super Mario Bros. The Ice Blue Nintendo DS comes with a a carrying case and a copy of Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day. Both will sell for $150.

Thursday, Nov 20

The Wii Holiday Gift Guide

Thumbnail Mario goes galactic in the Wii entry into the core Super Mario Bros. franchise. With new power ups like the Boo Suit and Bee Suit and a control scheme that makes smart use of the Wii Remote, Super Mario Galaxy feels fresh and innovative — even if the core platforming gameplay remains mostly unc...

Tuesday, Nov 11

Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts Review: Aw, Nuts

Thumbnail Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts is the third proper console entry in the Rare-developed series, founded on the Nintendo 64, one that steers the former action-adventure platformer into new territory. Gone are the Super Mario 64-like romps traipsing through green mountain sides and cav...

Monday, Oct 27

Hands on With Jenga Donkey Kong Collector's Edition [Jenga Donkey Kong Collector's Edition]

Thumbnail Jenga Donkey Kong Collector’s Edition is essentially the wood stacking game painted black with a new set of rules. The version comes with a pile of rectangular blocks painted black with red girders painted on two sides of each block. There are also three holes drilled into each rectangle. Th...

Tuesday, Oct 21

Wii Music Review: Jam With The Bland

Thumbnail Nintendo has created a piece of software that has brief flashes of fun, but little in the way of long-term enjoyment. In group settings, it will likely entertain for its impossible-to-fail gameplay and the resulting cacophony. Outside of morbid (or genuine) curiosity, it's hard to recom...

And The UK's Favorite Game Character Is... [Sonic The Hedgehog]

Thumbnail Filling out the list we have Super Mario (none of this normal Mario bullshit) with 21%, Lara Croft with 16%, with Donkey Kong, Pac Man, Link, Max Payne (what?), Pikachu, Niko Belic, and Blanka taking up the rear. Hit the jump for the percentage breakdowns. SONIC TOP DOG HEDGEHOG

Tuesday, Sep 30

Marriott And Nintendo Team For In-Room Wii Service [Wii]

Thumbnail BETHESDA, Md. & REDMOND, Wash.—The Wii™ experience is just beginning for Marriott and Renaissance guests, who can now choose from 20 games, including the popular Mario Kart™ Wii, Super Mario Galaxy™, and Wii Sports™ as well as the revolutionary fitness game, Wii Fit™. In a lodging ind...

Thursday, Sep 25

'Pokémon Platinum' Transforms Into 1.2 Million Copies [Simple 2000: The Japanese Software Chart]

Thumbnail 12. Daigasso! Band Brothers DX (DS) 15. Dragon Quest V (DS) 17. Wii Sports (Wii) 18. Inazuma Eleven (DS) 22. Mario Kart DS (DS) 25. New Super Mario Bros. (DS) 26. DS Bimoji Training (DS) 27. Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS) 29. Wii Play (Wii) 30. Blue Dragon Plus (DS)

Wednesday, Sep 24

Wario Land: Shake It! Review: Shakin' To The Core [Review]

Thumbnail Wario Land: Shake It!'s 2D gameplay feels somewhat stale and sterile in comparison to what Nintendo has offered the series in the past, not unlike New Super Mario Bros. a title that was frustratingly simple, devoid of new ideas. The core mechanics are there, and they're presented with fine...

Tuesday, Sep 23

LEGO Super Mario Cheats With 3D Scanner

Thumbnail No doubt there are LEGO architects in the wild who consider this a horrible affront to blocksmithing, but this 29" tall Mario sculpt is obsessively well done. And we're not just using the "obsessively" adjective because the final product was photographed in front of what appear to be Supe...

Thursday, Sep 18

Pokémon Platinum, Infinite Undiscovery Storm Japan [Simple 2000: The Japanese Software Chart]

Thumbnail 11. Dragon Quest V (DS) 13. Inazuma Eleven (DS) 16. Blue Dragon Plus (DS) 19. Wii Sports (Wii) 22. Mario Kart DS (DS) 23. Hoshizora no Comic Garden (DS) 24. New Super Mario Bros. (DS) 25. DS Bimoji Training (DS) 27. Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS) 28. Wii Play (Wii)

Saturday, Jul 12

Opinion: Game Marathons: Fad, or Going the Distance?Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Every marathon right now will find the Mario Marathon tough to follow," said Matt Hayden, who launched Gamemarathons.com. He estimates 85 percent of the marathons listed there so far are being done for charity. Those that are gaming for a cause are clearly differentiated from those that ar...

