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By Ludwig Kietzmann Filed under: Nintendo DS, Adventure, TGSHotel Dusk and Trace Memory developer CING is teaming up with Tecmo to deliver another atmospheric adventure on the Nintendo DS, this time in the form of a supernatural murder mystery. Again: Eye of Providence follows FBI special agent Jonathan W...

By Ross Miller Filed under: Nintendo DS, Adventure, Puzzle If you're itching a "murder and mystery in paradise" kind of game, you need look no further, but you will have to wait. Marvelous and XSEED have announced (via press release) that the DS remake of Suda51's Flower, Sun and Rain is coming to North Am...

By Jem Alexander While the series move from PlayStation 3 to Wii can be attributed to cutting development costs, no expense has been spared on the game's visuals. Monster Hunter 3 (or "Monster Hunter Tri~" ... ?) is one of the sharpest Wii games we've seen. It's also immediately recognizable as a Monster Hunter...

By Ludwig Kietzmann As much as we hate how Sonic's roots have been clawed out by some furry, fanged and stretchy-limbed abomination, we must grudgingly admit that the Werehog is -- at least on the Tokyo Game Show floor -- almost bordering on sort of cool. As is the case with most obnoxious, product-peddling mas...

By Ludwig Kietzmann Filed under: Nintendo Wii, Action, Adventure, RPGsWhether it's the game's addictive MMORPG-like qualities or simply its startlingly apt title -- you hunt monsters! -- it's clear that Japan's love for slaying beasts is as intense as ever. Monster Hunter 3 has already garnered quite a bu...

By Andrew Yoon Level-5's Tokyo Game Show booth featured a Closed Theater presentation (much like their competitor, Square Enix). However, unlike the other JRPG overlord, Level-5 encouraged us to actually let you watch these trailers as well by endowing us with a DVD (courtesy of booth girl). Our favor...

By Justin McElroy Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360

By Ross Miller Filed under: Nintendo Wii, Action, TGS, Video "I will be back" is all beam katana-wielding Travis Touchdown can utter in this debut trailer for No More Heroes 2, before he presumably jumps into battle against a woman with six metallic arms beckoning him to fight. Other than its existence a...

By Alexander Sliwinski The new Nintendo Points cards will force you to pick a platform when it's redeemed. Siliconera reports that the House of Mario currency will not go into one main Nintendo piggy bank for the user, but will need to be redeemed for either DSWare or WiiWare titles.

By Justin McElroy Thanks to the journalizing of one Dean Takahashi, we may finally have an answer to one of our favorite questions: Why wasn't the Wii MotionPlus, the thing that makes the Wiimote work the way you thought it would before you bought it, included when the system launched? According to Reggie F...

By Randy Nelson Filed under: Nintendo Wii, Action, Puzzle One week from today, WiiWare wil find itself in a sticky situation of - based on our hands-on time - the best possible kind. 2D Boy's World of Goo hits splorts onto Wii on October 13, and it, er you, won't be alone (in playing it).

By Randy Nelson On Friday we had our final hands-on session with Wii Music before its October 20 release. Our feelings about it remain more or less unchanged from our time with it at E3. It's not a "gamer's game;" it's not even really a game in the traditional sense. Its novel mechanics will be best appreciated...

By Griffin McElroy Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business

By Justin McElroy Filed under: Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, RhythmThe New York Times is reporting that MTV has signed a deal with AC/DC to add an expansion pack with 18 of the band's songs exclusively to Wal-Mart stores in support of the group's new album "Black...

By Griffin McElroy Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business Update: Gladly. Hey, the Xbox 360 outsold the PS3 for the second week in a row. Looks like Microsoft finally ... developed a ... strategy to ...]

By Griffin McElroy While we normally hear about new DS Lite SKUs fairly far in advance, Amazon sneaked a new version of Nintendo's money-printing handheld onto their virtual shelves today -- a Polar White console adorned with the universal logo for breast cancer awareness, a pink ribbon. The handheld reta...

By Griffin McElroy We here at the Japanese Hardware Sales Institute of Hardware Sales (yes, it's a tad redundant -- our R&D department is working on a new moniker) take great pride in our weekly charge of bringing you the console sales rankings from the Land of the Rising Sun. In fact, as our catalog of post...

