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WiiWare Update, Puzzles for the Puzzled

Those who couldn't get enough of the “Incredible Machine” and have an addiction towards puzzles and any sort of mind games are in for a new treat. As long as they have a Wii. The latest member of the WiiWare, Nintendo's You, Me, and the Cubes, is a series of puzzle games in the casual market tha...

22 September 2009
05:11 GMT

Wii Price Cut, an Unofficial Official Statement

Another bit of information regarding the Nintendo price drop on the Wii is flowing around the endless void that is the web. Beside all the recent appearances of all sort of advertisements that are to be laid out in retail stores, it seems the closest thing to an official statement has been released. Or at least the c...

21 September 2009
15:01 GMT

GTA: Chinatown Wars Cheats (DS)

The first GTA to hit the DS, Chinatown Wars, tells the story of Huang Lee, a triad member in the modern Liberty City. Huang flies form China to deliver a ceremonial sword to Wu “Kenny” Lee and ensure the Triad inheritance. But things do not go as smoothly as planned, and Huang loses the sword shortly upon...

21 September 2009
09:57 GMT

iPhone Review: GameBoy Camera

GameBoy Camera is just one of the twelve Epicore-developed applications, but also one that has caught our eye. As its name implies, the application acts like the 1998 Nintendo accessory for the handheld GameBoy gaming console. The original GameBoy Camera could take basic, grainy, black & white digital images using t...

18 September 2009
08:20 GMT

PlayStation 3 Surges in Japan, Gundam Helps

The PlayStation 3 is the best sold console in Japan for the week that ended on September 6, managing to sell no less than 151,783 of the new Slim gaming consoles, which are cheaper, use less energy and occupy less space while offering the same performance when it comes to gaming as their bulkier cousins.This comes as...

14 September 2009
14:21 GMT

Star Fox Command Hints VIII (DS)

Nintendo is one of the biggest video game companies in the world, owning a lot of extremely profitable and popular franchises, from the likes of Mario, The Legend of Zelda, or Metroid. But another highly successful, yet not that well-known, is Star Fox.Introduced during the 2006 edition of the Electronic Entertainmen...

28 August 2009
07:57 GMT

Star Fox Command Hints VII (DS)

Nintendo is one of the biggest video game companies in the world, owning a lot of extremely profitable and popular franchises, from the likes of Mario, The Legend of Zelda, or Metroid. But another highly successful, yet not that well-known, is Star Fox.Introduced during the 2006 edition of the Electronic Entertainmen...

27 August 2009
06:44 GMT

Star Fox Command Hints VI (DS)

Nintendo is one of the biggest video game companies in the world, owning a lot of extremely profitable and popular franchises, from the likes of Mario, The Legend of Zelda, or Metroid. But another highly successful, yet not that well-known, is Star Fox.Introduced during the 2006 edition of the Electronic Entertainmen...

26 August 2009
07:54 GMT

Star Fox Command Hints V (DS)

Nintendo is one of the biggest video game companies in the world, owning a lot of extremely profitable and popular franchises, from the likes of Mario, The Legend of Zelda, or Metroid. But another highly successful, yet not that well-known, is Star Fox.Introduced during the 2006 edition of the Electronic Entertainmen...

25 August 2009
08:38 GMT

Electronic Arts CEO Praises PS3 Slim Launch

After Sony announced last week that it would release the PlayStation 3 Slim, a new hardware revision of its home console, reactions kept pouring in. Now, John Riccitiello, the Chief Executive Officer of Electronic Arts, has praised Sony's move saying that the new price is right and that the timing of the announc...

25 August 2009
03:10 GMT

Star Fox Command Hints IV (DS)

Nintendo is one of the biggest video game companies in the world, owning a lot of extremely profitable and popular franchises, from the likes of Mario, The Legend of Zelda, or Metroid. But another highly successful, yet not that well-known, is Star Fox.Introduced during the 2006 edition of the Electronic Entertainmen...

24 August 2009
08:00 GMT

Star Fox Command Hints III (DS)

Nintendo is one of the biggest video game companies in the world, owning a lot of extremely profitable and popular franchises, from the likes of Mario, The Legend of Zelda, or Metroid. But another highly successful, yet not that well-known, is Star Fox.Introduced during the 2006 edition of the Electronic Entertainmen...

