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 South Africa - With all of these new entries, that means that there was quite a bit of shifting around to make way, although Mario Kart Wii actually managed to climb up ...

By oliver@el33tonline.com (Oliver) Pokemon Platinum (Nintendo) 122,000 / 1,595,000 Rhythm Tengoku Gold (Nintendo) 54,000 / 906,000 Wii Fit (Nintendo) 21,000 / 2,706,000 Powerful Major League 3 (Konami) 18,000 / NEW World Destruction (SEGA) 15,000 / 71,000 Dragonball DS (Namco Bandai) 12,000 / 115,000

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By oliver@el33tonline.com (Oliver) Fifa 09 (EA) Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (LucasArts) Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway (Ubisoft) Wii Fit (Nintendo) Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo) Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 (EA) Wii Play (Nintendo) Big Beach Sports (THQ) Pure (Disney Interactive) Carnival: Funfair Games (2K)

 South Africa - 4 and Mario Kart moving from No. 3 to No. 5. Scandalous! Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 felt the push, moving from No. 5 to No. 6 and another Nintendo title, Wii ...

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By oliver@el33tonline.com (Oliver) Pokemon Platinum (Nintendo, NDS) 195,000 / 1,474,000 Rhythm Tengoku Gold (Nintendo, NDS) 65,000 / 852,000 World Destruction (SEGA, NDS) 56,000 / NEW Wii Fit (Nintendo, WII) 21,000 / 2,684,000 Disaster: Day of Crisis (Nintendo, WII) 14,000 / NEW

 South Africa - 11, while Mario Kart Wii drops out of the Top Ten and falls to No. 13. One Piece Unlimited Cruise: Episode 1 for Wii seems to have fallen a mighty long way, ...

Super Smash Bros Melee was the highest selling game worldwide on the GameCube, a bright success on a console that didn’t produce that many top sellers. Not only was it a top seller, it was a fantastic game and even spawned a vibrant tournament scene. So when Nintendo announced Brawl it was met...

Braid takes the form of an old school platformer, those ones that we used to play on the Commodore 64 or the Apple ][. Stages, for the most part don't scroll on forever like in Super Mario Bros, but are usually only a screen or two, with the artists taking advantage of today's big high-definiti...

Another game in my backlog and one that I am sad to say I should have played ages ago. In my view it should not take longer than an hour to start enjoying a game. Games such as Grand Theft Auto, Mario Kart and Tetris are all good examples of games that have you mastering the controls within minutes o...

By lisa@el33tonline.com (Lisa) As usual it was no holds barred and amidst the red shells and bullet bills, it became apparent that people’s definitions of the word ‘friendly’ varied. For some (ok, I admit, it was just me) Mario Kart Wii had confused the matter at hand, and the top DS screen was flipped forward by mistake as I...

In what Nintendo calls its Hanabi Festival, where previously region-specific games are released for a limited time on the VC service, quite a few games have found new homes in completely new territories, including Ninja Gaiden, Super Mario Bros 2, Sin & Punishment, Gradius III and...

 South Africa - After waiting for around 13 years, the Super Nintendo classic, Super Mario RPG, has been released on the Wii’s virtual console service. ...

By lisa@el33tonline.com (Lisa) In a very tiny nutshell, if you’ve ever had more than a passing familiarity with any of the previous Mario games, then you’re well aware of the plot. The princess, in all her futile pink glory, gets kidnapped by Bowser—a giant anthropomorphic red-eyebrowed turtle of sorts—presumably in a...

The first thing that hits home is that it is really ugly. After playing something like Super Mario Galaxy or Metroid Prime on the Wii you expect so much more, but then what can one really expect from a game that practically launched alongside the Wii. With that bit out the way it’s up to the contr...

Nintendo of America has jumped the E3 announcement gun by detailing two new Wii games and two DS titles. Wario and Kirby are back in their own platform games while the Big Fish Games franchise debuts on the DS with a new Mystery Case Files game. Not to be left out of the action, Mario is set to slug...

What exactly is it that makes Mario Kart so much different than any other kart copycat out there? I mean, it’s quite simple in theory – you have a Nintendo character driving a kart trying to reach the finish line first and in doing so you have weapons to help you achieve this. We’ve seen Crash Bandicoot, Disney, Looney Tunes and other well known brands slap their characters into a kart game and achieve nothing more than a good dose of embarrassment. Nintendo are the Gods of kart racing (among other) and it does not seem as if they are planning on letting up anytime soon. Welcome back Mario Kart, console edition Pros: Mario Kart Online – with friends; bikes; free Wii Wheel.   [read the full post]

By lisa@el33tonline.com (Lisa) Journalists attending the press launch of Mario Kart Wii were in for a big surprise and a big challenge! Once we had all been given the chance to get behind the steering wheel and the buzz had quietened down a bit, we were told the good news. So once the smoke had settled, it was Lauren from SACM and Nicholas from T3 who took top honours by racing all the way to the final. Lauren chose to race as Donkey Kong while Nicholas adopted Wario – perhaps each was trying to intimidate the other? Before I sign off I thought I would share one last picture with you, one of a few members of The Nintendo Team (Candice, Kerry, Matthew and Matt) putting the pedal to the medal. I promised to mention something about coffee but that's all I am going to say.   [read the full post]

