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Punch-Out!! Multiplayer Has You Seeing Double

It’s Little Mac versus differently-colored Little Mac in these multiplayer screenshots from Punch-Out!! for the Nintendo Wii. It boggles the mind that in a game with such a great cast of characters, multiplayer is limited to a split-screen battle with Little Mac versus another Little Mac. Nintendo tries to mix things up by making one…

There’s A Mystery To Solve In MySims Agents

EA takes their tiny blocked-headed MySims and thrusts them deep into the heart of a sinister plot that could determine the fate of an entire city in MySims Agents for the Nintendo Wii and DS. The MySims are everywhere now. They’re partying, racing, defending fantasy kingdoms, and now taking on the role of secret agents…

PS3 Tie Ratio Overtakes Wii Tie Ratio

Matt Matthews, now at Gamasutra, is a graph fiend. If it’s displayed as bars and/or pies, he’s all over it. And he’s all over some new NPD data, showing an improvement in the PS3’s tie ratio. The “Tie Ratio” is basically the ratio of games to consoles in the market. So if, say, the Xbox…

Where Did The Idea For Mother 3 Come From?

Mother 3? Fantastic game. The game was released way back in 2006, but its creator Shigesato Itoi and Nintendo president Satoru Iwata recently talked about the title — like, what inspired it. Itoi, who also works as an ad copywriter and even voiced the father in My Neighbor Totoro, explains that the game’s genesis came…

The Life & Times Of Nintendo’s Game Boy

Haven’t you heard? The Game Boy is 20! And to celebrate the occasion, Gizmodo artiste and Game Boy fetishist Jesus Diaz has whipped up this handy timeline, charting the machine’s highs and lows. You know, looking at this has reminded me; if there’s one console I’m going to buy this year, it’ll probably be one…

The Nintendo Wii Hits 8 Million In Japan

According to data from Famitsu publisher Enterbrain, the domestic sales for the Nintendo Wii in Japan surpassed 8 million units as April 19. The Nintendo Wii launched in Japan on December 2, 2006 and was not packaged with Wii Sports like in The West. Enterbain also released new top five Wii software sales totals. They…

Be A DJ On Your DS

In case the two other DJ games currently under development for consoles weren’t enough for you, French developer Game Life has just announced DJ Star, coming later this year for the Nintendo DS. Published by Deep Silver in Europe and Australia, DJ Star is a game where players start off as a lowly hobby DJ,…

Happy Birthday Game Boy!

Twenty years ago today, the original Game Boy first went on sale in Japan. What better way to pay tribute than with a series of cheesy retro ads. The Game Boy was created by Nintendo’s Gunpei Yokoi, who also created the company Game & Watch handhelds. Worldwide, the Game Boy and its later iteration Game…

The Wii Is Perfect For Computer Illiterate Old People

Not that there is anything wrong with computer illiterate old people. Why our mother just asked us yesterday if it was difficult to use a PC mouse. Yes it is, we said. We lied! The above ad is for phone carrier NTT Western Japan and is eye-roll inducing if you understand Japanese. For those who…

Super Robot Taisen – The Power Is In Your Chest

The official trailer for Banpresto’s Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier for the Nintendo DS proves once and for all that you’re more powerful when you’re nearly naked, even if you’re Kos-Mos. Xenosaga might have been a much shorter series if KOS-MOS had only learned her hidden power earlier. I myself never realized that…

The Nintendo Download: Dr. Mario Prescribes Wonder Crystals

Call the doctor, Mario-whoa-o. This week in the Nintendo Download we get a tiny dose of Dr. Mario; a tiny taste of Final Fantasy; and a heaping helping of Winder Boy. Dr. Mario makes his tiny triumphant return this week in the DSiWare title Dr. Mario Express (500 points), the downloadable version of the classic…

Global Nuclear War Should Come To The DS

Talented British developers Introversion have announced that, after a previous deal with a publisher fell through, they’re looking for somebody else to publish nuclear war “simulator” Defcon on the Nintendo DS. The grim, bare-bones PC hit is a perfect fit for the handheld, so the team are justifiably confident of finding somebody. But on the…

Exquisite Mother 3 Statues

Since Americans can’t even get their hands on an official version of Mother 3 the game, there’s no hope of seeing much official Mother 3 merch. But unofficial merch? Knock yourselves out. These Mother 3 clay statues were crafted by Camille Young, the wife of Reid Young, of Starmen fame. They were made for use…

How Many Copies Does A WiiWare Game Need To Sell?

Last week, Gamasutra heard whispers about Nintendo placing sales criteria on WiiWare games. If developers didn’t reach them, they wouldn’t get paid. Well, we now know just how many they need to sell. Courtesy of a developer “familiar” with the subject, these are the targets a WiiWare game has to meet before the creators start…

Unused Miyamoto Touch Screen RPG

Back before the DS was released, Mario and Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto was conceptualizing a touch-screen role-playing-game. The game’s patent has recently popped up online, and the RPG is heavy with RPG cliches (monsters, random battles, etc.). Though, the game does offer a fresh take on the genre. During combat, the monsters move in patterns,…

GPS For Your DS Lite

If you’re ever packing your DS Lite and end up lost in the jungle/emerging from a crashed plane in the Andes, you’ll be thankful if you bothered to purchase the “Ranger”. This unofficial Chinese…dongle, I guess we’ll call it, brings a full suite of global positioning capabilities to the handheld, featuring Google Maps support in…

Nintendo Shares: So, So Oversold

According to financial experts Barron’s, shares in Nintendo are now “oversold”. Sounds bad! “Oversold” basically means that shares in a company have fallen too far, too fast. Like a knee-jerk reaction. Or, like what’s happened to Nintendo shares over the past few weeks, as falling sales data (particularly in Japan) has led many bandwagon jumpers…

Wii Ghostbusters Debut Trailer

The debut trailer for the Wii version of Ghostbusters showcases the more cartoony art direction of the game, which is being handled by a studio different from the one that built the next-gens’ title. You can catch it over at VE3D. [via VE3D]

Nintendo Stock Takes A Hit

The market didn’t take the news of Nintendo’s year-over-year drop in Wii sales well. Despite having the bestselling hardware in the United States, that 17% drop in sales did some damage to Nintendo’s stock price. While the week was mostly positive for Nintendo—it had announced sales of 435,000 Nintendo DSi handhelds in its first week—it…

Adult Gaming on the DS: The Chinatown Conundrum

With 100 million DS and DSi in the hands of gamers worldwide, Nintendo’s portable is a mighty tempting platform for developers. So why are only seven of the nearly 1,100 games for the DS rated Mature? A popular argument is that Nintendo’s portable is for kids and soccer moms only, something that the Japanese developer…