Tuesday, Apr 29

Mario Kart Wii Review: I'm Not Angry, Just Disappointed

Thumbnail Fun fact: I'm a total Mario Kart fanboy. For the record: Double Dash is my favourite (I know, I know). So I'm used to watching the Mario Kart series take small, baby-steps forward with each new version. In this case, I was expecting just that. Small steps forward. Mario Kart Wii, however, feels mo...

Monday, Mar 17

Opinion: No Snaking For Mario Kart Wii

Thumbnail Big fan of snaking in Mario Kart? Brace for disappointment. Nintendo have finally called an end to the trick, with the upcoming Mario Kart Wii's cornering speed boosts to be determined by how long you can hold a powerslide, not how quickly you can waggle from left to right. From the British Of...

Wednesday, Feb 27

Opinion: Mario Kart Wheel Is Quite Possibly "Absolute Crap"

Thumbnail Don't know why Nintendo thought this thing was necessary; perhaps it looks good in advertising? A good way of bumping up the price? Either way, it's rubbish. Whether or not he means the game doesn't steer as well with the wheel, or that the wheel just feels horrible in your hands, we can't tel...

Wednesday, Feb 6

New Mario Kart Wii Images [Famitsu]

Thumbnail Regarding our earlier Mario Kart Wii post, here are the images from Japanese game magazine Famitsu. It confirms earlier rumblings about the 16 tracks, 12 person Wi-Fi battles and Mii racing. This should certainly helps bring credibility to that April 10th Japan release date!

Friday, Jan 25

Opinion: David Jaffe's Wii Is Not His Tea

Thumbnail When David Jaffe isn't eating or sleeping, he's playing. And what's he playing? Well, he tried out Super Mario Galaxy, and here's what we're taking as his 3 second review:I mean, I have a Wii, I barely play it — not because I don't like it or appreciate it, I just, you know, it's not my cup of tea a...

Wednesday, Jan 2

Opinion: Zero Punctuation on Super Mario GalaxyVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

This will make no sense without watching the clip, but I agree with absolutely everything said in this review other than most of what is said about Super Mario Galaxy itself. And it should be fairly obvious by now that the Princess is really just an excuse for Mario and Bowser to eventually ex...

Tuesday, Dec 4

Analysts: Things Are Lookin' Up For Sony!

Meanwhile, the PS3 was slow out of the gate, but easily has twice as many must-have titles as the Wii has, and no matter how many systems Nintendo sells, that gap is only going to grow wider. Same with the 360. There are a lot more must-haves on that system than the Wii currently has, or likely eve...

Friday, Nov 23

Super Mario Galaxy vs. Super Mario Sunshine [Clips]Video included in this story.  Click to view.

I'll admit that it's sometimes hard to see the graphical differences between Super Mario Galaxy for the Wii and Super Mario Sunshine for the Gamecube, even in the HD version of the above clip. Obviously, there are bits in Galaxy that outshine it's predecessor in the visuals department, bu...

Wednesday, Nov 21

Opinion: Mario Galaxy Sells 500K In A Week [Super Mario Galaxy]

Thumbnail The worldwide innovator in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its Wii™, Nintendo DS™, Game Boy® Advance and Nintendo GameCube™ systems. Since 1983, Nintendo has sold nearly 2.5 billion vide...

Wednesday, Nov 14

Variety Not That Impressed By Super Mario Galaxy [Reviews]

Thumbnail The review continues to point out flaws that other reviewers made nearly no mention of, writing that Super Mario Galaxy is "evidence of how bad the Wii is for third person action games", pointing to The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess as further evidence of that claim.

Tuesday, Nov 13

Frankenreview, Super Mario Galaxy (Wii) [Roundup]

Thumbnail The time has come. No more bullshit, no more trailers, no more promises. Next-gen is officially now-gen, as all the long-lusted, near-fabled releases are finally upon us. Since the Wii's launch, we've been treated to a few classic Nintendo franchises. But things just didn't feel right befo...

Sunday, Nov 11

Wii Want to Play: Super Mario Galaxy [Clip]Video included in this story.  Click to view.

The latest in the Wii Want to Play TV advertising campaign focuses on Super Mario Galaxy. While the commercial isn't terribly exciting, just the thought of playing SMG on a giant movie theater screen just fills my heart with glee. Actually, the thought of playing any good game on a theater sc...

