Nintendo

The Great Wii Release Schedule Caper

Tucked away at the foot of Nintendo’s E3 press kit is an exhaustive list of the known (and in some cases unknown) release dates for what looks like every single announced Wii and WiiWare game. The list covers both first and third-party releases. Can’t find a game you’re after? Take it up with Nintendo. We’re…

New Nintendo Console Maybe In 3, 5 or 8 Years

Face it, the Nintendo Wii is a souped-up GameCube. It’s not HD. And that’s okay! The console has been incredibly successful. But nothing lasts forever, not even the Nintendo Wii. One day, Nintendo will release a new console. “If we have an opportunity to make a new console, it will probably support HD because it…

First Look At New Zelda Game’s Concept Art

At a developer’s roundtable the other day, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto showed a select group of people some concept art for a new Zelda game. That select group isn’t so select anymore. I don’t know about you, but that’s no Princess Zelda. Could it be, as so many are speculating, the living incarnation of the Master…

Smash Bros. Brawl User Online Service Ending

When Nintendo’s Wii fighting game Super Smash Bros. Brawl launched in 2008, it was touted for its user-generated stage designs and replay data. That service, sadly, will soon cease. From the game’s official website: As of June 30th, 2009, the current service that accepts user-generated snapshots, stage designs, and replay data will no longer be…

Will Team Ninja Take The Slutty Route With Samus?

Was speaking with new Team Ninja boss Yosuke Hayashi today, and got to thinking…Team Ninja are admirers of the female form. Team Ninja are now doing Metroid. So will Team Ninja be admiring Samus’ form? Oh come on. Don’t tell me you weren’t thinking it. The studio’s games, with or without former boss Tomonobu Itagaki,…

Glory Of Heracles Hands-On Handholding

Nintendo’s Glory of Heracles feels like the company’s attempt at RPG Training, a My First Role-Playing Game for the crowd fearful of stats-heavy, turn-based conventions. But then the Nintendo DS game quickly becomes that very thing. That may be due to the game actually being the fifth entry in the Hercules no Eiko series, which…

Nintendo Thinks Conan O’Brien Mario Homage Is “Great”

Now that we’ve seen how Super Mario World’s level design has helped shape Conan O’Brien’s Tonight Show backdrop, we had to get Nintendo’s reaction. We did. “That’s great,” Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime said as he looked at it for the first time during his interview with Kotaku. “We know that he is a…

Nintendo Has No New Colors To Announce For America

Nintendo’s announcement overnight of a black Wii and a red DSi being scheduled for the Japanese market, got us wondering about those new colors coming to America. Who better to answer this than the president of Nintendo of America? “We don’t have anything to announce for the U.S. on either of those products,” Nintendo of…

Stylus-On With Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks

The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks is a return to the stylus-controlled Link of Phantom Hourglass, but with a twist. In Spirit Tracks, not only do you get to play through segments of the game on a train, firing off shots from a canon, but you have a pet Phantom of sorts which is used…

E3’s Unmentionables: What Microsoft, Nintendo & Sony Forgot To Say

Earlier this week Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony each hit the show with big news, unveiling a slew of major titles, major surprises and innovative technology. But despite a strong showing across the board at the big three press conferences, there were still quite a few things left unsaid. Like what about that rumored PlayStation 3…

The Grinder E3 Trailer

From the creators of Hunter: The Reckoning comes the trailer for The Grinder, the four-player co-op first-person survival horror game for the Nintendo Wii. Looks pretty damn good for a Wii title, doesn’t it? High Voltage seems to be positioning themselves as the premeir source for more mature games on Nintendo’s console, and they’ve certainly…

Nintendo’s Wii RPG Monado: Beginning of the World In Pictures

Monado: Beginning of the World didn’t get much attention from Nintendo during its E3 2009 media briefing this week, but it cared enough to upload media for the Wii role-playing game. The game, developed by Monolith Soft, the folks also responsible for Xenosaga and Baten Kaitos, looks like your standard Japanese action role-playing game with…

Muramasa The Demon Blade Preview: So, So Pretty

Who wants a Wii game with great graphics and no motion control? The single-player adventure or action game genres are not as popular on the Wii as mini-game compilations. But an increasing number of publishers and developers seem undeterred, making games designed to please the hardcore, like MadWorld, Dead Space Extraction and The Conduit. If…

Red DSi Hitting Japan This Summer

Like red? Good because Nintendo is releasing a red DSi in Japan. To date, Nintendo has released a myriad of colors in Japanese game stores: White, Black, Pink, Lime Green and Metallic Blue. On July 11, Nintendo will be launching this very red DSi. Yours for ¥18,900 (US$197). The DSi originally went on sale in…

Nintendo Selling Black Wii in Japan This Summer

Back when the Nintendo Wii launched in 2006, the company showed possible console colors: White, red, silver, lime green and black. White was the launch color, and that’s all customers have had. Until now. Today, Nintendo announced that it will be launching a black-colored Wii in Japan on August 1 for ¥25,000 (US$260). Besides the…

Why Didn’t The Original Wii Remote Have Wii MotionPlus?

Nintendo is releasing add-on for the Wii Remote called Wii MotionPlus. It brings much needed accuracy to the Wii-mote. Why wasn’t it included in the original Wii-mote? Nintendo president Satoru Iwata asks just that in the Iwata Asks column on Wii.com. Here’s the exchange between Iwata and Nintendo R&D’s Junji Takamoto : Iwata: I suppose the…

The Grinder: The Wii’s Left 4 Dead?

Long before Left 4 Dead, High Voltage did four-player survival horror with the Hunter: The Reckoning series, and now they’re doing it again with The Grinder. High Voltage Software’s art director Matt Corso introduced me to their new Wii title The Grinder today by asking me if I remembered Hunter: The Reckoning. I did. Corso…

Shigeru Miyamoto Checks Out The Competition (PSP Go)

Hey! Big time famous game designers don’t just come to E3 to promote their own titles, they also come to check out the competition. Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto of Nintendo is doing just that. With the DS and the Game Boy platform before that, Nintendo has traditionally dominated the portable game market, but recently the…

No Online Play For New Super Mario Bros.

New Super Mario Bros. won’t feature online cooperative play, Shigeru Miyamoto told a room full of writers during his developer’s round table yesterday. New Super Mario Bros. allows up to four players to run through side-scrolling worlds reminiscent of the classic Super Mario Bros. games with up to four people. Players take on the role…

Booth Tour: Nintendo

Here’s a look at Nintendo’s booth at E3 2009.