Nintendogs

By Brian Crecente Wii Fit was developed by Nintendo Entertainment, Analysis and Development and published by Nintendo. Retails for $90. Available on Wii. Played single player for a week, daily for 30 minutes to an hour. Watched son, wife, mother and step-father all play it over a week.

By Brian Ashcraft Have a look! Here are the Metallic Rose Nintendo DS famous people commercials we previously mentioned. Above, American Idol-born country singer Carrie Underwood has at Nintendogs on her tour bus. After the jump, she and Ugly Betty star America Ferrera talk about their experiences with t...

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By Brian Ashcraft Nintendogs was a great pet sim. If you didn't have a pet, you could play with your virtual pet! Because, really, let's face it, real pets are a hassle. You have to feed them, wash them and play with them. Worst part? You can't switch off real pets when you get sick of them and then switch them back on...

By Brian Ashcraft Translating is hard. Translating English to Japanese is harder. "You can't do direct one-to-one translations," says Tokyo-based localizer Matt Alt, who has his own localization company AltJapan. "You often have to capture the spirit of the original text." Programming-wise, changing E...

By ogood The games: Brain Age 2 (DS), Me & My Katamari (PSP), Clubhouse Games (DS), Lumines II (PSP) and Nintendogs (DS). All cute, all wuvable, all games a corporate media company can recommend kids play under the covers without their parents going blasto and writing the government.

By Luke Plunkett and Australia will be forced to import them, with both Nintendo branches stating they have no plans to introduce the consoles. Yeah, there's always the chance those plans may come later, but PAL gaming breeds nothing if not pessimism.

By Michael McWhertor Two Nintendo DS colors will be coming to North America later this year according to information creeping out of retailers gearing up for the post-Thanksgiving holiday spend frenzy. The two will be bundled with copies of the system's best-selling games, with a rose DS paired with Nintend...

So I've been pretty happy with the Wii. In the same breath, I haven't. It's obvious that the marketing choice for Nintendo has been to go after those casual or non-gaming crowd, and it's been working for them. Nintendo, I don't need five versions of Nintendogs on the DS. Give me a good RPG, or a goo...

By Michael McWhertor Nintendo DS Brain Age(TM): Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day Brain Age(TM) 2: More Training in Minutes a Day Mario Party(R) DS The Legend of Zelda(R): Phantom Hourglass Nintendogs(TM) Mario Kart(R) DS New Super Mario Bros. (R) Animal Crossing(R): Wild World Final Fantasy XII

By Michael McWhertor Given that the Nintendo DS generally appeals to more casual gamers, the type who buy millions of copies of Nintendogs, New Super Mario Bros. and Animal Crossing Wild World, we were a little concerned that Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword might be too easy. Boulder aside, it certainly wasn't diffi...

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By Michael McWhertor The Super Smash Bros. Brawl official web site updated today with a number of new characters, from the Hammer Bros. to Nintendogs puppies to F-Zero racer Samurai Goro. Normally, that would be huge news. Three confirmed characters in one day? Surely worthy of a non-Dojo Dump update. The only pro...

Adding a little bit of Nintendogs flair, Ultimate Duck Hunting will let you train your labrador hunting partner to be the ultimate bird carcass retreiving machine. You can even choose what color your lab is! Sorry, Miyamoto and company, you just got served.

2) TMNT (DS) 3) Spiderman 3 (360) 5) Nintendogs Dalmation 6) Nintendogs Labrador 7) TMNT (PS2) 8) FFIII (DS) 9) Oblivion (PS3) 10) MotorStorm OK, one surprise. Would have thought Labrador would outsell Dalmation, since it has the finer selection of breeds. Luke Plunkett

In this week's Target circular they are advertising that all regular DS Games $29.99 and above will be on sale for $24 each! Notable titles include New Super Mario Brothers, Elite Beat Agents, Spectrobes, Nintendogs and Yoshi's Island DS. See as most DS games go for $29.99 and above, it sound...

