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Nintendo 3DS Needs More Mario, Zelda and Pokemon to Succeed

Michael Pachter, who is the analyst watching the video game industry for Wedbush Morgan, believes that the new Nintendo 3DS handheld has managed to get on the right track and now has a bright future ahead of it, especially for 2012.Speaking to Eurogamer the analyst stated, “With the strong rebound in 3DS sales,...

6 January 2012
15:01 GMT

Rumor Mill: Nintendo Is Getting Ready to Unveil 3DS Pokemon Grey

Rumors about a new Pokemon video game for the Nintendo 3DS have been around for some time but there are some new hints that the Japanese publisher and hardware maker might be getting ready to soon make an official announcement.Siliconera, a site that closely watches Pokemon and Japanese video games, has received a Ne...

5 January 2012
10:31 GMT

Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition Highlights Pokemon Achievements

The newest edition of the Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition is now out and those who are interested in the most impressive feats in gaming will be able to read all about the most capable Pokemon playing family in the world, the Arnolds of Frankfurt.The family lives in a suburb just outside of Chicago, in I...

5 January 2012
01:59 GMT

Analysts: 3DS Needs Mario and Pokemon to Continue Momentum

The Nintendo 3DS is enjoying its best weeks ever on the Japanese market and is also seeing a revival in the United States and analysts believe that the only thing that the hardware developer needs to do in 2012 is to keep launching high profile titles developed in house in order to keep up momentum.Michael Pachter, w...

28 December 2011
22:31 GMT

A Gamer's Week: December 25

It’s much too close for Christmas to review video games and a parched desert largely devoid of new releases lays ahead of us for the first few weeks of 2012, but we have kept up with our Softpedia Game of the Year 2011 series, talking about concept, gameplay and exclusive releases in our articles.We also have t...

25 December 2011
07:11 GMT

Pokemon x Nobunaga’s Ambition Blends Huge Battles with Collectable Characters

The Pokemon Company and Tecmo Koei have announced that they are working on a new video game called Pokemon x Nobunaga’s Ambition which will combine the mechanics of the two series and deliver a mash-up of strategy and role playing. It seems that the game will be turn based when it comes to the actual battles a...

20 December 2011
02:53 GMT

New Pokemon Game Will Be Revealed on January 14

A Japanese magazine, called Coro Coro Comics, has a teaser in this month’s edition which suggests that it will have an exclusive reveal for a new Pokemon video game in the edition which will hit newsstands on January 14. The magazine talks about a “big surprise,” but it does not offer any sort of r...

16 December 2011
02:19 GMT

Japanese Magazine Teases Pokemon Announcement for December

The Japan based magazine called Jump has announced that video game publisher Nintendo is preparing to make a big announcement related to Pokemon, one of its core franchises, at the upcoming Jump Fiesta event, which will take place on December 17 and 18 in Chiba, Tokyo.The vent is being mainly built around manga and a...

21 November 2011
16:41 GMT

Nintendo: Just Dance 2 and FIFA 12 Are 2011 Best Sellers So Far

Video game publisher Nintendo has released a series of sales charts for the first nine months of this year, compiled from sources like Media Create in Japan, the NPD Group in the United States and Gfk International, showing that the biggest hits at the moment are Just Dance 2 and FIFA 12.Just Dance 2 for the Nintendo...

2 November 2011
14:31 GMT

Pokemon, World of Warcraft Have Inspired Forza Motorsport 4

One of the leading developers working on the upcoming Forza Motorsport 4 at developer Turn 10 has revealed that he has drawn inspiration for the racing game from a series of very unlikely sources.Dan Greenawalt, who is the creative director working on Forza Motorsport 4, has told GodIsAGeek that, “I tend to loo...

30 September 2011
08:41 GMT

The Pokemon Company Crown United States Pokemon Champions

The Pokemon Company has announced the results of the 2011 Pokemon Video Game United States National Championships, announcing the names of the 24 players that will go on to represent the nation at the upcoming Video Game World Championships, where they will face off against other gamers coming from Japan, Europe and ...

12 July 2011
03:25 GMT

Nintendo Has No Plans to Launch Games on Smartphones

Despite the fact that The Pokemon Company, which is linked to Nintendo, has announced that it was officially endorsing a new Pokemon game that will be launched on the smartphones powered by the iOS and by Android from Google, this does not mean that more Nintendo games will be launched on devices that are not manufac...