By lisa@el33tonline.com (Lisa) There are loads of Wii accessories out there in the shops these days, so they must be popular with Wii owners. If you’re on the market for some useful ones, the Thrustmaster T-Megapack for Wii is a solid option. It comes with a wheel that you can dock your Wii remote in for driving games, a protective grippy cover for the Wii Remote and the Nunchuk, and a docking station to charge and store your Wii Remote and Nunchuk in a neat fashion. It also includes batteries, rechargeable ones. We still have to check how well this wheel will work with Mario Kart Wii. Since that game only comes with one wheel shell you’ll likely want a few more if you plan to play with three others, and this Thrustmaster wheel looks to be a good option. We will let you know as soon as we hav...   [read the full post]

Picross DS may start you off easy, but it does get progressively more difficult as you finish more puzzles, and pretty soon you progress on to 10x10 puzzles, then 15x15, 20x20 and finally 25x20. In Normal Mode, if you try to fill in a block that shouldn’t be filled in you will be bleeped at and a...

By lisa@el33tonline.com (Lisa) Nintendo also announced that the Nintendo Channel will launch across Europe on the 30th of May. The new channel was launched in the US on the 8th of May and allows Wii owners to get information about Wii and Nintendo DS games as well as watch trailers and game play videos, make use of ‘DS Download Play’ to sample DS game demos, search for games using various categories and recommend games you’ve played. Dr. Mario & Germ Buster (Nintendo) Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King (Square Enix - Japanese) Lost Winds (Frontier – UK) Pirates: The Key of Dreams (Oxygen Interactive Ltd – Dutch) Pop (Nnooo – Australian) Star Soldier R (Hudson Soft Japanese) Toki Tori (Two Tribes B.V. – Dutch) TV Show King (Gameloft – French)   [read the full post]

The story of Super Mario Galaxy is, as always in these Mario platformers, of the most basic kind – rescue the princess. Of course, not just any princess – it’s the same one he’s been rescuing for 20 years, Princess Peach. The villain is that perennial performer – Bowser the...well I’m not sure what kind of creature he is. Thankfully he’s shed his cartoony, cutesy look from the Paper Mario and Mario sports series (not that I mind that look or those games one bit, it just wouldn’t fit here), and is once again his bombastic, growly self, trying to take over not just the Mushroom Kingdom but the universe itself. (I’m never quite sure why he needs Peach to complete his nefarious plans though.) It’s up to Mario to gather together power stars so that he can rescu...   [read the full post]

Once you have unlocked the multiplayer mode, you can really start to have some fun. Unlike most multiplayer games on the Wii which you can use up to four Wii Remotes to play such as Wii Sports, you can only use one in this game. But the twist is that up to twelve people can play at one time with just one controller. What this does is simply add more confusion and excitement to an already insane experience! Passing the Wii Remote between four friends is a mini-game in itself…and don’t forget to put that safety chord on because one mini-game has been snuck in which actually requires you to drop the Wii Remote completely, testing your adherence to Nintendo’s safety regulations. It could be seen as a negative that there are no real simultaneous multipla...   [read the full post]

Now in his defence he is not at bad as Bowser, I mean he most certainly does not always kidnap Princess Peach but he has a pretty bad rap nonetheless. Some of Wario’s distinguishing factors include a big curly moustache below quite a sizeable pink nose, evil looking eyes, a large ‘W’ on his hat...

In the absence of Super Mario Galaxy, Sonic is the one left carrying the platformer crown in South Africa this Christmas, and is being released in December at a very reasonable price. Many hailed this as a return to form for the Sonic series after a poor outing on the Xbox 360 and PS3, but it see...

Like Super Mario Galaxy, Wii Sports and Trauma Centre, Zack & Wiki pushes the boundaries of the Wii and makes use of the Wii Remote as it was no doubt meant to be used. The controls in the game are simple, aim with the Wii Remote and press ‘A’ to guide Zack. Besides navigating, you will use the Wii Remote to transform objects and unlock new paths. This is where the game excels, if you need to unlock a door simply twist the Wii Remote as you would a key in real life or saw back and forth to saw a tree down. Along the way you will be met with various puzzles that will require you to use the Wii Remote in interesting ways including pulling levers, turning knobs and you will even have to rock a baby, albeit a dragon baby!   [read the full post]

What is a game? Something that is easy to pick up and then have loads of fun with. Super Mario Bros. on the Nintendo Entertainment System proved this by defining it years ago by giving you the chance to really have fun when playing a simple game. Now, in this day and age, we see that “games” are becoming more and more realistic to such an extent that it is actually quite “serious”… so, it’s not a “game” anymore? Nope, it’s just a different kind of game that provides the enthusiast with an endless amount of fun. Rewarding but lacking soul Auction action Cons: People after arcade racers stay way clear; tracks can be bland.   [read the full post]

By podcast@el33tonline.com We take a closer look at the Nintedo Wii and the goodies it comes packaged with. This episode Peter reviews Kirby Power Paintbrush for the DS, while Justin recounts his first experiences of Kingdom Hearts I on the PS2. The guys save the best for last and review New Super Mario Bros, which is cer...