By Brian Ashcraft What they need to work on now is to further expand the types of software available for DS outside of Japan. Because you know what? It's not looking like anyone else is going to do it for them. Nintendo released Brain Age and Nintendogs, and sold millions of them, and proved that crazy new ideas c...

By Mike Fahey Based in Newport Beach, California, Crave Entertainment is a subsidiary of Handleman Company. Crave, a publisher of videogame entertainment products creates games for the major console platforms including PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) system, Nintendo DSTM, Game Boy® Advance, Ni...

By Brian Crecente Nintendo's two-year-old touch-screen DS player and titles such as Nintendogs, an interactive pet game, are helping the company fend off competition from Sony Corp.'s PlayStation Portable device. Nintendo is also making inroads in the home console market after it sold twice as many Wii...

By Flynn De Marco Includes the following games: Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!, StarFox Command, Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, Super Mario 64 DS, BIg Brain Academy, New Super Mario Bros., Nintendogs: Chihuahua and Friends, Tetris DS, MarioKart DS, WarioWare Touched!, Metroid Prime Pinba...

By Brian Crecente Game of the Year: Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter Family Game Award: Nintendogs Girls Choice Award : Nintendogs All-Nighter Award: Pro Evolution Soccer 5 PlayStation 2 Game of the Year: Resident Evil 4 Nintendo Game of the Year: New Super Mario Brothers

By Kotaku As you know, all of my days spent in the murder-death-kill simulators published by companies like Rockstar have made me a remorseless killing machine. Still, watching you lose time and time again as you ignorantly stride forth on your quest to revoke artistic expression and free speech?...

By Brian Crecente Nintendo DS owners are the big winners. Every week or so, another huge DS title hits, from the Touch Generations title Clubhouse Games to fan favorites like Elite Beat Agents and Yoshi's Island 2. Clearly a gamer's idea of paradise, here is Nintendo's upcoming DS lineup:

By Brian Crecente Bill Trinen, from Nintendo of America's localization team, demonstrated the unique game play of the new Nintendo DS game, Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day, among a group of volunteers] The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, is designed exclusively for the DS.

By Brian Ashcraft applause] laughter] Zelda clip for DS]: to rapturous applause So Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass is designed exclusively for the DS. It will launch later this year. It s a product from the same team who created most of the Zelda hits in the past. You can play both on DS and Gamecube at E3.

Respected Japanese game mag Famitsu has awarded Final Fantasy XII a perfect 40/40 score. The magazine is notorious in its reluctance to give the coveted four-oh and has done so only five time. The other titles are The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Nintendo 64), Soul Calibur (Dreamcast)...

By Michael McWhertor The first issue of Official Nintendo Magazine comes with an exclusive set of high-quality vinyl decals, featuring top games; Animal Crossing, Mario Kart DS and Nintendogs, allowing gamers to personalise their DS. Dawn Paine, Marketing Director, Nintendo UK, said:

By Brian Crecente It looks like the Nintendo DS has its second official smash hit on its hands. In the first week of sales in Japan, Animal Crossing: Wild Word sold 325,466 copies. Keep in mind that the unbelievably successful Nintendogs only sold 168,000 copies in its first week in Japan. The game isn't just th...

By Brian Crecente Nintendo GameCube Battalion Wars Mario Superstar Baseball Super Mario Strikers Mario Party 7 King Kong XMen Legends 2 Shadow Hedgehog NHL 2006 NBA Live 2006 Spartan Total Warrior Nintendo DS Nintendogs Metroid Prime Pinball Animal Crossing DS Mario Kart DS

By Seth Abramovitch My take? The PSP is quickly squandering its opportunity in the hand held industry. Too many titles are ports of existing franchises. The recent success of Nintendogs has finally given the DS some much-needed momentum. Nintendogs has boosted sales, we'll see if the PSP has an answer when GTA...

By Brian Crecente One of the big Wi-Fi titles in development is Animal Crossing with global Wi-Fi play. In Nintendogs players have to nurture and interact with a variety of breeds of digital puppies. Players can issue voice commands, play games and train their puppies while developing real emotional bonds...