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By Brian Crecente Rambo The Arcade Game: Hands On Mappy The Robot Runs a Maze Arcades Outside Japan "Practically Dead" Super Mario World Golf Shoes Exist For Some Reason Weresonic Stalks the TGS Floor Super Smash Bros. Brawl Designer Checks Out The Wii Competition At TGS

By Michael McWhertor 11. Mario Kart Wii (Wii) 13. Daigasso! Band Brothers DX (DS) 15. Quiz Magic Academy DS (DS) 17. Disaster: Day of Crisis (Wii) 18. Wii Sports (Wii) 19. Inazuma Eleven (DS) 24. Mario Kart DS (DS) 25. Dragon Quest V (DS) 30. New Super Mario Bros. (DS)

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By develin V1L3: While a lot of people prefer SF1, I never heard that SF1 looked BRIGHTER. Both, story and graphics are actually much darker in the first one. Maybe I just misunderstood you .... develin.

By Michael McWhertor 13. Mario Kart Wii (Wii) 15. Quiz Magic Academy DS (DS) 16. Knights in the Nightmare (DS) 19. Soul Eater: Montone Princess (Wii) 20. Chokkan! Asonde Relaxuma (DS) 21. Wii Sports (Wii) 25. Dragon Quest V (DS) 28. Mario Kart DS (DS) 29. Sim City Creator (Wii) 30. Inazuma Eleven (DS)

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By Brian Crecente About Nintendo: The worldwide pioneer in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its Wii™ and Nintendo DS™ systems. Since 1983, when it launched the Nintendo Entertainment System™, Nintendo ha...

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By Luke Plunkett Yesterday's announcement that Pikmin would be re-released for the Wii? It was, as you no doubt expected, just the start. Nintendo have big plans for this line, with many, many more games planned. And yesterday, they even announced a few of them. First up is Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat, which wil...

By Thorn I'd really love to make some kind of joke about them releasing their trailer on "last-gen hardware" or some such, but I'm just too tired to be witty. Readers, please make up your own funny joke of that ilk and chuckle to yourself now, ...

By Perfec7 The first was one of my favorite games on the Gameboy Advance. Too bad I just sold my DS. : (. Perfec7.

By Mactheridon Since the SNES Mario RPG, its very hard for me not to play these titles. But they are still nothing compared to the Sqaresoft creation!!! Mactheridon.

By 90sKid Mh, my reasons to get a DS and a Wii are starting to multiply like 4chan memes. You're a cruel, teasing lady, Nintendo. 90sKid.

By dowingba I just started playing the second one the other day. And it's fantastic. dowingba.

By Brian Ashcraft • Hardware: Nintendo DS (DS and DS Lite) First half of the year: 1,314,919 Total units sold: 23,484,680 Wii First half of the year: 1,105,174 Total units sold: 6,800,753 •Software Mario Kart Wii First half of the year: 1,744,387 Total units sold: 1,744,387

By Michael McWhertor 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)

By Michael McWhertor 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...

By Michael McWhertor 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)

By Michael McWhertor 13. Wii Sports (Wii) 17. DS Bimoji Training (DS) 18. Mario Kart DS (DS) 21. Wii Play (Wii) 22. New Super Mario Bros. (DS) 24. Zettai Karen Children DS: Dai-4 no Children (DS) 26. Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS) 27. Wario Land: Shake It! (Wii) 28. Fatal Frame IV (Wii) 29. Sigma Harmonics (DS)

By Mike Fahey How dare you, Nintendo! How dare you release Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars for the Super Nintendo (800 points) on the Wii Virtual Console on a holiday Monday when I wasn't paying attention? I could have been playing that all day long yesterday instead of...playing the other games...

By Michael McWhertor 15. Wii Sports (Wii) 17. Wario Land: Shake It! (Wii) 18. DS Bimoji Training (DS) 20. Bokura wa Kaseki Holder (DS) 22. Mario Kart DS (DS) 25. New Super Mario Bros. (DS) 26. Family Trainer: Atheletic World (Wii) 27. Wii Play (Wii) 30. Mario Super Sluggers (Wii)

By Michael McWhertor 13. Wii Sports (Wii) 16. Mario Kart DS (DS) 19. Bimoji Training DS (DS) 20. Fatal Frame IV (Wii) 21. Bokura wa Kaseki Holder (DS) 22. Wii Play (Wii) 23. Mario Super Sluggers (Wii) 24. New Super Mario Bros. (DS) 25. Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 15 (Wii) 26. Sangokushi Taisen Ten (DS)

By Michael McWhertor There's simply nothing else like Braid on the Xbox 360. Jonathan Blow's time-twisting puzzle game may look like a simple 2D platformer, with its numerous allusions to genre trailblazers like Donkey Kong and Super Mario Bros., but its temporal puzzle mechanics and mature, powerful story...

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By Owen Good Forget Wii Fit, It's Mario Kart That's Buttering Nintendo's Bread Art Apocalypse: Blizzard's Wilson Talks Diablo III Design Decisions Battlefield Heroes Not Coming This Summer A Weighty Debate: Discussing Fat Princess Why Penny Arcade Took so Long to Go PSN and May Never Go Wii Ware

By Owen Good 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...

