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By Michael McWhertor Less impressive were new debuts from Level 5 (Inazuma Eleven) and Square Enix (Sigma Harmonics). The pathetic first week sales for the Nintendo DS RPG led by Chrono Trigger vets Yoshinori Kitase and Hiroki Chiba will likely have Square Enix execs pondering "Why should we bother with new I...

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By Jim Reilly But how is this different than the Wii-mote? While both track the remote's location, the Wii's controller is based on inertia while Sixense's is based on millimetre tracking relative to the base station. How this differs from Nintendo's WIi-Mote Plus remains in question. Either way, I'm...

By Mike Fahey The Nintendo similarities begin right when you open the box. Inside the box is another box, the sort of pleasant light blue you might find inside a Wii package. Opening that box reveals the two Stix 200 units, some batteries, the USB faux charging cradle, and a manual.

By Mike Fahey “As an industry, we need to begin setting some basic, common sense standards that reward PC gamers for purchasing our games,” stated Brad Wardell, president and CEO of Stardock Corporation. “The console market effectively already has something like this in that its games have to go thro...

By Luke Plunkett Quick: what's Birdo? Dude thing, or lady thing? Upcoming Wii game Captain Rainbow seeks to capitalise on this confusion by making Birdo the centre of one of your first quests. Birdo needs your help getting "her" out of jail, after the fuzz - convinced she's a he - lock her up for using the wome...

By Mike Fahey The official Walmart Check Out blog has an interesting story today about a "green gaming summit" they've just concluded, which featured officials from Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, Electronic Arts, and Activision, where they discussed game console power consumption and the wasteful...

By Brian Crecente But the team were able to get Nintendo approval to allow them to have their DS and Wii versions of the game sync up with a special website where players will be able to download and upload approved courses. That means that if you have either title you will be able to download gamer created cours...

By Brian Crecente Monster Lab for the Wii, Gauntlet for the DS and Chimps Ahoy! for the iPhone will be at Foundation 9's Penny Arcade Expo booth when the show kicks off at the end of the week. Both Monster Lab and Gauntlet are co-published by Eidos, Inc. and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment in North Americ...

By Mike Fahey I always knew the age-old conflict between pirates and ninja was too large to be contained by one console. Today Gamecock announces that Blazing Lizards' Pirates vs. Ninjas Dodgeball, coming out next week on Xbox Live Arcade, will also be getting a full retail release on the Nintendo Wii la...

By Adam Barenblat Zubo is the latest comedy/action adventure/ rythm game coming from UK EA's Bright Light studio. While this might be a kids game, it sure does look pretty for the DS. Crecente got a chance to play it hands on a while back and said while it was for kids, it had enough style to be a possible hit for the...

By Adam Barenblat Even though 64% of those who bought Wii Fit have it collecting dust in their closet, the new controls of Skate It using the Wii balance board look, well, promising. In the latest trailer we get another quick look at the Wii version of the game. I'm personally going to take my balance board in my y...

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By Stuart Houghton My favorite, though, has to be the SEGA racing controller/game pictured above that has an actual model car that moves left to right on a shelf in front of your TV. Come on SEGA, the time is right for this thing to see the light of day - bring it out on a current-gen console & you will clean up.

By Brian Ashcraft Abolutely No Final Fantasy Xbox 360 For Japan" Rumor: Next Dual Touch DS Hitting Early Next Year? Immersion Forced To Pay Microsoft $20 Million Nintendo To You: Your Core Games Are Coming, Just Not Soon The Art Of DJ Max Fever Kojima To World - Stop Asking About MGS4 on Xbox 360

By Luke Plunkett The top eight spots are all games for Nintendo platforms. Again. BORING. So this week, figured I'd try something different. Let's talk about the other end of the chart. The end that has literal shovelware, like "42 All-Time Classics" on the DS, propping the whole thing up. That and Imagine: Babi...

By Brian Ashcraft According to several industry sources outside of Nintendo, the company is working on an updated Nintendo DS. The screens are supposedly slightly bigger, but the biggest change is that the new DS will apparently have two touch screens — so it's like a dual touch DS. That way, players can inte...

By Luke Plunkett You manage to look beyond the 360 price stuff on that Best Buy catalogue screen? You'll have noticed that the same page also manages to spill the beans on the metallic silver DS that was rumoured to hit the US a while back. It's got the standard $129.99 price, and with the catalogue due to appear...

By Stuart Houghton Rather than the boring old 'actual baseball' stance taken by so many baseball games, MLB Superstars is a series of mini games featuring Wii-ified versions of Major League players and teams. MLB Superstars Announced For Nintendo Wii [Yahoo! Games]

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By Stuart Houghton Having recently begun an 87th career as a gadget blogger (via his Guardian newspaper column Dork Talk) the boy Fry has revealed his affection for the Nintendo DS and — true to form — offers a spot-on dissection of what is great about the handheld.

