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Wednesday, Nov 4
Next Zelda Will Use Motion Plus for Sword Fighting
What Nintendo has not yet made clear is whether the upcoming Zelda videogame for the Wii will actually require Motion Plus in order to be played. Ever since the add-on was introduced, a lot of titles have used it to enhance gameplay but none made it mandatory in order not to split the player ba...
The Wii Can't Deliver the Modern Warfare 2 Experience
Of course, shooters like Modern Warfare 2 are not extremely popular on the Nintendo Wii, which is calibrated to attract more casual gamers but the lack of a port could disappoint some fans of the series. Still, the computing power of the Nintendo Wii seems not be enough to depict the action p...
Build Opera 10.10 Unite Beta Apps and Win Prizes
“Prizes will be awarded each week to the developer with the best application. The winner will be determined by a team of Opera employees. Up for grabs are gift certificates to online retailers equal the value of a Nintendo Wii or a brand new mobile phone,” Opera said.
Tuesday, Nov 3
BioShock 2 Might Receive Support for Motion Control
Motion control is coming into its own in a big way. The Nintendo Wii has had it for some time but a lot of people dismissed it as just a gimmick to bring in more casual players but now the Xbox 360 is getting Project Natal set to arrive at some point in 2010, while the PlayStation 3 is getting the mot...
The PSP Go Has a Body Count for Its First Day of Sales
Japanese gaming news site Andria Sang reports that Sony's latest platform sold 28,275 units in its first day. The $250 console was launched with several retail and downloadable treats, including MotorStorm Raging Ice, Persona 3 Portable and Dissidia Final Fantasy Universal Tuning.
Kirby: Squeak Squad Unlockables II (DS)
The items in the player's inventory are stored in Kirby's stomach that is shown on the touch-screen. The stylus is also used to roulette thorough his special abilities that can grant special ones, available only via this random selection. The title was published by Nintendo Co., Ltd. and dev...
Nintendo Readies 3G-Powered Handheld
Nintendo is moving fast to offer more options to those interested in picking up a DS handheld. About one week ago, the Japanese company announced that it planned to launch a new version of the device featuring a larger screen, close in size to that of the PlayStation Portable Go from Sony and...
Original Artwork for Epic Mickey Will Not Be Used
How far can one go when reinventing something so ubiquitous as Disney cartoon characters? That's just one of the problems faced by Warren Spector, of Deus Ex fame, and his Junction Team development outfit as they work on Epic Mickey, the Nintendo Wii game set to star a host of characters fr...
Monday, Nov 2
Epic Mickey Might Be a Trilogy
And that's just one of the challenges faced by the newly confirmed Nintendo Wii videogame Epic Mickey, the title that aims to tell the story of long forgotten Disney characters living in an alternate world until Mickey Mouse himself shows up. The idea has a lot of potential and it seems that...
Satoru Iwata Admits the Wii Has Stalled
The Nintendo Wii is not the same successful videogaming console that it was during 2008. Sales of the platform have slowed down a lot this year, falling by no less than 34% in Japan, the home territory of the company. The reasons are complex, ranging from market saturation to the impact of the...
DSi Still Leads in Japan
Despite the big amount of new titles that is being released each week, the Japanese market seems fixated on getting Pokemon video games in the top spot in software charts and on making the Nintendo DSi handheld on which they are played the best sold piece of gaming hardware.
Friday, Oct 30
Epic Mickey Does Not Support Motion Plus, Likes the Vitality Sensor
Epic Mickey seems to be shaping up as one of the big Nintendo Wii releases of 2010 and a media blitz following the official unveiling of the videogame is in full swing. The Disney universe-based title, which is being created by Warren Spector and his Junction Point team, aims to both reinven...
Capcom Boasts Its Figures
As part of its report, Capcom said that "As for the video game industry, the Japanese domestic market has been on a downward trend, but it started to show some signs of recovery. Such an improv... (read more) It may not beat Nintendo as far as profits go, but at least for now, Capcom makes money by t...