21 August 2009
08:02 GMT

Star Fox Command Hints II (DS)

Nintendo is one of the biggest video game companies in the world, owning a lot of extremely profitable and popular franchises, from the likes of Mario, The Legend of Zelda, or Metroid. But another highly successful, yet not that well-known, is Star Fox.Introduced during the 2006 edition of the Electronic Entertainmen...

20 August 2009
12:11 GMT

Star Fox Command Hints (DS)

Nintendo is one of the biggest video game companies in the world, owning a lot of extremely profitable and popular franchises, from the likes of Mario, The Legend of Zelda, or Metroid. But another highly successful, yet not that well-known, is Star Fox.Introduced during the 2006 edition of the Electronic Entertainmen...

19 August 2009
12:01 GMT

Star Fox Command Unlockables VI (DS)

Nintendo is one of the biggest video game companies in the world, owning a lot of extremely profitable and popular franchises, from the likes of Mario, The Legend of Zelda, or Metroid. But another highly successful, yet not that well-known, is Star Fox.Introduced during the 2006 edition of the Electronic Entertainmen...

18 August 2009
12:01 GMT

Star Fox Command Unlockables V (DS)

Nintendo is one of the biggest video game companies in the world, owning a lot of extremely profitable and popular franchises, from the likes of Mario, The Legend of Zelda, or Metroid. But another highly successful, yet not that well-known, is Star Fox.Introduced during the 2006 edition of the Electronic Entertainmen...

17 August 2009
14:11 GMT

Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver Dated for Western Markets

Nintendo is a huge company in terms of gaming, but it is even bigger in the realm of entertainment, owning a lot of franchises that have spanned various mediums like Mario, The Legend of Zelda or Metroid. But without a doubt one of the most world famous series from under the umbrella of the Japanese corporation is Po...

17 August 2009
11:11 GMT

NPD Software: Wii Sports Resort Battles NCAA Football 10

The gaming industry certainly sees a lot of titles appear every month, but, as every market has its highs and lows, there are “dry” periods when very few new things appear in order to make the gamer drop some of his holiday budget on new titles. Such was the case in the month of July, as the NPD group re...

14 August 2009
16:31 GMT

Star Fox Command Unlockables IV (DS)

Nintendo is one of the biggest video game companies in the world, owning a lot of extremely profitable and popular franchises, from the likes of Mario, The Legend of Zelda of Metroid. But another highly successful yet not that well-known is Star Fox.Introduced during the 2006 edition of the Electronic Entertainment E...

14 August 2009
13:21 GMT

Star Fox Command Unlockables III (DS)

Nintendo is one of the biggest video game companies in the world, owning a lot of extremely profitable and popular franchises, from the likes of Mario, The Legend of Zelda of Metroid. But another highly successful yet not that well-known is Star Fox.Introduced during the 2006 edition of the Electronic Entertainment E...

13 August 2009
14:11 GMT

Nintendo Says the DSi Is Extremely Successful

With the videogaming industry posting rather lackluster results over the last few months and with Nintendo itself showing falling revenue and profits, a lot of people have been questioning whether the DSi, the new handheld released by the company, has been a success when it comes to sales. The Japanese firm has decid...

13 August 2009
03:05 GMT

Star Fox Command Unlockables II (DS)

Nintendo is one of the biggest video game companies in the world, owning a lot of extremely profitable and popular franchises, from the likes of Mario, The Legend of Zelda of Metroid. But another highly successful yet not that well-known is Star Fox.Introduced during the 2006 edition of the Electronic Entertainment E...

12 August 2009
14:11 GMT

Iwata Predicts Extraordinary Sales for Nintendo Videogames

There's no denying that 2009 is, at the moment, a dark year for videogaming. Most companies are reporting reduced revenue and losses, and the North American market, the largest in the world, is in free fall, with sales set to decline by 22% in July. Still, there's one company showing a lot of optimism in th...

12 August 2009
14:11 GMT

Wii Vitality Sensor Set for 2010 Release

Nintendo is one of the biggest companies in gaming today, thanks to its permanent innovation and the fact that it manages to market its products extremely well, no matter how strange they may look or feel. But with the recently announced Wii Vitality Sensor, which was introduced to gamers at this year's Electro...

12 August 2009
04:37 GMT

Star Fox Command Unlockables (DS)

Nintendo is one of the biggest video game companies in the world, owning a lot of extremely profitable and popular franchises, from the likes of Mario, The Legend of Zelda of Metroid. But another highly successful yet not that well-known is Star Fox.Introduced during the 2006 edition of the Electronic Entertainment E...