By Brian Crecente Wii baseball title Mario Super Sluggers hit stores yesterday, and so do a pack of official Mario Super Sluggers Collectable Baseball Cards. Pretty magnificent. Hit up the jump for a close up of the back of each card.

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By Stuart Houghton Historical strategy specialists Slitherine — who, confusingly, have nothing to do with that other best selling children's book series — have signed a deal with Scholastic books to create a series of games based on the books and bring them to the PC, Nintendo Wii and DS.

By Brian Crecente Bangai-O Spirits - Created by revered Japanese developer TREASURE, the twitch-fest shooter gameplay in Bangai-O Spirits includes more than 160 levels, punishing supermoves, exclusive content for the Western version, and a sensory overload of fireworks onscreen. Bangai-O Spirits...

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By Mike Fahey Clone Wars is of course the new lightsaber fighting game for the Nintendo Wii, heading our way this holiday season. It follows the story and adapts the art style of the major motion picture and television series, with a plethora of animated Jedi ready to smack eachother with glowy sticks. It...

By Brian Ashcraft A source close to Microsoft's marketing department" tells game site Xbox 360 Fanboy that a new US$199 Xbox 360 Arcade bundle will be hitting later this year. But that's not all, the source goes on to say that the bundle will be packaged with the rumored Xbox 360 motion controller as well as so...

By Brian Ashcraft Boob, butt and even little "boy" DS touching games? Been there, done that. It's time for new ground to be broken. This time with white liquid (RELAX FOLKS, IT'S ONLY MILK) squirting mini-games. August 28th sees the release of To LOVEru, which follows he adventures of a high school boy and an al...

By Owen Good 2) Check Out This Rad PS3 Casemod for Your Xbox 360! 3)'Intense' Driving Motion Controls Introduced to Metal Gear Solid 4 Cutscenes 4) Sony Confounded by Standard DVD Players Kept as Heirlooms (console, under the small speakers)

By Michael McWhertor Mushroom Men Nintendo DS and PSP titles fare worse than just about any other platform — the Wii version of the Gamecock published game was getting some attention — but we're sorry to inform the guys and gals at Red Fly Studio that Mushroom Men for DS wasn't finding an audience.

By Brian Ashcraft The Nintendo Wii is joining the For Dummies series of books. Written by Joystiq's Kyle Orland, Wii For Dummies is all about getting the most for your Wii. The book runs through the entire Wii experience, covering things like how to hook the Wii up to the internets, game tips and advice on which...

By Michael McWhertor The Xbox 360's Japanese victory over its hi-def console competitor was short lived. Xbox buying fever has broken in a big way overseas, with the flagging console returning to last place on the Media Create hardware charts. Not that Sony's PlayStation 3 is doing that much better right now. At...

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)

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By Mike Fahey Dead Rising: Chop Til You Drop for the Nintendo Wii is not a game for members of the press. It's nearly impossible for us to look at the game objectively after spending countless hours playing the highly superior Xbox 360 original. It's like reading War and Peace and then trying to fully appre...

By Owen Good Madden ‘09, developed by EA Tiburon, published by EA and released Aug. 12. Retails for $59.99. Versions available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Wii, Nintendo DS and PSP. Reviewed on Xbox 360. Played singleplayer franchise mode for a complete season into the playoffs and pla...

By Brian Ashcraft When I came to work for Nintendo, we [her family] had a Wii, we had 3 or 4 DSs, a PSP, an Xbox, a PS2. We were an active gaming household, but it was only six months prior to joining Nintendo that I had ever played games at all. I started by playing Wii Sports and then by playing Big Brain Academy and Br...

By Luke Plunkett Los Angeles (August 18, 2008) - Square Enix, Inc., the publisher of Square Enix® interactive entertainment products in North America, announced today that its highly anticipated Nintendo DS™ title CHRONO TRIGGER® will ship to North American retailers on November 25, 2008. A groundbre...

By Mike Fahey Nintendo adds new and classic games to the Wii™ Shop Channel at 9 a.m. Pacific time every Monday. Wii™ owners with a high-speed Internet connection can redeem Wii Points™ to download the games. Wii Points can be purchased in the Wii Shop Channel or at retail outlets. This week’s new games are: Wi...

By Michael McWhertor Nintendo products kept people entertained in July, whether they wanted to get fit, rock out or just play around. According to the independent NPD Group, which tracks video game sales in the United States, Nintendo DS™ and Wii™ again claimed the top two hardware spots for July, with more th...

