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The Many Weapons of Chinatown War’s Rampage Mode

With Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars now out, lets take a look at some of the weapons in the portable title that makes making mayhem in Rampage Mode so much fun. I spent a bit of time over the weekend with the game and found it quite fun, though it still hasn’t totally sunk its…

Pokemon Launch Party Hits New York

To celebrate the release of Pokemon Platinum, Nintendo is throwing a launch party at their New York-based Nintendo World Store this weekend. The party, this Saturday, will let gamers buy the game a day earlier and give them a chance to receive a copy of the game autographed by Game Producer Junichi Masuda and Game…

The Ocarina Of Rhyme

You may have noticed, most of us are partial to a little rap with our supper. And even more partial to rap remixes that dub vocals over the top of Zelda tunes. The wonderfully-named Ocarina of Rhyme features ten tracks, including pairings like Aesop Rock & Goron Village, MF Doom & Horse Race at Lon…

More Jillian Michaels Fitness

Wii Balance Board game Jillian Michaels’ Fitness Ultimatum 2009 is a big hit, selling 500,000 copies. That means one thing: a no brain sequel. According to the game’s developer 3G Studios, “I’m sure we’ll be co-announcing a full-blown sequel in the future. For now we’re working with Jillian’s team to increase the target audience for…

Judge Says Nothankyou To Wii Patent Lawsuit

Fenner Investments – who in 2007 accused Nintendo, Sony & Microsoft of patent violations – figured Tuesday would be their big day in court. Turns out it probably won’t be. Judge Leonard Davis of the U.S. District Court in Tyler, Texas dismissed the case earlier today. Said “that there was no need for a jury…

Japanese Space Opera Manga In Japanese *And* English

Leiji Matsumoto, famed creator of space opera Space Battleship Yamato, is debuting his new manga on the Wii’s online Shopping Channel. Best of all, it will have English. Matsumoto’s Out of Galaxy Koshika will go on sale April 14, and like Wii-Shopping-Channel manga Princess Ai before it, Koshika will have Japanese and English language text…

Club Nintendo Members Get Early Look At Nintendo DSi

Club Nintendo membership has its privileges, as Nintendo is offering members in good, Platinum-level standing a sneak peek at the new Nintendo DSi before the unwashed masses get a chance to smudge it. In other words: check your e-mail, registered Club Nintendo members! We’ve heard of events at GameStops ’round the country, some of which…

Plant Your Seeds In Gardening Mama This Month

Be prepared to plant your seed, sow the fields, and work that hoe, as Majesco announces a late-March release date for Gardening Mama on the Nintendo DS. Yes, the handling of meat and icing the cake of the Majesco’s Cooking Mama series gives way to an all new set of sexual euphemisms come March 31st,…

Weekly Wii Update: The BIT.TRIP Begins

A new game made to look old and a newly re-released old game join the Nintendo Wii line up this week, with BIT.TRIP BEAT and Summer Games II available for purchase today. BIT.TRIP BEAT(WiiWare 600 Wii points) is one part Pong, on part rhythm game, where they player controls a paddle with their Wii remote,…

Wii MotionPlus Missing From Nintendo’s European Spring Schedule

Last month, Nintendo announced its Spring titles for the Nintendo DS and the Wii. This month, Nintendo is doing the same for Europe. While Nintendo’s German language release confirms stuff we know (DSi and Rhythm Heaven release dates), it has these highlights: Pokémon Platinum May 22 Pikmin 2 (Wii Re-release) April 24 Punch Out! May…

Here’s Your Chinatown Wars Theme Song

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars on DS has a theme song, and this is it. You may have heard it being ruined late last week by DJ Premier, but this is the proper version. Yes, that’s Ghostface, and yes, that’s Doom. Rockstar know what they’re doing when it comes to this kind of thing. GHOSTFACE…

Patent Troll Lawsuit Begins on Tuesday

Way back in 2007 an “investment firm” that so happened to hold some patents filed a suit claiming Microsoft and Nintendo infringed them. The suit wends its way to the courtroom on St. Patrick’s Day. Fenner Investments Ltd. says controllers for the Gamecube, Wii, Xbox and Xbox 360 infringe the “low-voltage joystick port interface” patent…

Wii’s Dead Space Will Last as Long as Original

Tidbits from a chat with Dead Space: Extraction‘s production team dropped a few tidbits, which add up to promises that the title will be a full game on its own, not a warmed-over port. According to Skewed & Reviewed: • Dead Space Extraction will take “about as long as it took players to play through…

Improv Act Seeks “Wiimbledon” Champ

“Wiimbledon Champion” looks great on a resume, especially if whomever’s reading it thinks it’s just a typo. An improv troupe is putting the title up for grabs in a tournament next month in Seattle. Organizers for Wiimbledon, to be held April 11, are looking to fill a field of 32 doubles teams playing Wii tennis.…

The Mario Paint Strategy Guide Is So 1992 It Hurts

These days, strategy guides are big business, but it hasn’t always been this way. In the early 90s, for example, magazines and cheat lines ruled, leaving strategy guides to, well. Do their own thing. Not that this was a bad thing. Indeed, in this case, it’s an awesome thing, because we’re talking about the 1993…

Meet The 007 Of Wii Gun Accessories

Or the Transporter of Wii accessories. Depending on your standards. Our standards, well, we don’t much care for the gun. We do care for the fact it’s a Wii accessory that’s putting some effort in. Take the shape of Cobalt Flux’s “Dark Ops Wii Light Gun”, for example. It’s different. Like, it’s not a shark.…

Nike’s Nintendo Shoe Blitz Continues With Wii Blazers

The checklist of Nintendo-themed Nike brand sneakers gets a 1-UP today, with the first peek at another Wii-inspired shoe, this time of the Nike Blazer variety. WeeklyDrop tipped us off to the new shoe, due this Summer, which joins the Wii inspired Nike Air Force 2 High—complete with Wii Remote condom details—and the Nike Air…

Clash of the Gaming Titans

Nintendo’s popular DS handheld hit a milestone earlier this month, topping 100 million of the portables shipped worldwide. But a much more important milestone looms. While 100 million is an impressive number, the Nintendo DS still has quite a bit of catching up to do if it wants to topple the Playstation 2 as the…

Grand Slam Tennis Trailer

This first glimpse at Grand Slam Tennis for the Wii in action gives us a glimpse at oddly large-headed versions of a bunch of pro Tennis players. The list includes Rafael Nadal, Andy Roddick, Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Bjorn Borg, Boris Becker, Stefan Edberg and Pete Sampras, whose head looks just right. Why do the…

Get Your Kubrick On At Chinatown Launch Event

New York’s Nintendo World Store is hosting a launch event for Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars on March 16. The party kicks off at 11:59 p.m. that night and runs into the next morning at 2 a.m. with DJ OhNo hosting fans age 17 and up. The first 25 people to buy the game get…