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Mario Kart Wii (Wii) 22. LittleBigPlanet (PS3) 23. Shape Boxing: Wii de Enjoy! Diet (Wii) 24. Yuusha no Kuse ni Namaikida Or 2 (PSP) 25. Wii Sports (Wii) 26. Animal Crossing Wild World (DS) 27. Shin Sangoku Musou 5 Special (PS2) ...

By Stuart Houghton Bangai-O Spirits (DS) Price: $ Rating: Lock's Quest (DS) Price: $27.99 Rating:E Socializers Mario Kart (DS) Price: $33.99 Rating:E GRID (DS) Price: $19.99 Rating:E Epics Disgaea DS (DS) Price: $27.99 Rating: E The World Ends With You (DS) Price: $39.99 Rating: T

By Michael McWhertor Since then, the console has seen major releases from Nintendo, including Super Mario Galaxy, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Wii Fit, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, WarioWare: Smooth Moves and Mario Kart Wii. Nintendo has added new platforms to its Virtual Console service, launched WiiWare, sh...

By Michael McWhertor Members of the Japanese version Club Nintendo who have racked up the required number of points from their Nintendo purchases will be able to secure one of the lovely prizes seen above — a gold painted Mario Kart Wii wheel, a Club Nintendo calendar for 2009 and a plush-looking Mario hat. Were...

By Michael McWhertor Who's got the best selling games in the United States of America? Nintendo, naturally. According to a report from Gamasutra, the publisher has secured four of the five best-selling games of 2008 so far in the U.S. of A. Topping the elite sales club is Super Smash Bros. Brawl with an estimated 3.5 m...

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By Luke Plunkett While it never exactly resonated with the more discerning end of the video game buying public, the average man on the street would still have put a fiver on Wii Music doing well in its first month of sale (the game was released in the US on October 20). After all, it's for the Wii, it's made by Nin...

By Michael McWhertor Nintendo of America announced that it was bringing the Club Nintendo customer reward programing stateside in October, just prior to Tokyo Game Show. Details were scant, only revealing that Nintendo fans could accrue points through filling out surveys and, of course, buying armfuls of...

By Michael McWhertor You didn't really think you were getting a Wii, three Wii Remotes, three Nunchuks, Wii Sports, Mario Super Sluggers, and King of Clubs Mini-Golf for $224 USD did you? Oh. You did? Well, shit. Sorry about that, because that mindbogglingly good deal from Sam's Club as part of a Black Friday dea...

By Michael McWhertor Wii™ and Nintendo DS™ topped the U.S. sales charts and combined to sell more than 1.29 million units in October. Nintendo sold 803,210 Wii consoles and 491,176 Nintendo DS systems in October, according to the independent NPD Group, which tracks video game sales in the United States. These fig...

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By Michael McWhertor 01. Fable II (Xbox 360) - 790,000 02. Wii Fit (Wii) - 487,000 03. Fallout 3 (Xbox 360) - 375,000 04. Mario Kart Wii (Wii) - 290,000 05. Wii Play (Wii) - 282,000 06. Saints Row 2 (Xbox 360) - 270,000 07. SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation (PS3) - 231,000 08. LittleBigPlanet (PS3) - 215,000

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By Michael McWhertor 11. Wii Music (Wii) 12. Wii Fit (Wii) 14. Avalon Code (DS) 17. Mario Kart Wii (Wii) 19. Shape Boxing: Wii de Enjoy! Diet (Wii) 21. Nostalgia no Kaze (DS) 23. Wii Sports (Wii) 24. Inazuma Eleven (DS) 27. Daigasso! Band Brothers DX (DS) 28. Dragonball DS (DS) 29. Mario Kart DS (DS) 30. DS Bimoji Training (DS)

By Brian Crecente Best Individual Sports Game Shaun White Snowboarding Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 Wii Fit Skate It Best Driving Game Burout Paradise Pure Midnight Club: Los Angeles Mario Kart Wii Best Team Sports Game NHL 09 Madden NFL 09 NBA 2K9 FIFA Soccer 09

By Luke Plunkett International Nintendo publishing partnership strengthened with new title Future Publishing Australia have today announced a new agreement with Nintendo Australia to launch Official Nintendo Magazine – Australia and New Zealand.

By Luke Plunkett Now we're getting into the good stuff. Sam's Club's' Black Friday catalogue just hit these here internets. It's got deals. Wii Fit for $79 is...OK, if that's your kind of thing, but you may find their "Nintendo Wii Family Bundle" a little more appealing. For $224 you get a Wii. With two bonus Wii Remo...

By Luke Plunkett No press release, no fancy photos, there's been nothing from Nintendo to accompany this product release, but release a new product they have: what you're looking at is the imaginatively-titled "multiplayer control set". Spotted at Target by a Go Nintendo reader, it's official Nintend...

By Michael McWhertor 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...

By Luke Plunkett What's even more interesting than the raw numbers is the percentage of those final tallies US sales comprise. For Madden, of the 2.994 million, 2.958 were in the US. Proving, in case Americans were unaware, how few people outside North America give a rat's arse about American Football. Yet for...