11 August 2009
14:01 GMT

Console Manufacturers Are Wrong About Price Cuts, Analyst Says

As we've started another glorious month, analysts are once again called upon to share some insight on how video games and video game consoles have sold during the previous month. As it is still summer, you can bet that things weren't that great for console manufacturers, and the trend recorded in June, with...

11 August 2009
02:39 GMT

Nintendo's Miyamoto Is Confident in Physical Media

The gaming industry is always moving forward, meaning that developers are trying to come up with new trends every day, from new ways to interact with the target audience to new and more efficient ways of delivering content to them, straight to their home. The latter, in the form of digital distribution, is picking u...

11 August 2009
02:25 GMT

Nintendo Isn't Pleased with Its E3 Press Conference

This year's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles took a big step into the direction of its more successful iterations as all of the big companies arrived and made some pretty interesting announcements, the likes of two new Metal Gear Solid games or Left 4 Dead 2. But one press conference from which...

10 August 2009
11:11 GMT

A DS for Everyone Is Nintendo's New Strategy

Nintendo is one of the biggest companies active in gaming at the moment. Not only has the Japanese corporation taken the world by storm thanks to its hugely successful franchises like Mario or The Legend of Zelda, but its newest lineup of hardware, in the form of the Nintendo DS and Wii, have broken sales records for...

7 August 2009
02:18 GMT

People Need to Be Confident in Nintendo's Vitality Sensor

This year's Electronic Entertainment Expo was really something of a roller coaster in terms of big announcements. While the peaks were registered at Microsoft and Sony's press meetings, a lot of people went home disappointed by the one held by Nintendo. Even though the company revealed quite a few new titl...

6 August 2009
02:22 GMT

Wii Price Cut Won't Happen Anytime Soon, Iwata Says

During recent months, things haven't been so rosy for video game companies, starting with small developers, who keep their high-end titles for the end of the year, and ending with console manufacturers, which have recorded losses across the board, with a few exceptions here and there. This is evident with the s...

5 August 2009
15:01 GMT

Developer Ready for Punch-Out!! Sequel

Punch-Out!! has long been one of the games much loved by Nintendo fans and the remake that the title got for the Nintendo Wii was very well received by gamers and reviewers alike.There was a certain old-time charm combined with solid gameplay mechanics and a good graphics update to the new Punch-Out!! and a lot of pe...

31 July 2009
04:05 GMT

Nintendo Sees Revenue and Profit Fall

Nintendo has reported its financial results for the first fiscal quarter of the year and it's not a pretty sight. Arguably the most important force in videogaming at the moment, with strong businesses in both hardware and software, it has told investors that it has seen profit go down by more than 60% to reach 4...

31 July 2009
03:19 GMT

Nintendo Doesn't Know Why Hardcore Games Aren't Selling on the Wii

The Nintendo Wii is a hugely successful console, but not because it appeals to every gamer out there, but because it mostly attracts people who haven't been introduced to gaming. That is why a lot of the titles made for it are designed with the “casual” market in mind, meaning that they are easy to p...

31 July 2009
02:43 GMT

Motion Controls Are Always Evolving, Says Miyamoto

Motion controls are slowly becoming more and more present all around us, and this is especially true in gaming, where Nintendo has paved the way with its Wii console. Now, the arch rivals of the Japanese company, Microsoft and Sony, are ready to jump in and are already developing their own takes on this technology. ...

27 July 2009
02:22 GMT

Natal Isn't Big News to Nintendo, Says Reggie Fils-Aime

Motion controls are seemingly starting to appear in everything we do. In gaming, the phenomenon is largely due to Nintendo, as the Japanese company boldly implemented it in its extremely popular Nintendo Wii console, and thus introduced a wide variety of users to it. But, at this year's Electronic Entertainment...

21 July 2009
02:27 GMT

Super Mario Galaxy 2 Will Attract Both Hardcore and Casual Players

Nintendo needs to walk quite a fine line with its upcoming games. Last year, hardcore players were flustered by the fact that the Japanese publisher released titles geared towards more inexperienced players.This year, the announced line up includes titles like a new Zelda game for the Wii, Super Mario Galaxy 2 and a ...

14 July 2009
17:41 GMT

Gamers Will Be Amazed by the Wii Vitality Sensor

This year's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) was filled with big announcements from almost all of the major companies involved in the gaming industry. But while Nintendo kept its announcements on par, there was one thing that really stood out for almost everyone present at the company's press conference: ...