Wednesday, Oct 28
New Super Mario Bros. for the Wii Coming on December 3
Nintendo has announced that the highly anticipated New Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo Wii is set to be released on North American markets on November 15. The date is a bit of a surprise, as rumors coming out last week only mentioned a December 3 launch date for the Japanese market, which us...
Tuesday, Oct 27
Rumor Mill: Nintendo Planning DSi with Larger Screen
The rumor comes courtesy of the Japanese financial publication Nikkei, which says that, “Nintendo is planning to release a new product in its recently-debuted DSi line within the year” with the article implying that the main reason behind the move is to directly compete with both the Pl...
Monday, Oct 26
PlayStation 3 Again Beats the Nintendo Wii
The Nintendo DSi handheld has again proven to be the best sold gaming device, shipping no less than 49,145 units in one week, slightly less than the previous week. The second spot went, as usual in the last few weeks, to the Sony PlayStation Portable, which has also recently received a price...
Rumor Mill: DSi Speak Might Arrive Soon
A paragraph on the official customer support side read, “To redeem a Nintendo DSi Download Ticket number, such as for the Nintendo DSi Speak Channel, enter the number off the Nintendo DSi Download Ticket in 'Settings and Features' off of the main Nintendo DSi Shop page, then select 'Nint...
Friday, Oct 23
Fullmetal Alchemist: Dual Sympathy Hints (DS)
Fullmetal Alchemist: Dual Sympathy is the first Fullmetal Alchemist game to be released for the Nintendo DS. It's a side-scrolling, action title that makes use of the universe's concept of alchemy to manipulate the surrounding environment, where the alchemy skills are controlled wit...
Thursday, Oct 22
Aion Is the Best Selling PC Title of September
The PC video-game chart often gets overlooked when the NPD Group numbers for hardware and software sales are announced each month. After all, the big battle between the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 and the Nintendo Wii is much more interesting than the supposedly moribund market for PC tit...
Wednesday, Oct 21
Shigeru Miyamto Talks About the Future of Nintendo Hardware
The logical move would be to counter with a more powerful Wii console, which has HD capabilities like the other two home consoles. But Shigeru Miyamoto, one of the most important game designers at Nintendo, is not sure that the future is HD for the company.
Nintendo Is Expected to Have Its First Profit Decline Since 2004
A nine-month revenue of $17.1 billion is a big number even for corporate giant Nintendo. Not only that, but the company even expected another big holiday season with figures to further increase its revenues. But as time progressed, their expectations weren't met and by July sales fell by 40...
The Black Wii Bundle Drops Anchor on European Shores
Ever since it first appeared at the Nintendo press conference at the 2005 E3, the Wii developer had plans for color variations. A black version of the console may have been unveiled back in 2005, but it's only this June that the console resurfaced with a dark polish. The Wii came bundled with a...
Tuesday, Oct 20
No Digital Distribution for New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Speaking at a round table in New York, Shigeru Miyamoto addressed quite a few issues related to videogames, showing why he is so praised by Nintendo and why he is the main cause for the success of series like Mario and Zelda. Based on his answers, Nintendo lovers should not expect digital dis...
Monday, Oct 19
NPD Hardware: PlayStation 3 Beats the Wii and Xbox 360
The Nintendo DS handheld still manages to be the best sold gaming platform in North America, with 524,200 units moved to players in the month of September. The price discounted PlayStation 3, which also got the Slim variant, sold 491,000 units in the same time frame ahead of the Nintendo Wi...
Queen Is Coming to Rock Band 2
Harmonix and MTV Games have announced that Queen, one of the biggest rock bands in the world, is set to arrive in Rock Band 2 via downloadable content, with ten of their most important songs being offered this week for the PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii version of the music s...