By Luke Plunkett Mario Kart Wii - $49.99 Super Mario Galaxy Wii - $49.99 Nintendo DS - $129.99 Nintendo DS Car Adapter - $9.99 Nintendo DS Folio - $9.99 Nintendo DS Mario Party - $29.99 Nintendo DS Master Chef - $9.99 Nintendo DS New Super Mario - $34.99 Nintendo Wii Music - $49.99 Nintendo Wii Play w/Remote - $49.99

By Luke Plunkett Don't say we didn't warn you. Despite, well, warnings that they just wouldn't stand for anybody creating then sharing real songs over Guitar Hero: World Tour's song creation utility, people went ahead and did it anyway. During the game's first week on sale, the GH Tunes "store" was littere...

By Luke Plunkett Great for Nintendo, maybe. And that's definitely a problem with the Wii, one that may start to rear its head 12-18 months down the line once a lot of these "new" gamers get sick of Wii Sports and Wii Fit. Wonder how companies like Sega (and Nintendo!) are going to overcome it.

By Mike Fahey Sacred 2: Fallen Angel provides numerous unique items that can be gathered in this mystical world. A deep reward system further enables advancements in character, individual attributes and character-specific fighting styles, each designed to keep players returning to the world of S...

By Brian Ashcraft I made a picture called Super Mario Bros., and my six-year-old son at the time — he's now 18 — he said, 'Dad, I think you're probably a pretty good actor, but why did you play that terrible guy King Koopa in Super Mario Bros.?' and I said, 'Well Henry, I did that so you could have shoes,' and he said,...

By Stuart Houghton It's my first time driving" he said, "but I learned from watching dad and playing at the video arcade." The real question of course is What game did he practice on? Knowing if there are junior GTA players on the loose could be a very different prospect to under-age Mario Kart re-enactors.

By Michael McWhertor 12. Wii Music (Wii) 13. Avalon Code (DS) 14. Shape Boxing: Wii de Enjoy! Diet (Wii) 16. Wii Fit (Wii) 20. Mario Kart Wii (Wii) 22. Vitamin Y (DS) 24. Inazuma Eleven (DS) 26. Wii Sports (Wii) 28. Dragonball DS (DS) 29. Dr. Slump & Arale-Chan (DS) 30. Culdcept DS (DS)

By Michael McWhertor Why? According to the seller, it features level 1-1 of Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, five laps of the first track from Super Mario Kart and the home run derby from Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball. That's practically a hundredth of a full game, right there!

By Michael McWhertor Easy! Take a t-shirt and apply the Bape sub-label Baby Milo. That's eighty bucks already. You're almost half way there. Next, make it exclusive to the members-only online store Nigo's Favorite Shop. Finally, add Japanese import mark up and you've easily reached $175. The designs, featuring...

By Luke Plunkett Lots of people call Mario "Italian", but they're either falling back on creaky old racial stereotypes or just plain guessing. Mario may be of Italian descent, but he and his brother are from Brooklyn. They're American. And as such are as eligible to vote as any of you other non-incarcerated A...

By Brian Ashcraft Haven't had time yet to fiddle with the camera, but I did pop in an American copy of Mario Kart DS, which confirms that the portable is still region free — however, it's been stated that any DSi-specific software will most like not be region free. DSi Ware, likewise, is not region free.

By Michael McWhertor Next week, you'll be neck deep in SAVINGS if you're within shopping distance of a Target store. The retailer is offering a buy two, get one free deal on all Wii games starting this Sunday, even on the new stuff like Wii Music and Guitar Hero: World Tour. We'd suggest getting there early and gett...

By Brian Crecente 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...

By Michael McWhertor 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...

By Mike Fahey Ahead of his appearance at the Festival, Sonic the Hedgehog, the official mascot of computer giant SEGA, was crowned the most popular video-game character of all time collecting nearly a quarter of all votes (24 per cent). Super Mario and Tomb Raider’s Lara Croft came second and third gai...

By Mike Fahey 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...

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 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...

By Michael McWhertor 11. Wario Land: Shake It! (Wii) 16. Bimoji Training DS (DS) 17. Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 15 (Wii) 19. Wii Sports (Wii) 22. Daigasso! Band Brothers DX (DS) 26. Nobunaga no Yabou DS 2 (DS) 27. Super Mario Stadium: Family Baseball (Wii) 30. Major DS: Dream Baseball (DS)

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.

By Michael McWhertor 11. Wii Sports (Wii) 16. Family Trainer: Athletic World (Wii) 17. Wii Play (Wii) 19. Mario Kart DS (DS) 21. Boura wa Kaseki Holder (DS) 25. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii) 27. New Super Mario Bros. (DS) 28. Pokémon Diamond (DS) 29. Link's Crossbow Training (Wii) 30. Motto TOEIC Test DS Training (DS)

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...

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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

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 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...

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 Luke Plunkett 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...

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 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...

By Michael McWhertor Wii Super Mario Galaxy Super Smash Bros. Brawl Donkey Kong(R) Barrel Blast Battalion Wars(TM) 2 Fire Emblem(TM): Radiant Dawn Wii Zapper(TM) with Link's Crossbow Training(TM) Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock Rayman Raving Rabbids 2

By Brian Crecente Tips • The four lights on the top of Samus' helmet indicate the battery life in your Wii Remote