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Nintendo announces record sales, Wii edges closer to 25 mil
The Nintendo DS sold 30.31 million units in 2007, bringing its life-to-date sales to 70.6 million. Nintendo has forecast shipment of an additional 28 million NDS units by the end of March 2009.
“Nintendo has positioned Wii as a machine that puts smiles on surrounding people’s faces by encouraging positive interaction among family members in the living room. In addition to existing software lineups, Nintendo will develop entertainment which is relevant to our daily lives. Nintendo will laun...
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Aonuma can't quit Zelda until he beats Ocarina of Time
Original at Nintendo Wii Fanboy
• Wed, Nov 26
By Chris Greenhough Speaking to Nintendo Power about his past work on most of the Zeldas since Ocarina of Time, Aonuma insists that he can't stop making the games, because he's yet to beat what he achieved with Ocarina. "I'm happy that a title I worked on some time ago remains highly praised to this day," he says,...
Aonuma Intent on 'Surpassing' Ocarina of Time
Original at 1up.com
• Wed, Nov 26
By Kris Pigna For many, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remains the pinnacle of videogaming achievement (for other, let's say more ancient people, nothing tops Link to the Past, but that's a whole different subject). So how does it feel to create a game many still revere 10 years after its release? A...
SEGA Wii game grabs perfect score in Famitsu
Original at Aussie-Nintendo.com
• Wed, Nov 26
Australia - Only 8 other games, including The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and The Wind Waker, Nintendogs, and Super Smash Bros. Brawl have earnt a perfect score ...
Two new DS bundles for Black Friday in US
Original at EL33TONLINE
• Wed, Nov 26
Last year Nintendo launched a similar Black Friday initiative with a gold DS marked with the triforce logo bundled with The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass bundle as well as a metallic rose DS marked by a paw print bundled with Nintendogs.
Zelda Director's Quest To Surpass Ocarina Of Time News ...
Original at Total Video Games
• Wed, Nov 26
Also, they should make link be able to duel wield swords and basically annihilate anyone who comes near him. User avatar, By: Anonymous Coward. Added:Mon 08th Sep 2008 17:49, Post No: 14. Personally I think The Legend of Zelda is the ...
SEGA Wii Game Gets Perfect Famitsu Score [Japan]
Original at Kotaku
• Wed, Nov 26
By Brian Ashcraft This is only the ninth time Famitsu has done this in the last ten years. And the third time this year. (Feel free to connect those dots yourself!) The other titles scoring 40 on Famitsu's 40 scale are: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998), Soulcalibur (1999), Vagrant Story (2000), The L...
Skate 2 coming in January 2009 - Console Monster News - Your Next ...
Original at Console Monster
• Wed, Nov 26
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Pa... The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time · The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princes... The Lord of The Rings: The White Coun... The Outfit · The Outsider · The Outsider · The Precursors ...
The Top 10 NES Games of All Time
Original at PS3News
• Tue, Nov 25
By PS3 News Paste Magazine has created a 'Top 10 NES Games of All Time' list today. 7. Mega Man 2 [Capcom] - 1989 6. Bionic Commando [Capcom] - 1988 5. Super Mario Bros. [Nintendo] - 1985 4. Tetris [Nintendo] - 1989 3. Final Fantasy [Square] - 1990 1. The Legend of Zelda [Nintendo] - 1987
Aonuma won’t quit making Zelda games until it's better then Ocarina
Original at Vooks.Net
• Tue, Nov 25
Director of The Legend of Zelda games Eiji Aonuma has said in a new interview that he is not going to give up on the Zelda series until he tops the evergreen Ocarina of Time. “I’m happy that a title I worked on some time ago remains highly praised to this day, but that also shows how none of the subs...
Nintendo Debuts New DS Colors, Bundles For Black Friday
Original at Gamasutra
• Tue, Nov 25
NewsOXY CA - In 2007, the company released gold and metallic rose DS Lites with The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass and Nintendogs, respectively. ... Nintendo hunkers down for Black Friday Neoseeker all 34 news articles
Dragon Ball Origins, Dragon Ball: Origins Review, DS Reviews ...
Original at GamesRadar
• Mon, Nov 24
bashing enemies, encountering quirky characters and enjoying the lighthearted tone, all the while controlling everything with the stylus, and not be reminded of The Legend of Zelda. Especially Phantom Hourglass, the DS entry. ...