Console Sales Fall, Nintendo DS on Top
The PlayStation 3 is the best sold home gaming console, managing to move 30,896 units, just ahead of a resurgent Nintendo Wii, buoyed by a price cut, which reached 30,741 console sold in one week. The DS Lite shipped almost 5,500 items, while the Xbox 360 sold 3,326 units, staying ahead of th...
Friday, Oct 16
Wii Fit Plus Is Not a Sequel
In chat with Satoru Iwata, one of the bosses of Nintendo, Miyamoto has stated that “We began developing Wii Fit Plus with a kind of typical game developer's way of thinking: since the first one has sold well, we should come up with a sequel,” adding that “As we'd managed to come up with such a s...
Thursday, Oct 15
Wii Play Is the Most Sold Videogame of the Decade
It seems that Nintendo has managed not only to make the Wii home gaming console the best sold of the generation and the Nintendo DS one of the most ubiquitous platforms for videogames in the world but to also to pride on the best sold title of the decade beginning with the year 2000. The game is W...
Wednesday, Oct 14
Rumor Mill: NVIDIA Tegra Inside Next-Generation Nintendo DS
According to a recent news-article on the Bright Side of News, NVIDIA has managed to land a contract with Nintendo, the creator of one of the world's most successful gaming consoles, the Wii. The collaboration between the two companies will put the former's Tegra chip in the latter’s upco...
Tuesday, Oct 13
The New Super Mario Bros Wii Will Sell Forever
The New Super Mario Bros Wii should have the same long-lasting effect as the DS version of the game. According to Shigeru Miyamoto, this Mario will continue to keep sales up and be a successful title well after its original release time frame. Second only to the Pokemon Diamond & Pearl, t...
Nintendo's Weekly Update List Includes Final Fight 2
Nintendo have been slacking off this month, and their online store hasn't delivered a lot of new games. Last week all that they could muster was one title for each of the Virtual Console, WiiWare, and DSiWare. Thorium Wars is the lucky one that managed to steal the spotlight for the DSi while W...
Monday, Oct 12
Project Runway Videogame Coming to the Nintendo Wii
It's no mystery that television and movies seem not to mix well with videogames. Most adaptations for the big screen of titles like Doom have been flops and all attempts to make television series into videogames have turned out poorly (see Lost: Via Domus). But now Atari is determined to get...
Thursday, Oct 8
Consumers Love the New Cheaper Nintendo Wii
When the PlayStation 3 Slim launched, with its reduced 299-dollar price point, Sony quickly moved to say that in some territories, sales increased by 999%. Microsoft also signaled that feedback had been positive to the similar price cut of the Xbox 360 Elite. Now, it's Nintendo's turn to d...
Opinion: Nintendo Named Top Videogame Publisher
Game Developer Research has announced that Nintendo has topped the chart of publishers that it outs annually, hanging on to number 1 for the third year in a row. The Japanese company is followed by Electronic Arts and by Activision Blizzard.
Wednesday, Oct 7
Sin & Punishment 2 Coming to Nintendo's Wii
Coming to Japan on October 29, developer Treasure and the folks over at Nintendo promise that the game will be everything the first one was but on a higher level. Famistu magazine had a chance to talk to Masato Maegawa, the man in charge of Treasure, and here is what he had to say: "It's not that...
Tuesday, Oct 6
Remington Weapons Coming to Great American Bird Hunt
We often hear that the Nintendo Wii has been so successful in its competition with the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 from Sony because it manages to attract those players who do not directly associate videogames with violence and with weapons.
F1 2009 Arrives on November 19
The title has a date of November 19 in all PAL territories, with the United Kingdom getting F1 2009 on both the Nintendo Wii and the PlayStation Portable on November 20. The United States will receive the videogame on November 17, while Japan, which hosted the Fuji Grand Prix this weekend, i...
Monday, Oct 5
We Sing Announces New Artists, Release Date
Nordic Games Publishing AB has announced that it plans to release We Sing, its upcoming karaoke-oriented singing videogame, on October 30 for the Nintendo Wii, allowing players to enjoy no less than 30 tracks in a variety of game modes designed to allow for maximum fun.
