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How much does your brain weigh? Find out with Big Brain Academy, the DS title that makes mental exercise incredibly fun. Big Brain Academy is a series of minigames (called Activities) that are designed to exercise the brain. Players can "weigh" their brain in Test mode, earn medals for individual activities in Practi... |
6 October 2008
14:41 GMT |
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Japan is really wasting a lot of money on irrelevant stuff, the latest example being this survey made by Oricon Monitor Research which asked 1,000 Japanese men and women to name their favorite videogame character. Although it was a bit of a no-brainer, the survey showed only Japanese characters making the top 10, pro... |
22 September 2008
05:46 GMT |
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Nintendo is really on an ascending trend. Having launched one of the most popular handhelds, the DS, which took the world by storm, selling millions, they saw the potential in the casual gamer market and decided that their next-gen console would target them specifically. And so the Wii was born, a weirdly named, odd... |
22 September 2008
02:35 GMT |
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Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto talked to MSNBC, which is partly owned by Microsoft, and sought to tackle growing concerns from videogame players regarding the fact that Nintendo, as a company, was becoming too interested in the casual gamer to pay any attention to the more hardcore fans that have supported the comp... |
21 July 2008
19:16 GMT |
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Rumor has it that Nintendo is doing pretty good so far so they've decided to make public a list of games that would be available this summer on Nintendo Wii and DS. More important, there are two franchises that will see new games like Super Smash Bros. Brawl! Unleashed on 27 June, it promises to be the best reit... |
24 June 2008
08:20 GMT |
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2K Sports has announced that NHL 2K9, which will be available sometime during fall, is going to become the first hockey game which has official licensing and backing from the NHL and NHLPA to make its debut on the Nintendo Wii gaming console. The game was developed by Visual Concepts and 2K Sports hopes that all hock... |
16 June 2008
02:48 GMT |
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Nintendo has announced a couple of its plans regarding the summer videogaming conventions, telling people that it will not be attending the Games Convention in Leipzig, but also detailing its presence at E3, which is organized by the Entertainment Software Association. At E3, which is moving back into the Convention ... |
27 May 2008
14:06 GMT |
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It seems that Mario & Co. are nowhere close to saying "goodbye" to the world. Actually, the Nintendo All Stars are enjoying a great run of popularity lately, having in mind that two weeks ago we had some incredible Mario bento creations and last year, the nerdy Mario-panties. So, what goes hand in hand with all these... |
14 April 2008
03:28 GMT |
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San Francisco is the venue for this year's Nintendo spring bonanza, the place where the Wii producing company chooses to demonstrate its newest and most interesting games. The first day was presided over by Cammie Dunaway, sales and marketing executive vice president, who announced that a new Mario title was com... |
11 April 2008
03:01 GMT |
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There is no doubt about the fact that everybody loves Mario, even though he's not as cool as Superman or as good looking as Lara Croft. Oh, yeah, Mario's a guy! Anyway, if you were wondering how much you really love Mario, a Japanese girl is going to show you, not any Japanese girl, of course, but the one w... |
4 April 2008
17:06 GMT |
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As Calin needed to take a week off and cry himself to sleep after reading some of the comments (both here and on Digg) that his "Mario, Sonic & Co Should Retire from Games" column attracted, I'm gonna do this week's Weekend Reading column. And I'm gonna talk about gamers and their irrational responses.... |
21 March 2008
19:31 GMT |
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According to reports from Nintendo of America, the sky is the limit for its latest fighting game. It was released in the United States on March 9 and has since sold over 1.4 million units, of which around 874,000 we're sold in the first day. In the first week, the game is reported to have sold more than 120 game... |
18 March 2008
03:46 GMT |
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Probably half of the gaming world will hate me for saying this, but somebody has to do it. Mario, Sonic, Luigi, Wario, Dr. Eggman and all the other arcade/platformer icons should retire! Each and every one of them should be put in a museum and locked there. That's the only way to do it, that's the only thi... |
14 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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I have to hand it to him. Mario is without a doubt the luckiest guy on the planet, and he doesn't even have a real body. He just jumps around like a cretin all day long and what does he do? He steals all the women leaving us, tripping over coins and mushrooms as he rushes to satisfy them all.And it's not j... |
