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Hands On With Nintendo DSiWare

The American launch of the Nintendo DSi brings with it the introduction of the downloadable DSiWare service, Nintendo’s handheld foray into digital distribution for games and applications. We previewed four of the initial U.S.-bound offerings. The Japanese DSiWare service is already going strong in Japan, with a few dozen games and a handful of non-games…

Wii System Update Adds Play From SD Card Support

Hitting at the same time as Nintendo President Satoru Iwata’s keynote speech at GDC, a new system update is available for the Nintendo Wi that adds an SD card menu option to the Wii menu. Clicking on the SD card icon brings up a message telling users that they can launch channels from an SD…

Wii Storage Solution, New Balance Board Game Revealed At GDC

Kotaku has confirmed that Nintendo President Satoru Iwata will announce the long-requested storage solution for the Wii during his keynote speech at the 2009 Game Developers Conference this morning. Along with the official announcement of Rock N’ Roll Climber, a rock climbing game that uses the Wii Balance Board previously leaked by the ESRB ratings…

Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata GDC Keynote Liveblog Party

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata will get his keynote on at the 2009 Game Developers Conference today, waxing behind his LCD screen lectern about “Discovering New Development Opportunities.” Oh, yes, we’re excited too. According to the official description of the talk, Iwata will focus on Wii and Nintendo DS development, as well as “Nintendo’s role in…

Nintendo Keynote Approaching!

9am. Pacific Time in the United States. Set your watches. That’s when Nintendo president Satoru Iwata will take the stage for his GDC 2009 keynote address. And we’ll be there. This being a major keynote, and this being Nintendo, anything could happen. Nintendo could stick with current form and announce, well, nothing. Just a feel-good…

Wii Punch-Out!! Has Another Control Scheme: Your Feet

Nintendo’s European arm leaks one more previously unannounced Punch-Out!! features, noting that the Wii remake of the NES classic will offer Wii Balance Board support for a third control scheme. Seems Little Mac has a fitness ultimatum of his own to issue, as Nintendo of Italy’s press release brings first word of Balance Board support,…

Japanese People Are Less Interested In Video Games

Japan’s Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association polled over one thousand individuals between the ages of 3 and 79 about the declining interest in video games. The number of those that consider themselves gamers dropped 30.3 percent between 2007 and 2008. If that percentage is expanded Japan’s national population, that’s a decrease of 6 million gamers. Only…

Watch Beyonce Do A Hard Days Work For Nintendo

Beyonce is rich, she’s famous, she’s hot. But that doesn’t mean she gets out of working. Here’s what she had to do for a day on the set of a Nintendo DS commercial. Playing, watching, listening to Nintendo PR handlers, look at the camera, Beyonce, look at the camera, now look at the DS, sign…

Report: Nintendo Wii Will Cross 50 Million Mark Worldwide Sold This Month

Japanese financial news source Nikkei.net predicts that the Nintendo Wii will break 50 million in worldwide sales this month. The Nintendo Wii went on sale in Japan in December 2006. This latest milestone means that the Wii will have sold faster than the PS2 did during its first three years when Sony achieved 50 million…

Impressions Spectrobes: Origins Brings Brawling to Monster Collecting

When Spectrobes comes to the Wii later this year it will bring with it a shift for the monster collecting game from the slow pace of role-playing to button-mashing action. Spectrobes: Origins will be the third game in Disney’s original franchise. The first two titles, both released on the DS only, shipped more than 1.6…

Now This Is How You Remake Punch-Out!!

.html The first trailer for the Wii remake of Punch-Out!! enters the ring, knocking other boxing games on their asses with a nostalgic uppercut. Judging by the trailer, Nintendo has managed to maintain the gameplay of the original, updating our favorite boxers while maintaining their original look and feel. Even Disco Kid, the new boxer…

DSi To Get Virtual Console For Game Boy Games?

The Wii has a Virtual Console. Lets you download games from the NES, SNES, Master System, etc. No Game Boy, though. Why? Maybe because they were saving those for the new Nintendo DSi. A rumour on game site Kombo says that, at a recent event for Club Nintendo members, it was announced that the DSi…

GDC Panel: Why The iPhone Just Changed Everything

Neil Young, founder of iPhone gaming guru ngmoco:), kicked off GDC’s iPhone gaming panels with a talk on how Apple’s little monster has revolutionized the game-making and game-playing process. Of course most of what he said was a summary or reference to announcements made last week at Appel’s 3.0 firmware summit. But in case you…

Riddick Producer: “Nintendo Wii Is An Effing Genesis”

Well, his language was a little more colorful. In a podcast with GameTrailers’ Invisible Walls, developer Peter Wanat talks about Nintendo and the Nintendo Wii. Wanat, whose credits include Scarface, Chronicles of Riddick and the forthcoming Wanted: Weapons of Fate, points out how most third party developers aren’t finding success on the Wii — save…

February’s Top-Selling Games, Accessories By Platform

You’ve devoured, then processed the lists detailing the top-selling games and consoles for February. But do you want to know the best-selling games by platform? Or the games that didn’t quite make the top 10? Wired have published a series of charts provided by the NPD Group, which show the games that finished 11-20 on…

Team Rocket Sent Blasting Off from Poké-Launch

Some bogus flyers promising “exclusive Mystery Gifts” caused quite a foofaraw at yesterday’s Pokémon Platinum Launch in New York. Team Rocket is being blamed for the disturbance. Yes, really. The slightly ‘shopped flyer mentioning gifts (above) went up outside the Nintendo World Store launch party yesterday. Why, who could be behind such a plot? None…

Super Nintoaster — It’s for Breakfast Now!

The Nintendo toaster modder is back at it, deiivering a Super Nintoaster that is part of your nutritious breakfast, assuming you already serve nutritious breakfasts in your home. Modder Vomitsaw (I went back to the original source on this, just so I could share that word with you) on the Ben Heck forums gets the…

The Most Deranged and/or Offensive NES ROM Hacks, Ever

Warning, a few on this list make Beat ‘Em and Eat ‘Em look like Metal Gear Solid 4. But there are some genuinely hilarious winners among a mostly despicable list of deranged NES ROM hacks. The -Minus World swears that none of these are made up. Which is good, because No. 20 is a joke…

New Nintendo Patent Looks Like Picture Pages 2.0

A new patent application Nintendo has filed in the U.S. tips its hand to a potential new focus for the game-maker, and no, it is not core gamers. I’m no patent inspector or IP attorney, but what’s being described here looks like an application of the Wiimote, not some new hardware or peripheral. By using…

More People Pre-Ordering DSi Than The Original DS

We’ve picked up on the fact many of you aren’t feelin’ the DSi. But you know what? Lots of other people are, because according to GameStop, pre-orders for the handheld are off the charts. According to GameStop senior vice president Bob McKenzie, DSi pre-orders are double the size of the original DS: We’ve seen some…