7 July 2011
15:11 GMT

Pokemon Rhythm Game Comes to Smartphones with Nintendo Approval

The Pokemon Company has announced that it is preparing to launch an official Pokemon-powered video game for smartphones with the approval of video game publisher Nintendo, which holds the copyright to the game universe. The new game will be called Pokemon Iie Tap, which would roughly translate like Say Tap, and wi...

6 July 2011
03:50 GMT

Apple Stops Serving iAds in Apps Targeting Kids

An iOS developer is sharing his story about discovering an Apple policy change that’s affecting iAd applications. Specifically, apps targeting kids. Developer Mike Zornek sells an app called Dex, a free Pokèmon browser for iPhone, in the App Store. He was used to seeing bad iAd fill rates from time...

11 May 2011
07:47 GMT

More Augmented Reality Games Coming to the Nintendo 3DS

Video game company Nintendo has announced that more video games using the Augmented Reality abilities of the newly launched Nintendo 3DS handheld will be released, developed both internally at the Japanese company and by third parties. Speaking to the magazine, Nintendo Power Hideki Konno, who is cited as being th...

4 May 2011
09:31 GMT

NPD Software: Pokemon and Homefront Rule the Month

The sales data released by the NPD Group for the United States video game market in the month of March has shown that Pokemon Black and White, the new entry in the long-running series, and Homefront, the first-person shooter from Kaos Studios and publisher THQ, have managed to top the chart and finally topple Call of...

15 April 2011
05:28 GMT

Analysts: Xbox 360, Nintendo 3DS and Pokemon Will Top United States March Sales

The NPD Group is set to launch its figures for the United States video game hardware market at the end of this week, with the month of March taking center stage, and a number of analysts are predicting a worse situation than that for the same month in 2010. Michael Pachter, the outspoken analyst with Wedbush Morga...

12 April 2011
17:21 GMT

Pokemon Black and White Gets Global Link, Dream World and Battle Union

The Pokemon Company and Nintendo have announced that on April 13 all those players who have bought the new Black and White video games will be able to use the newly launched Global Link system, which allows them to interact with other Pokemon trainers all over the world. The Pokemon Global Link requires any version ...

12 April 2011
15:01 GMT

Analyst: Nintendo 3DS Sold Half a Million Units in the United States

Estimates from analysts point to the Nintendo 3DS handheld having sold more than 500,000 units on the United States market since it was launched, with the biggest reason being the strong pre-orders that have been registered for the device. Michael Pachter, who is an analyst of the video game market with Wedbush Mo...

12 April 2011
10:31 GMT

Pokemon Black & White Hits 3 Million, Movie, TV Series, Trading Cards Incoming

The Pokemon Company International and Nintendo have announced that their newly launched Pokemon Black and White pair of video games for the Nintendo DS have managed to sell no less than 3 million copies in the United States and in Europe in their first two weeks on sales. J.C. Smith, who is the director of consume...

5 April 2011
13:41 GMT

Homefront Fights to Number One in United Kingdom Chart

Homefront, the first-person shooter from publisher THQ and developer Kaos Studios, has managed to take the first position in the United Kingdom video game chart in its first week on sale, performing better than a number of other big releases. Homefront has been widely debated last week, with analysts saying that t...

22 March 2011
03:52 GMT

Wii Had to Make Way for 3DS and Pokemon

Nintendo has officially said that the Nintendo Wii home console will again become one of the main focuses of the video game company after the launch of the new 3DS handheld is finalized in North American and in Europe and after the launch of the new Pokemon games. Speaking to consumer site IGN Reggie Fils-Aime, wh...

9 March 2011
16:31 GMT

Pokemon Black and White Sells More than 1 Million Units in 24 Hours

Pokemon Black and White, the new video games in the long-running franchise published by Nintendo and developed by Game Freak, have managed to sell more than 1 million copies on the United States market in just one day, breaking all the records set by the very successful Soul Silver and Heart Gold launch.Those games o...

9 March 2011
02:59 GMT

Main Pokemon Series Will Not Move to the Nintendo Wii

Pokemon Black and White, the latest all-new titles in the long-running series, are ready to be launched on the Nintendo DS in North America and in Europe, after being out for some time in Japan. So, it seems that for the foreseeable future those who are fans of the “Catch them all!” concept will have to d...

16 February 2011
18:21 GMT

Nintendo Announces Wii Rhythm Heaven, New Kirby Game, More Pokemon

Nintendo had a busy couple of days, talking to investors about its recent performance and about its plans for the future, and the company has announced that this year it plans to launch a Wii home console based Rhythm Heaven title and a new title featuring the popular Kirby character. Rhythm Heaven has so far perf...

