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2D Side Scrolling Super Mario Game Coming to 3DS This Year

Nintendo has confirmed that this fiscal year it is going to release a new Mario game for the 3DS, and that its gameplay will have traditional 2D side-scrolling mechanics. Nintendo has been using its biggest mascot, Mario, to heavily promote the 3DS handheld console. It already released two big games last year, inclu...

27 January 2012
05:41 GMT

Nintendo 3DS Goes Over 4 Million Sold in Japan

Video game hardware developer and publisher Nintendo has announced that it has sold more than 4.1 million units of the new 3DS handheld on the Japanese market, managing to turn around a hardware platform that seemed destined for failure just a few months ago.The 3DS has been launched in Japan in late February of this...

27 December 2011
08:17 GMT

Watch Bastion Like Narration for Super Mario, Sonic, Tetris and Rock Band

Bastion, the recent indie hit from Supergiant Games, was one of the most innovative titles to be released this year and much of its charm was linked to the understated and varied narration that accompanied all the actions of the player.Now the narrator has taken on the task of providing similar commentary for other w...

3 November 2011
10:30 GMT

Nintendo 3DS Gets New Super Mario Game, TurboGrafx and Game Gear Legacy Titles

The Nintendo 3DS will get a brand new Super Mario game, as well as legacy titles from the Sega Game Gear and Turbografx consoles, according to an announcement made by the Japanese company at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The Nintendo 3DS is getting ready to be released in Europe and North Americ...

3 March 2011
18:01 GMT

Nintendo Shows Impressive Black Friday Super Mario Powered Results

Hardware maker and video game publisher Nintendo has announced that it has managed to sell more than 1.5 million units during Black Friday and that it is hopeful that its Wii home console and its DS line up of handhelds will dominate sales in the United States for the months of November and December.The numbers repor...

30 November 2010
04:37 GMT

The Next Zelda Game Has a Surprise Installed for Us

This year, E3 saw Nintendo drowning the crowd in Super Mario titles. The convention offered us some insight into the New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Super Mario Galaxy 2 or Bowser's Inside Story, but other Nintendo names have been shy to come on stage. The Legend of Zelda had a brief and stage-fright-covered performa...

19 November 2009
04:30 GMT

New Super Mario Bros. Wii Could Have Had an Online Multiplayer

New Super Mario Bros. Wii has been released and Nintendo's President, Reggie Fils-Aime, is glad to brag the game's multiplayer. The way he sees it, the title was designed to fulfill everyone's needs, regardless of gaming experience or cultural background. "I really do believe that New Super Mario Bros....

17 November 2009
18:01 GMT

Miyamoto's Next Game Could Cough Out Hair Balls

Shigeru Miyamoto first started working for Nintendo in 1977 and gave birth to the first real masterpiece of gaming for the company in 1981, in the form of the original Donkey Kong. Since then, the game designer became responsible for other legends of gaming like the Super Mario franchise, The Legend of Zelda game ser...

4 November 2009
04:11 GMT

A Gamer's Week: May 30 – June 6

This week, the E3 blow out happened. Almost all of our news articles came out the Los Angeles Convention Centers, as the biggest companies in videogaming showed off the titles and devices that would shape our experiences in the coming year. Here are the biggest pieces of news of the last few days.Monday was all about...

6 June 2009
08:11 GMT

Six Wii Music Tracks Revealed

Nintendo is really interested in advertising Wii Music in Japan. There are television ads in the Tokyo subway which show various potential customers playing the game. But, weirdly, there's not much official information regarding the tracks that will be included in the retail disk of Wii Music.The tracks which ha...

16 October 2008
04:08 GMT

Super Mario RPG Available on WiiWare

Nintendo is very keen on pleasing the so-called hardcore demographic, now that it’s facing a backlash regarding the more casual oriented nature of its E3 2008 presentation, which did not deliver anything related to core franchises like Mario and Zelda while focusing on Wii Music. The company is trying to m...

2 September 2008
04:59 GMT

Sega Posts Losses and Falling Revenue Numbers

Sega Sammy, the somewhat funnily named parent company of Sega, is not out of the financial woods yet. The results that it posted for the 2008 financial year, that ended on March 31, 2008, are marked by smaller than expected revenues and a significant loss.When compared to the fiscal year of 2007, yearly revenues of S...

15 May 2008
19:16 GMT

Game Designer Tops Time 100 Poll

Since 2007, in addition to creating the now famous list of personalities that have impacted our world and choosing a Person of the Year (last year it was Vladimir Putin, the Russian president), Time magazine has also conducted an online poll where readers are invited to vote for the most influential person in the wor...

6 May 2008
16:31 GMT

The Free Super Mario Game: Only 14kB

Every Internet user likes fast loading online games, web pages or other applications. The secret of web pages and application optimization resides greatly in code structure. JavaScript, as a client-side programming language, is widely used for addition of various features and functionalities to websites. There are ma...

9 April 2008
11:46 GMT

Mario Galaxy Sold Half a Million Copies in the First Week

Nintendo has announced that Super Mario Galaxy sold 500,000 copies in its debut week in the United States, becoming the fastest selling Nintendo Wii and Mario game in history. But Mario Galaxy is not a bestseller worldwide. For instance, in Japan Mario Party 8 sales are still better, in the United Kingdom it only rea...

22 November 2007
11:10 GMT

Super Mario Sisters - Dead Nintendo Project

We all know that big companies love trademarks, specially when they come up with something as original as Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. What would you say if I told you that a game called "Super Mario Sisters" was considered as a possibility almost 20 years ago? It seems that Nintendo filed a trademark applicati...

22 November 2007
09:36 GMT


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