Pac-Man
Original at Something Awful
• Fri, Nov 21
Awful Forums: Popular Threads. Christmas comes early [56k Miso] · The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time turns 10 years old today! Slabovia.tv - insert shitty 'in Soviet Russia' joke here · GDT 11/21: Hey, Games Already Started ...
News: Golden Zelda Statue On Stars Catalogue
Original at N
• Wed, Nov 19
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Statue, yours for the princely sum of 15,000 Stars, features an iconic image of Link mounted upon Epona and brandishing the Master Sword, all presented in solid gold (maybe not, it's probably just paint).
The Wii Enters Its Terrible Twos Today [Nintendo]
Original at Kotaku
• Tue, Nov 18
By Michael McWhertor What did happen was that a fraction of the now 13 million-plus strong U.S. Wii user base went home with copies of Wii Sports, Excite Truck and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, ushering in the Age of Waggle, changing the game forever. The rest of us waited in lines, camped outside electro...
Away: Shuffle Dungeon Review
Original at 1up.com
• Tue, Nov 18
By Jeremy Parish Shuffle Dungeon is a conceptual riff on the notorious recurring timed dungeon in fellow DS title The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, demanding smart play by making the dungeon itself a hazard. Each labyrinth is spread across the DS' two screens -- every few seconds, one of the screens...
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess < Multimedia | PopMatters
Original at PopMatters
• Sun, Nov 9
By LB Jeffries The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - Review -- The most successful parts of the game are the moments that travel outside the formula; being chased by boar-riding Orcs or being trapped in wolf form.
Buy Your Own Ocarina Of Time
Original at OhGizmo!
• Wed, Nov 5
By Luke Anderson The St. Louis Ocarina store has decided to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the popular game, which has no doubt contributed greatly to their sales. Yes, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time has been out for a decade now. Anyway, the store is celebrating with a variety of Zelda-themed produc...
DS Fanboy Review: Dragon Ball Origins
Original at DS Fanboy
• Tue, Nov 4
By JC Fletcher The perspective and the stylus-based controls recall The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass strongly, and it's clear that Game Republic had played Phantom Hourglass when designing Dragon Ball Origins, but Dragon Ball changes enough in ...
Review: Wii Music
Original at GayGamer.net
• Fri, Oct 24
By Wootini The latest release in Nintendo's Touch Generations series of games, Wii Music, is once again a difficult title to review. It's part game, part music simulator, and part educational tool... but somehow manages to be all fun. Not sure how they did it, but once again, Nintendo managed to make a gam...
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass Review - TotalVideoGames.com
Original at Total Video Games
• Fri, Oct 17
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass review: Link returns to the Nintendo DS in an entertaining adventure on the high seas...
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - Review - play.tm
Original at Play.tm
• Sun, Sep 28
By andrew@ferrago.com (Andrew Macarthy) Unlike the overprotective, handholding nature of Wind Waker's temples, Twilight Princess is more than happy to dump you in each giant, sprawling structure and let you figure things out for yourself with almost complete independence. ...
Review : The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass [DS] - from ...
Original at GamePro.com
• Mon, Aug 25
Review - The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass - From the opening scene to the end credits, The Phantom Hourglass feels like a classic Zelda title: it's filled with an ungodly amount of content and has a deep and complex story that ...
Review : The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess [GameCube] - from ...
Original at GamePro.com
• Mon, Aug 25
We're not going to bore you with a long-winded review of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princes that explains every nook and cranny, as it's essentially the same as the Wii version; check out the full review online if you missed our ...
Tecmo's SPRay Brings Puking Adventures To Wii [E308]
Original at Kotaku
• Tue, Jul 22
By Michael McWhertor Tecmo's SPRay — oddly capped that way due to the game's protagonist, known as Spirited Prince Ray — may serve as an adequate substitute for Wii gamers waiting for Nintendo's Mario and Zelda teams to wrap up their next projects. SPRay is not unlike a Zelda-style adventure and comparisons to...
Born for Wii: Four Swords Adventures
Original at Nintendo Wii Fanboy
• Tue, Jul 22
By Wesley Fenlon Four Swords was a small multiplayer adventure added onto the Gameboy Advance port of A Link to the Past. It represented a new direction for the series, allowing gamers to link GBAs and work together to defeat the evil wizard Vaati. The game was successful enough to warrant a full-fledged con...
E308: Miyamoto says DS and Wii Zelda teams collaborating
Original at Nintendo Wii Fanboy
• Wed, Jul 16
By David Hinkle Filed under: NewsAs if the prospect of a new Legend of Zelda game isn't good enough, Miyamoto mentioned to IGN that not only are the regular old Zelda team hard at work on a Wii entry, but that the folks behind the DS title The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass are also pitching in. "The Zelda t...