By James Ransom-Wiley Filed under: Nintendo DS, RPGs For those of us who thought Konami had shown it all, boy were we wrong! From out of nowhere, the company whipped out a new Suikoden game today, exclusive to DS, drawing the attention of handheld role-players everywhere. Suikoden: Tierkreis, while not the eas...

By Griffin McElroy We find ourselves in a predicament, dear readers. As many of you already know, Included in Rock Band 2 is an online World Tour mode, allowing the widely dispersed Joystiq crew to form a musical supergroup the likes of which Xbox Live has never seen before. Unfortunately, we found ourselves a...

By Alexander Sliwinski Giant Bomb (5/5): "... With its large library of licensed master recordings and vastly improved approach to multiplayer play, Rock Band 2 is a terrific value at both ends. It's both a must-own for fans of the genre and a great place for new players to get started."GamePro (5/5): "It's more Rock B...

By Griffin McElroy Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business

By Griffin McElroy It was an easy enough mistake to make, really. After forty-eight hours of driving, the exit to Tacoma, Washington, looks terribly similar to the exit to Seattle. Eyes made weary from two straight days of travel could easily confuse a radio tower for the Space Needle. The absence of a Starbuck...

By Jem Alexander Tell Tale, purveyors of all things pointy and clicky, were kind enough to have a natter with us on the PAX show floor. Designer, Mark Darin, and PR Manager, Emily Morgant, chat to us regarding developing for the Wii, how deals for the Sam and Max, Homestar Runner and Wallace and Gromit franch...

By Griffin McElroy Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business

By Joystiq Staff Filed under: Culture, Nintendo DS, Sony PSP, Meta (about Joystiq) In honor of the new PSP Brite moniker, we present the Lite Brite. Here's what we'll be playing this weekend. Be sure to let us know what games will be occupying your time! Alexander Sliwinski: Well, after a debilitating incid...

By Griffin McElroy Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business

By Justin McElroy Filed under: PC, Nintendo WiiWe, like many of you, we'd imagine, have been spending some time this week with Strong Bad's first WiiWare/PC adventure. On the whole, we've been really impressed by how well it captures the world of its cartoon source material (it's actually funny!) though w...

By Ross Miller Additionally, according to Totilo, there were over 1900 pre-Nintendo Wii references in the newspaper and magazine database Nexis. From a Singaporean record-setting stair climber to a Papa New Guinea lieutenant, Wii has traveled the globe. And although Nintendo hasn't attributed an e...

By Joystiq Staff So, we guess you heard about the homebrew app that lets you play DVDs on your Wii? Well, Wii Fanboy has put together a simple guide on how to do this yourself. All you have to do is click here to check it out. Gallery: Nintendo Wii mockups Permalink | Email this | Comments

By Griffin McElroy We're big fans of the 2008 Beijing Olympic games. Not because we're avid followers of swimming, or weightlifting, or badminton -- but because we like to believe that we live in a world where one country can achieve dominance over all the others by simply having more graceful and elegant gym...

By Ross Miller Nintendo: Wii Music not competing against Rock Band, Guitar Hero Bionic Commando Rearmed swings in next week; launching later on Euro PSN, $5 more on PC Nintendo doesn't have exclusive rights to MotionPlus Nintendo spins false assumptions on software sales

By Justin McElroy Filed under: Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, RhythmIGN was able to pin down seven new tracks for Guitar Hero World Tour and it's, well ... it's a mixed bag, to put it kindly. Let's take a look:

By Christopher Grant Best of Show Fallout 3(Bethesda Softworks for PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360) Best Original Game Mirror's Edge(DICE/Electronic Arts for PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360) Best Console Game LittleBigPlanet(Media Molecule/Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation 3) Best PC Game Spore(...

By Griffin McElroy We've grown quite content to simply sit on our fat surpluses and crank out Japanese hardware sales charts to the enraptured masses week after week -- however, the all-important figures you see at the bottom of every entry seem to always get lost in a maelstrom of eloquent prose. We thought l...

By Christopher Grant We know Electronic Arts has been kicking itself for underestimating the Wii since the console first came out in November of '06. When John Riccitiello rejoined EA the following February, that decision was already made and he's been turning the boat around ever since, telling the Mercury...

