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Game & Watch Titles Coming To DSi Ware

Game & Watch, the handheld games created by Game Boy creator Gunpei Yokoi, are coming to Japanese DSi Ware. The series was recently released as a Club Nintendo DS cartridge dubbed Game & Watch Collection. Each game is priced at 200 Points. Titles and Japan release dates as follows: • Ball July 15 • Flagman…

Reggie: Be Patient, The Wii Vitality Sensor Will “Wow” You

Nintendo’s announcement of the Wii Vitality Sensor at E3 was met with some amount of befuddlement and a heap of “WTF?” But Nintendo of America president and COO Reggie Fils-Aime says, eventually, you will say “Wow, I get it.” Reggie tells Fast Company that the same confusion—and maybe even some mockery—followed the introduction of the…

Wii Sports Resort Sales Pass 500,000 In Japan

Nintendo’s Wii Sports Resort is ensuring that Wii MotionPlus penetration is off to a good start in Japan, with the Wii game moving another 150,000 copies in its second week on the market. That puts the Wii Sports sequel at more than a half million copies sold, according to Media Create, a feat sure to…

Need For Speed Nitro Still Stylin’

The Nintendo Wii entry in EA’s reboot of the Need for Speed series continues to impress with sharp, stylish visuals. The DS version? Not so much. See if you can spot the difference! Sure it isn’t a hyper-realistic racer that lets you see your own reflection in the rear-view mirror. That’s not really what the…

DJ Star Scratches Your DS

Not every upcoming DJ game requires a large extra piece of plastic, as Game Life‘s DJ Star for the Nintendo DS readily proves. Maybe it’s just me, but I find the concept of scratching to music much more compelling on the DS than I do sitting in front of my television with a special controller,…

Carcassonne Coming To A DS Near You

Classic German board game Carcassonne – which has already turned up on Xbox Live Arcade – will also soon be making the leap to the Nintendo DS, courtesy of Koch Media. This DS version will contain the original board game along with expansion “River”, but also expands upon this by introducing three new “worlds”, described…

Wii Fit Plus (And Other Nintendo Titles) Dated For Japan

Via Japanese Nintendo news website Rambling Man come a smattering of Nintendo release dates. Please keep in mind that these are unconfirmed at the moment. • August 6: Color Changing Tingle’s Love Balloon Trip • September 17: Forever Blue 2: The Call of the Sea • September 3: Sloan and MacHale’s Mysterious Story 2 •…

Hey, Resident Evil 5 Might Be Possible On Wii After All

Resident Evil 5, as we know it, just isn’t possible on the Wii. But that’s as we know it. Nothing stopping it turning up on the Wii in some other form. Capcom’s Masachika Kawata has told gamesTM: Hypothetically speaking, the Resident Evil 4 engine would work perfectly for replicating the gameplay but we would never…

Wii Remote In Raised Fist: Possibly The Image Of Our Generation

Three times is homage, rip-off, a trend or simply a sign that this is the signature visual of the gaming era during which we live. Edge Magazine cover from 2005 back when the Wii was still called the Revolution (Via Edge cover gallery on Flickr) Nintendo Power cover from 2006 Cover to forthcoming book, A…

Master Photoshop The Legend of Zelda Way

Despite more than a decade of futzing about with Adobe Photoshop, my digital painting skills are considerably amateur. Creating something like David Cousens’ The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask piece above is beyond my skills… or is it?! The answer is still “Yes, it is,” but Cousens fantastic Photoshop tutorial, in which he walks us…

Why Golf Is In Wii Sports Resort

Originally, Wii Sports Resort did not include a golf game. But it ended up in Wii Sports Resorts only after Miyamoto mistakenly said it would be in the game. Doh! Nintendo staffer Takayuki Shimamura recounts the story with a laugh: “Right after getting back to Japan, he suddenly said: “You know we’re including golf now.”…

Nintendo’s Newest Mascot Is The Wii Sports Resort Island

Nintendo’s reliance on Mario, Zelda and Pokemon is sometimes a loudly vocalized source of frustration for fans of the company hoping for something new. The good news is that you’re getting a brand new character in Wii Sports Resort‘s island. Shigeru Miyamoto, general manager of the Entertainment Analysis & Development Division—the team responsible for Wii…

SimAnimals Bless The Rains Down In Africa

The wild dogs cry out in the night, as they grow restless looking for some solitary company in SimAnimals Africa, EA’s follow-up to their charming animal simulator for the Nintendo Wii and DS. If you want compelling animal drama, you go to Africa. Natsume knows this, as does Majesco. Now EA is getting in on…

Demo Play Coming To Nintendo Handhelds

Earlier this year, a Nintendo patent came to light that described a function that would allow players to “skip” parts of the game they found difficult. This system eases the pain of completing a difficult game, without watering it down so much that it turns hardcore gamers off. The new system, described in a patent…

Miyamoto: “Wait, Please” For Kid Icarus

Hey, there wasn’t a big Kid Icarus announcement at E3. Nintendo Power asked Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto about Kid Icarus and recently published his response: Wait, please. I’m really surprised how popular that is. But you are the first person to ask at this E3! The original Kid Icarus was released on the Nintendo Entertainment system…

Nintendo’s Electroplankton Returns As DSiWare Download

Bite-sized chunks of Nintendo and Toshio Iwai‘s musical software Electroplankton are coming to DSiWare, with four of those releases hitting Japan this week. Each will feature a specific Electroplankton for Nintendo DSi owners to experiment with. Eventually, Nintendo has plans to release all ten Electroplankton via the DSi download service, doling each out 200 Nintendo…

The Nintendo Download: Bits, Busts, And Chariots Of WiiWare

Busting moves, tripping bits, and racing chariots are just some of the fun activities presented in this week’s downloadable games for the Nintendo Wii and DSi. It’s a promising week for The Nintendo Download, with an especially robust set of titles dropping for WiiWare. Kicking things off is the release of Aksys Games’ BIT.TRIP CORE…

How Mario Galaxy Looks In 720p

Remember those “HD” Wii videos? This is just like them! Only, it’s Mario Galaxy, not Smash Bros. And they’re lovely big screenshots, not blurry little internet videos. To refresh, these games are displaying in what is essentially high definition, as they’re being run through a Wii emulator on a PC. So if the Wii could…

The R4…Vending Machine

Forget those mythical panty vending machines! This vending machine in Osaka’s Den-Den Town is selling R4 devices. Best part? They’re all sold out. Nintendo has been fighting the R4 piracy flash carts and fighting them hard. There’s a court injunction against the Chinese R4 makers for “violation under Japan’s laws”. Yahoo! Auctions is prohibiting the…

How Many Hours People Play Nintendo’s Wii Games (Sorry, Donkey Kong)

Never mind what’s at the bottom of this barrel, here’s a list of 29 Wii games from Nintendo and the amount of hours people play them, per gamer. (The following stats are pulled from the usage data shared by more than two million Wii users through the system’s Nintendo Channel. For more information about how…