31 January 2011
17:31 GMT

Nintendo 3DS Region Locking Could Be Temporary

With launch dates and prices known for the Nintendo 3DS handheld for all major territories attention is once again turning towards the features linked to the new device and gamers have been expressing some pretty negative though linked to the region locking employed by the 3DS. When David Yarnton, the boss of the ...

24 January 2011
13:21 GMT

Pokemon Black and White Reached 5 Million on January 9

Pokemon Black and White, the Nintendo powered title that had already been nominated as the best selling video game release on the Japanese market, has now managed to become the fastest game on the Nintendo DS platform that has moved more than five million units on the home market. The news comes via Japanese gamin...

17 January 2011
10:01 GMT

Japanese Gaming Market Shrinks again, despite Pokemon and Monster Hunter Success

Enterbrain, a company that offers research services linked to the Japanese video games market and also publishes the magazine Famitsu, has launched a new report which says that the market in the Land of the Rising Sun has again declined in 2010. Namely, it has come down to 493,66 billion Yen, the equivalent of about ...

12 January 2011
15:01 GMT

Rumor Mill: March 4 Pokemon Black and White Launch Date for Europe

Pokemon Black and White, the new pair of games for the Nintendo DS for the long-running franchise, have already arrived on the Japanese market and have made quite a splash and Nintendo has already announced that the two titles are set to arrive in North America on March 6, but the company has not offered any official...

5 January 2011
15:01 GMT

GameStop Stores Get Special Pokemon for Black and White

Nintendo, as the developer and publisher, and The Pokemon Company, as the holder of the intellectual property, have announced that they have teamed up with specialist retail chain GameStop to deliver a special character based offer for those who are fans of the franchise and are interested in the new Pokemon Black an...

4 January 2011
05:42 GMT

Mario Still Most Popular Game Character in Japan

A survey conducted by the Japanese branch of Yahoo! shows that Mario is still the most loved video game character in Japan, taking the top position both when looking at favorite characters and when accounting for favorite video games during 2010.The nominees were based on web search numbers, page views and the amount...

30 December 2010
03:49 GMT

These Are the Best Selling Games of 2010 in Japan

Sales tracking company Media Create has just published a chart with the best selling games of the year in Japan. It's been a good year for games in the land of the rising sun, as the country flocked to purchase lots of huge games, most of them coming from Nintendo or other local companies, like Capcom or Kona...

30 December 2010
02:35 GMT

New Super Mario Bros Is First Nintendo DS Six Million Seller

Enterbrain, a company which compiles sales data for the Japanese video game market, has announced that on December 26 of this year New Super Mario Bros. from Nintendo has become the first video game which has sold more than 6 million units on the DS family of hardware.The exact figure stands at 6,015,255 units sold t...

29 December 2010
16:21 GMT

Free Shiny Pokemon Coming Next Month to GameStop

Nintendo has just announced that it will be holding a special promotion with GameStop and EB Games, which will offer free Shiny versions of special Pokemon in preparation of the upcoming launch of Pokemon Black and White. In what will certainly motivate dedicated Pokemon gamers to get out of their houses after the...

29 December 2010
15:51 GMT

Pokemon Black and White Arrives on March 6, 2011 in North America

Nintendo has announced that its latest entries in the long-running Pokemon series, officially called Black Version and White Version, are set to be released on the Nintendo DS family of devices on March 6, 2011, about six months after the two titles were launched in Japan.Nintendo has not yet announced a release date...

28 December 2010
06:29 GMT

Japan: PlayStation 3 on the Rebound, Pokemon Over Kirby

The PlayStation Portable handheld from Sony managed to again top the weekly hardware sales chart on the Japanese market just as Pokemon Black and White has managed to again top the video game chart, just ahead of the newly released Kirby game.The PSP has managed to see an increase in overall sales from 33,683 during ...

25 October 2010
13:41 GMT

Japan: Pokemon Still on Top But Slowing Down

On the Japanese video game market the PlayStation Portable from Sony has managed to remain the best sold individual handheld model on the market while the twin Pokemon version Black and White have again remained the most important titles on the market, although their sales lead is shrinking.The PSP console has lost a...

