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Marvelous Entertainment On Wii Game Sales: T_T

The Wii may be king of the console market, but some publishers, like Marvelous Entertainment of Japan, are having a hard time recouping their costs to the point of tears. Huh?! There’s no crying in video game publishing! Marvelous isn’t necessarily publishing the kind of Wii fare that targets the “blue ocean” consumer. Instead, the…

Thing, Hulk Spend Quality Clobberin’ Time With Punch-Out!!

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Check Out These Custom Mario USB Thumb Drives

They may not be licensed by Nintendo, but these homemade Mario-themed 4GB USB drives and USB extensions look amazing. That may explain the steep price. The Brick and Question Mark block extensions — in 1ft to 6ft configurations — go for just $20, but the actual USB drives that plug into the extension are $55…

PSA: Nintendo DSi Doesn’t Rock

For those of you looking forward to picking up a copy of Guitar Hero On Tour: Modern Hits, don’t forget that it doesn’t work with Nintendo’s DSi. Despite coming with an adapter that lets you use the game with either the original DS or DS Lite, the game doesn’t include anything to let you use…

Say Happy Father’s Day With This Punch-Out!! Card

Don’t have the scratch for a Father’s Day card this year round, or just plain out forgot? Don’t worry Nintendo has you covered.

Deceased Wrestler Loved Great Video Games

Earlier this week, tragedy struck when Japanese pro wrestler Mitsuharu Misawa was killed in a freak ring accident — suffering lethal spinal damage from a suplex. Considered one of the greatest pro wrestlers ever, Misawa’s popularity in Japan rivaled Hulk Hogan’s in the West. Besides being a fantastic wrestler, he was also a gamer. A…

Professor Layton & The Curious British DS Bundle

This Mother’s Day, I bought my mum a DS Lite and a copy of Brain Training. I wasn’t the only one. But what about Father’s Day? Dad’s not going to be impressed with something constantly reminding him how old he is. Nintendo and Level 5 to the rescue, then. This bundle, timed to coincide with…

Cradle Your DS With Fake Girl’s Gym Shorts

There are loads of DS holders. Here’s one that looks like girl’s athletic shorts. Those who pre-order the limited edition DS title Strike Witches will get a “bloomer” pouch. Bloomers (buruma) are the gym shorts schoolgirls in Japan typically wear. Strike Witches hits the Nintendo DS this September. DS版ストパン特典ブルマポーチ「心に染みるブルー！」って、いやいやいや！ [AkibaOS]

May’s NPD Charts By Platform

While we’ve seen the month’s ten best-selling games overall, it can often be more interesting to break down game sales by platform, and see what the ten best-selling games were for each system. The NPD Group have today released that data to industry news site Gamasutra, and it shows tow key points. One, that multiplatform…

Miyamoto: True Interactivity Is Holding A Motion Controller With Force Feedback

The Nintendo Wii uses a controller dubbed “the Wii Remote“. Microsoft’s Project Natal uses a controller called “the human body”. What does Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto think? I don’t think I could create an experience that truly feels interactive if you don’t have something to hold in your hand, if you don’t have something like force…

Miyamoto Was A Hero To Most Game Developers

Famed Nintendo game designer Shigeru Miyamoto ranks at the top of some 3,000 video game creators’ list of “game development heroes,” according to a survey from the Develop Conference. In a poll of over 9,000 game developers worldwide, Miyamoto scored a first place showing, nabbing the presumably coveted award. The Mario and Zelda creator outranked…

The Nintendo Download: Toast, Rainbows, And Plumber Utilities

This week in the Nintendo Download we have three catchy new WiiWare titles, one welcome to the Fantasy Zone, and another clock/calculator combo for the DSi. It’s a triple dose of WiiWare this week, and at least two of them seem pretty interesting. You can’t help but be curious about a game called Eduardo the…

Don’t Expect Much Story From Mario Galaxy 2

There were two big surprises to be found with Mario Galaxy: firstly, that it had a substantive story, and secondly, that the story was good. Pity, then, the sequel won’t be doing anything of the sort. Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto has said that, despite the love fans had for the first game’s plot (centred around…

Nintendo And McDonalds Japan Serve Up DS Service

Following on the test program Nintendo launched in Tokyo last spring, the Kyoto-based game company and the fast food giant announce “Mac de DS”. Way back in 2005, Nintendo of America teamed up with McDonalds to offer free WiFi in the United States. This new nationwide service is a first for Japanese McDonalds. Starting June…

Pokemon Heart Gold/Soul Silver Japanese Pre-Orders Include…

Anyone pre-ordering Pokémon: Heart Gold or Soul Silver? Good news — pre-orders start July 4th, and there are pre-order goodies. In Japan, those pre-ordering Heart Gold will get a Ho-Oh figure, and those pre-odering Soul Silver will get a Lugia. Pre-order both, and you’ll get a Arceus figure. Heart Gold and Soul Silver are DS…

Playing Super Mario Bros. On A Theremin

The theremin isn’t only good for playing "Good Vibrations", it’s also good for playing Super Mario Bros. — not just the music, but the game itself. YouTuber conquerearth explains how it works: The sound from the theremin is split into its frequency and amplitude components in real time, which are then mapped to values in…

Japan Gets Blue Wii Remote, Nunchuk (With A Catch)

While the rest of the world suffers under the tyranny of a single Wii colour, Japan has choices! First a black Wii & Wii Remote, and now a blue Wii Remote & Nunchuk. But wait! There’s a catch! The special coloured controllers are being offered as part of a Club Nintendo deal for Wii Sports…

New Zelda Will Require Motionplus?

While details on the next Legend of Zelda game are almost entirely non-existent, courtesy of Nintendo’s non-announcement during E3, that doesn’t mean we know nothing about the direction series creator Shigeru Miyamoto will be taking the series. We know one thing: that you might need to fork out an extra $20 for it. Speaking with…

Analyst Predicts Wii Price Drop

Wedbush-Morgan’s Michael Pachter — the guy that was so harsh on the PSPgo’s price tag — thinks the Wii will drop to $199.99 this holiday season Edge Online reports that Nintendo has already sold 20 million units — 50 million worldwide — and plans to sell another 26 million this fiscal year. Noting that a…

Nintendo: Other M Will be A “Metroid Unlike Anything Ever Experienced Before”

Two of the men leading the new Metroid Wii game told Kotaku about their narrative ambitions for the 2010 sequel Metroid Other M and explained why the Metroid Prime team isn’t involved. Yoshio Sakamoto, Nintendo’s long-time developer of 2D Metroids, and Yousuke Hayashi, head of Tecmo’s Team Ninja, wouldn’t tell me and Brian Crecente how…