18 January 2008
07:01 GMT |
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It seems folks love those Mini Mario toys. So much so that the Mario Toy Company has expanded the line to include Mini Donkey Kong, Mini Toad and Mini Peach figures to the series. With all these toys bringing him more money than he knows what to do with, Mario decides to fulfill his lifelong dream and open a theme pa... |
11 January 2008
17:31 GMT |
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The YouTube video below is one of the few places where's you'll see good old Mario and Luigi being featured in a game that's pretty unlikely to be released any time soon. I'm talking about Super Mario Galaxy, one of the best (and best-selling Wii titles). The folks over at Gizmodo (the place wher... |
19 December 2007
10:33 GMT |
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One of the latest surveys shows that Canadians would rather recognize Mario, Nintendo's famous character, than their own Prime Minister, Stephen Harper. It seems that videogame characters are now more famous than real life stars, so that's probably why more and more actors choose to play in movie-game tie-... |
14 November 2007
12:16 GMT |
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Is it just me or has YouTube removed its gadgets and games category? While this won't bother you much, as you can search for the latest trailers anyway, it's curios enough that when you type "videogame" in the site's search bar, the most viewed results you get are Mario soundtrack clips. You can check ... |
14 November 2007
10:27 GMT |
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In light of a recent kidnapping of Princess Peach, Mario and Luigi head to King Bowser's castle to retrieve her, only to find that Bowser wasn't responsible for it. It is then revealed that the true kidnapper is Count Bleck, a dastardly sorcerer who wields an ancient, prophetical tome called the Dark Progno... |
9 November 2007
03:56 GMT |
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AiAi and friends come to the Nintendo Wii! An all-action extravaganza of unique new puzzles and madcap multiplayer gameplay, Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz takes the ground-breaking Nintendo Wii Remote and shows the world exactly what it can do! Get stuck into scores of new puzzle levels and a barrel-load of thrillin... |
8 November 2007
10:11 GMT |
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SEGA Europe and SEGA of America have teamed up today to reveal some details on their upcoming frenetic title, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games. As everyone knows, many Wii games present a small degree of difficulty when it comes to playing them with the Wii Remote. As such, SEGA has confirmed that controls for this... |
27 September 2007
06:20 GMT |
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With this week's Virtual Console update Wii gamers see Mario returning to the service with Wrecking Crew, a truly wacky adventure, or if you're a more chillout kind of gamer maybe you'd like to try out the NES original Lunar Pool and if these two don't do it for you, then the 1990 Turbografx class... |
24 August 2007
11:07 GMT |
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It seems that Mexico has problems with counterfeit games and other Nintendo products, since the local authorities have taken measures to stop the phenomenon. They have just seized 15.000 of these counterfeit items and you might want to know that 4.500 of them were Wii game discs.According to Jodi Daugherty, senior d... |
21 August 2007
05:41 GMT |
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I hope I'm not going to make enemies writing this piece of news…still I just have to write it. Every now and then, I slip into my "evil" form and criticize the Wii for its simplistic games and control scheme. The way I see it, any Wii port of a game series gets simplified. I may be wrong about this, so I'm ... |
19 July 2007
03:15 GMT |
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And here we are with another week-end ahead. It's summer and you should go out more, but if you're really the type who spends time indoors, the next game could keep you company.For this week we go back in time and remember some old school classic, a very famous one actually: Super Mario Bros.I don't th... |
6 July 2007
09:21 GMT |
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A recent list of the best video games ever made, compiled by readers and writers of the lauded British gaming magazine Edge, says that The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is the best game in the whole wide world. Now, such a classification was bound to stir some... stuff up. Thus, CNet's Crave blog quickly cont... |
5 July 2007
05:39 GMT |
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It's official Wii boys and girls, the upcoming addition of Zelda II - The Adventure of Link on June 4 in the US, marks the 100th classic game available on the Virtual Console. That's right, there are currently 99 classics on Nintendo's service, allowing users to download like crazy, for a few Wii point... |
1 June 2007
17:41 GMT |