Rasslin' for Link
Original at Kotaku
• Sat, Jun 7
By Owen Good It's the Tri-Force from The Legend of Zelda," Rhodes confirmed. "You know how some people have a book they re-read every year? Well I re-play The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past for Super Nintendo every year. In the game, the Tri-Force symbolized power, wisdom and courage. I thought I could...
Virtually Overlooked: Super Mario Bros. SpecialOriginal at Nintendo Wii Fanboy
• Thu, May 8
By JC Fletcher Hudson Soft made an agreement with Nintendo to port their arcade/Famicom hits to the PC-8801 system. It was in this way that fairly ugly, slow versions of Mario Bros., Ice Climber, and Excitebike appeared on the computer system with Hudson's name on the title screens. For the most part, they...
Miyamoto Takes Top Prize at 'Famitsu Awards'
Original at Wired
• Mon, Apr 28
By Jean Snow But the main draw was the awards ceremony. Besides Miyamoto, Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi accepted his award for Lost Odyssey via satellite. The full list of winners appears below. Rookie Award: Professor Layton series Best Hit Award: Wii SportsInnovation Award: Wii FitAwa...
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Nintendo announces record sales, Wii edges closer to 25 mil
Original at EL33TONLINE
• Fri, Apr 25
By lisa@el33tonline.com (Lisa) The Nintendo DS sold 30.31 million units in 2007, bringing its life-to-date sales to 70.6 million. Nintendo has forecast shipment of an additional 28 million NDS units by the end of March 2009. “Nintendo has positioned Wii as a machine that puts smiles on surrounding people’s faces by encouraging positive interaction among family members in the living room. In addition to existing software lineups, Nintendo will develop entertainment which is relevant to our daily lives. Nintendo will launch WiiWare which will provide a variety of new and unique software titles to be purchased and downloaded to Wii hardware in the US and Europe.” [read the full post]
Atlus USA reveals Summon Night: Twin Age for DS
Original at Joystiq
• Tue, Mar 18
By Ludwig Kietzmann Not to be confused with Summons Night, the vampiric lawyer adventure, Summon Night: Twin Age has finally escaped Japan with the aid of increasingly prolific publisher, Atlus USA. The DS action RPG tasks players with guiding summoner Reiha and summonee (?) Aldo through a "richly woven ta...
Variety Not That Impressed By Super Mario Galaxy [Reviews]
Original at Kotaku
• Wed, Nov 14
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.
Nintendo's Reggie On Stage in New York [Liveblogging]
Original at Kotaku
• Tue, Nov 6
By Geoff Keighley 11:45 AM - Super Smash Bros Brawl comes on February 10th. The industry's first blockbuster title of 2008! 4 player Wifi multiplayer. Mario Kart will is coming next year too, including optional steering wheel controller. And Wii Fit/Wii Balance Board coming next year to US.
Super Smash Bros. Brawl Hands On Impressions
Original at Kotaku
• Fri, Oct 12
Levels included the unannounced Norfair from Metroid, Smashville, the Super Smash Bros. Battlefield, the Bridge of Eldin from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and many, many more. Given the multiplayer environment, most matches opted for a random draw, with me cursing under my br...
Frankenreview, The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (DS)
Original at Kotaku
• Thu, Oct 4
By Mark Wilson Since the last scene of the GameCube's Wind Waker, we've been craving cel-shaded Link at the lust level we generally reserve for booze, pantsu and headshots. So his triumphant return in The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass for the DS had us...how can we put this gently...playing the DS without...
Contest: Nintendo's Easy Zelda Contest
Original at Kotaku
• Mon, Sep 17
By Mike Fahey One First Prize winner will receive a trip for two to New York, two nights at a hotel, a $1,000 closed-door shopping spree at Nintendo World, $500 spending money, a special-edition Nintendo DS and a copy of The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. Nine Finalists will receive a special-edit...
Shiny Silver DS For Europe
Original at Kotaku
• Thu, Sep 13
By Mike Fahey Nintendo DS Lite hardware & software sales reach all-new highs as Nintendo DS Silver makes its debut- Nintendo DS Lite Silver launches across Europe on 12th October and will be available for the estimated retail price around £99.