By Ross Miller uery The games that weren't there: Missing from E3 E3 hands-on: Tomb Raider: Underworld impressions: FutureU, Kaplan's SAT prep game for DS interview: Nintendo spins 'core' gamer appeal, more Ryan Davis talks up Giant Bomb's explosive re-launch Wii Fanboy Weekly: July 10 - July 23

By Ludwig Kietzmann Following this discovery, not to mention news of other exclusive titles and "the awesomeness of Blu-ray," he "promptly packed up his Xbox 360 and all his games and went down to Game Stop to trade them in." And that about wraps it up for Microsoft and Nintendo. Our biggest regret in all this? No...

By Griffin McElroy During the first few days of last week, Santa Monica, Calif. played host to a bevy of video game journalists, slaveringly searching for scoops to present to you, our dearest readers. Thousands of reporters representing hundreds of publications, both online and tangible, were in attenda...

By Majed Athab Filed under: Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Adventure, Interviews, E3 We've been wondering what everyone's favorite Sega mascot, Sonic, has been up to lately. Since Sega's Gamers Day in May, the company has been pretty quiet regarding Sonic U...

By Griffin McElroy Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business

By Ross Miller Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360 Part of this year's Into the Pixel collection is a sketch from "Half Life EP3" (wonder what that could be), coming to Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation 3. We're not exactly surprised to learn there's concept art for Episode 3, but it's still...

By Andrew Yoon Thanks to Brain Age, millions of kids have been able to trick their parents into thinking that the Nintendo DS is being used as an educational device. With the help of popular college prep company Kaplan, the trickery can continue. They announced their plans to create a SAT prep game for the N...

By Alexander Sliwinski Filed under: Culture, Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Adventure

By Griffin McElroy Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business

By Ross Miller Filed under: Nintendo DS, PC, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360 Oh yes, we got to play Spore. The entire thing. With Will Wright providing backseat commentary. We also got some time with the Wrath of the Lich King's Death Knight, and DS Fanboy decided to play Homie Rollerz (so you don't have to)....

By Christopher Grant Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Metareviews

By Griffin McElroy With all the recent buzz surrounding big-budget film adaptations of major video game licenses, we began to wonder -- if films based off of games can find funding with movie production companies, why couldn't a film based off of a video game news column? As our minds began to race with thoug...

By Ross Miller Filed under: Culture, Nintendo DS, Nintendo GameCube, Mac, PC, Nintendo Wii, Galleries Sure, Will Wright's Spore Creature Creator can let your imagination run wild ... but sometimes your imagination doesn't exactly go that far. Our friends at Nintendo Wii Fanboy have amassed a collectio...

By Griffin McElroy The gaming journalism world is an ever-changing maelstrom of high-stress deadlines and headline-making breaking news, so it should come as no surprise that we here at Joystiq absolutely adore routine. Like a freshly-fluffed down pillow, we find comfort in mundane repetition, as it so...

By Ross Miller Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360 A multi-instrument Guitar Hero World Tour means only one thing: more plastic controllers strewn about our living room. So goes the life of the virtual rocker. Check out all of our impressions and reviews from t...

By Ross Miller Nintendo job posting hints at Wii USB devices Xbox marketing chief Jeff Bell leaves Microsoft Kim promoted out of Microsoft Game Studios, Spencer takes reins New screens from Wii FPS The Conduit May NPD: PS3 up and PS2 out; GTA IV in and CoD 4 out

By Ross Miller Dark Sector demo spins into Xbox Live Spyro, Guilty Gear coming to Xbox Originals Wii storage for 'geeks and otaku', says Nintendo marketing director Unreal Tournament III on Xbox 360 begins fragging away July 7 Turbine working on console MMO

By David Hinkle Is this one worth your time, European gamers? We let you knowCan't find Wii Fit? Try these alternatives! Our direct-feed video and commentary to this week's Virtual Console releases in North America Video Content Everyone is into Nintendo's latest console News of Note

By Ross Miller Filed under: Nintendo DS, PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360 The biggest event of this past week was Capcom's Captivate event, where they showed off a handful of games from the surprisingly good Neopets Adventures to the expectedly-good Bionic Commando....

By Griffin McElroy Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business

By Ross Miller Let's talk about those Hummingbird ads ... Meet the Team: Alexander Sliwinski Metareview -- Lego Indiana Jones PSN Thursday: Novastrike, Civ Rev demo, Commando 3, much more Readers pick best webcomic: The Unhorse Tomonobu Itagaki: A Blood Splattered History

By Ludwig Kietzmann IGN (80/100): "Traveller's Tales has once again delivered an experience that boils down to smashing stuff over and over again while searching for secrets, while also managing to make that formula fun and addictive. It's certainly not a huge leap over the LEGO Star Wars titles, and in fact...

