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Roll Metroid Prime Trilogy Box Art Up Into Your Life

Nintendo’s Metroid Prime collection for the Wii is due to land in North America on August 24th in a snazzy “collector’s edition” form that bundles up three games, a Metroid Prime Trilogy art booklet, special metal packaging and more. By more, we really mean a paper sleeve in which to slide the Metroid Prime Trilogy…

The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks Preview: Pigs Might Fly

We get a new Zelda this fall, as Link gets a train, a phantom friend to do some of his dirty work and a new species of animal to enrage. This week, we played more. Announced at the Game Developers Conference in March, The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks was first playable for us at…

Reminder: About Your Club Nintendo Status

Hey there Club Nintendo of America members, your status is about to reset! On June 30th, to be specific. If you want to reap the benefits (free stuff!) of elite status in Nintendo of America‘s customer rewards program, pay attention. You have until next Tuesday to rack up the required “coins” to ensure you’re of…

How Much Of New Mario Vs. DK Is Actually New

Some people who tried to download the Mario Vs. Donkey Kong game Nintendo recently placed on its DSiWare store might have been scared off by a pre-purchase warning about recycled content. Nintendo’s told us how much wasn’t original. In my review for Mario Vs. Donkey Kong: March of the Minis I made the educated guess…

Box Of Old Zelda Games Redefines Definition Of “Case Fresh” [Update]

We don’t post about video game auctions very often here. When we do, it has to be something that’s pretty amazing. This cardboard treasure trove of Zelda fits that bill. It’s a box of sealed copies of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. The original SNES release. Like the wounded body of…

Not One New Tingle Title, But Two

Everyone’s favorite 35 year-old green-tights-wearing bachelor is getting not one, but two spin off titles. That’s right, two Tingle games. First appearing in Nintendo 64 game The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, Tingle will starring in Color Changing Tingle’s Love Balloon Trip, the sequel to 2006’s DS release Freshly-Picked Tingle’s Rosy Rupeeland. While the theme…

The Little Things Noticed At Our Nintendo Demos

All day, we’ve been bringing you new impressions of Nintendo’s big holiday games, but allow us to note some little things of possible importance from our time with those titles. Small things I observed: –MotionPlus Shouldn’t Stay Attached: Like the Nunchuck, Nintendo’s MotionPlus Wii Remote add-on can get in the way while playing some games.…

Why Guys Should Care About Girl-Game Style Savvy

Nintendo’s women’s-fashion-shop game for the DS was called “Girls Mode” in Japan, signal enough that it’s not for macho men or the gamers who want to play as one. But there are design ideas in Style Savvy any gamer should know about. Style Savvy is a fully localized upcoming Nintendo-published DS game that’s sure to…

Dirt 2 Wii Looks Rather Clean

The second game in the Colin McRae Dirt racing franchise marks the debut of the series on the Nintendo Wii. Here’s an idea of what that will look like. The game actually doesn’t seem to have suffered too much from the transition. Sure, it’s nowhere near as detailed as its big brothers on the PlayStation…

Wii Sports Resort Preview: Motion Game Of The Year?

Nintendo’s sequel to a game nobody thought needed a sequel is out next month, is impressive and could be the best thing for hardcore gamers on the Wii since, what, Metroid? Away from the chaos of E3, we’ve gotten a chance to swing a MotionPlus-appended Wii Remote to control Wii Sports Resort, the showcase game…

Fifty-Seven Flights Up With New Super Mario Bros. Wii

It was E3 in New York last night as Nintendo re-booked the highest floor we’ve ever played games in, to showcase a fall line-up headlined by New Super Mario Bros. Wii. Some observations from a four-player session. Crecente has already previewed Nintendo’s holiday-slated return of side-scrolling Mario to the Wii. He played it at E3…

Ghostwire’s Augmented Reality in Action on DSi

I’m sort of fascinated with the idea of augmented-reality gaming, video games that blend the real world with the fictional one in real-time. Here’s a look at Ghostwire which has players using their DSi to hunt their surroundings for ghosts and then try to help them. I love the idea and the execution looks pretty…

The Nintendo Download: Random Monday Morning Goodness

What this week’s Nintendo Download lacks in must-have titles it makes up for in sheer guts, with brain training, puzzles, a little golf, and a simulated planet all on offer. Of course, when I say lacking in must-have titles, that doesn’t mean completely bereft of them. The sole DSiWare title this week is Art Style:…

New Wii, Wii Remote Colors In The Flesh

Product renders and marketing shots are one thing. It’s another thing entirely to look at a consumer electronics product in the flesh. So let’s look at the new Nintendo Wii and Wii Remote colours! Both the black Wii (and its associated peripherals) and the blue Wii Remote (currently a Japan-only Club Nintendo contest prize) were…

The Great Chain Interview, Part 5: Riccitiello To Reggie To You

Today ends our weeklong Chain Interview, with EA’s chief defending his choice in cars and Nintendo’s president in the U.S. asking you a question. The previous chapter of this Chain Interview had concluded with a question EA Sports chief Peter Moore gave me during our Wednesday afternoon interview during E3 week in L.A. [This post…

We Much Prefer Europe’s Wii Sports Resort Box Art

As is often the case with the PAL market (see Ico & Resident Evil 4), European and Australian customers will be getting a cleaner, fresher rendition of Wii Sports Resort when it launches next month. While the US version looks…well, drab, the PAL art is literally a breathe of fresh air, doing a much better…

Nintendo Explain How MotionPlus Thing Go Into Remote Thing

You know how Wii MotionPlus go in Wii Remote? Nintendo know. Nintendo show you. It show you with video. Video show how MotionPlus go in Wii Remote! You watch. Then you know. Then you have Wii MotionPlus in Wii Remote!! Destructoid have video. Video show how it go in. Watch! Or else rubber jacket get…

UK Chain Starts Selling Nintendo DS Cakes

UK’s Tesco store have started selling New Super Mario Bros. celebration cakes. The cakes, as you can see, come in the shape of an open DS. It looks like the only edible bit is the bottom part of the cake. The upper screen, it appears, is a cardboard cutout. [Thanks Mashallo]

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Surgeons Using Wiis to Hone Their Skillz

We’ve heard of Wiis in medicine before — but now instead of handing out Nintendo’s little white giant to burn victims and physical therapy patients, some doctors are using them as training tools. LiveScience reports that surgeons in training at what I assume to be an Arizona medical facility are testing out ways to use…