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Art Style Digidrive Micro-Review: The Superiority Of Video Games

I’m sure opera, movies and cave paintings are fine forms of entertainment, but can any of them derive fun from such a mundane activity as directing traffic? After a several weeks of inactivity, the Art Style series has returned to North America’s DSiWare shop with Digidrive, an abstract puzzle game about directing traffic that can…

By Stephen Totilo Published November 20, 2009

Nintendo Takes Over Malls Across America

As if the mall couldn’t be any scarier this holiday season, Nintendo is setting a Nintendo Holiday Mall Experience for shoppers to try out mid-mad dash. The Mall Experience is intended to make “it easier than ever for holiday consumers to sample the year’s most sought-after games” for the Wii and DS/DSi. Demo stations will…

By AJ Glasser Published November 20, 2009

TV Family Enjoys A Spot Of DS Homebrew?

Nintendo love to scour the dirtiest, most distant corners of the globe for people pirating their DS software. But do they ever check their TV sets? Because if anyone from Nintendo of America had bothered to watch the latest episode of “Modern Family”, they may have seen this kid. “Oh great!”, they probably thought at…

By Luke Plunkett Published November 19, 2009

Stick Professor Layton On Your Shelf

With a new Layton movie due out in Japan next month, it’s time to start cashing in! And there’s no better way than with a line of small, neat little action figures. These are “FuruFuru” figures, which basically means “bobblehead”, only more subtle, with everyone’s proportions in order. There are two available – the good…

By Luke Plunkett Published November 19, 2009

How Nintendo Is Selling New Super Mario Bros. Wii In Japan

Hey, it’s Nozomi Ohashi, that girl who sings the Ponyo song! And she’s wearing some sort of tutu, sitting in some sort of abstract white environment and playing New Super Mario Bros. Wii. That’s how Nintendo is selling the game in Japan — roping in Japanese celebrities to play the game. Not the most exciting…

By Brian Ashcraft Published November 19, 2009

Here’s What Phoenix Wright Looks Like On The Wii

How much you enjoy the upcoming WiiWare port of Phoenix Wright may depend on how big your television is. This is a port of a GBA/DS game, kids, not a HD remake. I’d imagine such low-res textures will look worse the bigger your screen. And, in case you missed it, that grey border isn’t just…

By Luke Plunkett Published November 19, 2009

Club Nintendo Offers Members Actual Game & Watch Prize

The Japanese version of Club Nintendo flexes its clear superiority over its Western cousin with even more retro flavored fun for Platinum members. They’re getting a real Game & Watch LCD game of Ball. Yes, a real Game & Watch, not the digital version as seen in the previous Club Nintendo exclusive Game & Watch…

By Michael McWhertor Published November 18, 2009

Nintendo Plans “Surprising” Zelda Showing At E3 2010

Nintendo fans are in for more than just new Wii Vitality Sensor software at E3 2010. The Legend of Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma says Nintendo hopes to show something “surprising” about Link’s next Wii-bound adventure. Aonuma tells the UK’s Official Nintendo Magazine that the Zelda team has been trying “something new in terms of…

By Michael McWhertor Published November 18, 2009

Phoenix Wright Pleads WiiWare

Not that the Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle are ever wrong when it comes to leaking game news early, but still, it’s nice to get confirmation (via the latest issue of Famitsu) that Phoenix Wright is on its way to the Wii. The series will be released on Nintendo’s WiiWare service, with Ace Attorney out in Japan on…

By Luke Plunkett Published November 18, 2009

Nintendo May Have More Metroid Prime Primed For DS

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption may have wrapped up the GameCube-to-Wii trilogy, but fans of first-person adventuring in the suit of Samus Aran may be able to look forward to future Prime games. Nintendo’s Kensuke Tanabe, overseer of all things Metroid, tells the UK’s Official Nintendo Magazine that the company is “always planning to make new…

By Michael McWhertor Published November 17, 2009

The Sports Authority Gets Its Wii On

As we first reported earlier today, The Sports Authority is getting in the Wii-selling business in a big way. While the national sports retailer won’t be officially announcing the Wii push at their stores until Thursday, some of the chain’s locations started getting their Wii on last weekend. The Colorado store pictured here received their…

By Brian Crecente Published November 17, 2009

Sports Authority Fitness Retailer Inks Deal to Sell Wii

Starting this month, Nintendo’s Wii gets its own section and pitch people at The Sports Authority stores nationwide, part of a movement to help make the country more fit, the fitness chain’s president told Kotaku this morning. Sports Authority president David Campisi says that the Colorado company, which operated about 450 stores, has been working…

By Brian Crecente Published November 17, 2009

This Throne Is Hallowed, Ancient

Yup, those are Famicom carts. As seen on Erick Kwiecien, via Gizmodo.

By Luke Plunkett Published November 17, 2009

There May Be More Wii Music

It’s easy to make fun of Wii Music, but remember, it still sold over two million units. Which probably explains why Nintendo are still talking publicly about the possibility of more of the things. “I think it sold lower than our expectations but on the other hand it was a really unique game, I have…

By Luke Plunkett Published November 17, 2009

Original World 1-1 Recreated in New Super Mario Bros. Wii

New Super Mario Bros. Wii has barely been out 48 hours, already there’s a level editors for it, and already someone’s rebuilt World 1-1 from the original Super Mario Bros. This might be played through a Wii/GameCube emulator, not on the console itself. There are a few flaws in the re-creation – how many can…

By Owen Good Published November 16, 2009

Super Mario Galaxy 2 To Be “Really Challenging,” Could Warrant Super Guide

Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto says that, like the recently released New Super Mario Bros. Wii, the Wii sequel to Super Mario Galaxy will be “a really challenging game.” Does that warrant a little Super Guide-style help? Miyamoto tells the Official Nintendo Magazine of the UK that he “cannot tell” whether the Super Guide’s hand-holding assist…

By Michael McWhertor Published November 16, 2009

Vader Senses Much Movement In Your Wii Remote

The only reason to think that Power A’s officially licensed Star Wars Darth Vader Wii Sensor Bar holder is a stupid idea is that you didn’t think of it yourself. Or maybe the price. We’ve mentioned it before, but now it’s finally hitting store shelves, and we’ve got packaging images. While we still haven’t received…

By Mike Fahey Published November 16, 2009

Frankenreview: New Super Mario Bros. Wii

It’s-a-him, Mario, back with three friends on another quest to save Princess Peach from the vile clutches of Bowser. Is the New Super Mario Bros. Wii new enough? Old-school charm can only get you so far, or can it? New Super Mario Bros. Wii puts that notion to the test, upgrading classic Mario gameplay with…

By Mike Fahey Published November 16, 2009

Nintendo Talks Mario Multiplayer And Keeping Zelda’s Secrets

The president of Nintendo of America is sanguine about the lack of online play in what he calls the new Mario game for “even your most jaded” gamer. But it is the curiously under-hyped Zelda about which he’s most excited. Last Friday, Reggie Fils-Aime sat with Kotaku and got to discuss the unusual: Releases, within…

By Stephen Totilo Published November 16, 2009

Wii Fit And Wii Sports Exercise Weighed And Measured

A new study has determined which Wii Fit and Wii Sports activities actually qualify as moderate intensity exercise, as defined by the American Heart Association. Are you actually exercising? The Nintendo-funded study, led by the National Institute of Health and Nutrition in Tokyo, measured the metabolic equivalent values, or METs, generated by participating in Wii…

By Mike Fahey Published November 16, 2009