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Activision sprung Jurassic: The Hunted on us only a month ago, barely giving folks time to see it, much less find out how it played. Perhaps an Xbox 360 demo will shed some light. The Jurassic: The Hunted demo is now available to Gold Xbox Live members in the U.S. Give it a go, and report back your fi...
The Mall Experience is intended to make "it easier than ever for holiday consumers to sample the year's most sought-after games" for the Wii and DS/DSi. Demo stations will be set up at 35 malls all over the country starting next week to let people play games like The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tr...
Avid readers of The Japanese Hardware Chart weekly updates won't be surprised—especially after reading about the PlayStation family's software dominance—that Sony hardware is selling better than the competition in Japan. No change this week.
Xbox 360 Elite w/ Lego Batman, Pure, & Choice of Call of Duty 4 OR Spider-Man: Web of Shadows - $299PlayStation 3 120GB w/ LittleBigPlanet GOTY & God of War Collection - $299Call of Duty: World at War (360/PS3) - $39.99Batman: Arkham Asylum (360/PS3) - $39.99Forza Motorsport 3, Lef...
What We Saw I played three missions during the University event using both the Wii Remote/Nunchuck configuration and the Classic Controller Pro because they had one handy. Note: It's unconfirmed if the Classic Controller Pro will be brought to the US along with Monster Hunter Tri.
Better textures, improved lighting, more pixels, less clothing on the female characters... it's all here! And it can be experienced there—and by "there," we mean Japan—on February 25 of next year. A North American and European release, sure to be announced by someone—a publisher whose nam...
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The PSP game kicked its way to the top of the Media Create sales charts, pushing past Nintendo's still strong Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver, which are destined to cross the 3 million sold mark any day now. The PlayStation Portable's software dominance gives the PlayStation brand more...
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LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues was developed by Traveller's Tales and published by LucasArts for the DS, PC, Playstation 3, Playstation Portable, Wii and Xbox 360 on Nov. 17. Retails for $49.99 USD. A copy of the game was given to us by the publisher for reviewing purposes. Playe...
Next, I was shown some combat. Layle ventured to a dusty desert area and enemies attacked. The game is played with a Wii Remote and Nunchuk. The control stick moves the character. The Remote's pointer is used for telekinesis, to pick up objects and enemies, then toss them. The d-pad on the Remote...
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Hey, it's Nozomi Ohashi, that girl who sings the Ponyo song! And she's wearing some sort of tutu, sitting in some sort of abstract white environment and playing New Super Mario Bros. Wii. That's how Nintendo is selling the game in Japan — roping in Japanese celebrities to play the game. Not the...
How much you enjoy the upcoming WiiWare port of Phoenix Wright may depend on how big your television is. This is a port of a GBA/DS game, kids, not a HD remake.
Capcom is really supportive of WiiWare between this and Mega Man 9. As long as they don't jack up prices or chop up individual Phoenix Wright games into tiny episodes (which is almost the same thing as jacking up prices), I support the decision to port awesome DS games to WiiWare.
EA SPORTS Fight Night Round 4 (Electronic Arts / EA Canada) Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 (Electronic Arts / EA Tiburon) Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo) Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (Nintendo / AlphaDream) Professor Layton and The Diabolical Box (Nintendo / Level-5)
Nintendo fans are in for more than just new Wii Vitality Sensor software at E3 2010. The Legend of Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma says Nintendo hopes to show something "surprising" about Link's next Wii-bound adventure. Zelda Wii: Expect Surprises At E3 2010 [ONM UK]
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Hunting video games don't get a lot of play here at Kotaku, as I feel they are marketed towards a demographic that doesn't read things on the internet on a regular basis, only hopping online to fire off angry emails to writers who take a lighthearted stab at their computer skills now and then....
1,128 gamers were polled (note: it was a self-selected survey, not a blind study), with 562 owning an Xbox 360, 473 having a PS3 and 591 a Wii. Obviously, some respondents owned more than one console. CNET UK's games console reliability survey: 60 per cent of Xbox 360s have broken [CNET]
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Tuesday, Nov 17
The series will be released on Nintendo's WiiWare service, with Ace Attorney out in Japan on December 15 (and going for 900 Points). It'll be followed by Justice for All (January 26) and Trials and Tribulations (February 23), both of which will cost a little more at 1200 points.
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Grasshopper Manufacture may finally be making the leap to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 with a new No More Heroes game, rumored to have been revealed in the latest issue of Famitsu magazine [Update - yup, it's in there] We'll know for sure later this week, when Famitsu would likely reveal m...
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My consoles are working overtime these days as I work to review games, play games for judging and sneak in a bit of relaxation gaming on the side. Today my Xbox 360 started to show signs of wear, locking up four times in about two hours. Three of those times was while I was playing LEGO Indiana Jon...