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Although rumors said that Super Smash Bros. Brawl was deep into development and wasn't going to be released until 2008, Nintendo has recently released the game's official website and a truck-load of razor-sharp detailed screens. More than that, inventory items have also been revealed (Eg: the Gooey Ball). R... |
30 May 2007
05:26 GMT |
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Whether you're a fan of The Legend of Zelda series, Metroid series or Pokemon series, you cannot miss Mario Strikers: Charged Football, as the all-time favourite Nintendo characters take to the pitch, this Friday, 25th MaY, across Europe. Fair-play is the last thing on your mind with combat and Wi-Fi gaming in ... |
25 May 2007
06:22 GMT |
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Yesterday, Nintendo released the much anticipated official website for Super Smash Bros. Brawl, the Wii fighting game known in Japan as Dairanto Smash Brothers X. Along with the website's release Nintendo rolled out some screenshots of the great looking game. Today the company has released 8 more Brawl screens t... |
24 May 2007
03:03 GMT |
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I guess every now and then we have to write some sad news too. The world isn't only peaches and pie and some good things vanish from our lives, with no way for return. OK, enough sentimental crap: "Massive layoffs" are on the horizon for the Nintendo Power magazine, as IGN's sources report. The mag's ... |
15 May 2007
17:51 GMT |
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When Nintendo president Satoru Iwata held a conference to talk about company issues and outline for the current fiscal year, the Japan-hosted event revealed an amazing 124 Nintendo titles prepping to hit the Wii and the DS. 45 of the titles are headed for the Wii, while the most anticipated ones remain Super Mario ... |
5 May 2007
09:19 GMT |
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124 titles for Nintendo's Wii and DS is a pretty big lineup, even for Nintendo. But part of those titles may be confirmed through this translated press release, via The Platformers: "Nikkei announced today that Nintendo has purchased development house "Monolith" from Japanese powerhouse Namco-Bandai. Monolith S... |
30 April 2007
05:50 GMT |
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Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis is the sequel to the Game Boy Advance game Mario vs. Donkey Kong, a follow up to the Game Boy Donkey Kong game, although it is more puzzle-oriented, now that the player controls several Mini Marios with the touch screen instead of Mario himself. The game also features the ... |
24 April 2007
08:20 GMT |
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Donkey Kong, sometimes referred to simply as DK, is a Nintendo video game character that first appeared in 1981 as the enemy of Mario (then referred to as Jump Man), kidnapping his girl Pauline. The muscular gorilla lives deep within the jungle, wearing since 1994 a characteristic necktie (pretty much all his clothin... |
16 April 2007
09:10 GMT |
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Sega's done some thinking recently and decided to "refresh" Sonic a bit. How come? Sonic and the Secret Rings was a massive success on the Wii platform and Sega's cute, blue hedgehog is still on for the Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, so why is there a problem with the character. Speaking with Newsweek,... |
31 March 2007
06:03 GMT |
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Some games have great music, did you know that? Of course you did, but what you didn't know is that five shows at the Sydney Opera House between June 19-23 will bring delight to your years with la crème de la crème, that's the best of the best not the cream of the cream, from video game music, in a concert ... |
20 March 2007
11:09 GMT |
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The Fancy Pants Adventures is a game made by Brad Borne, a guy who decided to be all original in making a side-scrolling-platformer. Many compare these games with Mario or Sonic. Some of them are exact replicas of it, yet some platformers of this kind do tend to fall into another category. That category's name i... |
12 March 2007
09:43 GMT |
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Nintendo's late Gunpei Yokoi left a good legacy to the company. Few may know that he was the man behind Game & Watch, R.O.B., the D-pad, Kid Icarus, Fire Emblem, Metroid and the Virtual Boy. The Escapist's Lara Crigger wrote an informative about Gunpei Yokoi, "the quiet engineer with the faint, cheerful smi... |
7 March 2007
06:30 GMT |
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School isn't what it used to be...Remember those times when, as a student, you were obliged to learn whole pages by heart, mentioning the author, page and paragraph? Well, those days are over, now everything is music, film and video games. What, do you think I'm kidding? Schools actually promote video games... |
5 March 2007
10:02 GMT |
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Surely you've thought at least once since you've bought your Nintendo DS, how it would be to have your favorite games on it, probably even some of which will never make it to a Nintendo platform, not to mention the handheld. I know I have, when I was still in the GameBoy era; yet the PlayStation had launche... |
3 March 2007
03:20 GMT |
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