14 July 2009
02:22 GMT

Japanese Videogame Market Falls by About a Quarter

A lot of people were saying that the videogame industry was all but impervious to the current world wide economic crisis, mainly because of the importance that entertainment holds in the lives of all gamers. That positive imagine has been shattered as 2009 debuted sluggishly on all markets, with sales registered by t...

8 July 2009
12:41 GMT

Nintendo Dominates United Kingdom Videogame Charts

The United Kingdom market is a very important one for videogames and Nintendo seems to be dominating it in a big way. Looking at the videogame chart provided by GfK Chart Track, Nintendo takes three of the top spots, while six of the first ten games are released by the Japanese publisher.The GfK Chart Track top ten i...

8 July 2009
02:35 GMT

Naruto Shippuden: Clash of Ninja Revolution 3 Demo on Offer

If you are interested in the Naruto universe, you might do well to book a hotel and travel to Los Angeles as Tomy, the company in charge of the franchise, has announced that it plans to offer fans a change to play around with both Naruto Shippuden: Clash of Ninja Revolution 3 for the Nintendo Wii and Naruto Shippuden...

6 July 2009
14:31 GMT

PlayStation Boss Kaz Hirai Highlights the Importance of Hardcore Gamers

In the gaming industry, there has been a lot of debate over the importance of the hardcore and casual gamer market. Nintendo has proven, through its less powerful, but hugely successful, Wii console that casual gamers are much more numerous than dedicated ones and are more attracted to other types of titles, like Wii...

2 July 2009
13:01 GMT

Facebook Is Great for the Nintendo DSi

The Nintendo DSi, the latest iteration of the DS handheld console from the Japanese company, has taken the world by storm even though analysts predicted that it wouldn't be as successful because the user base was already very large. But they were wrong, as the DSi is selling like hot cakes all over the world. T...

1 July 2009
02:23 GMT

Nintendo: DSiWare Will Grow, No Plans for DSi Virtual Console

The DS is a hugely successful gaming console, largely due to the fact that it has a lot of video games made for it and because of the great support that it has been enjoying from Nintendo.As its latest iteration, the DSi, is breaking records left and right, and is extremely popular, even though the user base for the ...

25 June 2009
02:21 GMT

The Wii Remote Is the Best Motion Controller, Says Nintendo

Motion sensitive technology is the latest trend in the gaming industry, largely due to the fact that Nintendo introduced it and made it popular with a lot of people thanks to its Wii console. Both Microsoft and Sony have recently introduced their own takes on motion sensitive technologies.When these announcements wer...

22 June 2009
15:01 GMT

BioWare Is Interested in the Nintendo Wii

The Nintendo Wii has been embraced by more than 50 million people across the world, many owning quite a few titles for the fun platform focused on delivering more accessible and casual experiences to its users.The huge fanbase has made it quite interesting for a lot of publishers, including Electronic Arts. While tal...

22 June 2009
13:11 GMT

Sony Isn't Very Worried About Rival Motion Sensitive Technologies

Motion sensitive technologies are becoming the biggest trend these days, as after Nintendo made them extremely popular thanks to its Wii console that came with its own personal technologies, these are now being adapted by both Microsoft and Sony in the form of new projects.With Microsoft boasting about its Project Na...

22 June 2009
11:11 GMT

Shigeru Miyamoto: Games Need Controllers

Shigeru Miyamoto is one of the biggest game designers of all time, giving his parent company, Nintendo, a lot of high grossing franchises like Mario or The Legend of Zelda. He has been working for quite some time in the industry and his opinion is highly valued by a lot of people.The famous game designer has recently...

22 June 2009
03:05 GMT

The Nintendo Wii Helps Surgeons Develop Their Skills

The Nintendo Wii is a hugely successful gaming console, thanks to its huge library of games, easy-to-use interface and the fact that it is made by Nintendo, one of the most recognizable gaming companies that is also quite respected by others. But a lot of Wii's success is due to the fact that its motion-sensiti...

19 June 2009
14:41 GMT

Shigeru Miyamoto Doesn't Want Complicated Stories in Games

Video game design is certainly a tricky job, which carefully balances technical aspects with visual and narrative ones in order to create a cohesive experience that can grasp the attention of gamers and, with it, their hard earned money. But it now seems that the story part of any game doesn't necessarily have ...

19 June 2009
02:18 GMT


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