By Brian Ashcraft “We are excited to bring an indie-inspired new intellectual property to the EA Casual Entertainment Label with Henry Hatsworth that fuses together two styles of gameplay utilizing the two Nintendo DS screens like never before,” said Robert Nashak, VP of EA Casual Studios. “The innovat...

By Michael McWhertor How's Atari affecting climate change in Leipzig this year? Hot(t) games, of course! They'll be showing lots of stuff, including What’s Cooking? with Jamie Oliver for Nintendo DS, My Horse and Me 2 for Wii and DS, The Witcher Enhanced Edition and Alone in the Dark for the PlayStation 3.

By Owen Good Ghostbuster The Video Game Very Much Alive, Sitting on My Desk SoulCalibur IV Review: Polishing The Stage Of History Forget Wii Fit, It's Mario Kart That's Buttering Nintendo's Bread Why Penny Arcade Took so Long to Go PSN and May Never Go Wii Ware

By Brian Crecente Wolfenstein 3D, there was a Nintendo version of that, that was like a black day in id history, how they made us change it to run on the Nintendo platform," he said. Platform owners "wouldn’t let you publish games on the console. We didn’t want to have our content governed by a third-party."

By Michael McWhertor 11. Daigasso! Band Brothers DX (DS) 16. Bimoji Training DS (DS) 18. Wii Sports (Wii) 19. Derby Stallion DS (DS) 20. Bully: Scholarship Edition (Xbox 360) 21. Mario Super Sluggers (Wii) 25. Family Trainer: Athletic World (Wii) 28. Pokémon Diamond (DS) 29. Wii Play (Wii) 30. Mario Kart DS (DS)

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By Mike Fahey Suda51's PlayStation 2 mystery masterpiece is heading to North America via Marvelous Entertainment, but what about you charming Europeans? Rising Star Games has you completely covered, announcing Flower, Sun, and Rain for the Nintendo DS, coming to Europe in October. It's a unique ad...

By Brian Ashcraft Same's true for the once red hot Wii console. In the previous year's Q1, Nintendo shifted 950,000 units. This past quarter, Nintendo sold 530,000 Wiis. Good news is that Wii software sales are up. Last year Q1, Nintendo moved 2.78 million units of Wii software. What about Q1 2009? A strong 3.9 mill...

By Mike Fahey Empire Interactive, a wholly owned subsidiary of Silverstar Holdings (NASDAQ: SSTR), today announced that the mystery solving game, Unsolved Crimes, will surface in the U.S. on Nintendo DS™ this fall. The absorbing and character-driven adventure experience will integrate players in...

By Michael McWhertor You know how this works. Square-Enix takes classic game, remakes it for the Nintendo DS, Japan freaks. The gamers in that nation snapped up well over a half-million copies of the Dragon Quest V do-over last week, according to Media Create. They also grabbed a considerable amount of the lates...

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By Leigh Alexander PopCap’s Mega-Hit Peggle™ Coming to Nintendo DS® This Winter Q Entertainment Tapped to Adapt Top Casual Game of 2007for Nintendo’s Market-Leading Handheld About Q Entertainment, Inc. Formed in 2003, Tokyo-based Q Entertainment, Inc. creates, produces, and consults in

By Leigh Alexander Innovative Handheld Title Stretches into North American Retailers MIDLOTHIAN, VA – July 23, 2008 - SouthPeak Games today announced that Mister Slime for Nintendo DS™ is available now on retail shelves in North America. The revolutionary adventure puzzler is rated “E” for everyone.

By Mike Fahey Every Final Fantasy fan has their favorite game from the series. Hell, some even break the franchise down into two eras, pre and post-PlayStation. For myself and good percentage of the FF fanbase, Final Fantasy IV (II in the U.S.) is that game. The story was deep, the characters memorable and we...

By Leigh Alexander Earlier today, we learned that Nintendo had lost its bid for a new trial in the patent infringement suit brought against it by small Texas-based firm Anascape Ltd. Nintendo is ordered to pay $21 million to Anascape, who also named Microsoft and Sony in the same lawsuit — those two, however,...

By Michael McWhertor Now that the fungineers at Nintendo have increased the smile efficiency of the Wii Remote via a brand new accessory, the Wii MotionPlus, what's in store for the vanilla Wii Remote? What if I don't want to purchase a reasonably priced copy of Wii Sports Resort, but want that 1:1 motion contr...

By Michael McWhertor At the E3 Nintendo Developer Roundtable that followed day two of the gaming expo, Shigeru Miyamoto and Katsuya Eguchi — the latter is the producer on Wii Sports Resort, Animal Crossing City Folk and Wii Music — spent additional time with the press showing off upcoming Wii wares. The two als...

By Luke Plunkett After 20 Months, NPD Data Shows Wii Emerges as the No. 1 U.S. Home Console The portable Nintendo DS™ finished as the top-selling U.S. video game system in June, with more than 783,000 units sold. To date, more than 20.8 million Nintendo DS units have been sold in the United States.