Wii Fit Plus Arrives in Europe on October 30
Nintendo has announced that Wii Fit Plus, the sequel to its fitness title still appearing in sales charts, is set to arrive in Europe on October 30. The company is aiming at more casual gamers at the same time enhancing the experience that it offers in the hope that it can launch another Balan...
Thursday, Oct 1
No Videogame Transfer Between Nintendo DSi Handhelds
In contrast, the PlayStation Portable from Sony is more user friendly. Players can connect to the PlayStation Network if they are looking to get content that they bought on another console us... (read more) One of the biggest innovations coming alongside the DSi, the new handheld model rele...
Wednesday, Sep 30
Driver: Parallel Lines Hints (PS2)
Driver: Parallel Lines is a videogame developed by Reflections Interactive Limited and published by Atari. Inc. The game was released for the PlayStation 2 home console from Sony, the original Xbox from Microsoft, the Nintendo Wii and the PC in March 2006. It is classed as a racing title pla...
Nintendo Releases Major Wii 4.2 System Update
One certain thing is that the 4.2 system update for the Nintendo Wii eliminates all homebrew content that one might have on the gaming console. The Nintendo Wii can be opened to content not delivered by the mother company through some very public exploits and without any hardware changes to...
Tuesday, Sep 29
Metal Gear Solid 4 and Final Fantasy XIII Receive Japan Game Awards
Awards of Excellence were delivered to: Dissidia Final Fantasy from Square Enix; Demon's Souls from Sony; BioHazard 5 aka Resident Evil 5 by Capcom; Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 – from Atlus; Pokemon Platinum Version by Nintendo; 428: In the blocked city, Shibuya from Sega; Rhythm Hea...
Guitar Rock Tour Unlockables II (DS)
The mobile-phone first Guitar Rock Tour shape-shifts to accommodate the new platform and comes to the Nintendo DS. If the original version was fully devoted to the electric guitar, the DS version will also grant players the possibility to rock out to the massive beat of the drums. Unlike th...
Sunday, Sep 27
A Gamer's Week: 20 – 27 September
Wednesday was a day of oddities, as Microsoft priced the Sergeant Johnson DLC for Halo 3: ODST, which was part of the pre-order package, at close to 1,200 dollars. Another oddity was a leaked document that detailed how SEGA and Sony could collaborate on bringing Dreamcast games to the Play...
Friday, Sep 25
Let's Play with the Super Monkey Ball
Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll is the ninth member of the Super Monkey Ball family, if you include the original arcade game. The title will be developed for the Wii and will be the second in the series for this particular Nintendo platform. Step & Roll promises to return to the roots of t...
Wii Sports Resort Bundle Coming to the United States
The new Wii Sports Resort bundle is interesting because it saves the buyer some money, as the suggested retail price of the Wii Motion Plus is 19.99 dollars and the normal edition of Wii Sports Resort costs 49.99. Still, it would probably be a much better idea for Nintendo to start including th...
Monday, Sep 21
Driven Unlockables III (PS2)
Driven is a video game developed by BAM! Europe Studios Ltd. and published by BAM! Entertainment, Inc. It was released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony and also for the Game Cube from Nintendo in 2001. It is classed as a racing title played from a first- and a third-person perspective an...
Guitar Hero: On Tour Unlockables (DS)
The title was published by Activision Publishing, Inc. and RedOctane, Inc., while being developed by Vicarious Visions, Inc. It's an Action-Simulation from a 3rd-person perspective. The game was released for the Nintendo DS on July 22, 2008.
Tuesday, Jul 1
Patch: Magnetica Twist, Fatal Fury 2 and Crystal Chronicles Update Available from Nintendo
Nintendo is really putting its money where its mouth is. After promising regular updates for the WiiWare service, which aims to bring small, interesting games to Nintendo Wii users through a download service, Nintendo is announcing new additions to the service in the form of one new game...