E3 2007 Roundup: What To Watch For On Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PSP and DS
Original at Gaming Bits
• Mon, Jul 16
The floodgates of gaming have opened with last week's E3 Media & Business Summit 2007 (http://www.e3expo.com/). There were plenty of announcements from all gaming fronts. With so much to digest, we've attempted to come up with a few notable highlights from last week, broken down by gam...
E3 2007: Nintendo continues to broaden its horizon, revealing little along the way
Original at Realm Media
• Wed, Jul 11
By Jeff Greeson On the Nintendo DS side, the biggest title everyone is waiting for is The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. The entire control scheme is stylus based, using the pointer to guide Link around the environment along with attacks and interactive elements. The next big title is Brain Age 2, fea...
E307: Nintendo's E3 Lineup and Gallery
Original at Kotaku
• Wed, Jul 11
By Noah Robischon Nintendo DS The Legend of Zelda(R): Phantom Hourglass: This first Zelda game for Nintendo DS can be played with the stylus and sets a new standard for the graphics capabilities and immersive play of this system. In Japan, designed to help users sharpen their "Focus Power" through a series...
Opinion: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time named the greatest videogame title ever
Original at TechWhack
• Tue, Jul 3
By Satan In a survey conducted by Edge magazine, gamers have named The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time as the greatest gaming title of all times. Incidentally, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time also happens to be one of only five games ever to receive a 10 out of 10 review score from Edge magazine.
Virtual Console Releases for March 26, 200, Wii Opera Browser News
Original at Blogcritics
• Tue, Mar 27
By Brian Szabelski Even with only one game coming out this week, there is still plenty to look forward to on the Virtual Console. Sega has announced that Vectorman, Virtua Fighter 2, Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle, and Wonder Boy in Monster World are all future Virtual Console releases, while The Legend of...
New on The VC: Zelda and Guests
Original at Kotaku
• Mon, Feb 26
By Mike Fahey The Legend of Zelda®: Ocarina of Time (Nintendo 64®, 1 player, 1,000 Wii Points): The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time reveals the genesis of the fantasy land of Hyrule, the origin of the Triforce and the tale of the first exploits of Princess Zelda™ and the heroic adventurer Link. Vibrant,...
Game Developers Choice Awards Finalists
Original at Kotaku
• Tue, Feb 6
Okami (Clover Studio / Capcom Entertainment) The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo EAD / Nintendo) Eiji Aonuma, Satoru Iwata, Shigeru Miyamoto Wii Sports (Nintendo) Satoru Iwata, Shigeru Miyamoto, Keizo Ohta, Takayuki Shimamura, Yoshiaki
Associated Press Dig Okami, Do Not Dig 25-To-Life [Best Of]
Original at Kotaku
• Thu, Dec 28
By Luke Plunkett 3. "The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess" (Nintendo, for the Wii, GameCube): The "Zelda" is a satisfying combination of the familiar (clever weapons, diabolical dungeons) and the new (Link is now a werewolf!). We always anticipate great things from "Zelda," but "Twilight Princess" d...
SSX Wii Premieres On Spike TV [Ssx]
Original at Kotaku
• Thu, Nov 30
By Michael McWhertor Watch Game Head this Friday Night at 12:35a -- Only on Spike! Also featured in this episode: SSX (EA, Wii) RESISTANCE FALL OF MAN (INSOMNIAC GAMES, PS3) EXCITE TRUCK (NINTENDO, Wii) THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: TWILIGHT PRINCESS (NINTENDO, Wii)
Hands-On The Legend of Zelda:Twilight Princess, Part II
Original at Kotaku
• Fri, Nov 10
By Mark Wilson TP's graphics, while not always a technical masterpiece, convey a cinematic feel. It's not something you see much until after the first dungeon, probably because the plot doesn't start out with a great deal of intensity. I hoped that Nintendo would send better horseback riding combat sho...
Opinion: Hands-On, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess [Feature]
Original at Kotaku
• Fri, Nov 3
By Mark Wilson Twilight Princess is broken down into two basic worlds. The first is the normal Zelda land we all know, with Link looking like a young Rod Stewart as he frolics around the countryside to Hyrule. The second world is that of the Twilight Realm, a growing parallel existence of shadow where Link t...
Nintendo's DS Fall Line-Up Hits [Ds]
Original at Kotaku
• Tue, Jul 25
By Brian Crecente Oh, and Nintendo reminds us that there's still one good GameCube title on the way: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. .Brian Crecente And, for Nintendo GameCube owners, The Legend of Zelda : Twilight Princess will be available for you this fall. An enhanced version also will be a launch...