By Alisha Karabinus Since Wii Fit finally hit the US market, Wii Fanboy has been teetering all over the Balance Board in an effort to work out the best (and worst) aspects of Nintendo's latest. Check out some of that featured coverage, and jog on over to put your name in the hat to win a copy of the game, as well.

By David Hinkle It's been a hectic past few weeks over at Wii Fanboy. On top of the WiiWare games we've been reviewing, we've also been hard at work reviewing retail games and pumping out original features. If you've been busy catching up with other console news here at The 'Stiq, then check out what you've be...

By Ross Miller Filed under: Nintendo DS A reader-submitted (via IGN) from January 2004, brought back to our attention by DS Fanboy in light of today's DS revision rumor. We gotta say, they were oh so close to the final design. (Fingers crossed for the "DS Evn Liter" announcement.) Check out the highlights f...

By Ludwig Kietzmann Filed under: Culture, Hacks, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360Call it a hunch, but we're not convinced that UK television presenter, Anne Diamond, is an ideal choice to "review" games which she says make her "hair stand on end." Though she brushes off several titles which are "so mindless...

By Kyle Orland Filed under: Nintendo DS, Hacks, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360 Ah, review scores. Besides letting us skip all that long, boring text that actually describes a game's high and low points, it also allows for some excellent statistical analysis and fanboy-...

By David Hinkle Filed under: Nintendo Wii Welcome to mid-week, where the Wii reigns supreme and Wii Fanboy hijacks a little space on Joystiq to spread our propaganda. Do not believe the lies of the Sony and Microsoft camps, there is only one true answer to all of your gaming needs: the Wii.

By David Hinkle Hey, did you know Wii Fanboy is giving away one copy of No More Heroes for the Wii? It's something we try to do as often as we can and if your Wii has sat dormant and cold since the exploits of a certain plumber were complete, then perhaps you should get in on our giveaway. All one needs to do is stop b...

By David Hinkle Welcome to another Wednesday, where we take time to check out what the Wii has been up to. Wednesday begins with a w, Wii begins with a w. Seems like a good day to take stock, right? And, this week has been a good one for the Wii, as we've had some interesting videos to check out, as well as some great...

By Griffin McElroy Filed under: Nintendo DS, Features, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360 Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition (Wii) Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl (DS) Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords (DS) The Bigs (Xbox 360) Crackdown (Xbox 360)

By Ross Miller Sure, it was technically released on Nintendo 64 in 2000, but this Treasure, erm, treasure has only this year been translated and officially released in North America via a Virtual Console download. The characters are extremely androgynous (short shorts but with very manly grunts? Rea...

By Alisha Karabinus As 2007 prepares to sail into the past, DS Fanboy is working overtime to make sure readers send the year off in style. Okay, so we're really sitting around watching comments roll in on our massive contest, but our eyeballs are watching very hard. It's hard work. While we toil, check out the best...

By Ross Miller iPhone PS1 emulator nears beta phase Big Daddy VGA costume now on eBay Cheap Ass Gamer raises $11,000 for Child's Play in only four days Presidential candidates talk video game violence Columnist calls video games 'crack cocaine'Permalink | Email this | Comments

By Scott Jon Siegel It had to drop sooner or later, and it seems that today was the lucky day for Japanese Wii owners. With little to no fan-fare, the "Everybody's Nintendo" Wii channel has launched in Japan, offering release date information, promotional videos, and -- finally -- streaming DS demo download...

By Kyle Orland Here at Joystiq, we like to have some fun with our Nega-reviews. When the critical apparatus tells us almost unanimously that a game is undeniably good, we like to pick apart their words and find out what small negatives can be found in the overwhelmingly positive whole. This was a bit tough f...

By Kyle Orland Super Mario Galaxy "isn't quite perfect." (6) "It doesn't invent new kinds of gameplay" (2) and "It's not as revolutionary as Mario 64." (3) "If you played that seminal game, Mario Galaxy's star hunt progression probably sounds familiar to you." (6) "There's no denying that Super Mario Gal...