18 October 2010
13:31 GMT

Ten Years from Pokemon Gold and Silver Marked by Mew Launch

The Pokemon Company and publisher and hardware maker Nintendo have announced that, in order to mark the anniversary of ten years since gamers first enjoyed Pokemon Gold Version and Silver Version, players who own the remakes Heart Gold and Soul Silver will be able to get access to Pokemon number 151, also known as Me...

13 October 2010
03:44 GMT

Japan: Nintendo DS Sees Fall in Sales, Pokemon Still Leading

The Nintendo DS family of handhelds has seen a marked decrease in terms of sales on the Japanese market, coming in behind the PlayStation Portable device when counting individual models, while the Pokemon Black and White video games from Nintendo has managed to still be the biggest selling title in the country.The Pl...

11 October 2010
13:31 GMT

Japan: Nintendo DSi and Pokemon Still Leading the Charts

The Japanese market has seen another good week at retail, with the Nintendo DSi handheld continuing to see an increase in sales over the PlayStation Portable from Sony just as the dual launch of Pokemon Black and White continues to lead the video games chart.The DSi is the biggest seller of its family of hardware des...

4 October 2010
13:31 GMT

Japan: Nintendo DS Benefits from Pokemon Launch

Pokemon Black and White, the fifth generation of title based on the popular franchise, has launched on the Japanese market, predictably taking the first spot in the video games chart and pushing the Nintendo DS family ahead in the hardware oriented chart.The best sold version of the device has been the somewhat older...

27 September 2010
03:23 GMT

Pokemon Black and White Sells 2.63 Million Copies in Two Days

Nintendo has announced that Pokemon Black and White, the fifth generation of video games based on the very popular franchise, have managed to sell more than 2.6 million units in their first two days on sales in Japan and other Asian markets, with the game managing to reach 1.5 million pre orders before the September ...

23 September 2010
03:31 GMT

Pokemon Black & White Will Only Have New Characters

Pokemon Black & White will be one of the biggest video games launched of the year in Japan but the enthusiasm of some fans of the franchise might be limited a bit by the latest announcement coming from the development team. Junichi Masuda, who is the man leading the team working on the two titles, has announced in a ...

6 August 2010
04:12 GMT

Wi Fi Powered Pokemon Fans Get the Enigma Stone

Nintendo of America, as the publisher, and The Pokemon Company have announced that players of Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver will be able to get, for about a month, a new item called the Engima Stone as long as they have access to wireless Internet through their handheld device. The Enigma Stone is a powerful art...

30 July 2010
15:11 GMT

Pokemon Black & White Has Video Chat and Cooperative Play

Nintendo has announced that Pokemon Black & White will be coming to the Japanese market on September 18 and that players in North America and in Europe might get it in early 2011 and now the publisher is offering more information on the new title, the first in quite some time to introduce original content to the seri...

14 July 2010
08:36 GMT

Pokemon Black and White Confirmed for September 18

Nintendo has announced that the new Pokemon Black and White videogames will be launched in Japan on September 18, exclusively on the DS line up of handhelds. They are developed by Game Freak, a studio, which specializes in Pokemon titles for the Japanese giant, and are the first to bring entirely new content to the s...

29 June 2010
18:51 GMT

A Gamer's Week: June 6

This week has been dominated, here at Softpedia, by the launch of Alpha Protocol, a game we have reviewed and dedicated several gameplay diaries to. This edition's Weekend Reading piece is also using the new Obsidian role playing game as a jump off point for a discussion about innovation in gaming and the title ...

6 June 2010
03:11 GMT

Reshiram and Zekron Land on the Covers of Pokemon Black and White

The Pokemon Company has announced the launch for Pokemon White Version and Black Version is set for the spring of 2011 in both Europe and North America. The Nintendo DS exclusive titles will also have covers featuring all-new Pokemons, Reshiram linked to the Black version and Zekrom linked to the White one. The same ...

31 May 2010
15:11 GMT

NPD Software: Splinter Cell Takes a Stealth Approach to the Top

It's a bad April for the videogame industry, the NPD Group, the organization that tracks sales for both hardware and software on the North American market, saying the month saw a drop of 26% over the same period in 2009, which is the fourth biggest ever drop in one year. The overall value of sales has plummeted ...

14 May 2010
19:01 GMT

Kojima Talks About Crying in MGS: Peace Walker

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, the PlayStation Portable videogame from Konami that has been widely characterized as MGS 5, has gone gold and is set to go on sale in Japan on April 28. To celebrate the occasion, series director Hideo Kojima has given an interview to Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu. The outlet has al...

26 April 2010
08:11 GMT


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