Tetris Impressions: I'd love to say that this is a great use of the iPhone's touchscreen or that Tetris on the iPhone was fun, but the fact is everytime I tried to play the game it crashed just as the menu loaded up. This is, so far, the only iPhone game I've ever had crash on me.

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By Leigh Alexander The Fun Centers will contain Sharp Aquos flatscreen TVs, Wiis and family-friendly titles like Super Mario Galaxy, Wii Sports and Mario Party 8. On June 25th, Nintendo will kick things of by donating two units to Childrens Hospital Los Angeles at a Galaxy-themed launch event.

By Mike Fahey The intro to Mario Super Sluggers for the Nintendo Wii holds no real surprises to anyone who has played any of the other Mario-themed sports games Nintendo has been cranking forever. Mario and friends take a magical boat to Baseball Island, where they are forced to play baseball until they...

By Michael McWhertor “The Wii Wheel and Wii Balance Board accessories make game play fun for new gamers while presenting new challenges for those who have been playing a long time,” said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. “The diversity of the seven Nint...

By Mike Fahey As it turns out, just about all of the Olympic athletes I profiled started playing video games around the same time they started showing interest in their more physical pursuits. Take Kevin Tan, a champion of the still rings and assistant gymnastics coach for Penn State, who got started ga...

By Brian Ashcraft The "hardcore" then claimed that Nintendo was abandoning the hardcore. Yet, in the past year and a half, Nintendo BY THEMSELVES released some of the most critically acclaimed games from their core stable. In fact, it was completely unprecedented that Nintendo could squeeze out a major Ze...

By Michael McWhertor 02. Mario Kart Wii (Wii) - 42,000 / 1,269,000 03. Luminous Arc 2 (Wii) - 41,000 / NEW 05. Wii Fit (Wii) - 35,000 / 2,074,000 06. Battalion Wars 2 (Wii) - 24,000 / NEW 07. DS Bimoji Training (DS) - 15,000 / 218,000 10. Wii Sports (Wii) - 10,000 / 2,989,000

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By Luke Plunkett The Wii's been out since 2006. It has, since then, moved a ton of units in its native Japan. But what about the games? Which titles have rocked the Wii's world more than other titles which may have rocked it less, if at all? These six have, and according to Media Create they're the top-selling ga...

By Luke Plunkett UPDATE] - Obviously, no Dr Mario on the list. Nintendo have let us know that despite a release date appearing in the trailer, at no stage was Dr Mario announced as a launch title. Nintendo Launches WiiWare: An Open Playground for Creativity

By Michael McWhertor 01. Mario Kart Wii (Wii) - 152,000 / 947,000 04. Meccha! Taiko Drum Master DS: 7-tsu no Shima no Daibouken (DS) - 56,000 / NEW 05. Summon Night (DS) - 38,000 / NEW 06. Wii Fit (Wii) - 37,000 / 1,934,000 07. Boura wa Kaseki Holder (DS) - 22,000 / 58,000 09. DS Bimoji Training (DS) - 18,000 / 167,000

By Mike Fahey The online competition heats up today as Nintendo introduces the first in a series of worldwide Mario Kart Wii tournaments. Every few weeks a new special tournament challenge will appear on the Mario Kart Channel, allowing players to attempt them as many times as they'd like for the durat...

By Luke Plunkett 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...

By Luke Plunkett In other words, use the Wii Remote & nunchuk, and only the Wii Remote & nunchuk. The Wii Wheel and 'Cube controllers should be thought of as Mad Catz peripherals: only for use by guests in multiplayer games. Guests you don't like. As for the Wii Remote on its own...I told you to forget about...

By Luke Plunkett Reward yourself with Club Nintendo, now you can turn your Nintendo games into Star points with Nintendo's new loyalty program. Available now, Club Nintendo allows you to earn and swap Star points for exclusive Nintendo merchandise not available anywhere else. The first game that allows...

By Brian Ashcraft WHAT: Nintendo celebrates the highly anticipated release of Mario Kart® Wii and the companion Wii Wheel™ accessory with a fun-packed launch party at the Nintendo World store in Rockefeller Plaza. Participants can compete in the Mario Kart Wii Challenge for a chance to compete against r...

By Luke Plunkett The premise is simple: take one NES cart, one NES, empty the working-bits from the NES, empty the NES cart, put the working-bits from the NES and squeeze them into the NES cart. Insert actual NES cart into NES cart NES, plug into TV, play Mario. Easy. It's the slimline NES we would have had if old N...

By Michael McWhertor Japan has a fever. The only cure? More Mario. The plumber dependent masses helped push Mario Kart Wii to the top of the Media Create sales charts, with over a half-million Wii Wheels shippin' out in week one. That impressive debut helped unseat Monster Hunter, which scooted past Super Smash B...

By Michael McWhertor Mario Kart Wii may be largely familiar, recycling stages from the SNES, Nintendo 64 and Nintendo DS entries, but it sticks closely to the tried and true Mario Kart gameplay conventions. Online multi-player is a nice touch, but fans may be more excited about the ability to replay classic st...