By Brian Crecente Wii Motion Plus is a surprisingly robust upgrade to the current Wii remote, I discovered yesterday while playing around with three of the mini games in upcoming title Wii Sport Resort. Nintendo had only three games on display at the show this week: Disc Dog, Power Cruising and Swordplay.

By Mike Fahey We've had handheld GTA before, but handheld GTA on a device that can play a game for upwards of 14 hours straight? That's dangerous. Rockstar Games Announces Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for the Nintendo DS™ The newest entry in the Grand Theft Auto series for Nintendo's handheld syste...

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By Leigh Alexander Harvest Moon publisher Natsume has a new IP - it's called Princess Debut, a "rhythm and adventure game for girls" coming to Nintendo DS in the fall. Princess Debut will be available exclusively for the Nintendo DS this fall. For more information on Princess Debut, please visit www.natsume.c...

By Mike Fahey Independent Game Publishers to Showcase Stellar Portfolio of Titles on Wii™ and Popular Handheld Systems Avalon Code DS Separately, XSEED Games will unveil the company’s first official support of the Nintendo DS with three titles: Populous™ DS Retro Game Challenge

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By Mike Fahey E3 award consideration: Best Console Game Mobile, iPhone™ & iPod® titles The Sims™ 2 Apartment Pets for the Nintendo DS Zubo™ MySims, made for the PC MySims Kingdom for the Wii and Nintendo DS E3 award consideration: Best Handheld Game Spore SimCity™ Creator for the Wii

By Brian Ashcraft Mike Hayes, President and CEO of Sega Europe, said:“If you look at the PEGI system against the film ratings board in the UK, you will see that PEGI is the only system that has the power to prevent games publishers distributing unsuitable content to children. It can ban a publisher’s entire o...

By Mike Fahey LOS ANGELES, July 2 /PRNewswire/ — Square Enix, Inc., the publisher of Square Enix(TM) interactive entertainment products in North America, announced today that it will release CHRONO TRIGGER(R) in North America this Holiday season. Remastered exclusively for Nintendo DS(TM), this...

By StephenTotilo Duty Calls Wii, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PSP, Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance) Features — BigTek Engine: Experience the absolute pinnacle of visual fidelity. New technology creates game characters at a realistic scale while other games feature tiny characters, zoomed in.

By StephenTotilo There are so many Wii games and DS games on store shelves — so many bad ones — that you'd think Majesco CEO Jesse Sutton would like to complain about them. His company focuses on Wii and DS, after all. And on third parties possibly getting stressed about Nintendo first-party sales dominance

By StephenTotilo Nintendo of America took June off. Today we've learned they're taking July off to. But in August the publisher will once again release new Wii and DS games from sea to shining sea. Nintendo’s Wario, Kirby Bring the Fun; Sleuths Get a New Mystery Case Files Game

By StephenTotilo As of last Monday the Wii's Nintendo Channel in the U.S. started spitting out usage stats for most Wii games. Anyone who opted in and let Nintendo snoop into their play history has been contributing to a public trove of great game usage data. And we can now use these numbers for speculation at coc...

By Mike Fahey Budding dungeon designers can get excited about Atlus' latest, Master of the Monster Lair, which challenges Nintendo DS gamers to build a better monster trap. A talking shovel recruits a young hero to build dungeons to bait and trap the wandering monsters plaguing the town of South Arc. So...

By Mike Fahey In your Sim’s new apartment adventure on the Nintendo DS, care for a variety of local pets, including loveable cats and dogs, slithery snakes, hamsters, colorful birds, and cuddly rabbits to make sure they receive the right treatment so that they stay happy, healthy and good looking. Sim...

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By Mike Fahey As is always the case, mere weeks after I pick up a new DS, Nintendo goes and releases a new color. The metallic rose DS, originally sold as part of a holiday Nintendogs bundle, will be hitting...

By Michael McWhertor Gamers frustrated with the lack of storage on the Wii may have a glimmer of hope, if we're reading Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata right. He endured the usual end of quarter question barrage from the financial community recently, revealing many a hint about the company's plans for the Wii and Ni...

By Mike Fahey SANTA MONICA, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—The Game Factory, an international publisher of family-friendly and casual videogames, today announced it has signed a licensing agreement with Seven Towns Limited to publish Rubik's World, a 3D puzzle game experience for the Nintendo Wii™ and...

By Michael McWhertor The question is, however, can the white knuckle action of Team Ninja's Ninja Gaiden work on a handheld? We'll tell you what we loved and hated in the review. Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword was developed by Team Ninja, published by Tecmo and released on March 25 on Nintendo DS. Retails for $34.99. Pl...