Monday, Oct 15

Super Mario Galaxy Hands On Impressions

Thumbnail It shouldn't come as a surprise that Super Mario Galaxy is tremendously fun to play and clearly a first-day must-buy for any Wii owner. It's the best looking Wii game to date and plays like a dream. Whether you're surfing a manta ray on a tube of water in the Loopdeeloop Galaxy or flipping switc...

Friday, Oct 12

Clip: Mario & Sonic Trailers Get WorseVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Uploaded by SEGA Didn't think Sega could make a worse trailer than the last one. Boy was I WRONG. The Miis don't look anything like the over-acting actors, there's too much waggle, too much wiggle, too many grins and far too many awkward hoots. I believe there may even be a holler or two there tow...

Tuesday, Aug 21

European Wii Release Dates Leak Outta Leipzig (Mario Galaxy, People)

Thumbnail More Leipzig happy-snaps, this time courtesy of Jeux-France, who swung by the Nintendo setup and caught a glimpse of some official European release dates for the Wii. Forever Blue is due on November 9, while Umbrella Chronicles should hit on November 30. Most importantly, though, and mos...

Thursday, Aug 2

Frankenreview, Mario Strikers Charged (Wii)

Thumbnail Some people call it soccer, others call it football, and most Americans just call it boring. But as the world's national pastime, kicking a ball around into a net is pretty ultimate. Combined with Nintendo's most famous characters in history, you get Mario Strikers Charged.

Thursday, May 31

Remember, Salt!: Rumour: Nintendo Announcing Mario Kart Wii, New Hardware At E3?

Thumbnail Adorable Frenchmen Jeux France have run what they reckon is a "credible" rumour. Well, rumours, because there's a few, and they all involve Nintendo. Seems at this year's E3 we'll not only get firm release dates for Smash Bros and Mario Galaxy, we'll also get a "grosse révélation au niveau H...

Wednesday, May 30

Frankenreview: Mario Party 8 (Wii)

Thumbnail Mario Party 8 is the latest incarnation of the series, as well as its first appearance on the Wii. But as for its trademark minigames...those have seen more Wii than Paris Hilton. How does Mario Party 8 stack up against its predecessors? Hit the jump for our Frankenreview: (almost) every review...

Monday, Apr 23

First Look At Mario Strikers Charged Online Play [Super Mario Strikers]Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Jeux France had the chance to take a good, long look at Mario Strikers Charged on the Wii the other day. Not much new to report on the game (aside from some new footage sprinkled through the above video), since we know it's Mario, we know it's football and we don't need to know much more than that....

Friday, Feb 23

Opinion: Multi-Tap: A Week In Comments

Clip: Bottle-Blowing Mario Love In by temporaryscars And I don't care what anyone says... the Cube did not "lose" this generation. It was definitely the winner for me, and realistically, it was right on par with the XBox (in sales and graphical quality)... except Nintendo profited.

Thursday, Nov 9

Games Take Over MTV [Mtv]

Gamer's Week 2.0 on TRL will feature a video game segment each day with ton of surprises and prizes throughout the week including: MTV2 checks out the Nintendo Fusion Tour's New York City stop and gets Hawthorne Heights & Plain White Tees to test drive the new Wii.

Sunday, Jun 18

Excitebike Tricked Out With Flash

Thumbnail And, from the same creator, but not necessarily new is the Bullet Bill action game, featuring the infamous armed projectile from Super Mario Bros. in his own plumber killing, Goomba smashing semi-shmup. Good times. Michael McWhertor

Wednesday, Feb 15

Round-Up: Flash Movie Mario

Mario Game Over [Flash-Link] Matrix Mario [AnneBras] Mario vs. Samus [NewGrounds] Woody Mario [Flash-Link] How Long Can You Pause Mario? [WaraiSeek] Flash Mario [Flash-Link] NSFW Mario and Peach [WaraiSeek] Mario In Real Life [Flash-Link] Mario Gets Angry [NewGrounds]

Tuesday, Oct 25

Opinion: Mario Kart DS, Animal Crossing Wild World Hands-On

Thumbnail Mario Kart DS plays exactly like you would hope, effortlessly. There's no screwing around with the touch-screen or trying to learn new skill sets, instead Nintendo concentrated on make a solid handheld version of their super popular console racer and from what I saw they succeeded.

 
 

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