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By Michael McWhertor Nintendo was light on details during the brief demo of Super Mario Sluggers, but it looks to follow previous Mario-themed sporting events, with guest appearances from a big number of Nintendo mainstays. We saw Mario, Luigi, Peach, Baby Mario, Baby Luigi, Wario, Waluigi, Daisy, Shy Guy,...

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By Michael McWhertor It almost seems like a waste, given the creative talent at the developer/publisher, but it's clear that Nintendo has been successful with its reliance on older characters, with nostalgia playing a big part in Super Smash Bros. Brawl interest. Add to that the interesting and more abstract...

By Luke Plunkett Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection: There are two options for races and battles over Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection: up to 12 people via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection or up to 10 people via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection with two people playing locally.

By Michael McWhertor 15. Wii Sports (Wii) 17. Super Dodge Ball (DS) 18. Wii Play (Wii) 19. The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return (Wii) 21. Mario Kart DS (DS) 24. Mario Party DS (DS) 26. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (DS) 24. Minna no Joushiki Ryoku TV (Wii) 30. Taiko Drum Master DS (DS)

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By Michael McWhertor 12. Wii Play (Wii) 15. Family Ski (Wii) 17. Mario Party DS (DS) 18. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (DS) 19. Winning Eleven Play Maker 2008 (Wii) 22. Mario Kart DS (DS) 23. Taiko Drum Master DS (DS) 24. New Super Mario Bros. (DS) 26. World Soccer Winning Eleven: Ubiquitous Evolution 2008 (PSP)

By Luke Plunkett Mario Kart Wii transforms one of our most popular franchises into a race covered. Mario Kart Wii supports four different control options: Wii controller combo, Classic Controller and even the Nintendo GameCube(TM) Mario Kart Wii launches with a new channel added to the Wii Menu to

By Brian Crecente Celebrating the release of a big video game is starting to become a regular theme over there. If you recall, some pranksters dressed up John Harvard's statue to look like Master Chief when Halo 3 was released. The rather fuzzy pictures show a Mario hat, the Smash Bros. box, a Poke ball, a Smash b...

By Brian Ashcraft Another advantage of scores is that you don't necessarily want to be given details of the plot or gameplay. Some games are better unspoiled. You can look at a review score and if it's high enough then you don't need to worry about such details.

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By Mike Fahey The Grand Prize winner will receive one Vizio 37" LCD-TV, an entire Nintendo Wii Software Library, one Nintendo Wii console and selected accessories, and $5,000 in cash. Prize packages in the form of GameStop gift Cards will be awarded to the second and third place players.

By Mike Fahey When Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games launched in Europe just days later, it was an immediate hit, rising rapidly to the top of sales charts. Mario & Sonic became the best-ever performing Wii game over the seven-day period that ended on December 11, 2007. In January, Mario & So...

By Brian Ashcraft Y'know... it's not that I don't understand why these posts keep going up AND keep getting hundreds of responses. I do. The Wii is not only popular but popular with 'uncool' people like seniors and 'soccer moms,' so it MUST be bashed into oblivion by anyone who cares about maintaining their cool-...

By Brian Ashcraft Little red hat, overalls and a mustache. That's the Mario we all know. But what if he had, you know, a different mustache? Would he look different? He sure would! No clue who made this or how old it is or whatever. All we do know is it's super cool. That, and the Lech Walesa 'stache is magnificent. The...

By Mark Wilson 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...

By Michael McWhertor With Super Smash Bros. Brawl delayed to March, we just assumed that the Smash Bros. Dojo would be running dangerously on content fumes, posting about cursor changes when one hovers over portraits or scraping the barrel bottom for alternate costume choices. We certainly never thought they...

By Mark Wilson 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...

Go to any game store, and look at the Wii section. Most of it is mini-game bullshit. I bought one for my wife and son because they like mini games. I for one do not. There are just a small handful of must have Wii titles, alost all of them Nintendo 1st party exclusives. Just like the Gamecube. I have a lot...

By Michael McWhertor 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.

By Mark Wilson 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...

By Michael McWhertor 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...

By Michael McWhertor The roster in the demo—and the one I assume will be available at Nintendo's booth at E For All—featured the following characters: Mario, Donkey Kong, Link, Samus, Fox, Pikachu, Diddy Kong, Pit, Meta Knight, Ike, Princess Peach, Yoshi, Sonic and Bowser.

By Luke Plunkett Like Mario sports games? Like baseball? Oh man, are you going to love this: Super Mario Stadium Baseball. Announced at today's Nintendo Fall Conference, it's a Mario baseball game. And that's all we know! But it's not that hard to fill in the gaps: bright colours, crazy powerups, Wii Remote...

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By Mark Wilson 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.

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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...

Just to be on the safe side, I'll put money on those unannounced games to be Mario Party 9, Mario Party 10, Mario Party 11, Mario Party 12, Mario Party 13, Mario Party 14, Mario Party 15, Mario Party 16, Mario Party 17, Mario Party 18, Mario Party 19, Mario Party 20, Mario Party 21, Mario Party 2...