That backs up statements Tanabe made to Kotaku earlier this year. The Metroid producer said during an e-mail interview that Nintendo "will keep considering multiplayer for the Prime series," a feature included in 2006's Metroid Prime Hunters for the Nintendo DS.
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Store manager Mike Gabriela told Kotaku today that they trained a number of their employees to explain how the Wii and Wii Fit work, something they've also to educated customers about other sports equipment from skis to treadmills.
The official announcement of Sports Authority's deal with Nintendo to sell their console and games will come this Thursday with the help of fitness expert Jillian Michaels, star of The Biggest Loser and her own Wii game Wii Fitness Ultimatum.
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Monday, Nov 16
It's easy to make fun of Wii Music, but remember, it still sold over two million units. Which probably explains why Nintendo are still talking publicly about the possibility of more of the things. Exciting, no? Wii Music: You Haven't Heard The Last Of It [ONM]
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12. Brutal Legend (360, Electronic Arts) 13. FIFA Soccer 10 (PS3, Electronic Arts) 14. Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (DS, Nintendo) 16. Tekken 6 (PS3, Namco Bandai) 18. Madden NFL 10 (360, Electronic Arts) 20. Mario Kart Wii / Wheel (Wii, Nintendo)
This might be played through a Wii/GameCube emulator, not on the console itself. There are a few flaws in the re-creation - how many can you spot? Mario doesn't go into the subterranean coin chamber, but that doesn't mean it exists, so let's say that one doesn't count.
Clearly Sega begs to differ though, with this spiffy Super Monkey Ball Thanksgiving wallpaper they posted to their blog. The wallpaper comes along with a hefty update on Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll for the Wii — screens, trailers, the works.
Nintendo Talks Mario Multiplayer And Keeping Zelda's Secrets A Room Full of Loot Frankenreview: New Super Mario Bros. Wii Reggie: Wii 2 Theories Miss Key Point In College, the Party Never Stops - for LAN Mario Vs. Bowser, Waged Through Chess
Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto says that, like the recently released New Super Mario Bros. Wii, the Wii sequel to Super Mario Galaxy will be "a really challenging game." Does that warrant a little Super Guide-style help? Mario Galaxy 2: Will It Use The Super Guide? [ONM UK]
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During my recent interview with Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo of America's president, we got to talking about a so-called Wii HD by way of talking about his appearance last week at an event featuring presentations by top executives of gaming companies. Top men from Activision and Ubisoft s...
The Darth Vader Wii Sensor Bar holder should be available at Amazon.com and Toys R Us locations across the country. There is, unfortunately, much fear in the price. $39.99 is a bit steep for a thing that holds another, more important thing, even if it does look rather cool.
Startling fact: this is the first traditional Mario game to appear on a console since 1991's Super Mario World. That's a huge burden to bear, as this is the exact type of game that transformed Nintendo into the worldwide juggernaut it is today. With such a grand legacy to live up to, we expecte...
New Super Mario Bros. Wii is in stores for the Wii now. The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks will be released in North America on December 7 for the Nintendo DS. (And if Pokemon fans are feeling left out, a new downloadable Pokemon game is out today.)
The Nintendo-funded study, led by the National Institute of Health and Nutrition in Tokyo, measured the metabolic equivalent values, or METs, generated by participating in Wii Fit and Wii Sports activities. METs are a standard way of measuring energy expenditure, with moderate inten...
A fine lineup this week, and let's not forget the Virtual Console, where Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventure for the Super Nintendo (800 Wii points) and Street Fighter II Championship Edition for the TurboGrafx16 (700 points) both go on sale today. WiiWare Virtual Console
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Sunday, Nov 15
Leaked Survey Tips Off MLB 2K10 Cover Athlete Odd And Odder Mario Sightings In New York Laser Engraver Blasts Out Super Mario Theme New Super Mario Bros. Wii In-Game Tips Nintendo's Temporary Mario Museum, The Video Tour PS3: It Only Does Kidnapping ...
And some Mario clothes... Here's that Mario lunchbox. Adjacent to the museum and DJ areas was the Nintendo World Store itself, decked out for the New Super Mario Bros. launch. Spot the non-Mario figure here. Mario playing Mario. That's more like it. It's Mario.
New Super Mario Bros. Wii Review: Go Buy A Wii New Super Mario Bros. Wii In-Game Tips New Super Mario Bros. Wii Super Guide In Action You'd Better Watch This New Super Mario Bros. Wii Strategy Video Nintendo's Temporary Mario Museum, The Video Tour
Saturday, Nov 14
There was no Roker today, but there was Trinen and Ellis, providing the following tour. We shot this just before the museum opened to Nintendo fans. Attendees were able to buy New Super Mario Bros. Wii at the store today and enter a tournament featuring the game.
The shindig is more than just a line-up for an early purchase. Nintendo says it'll deck out the store with gaming stations, costumed characters, and a Super Mario Bros. museum showcasing Mario's history over more than a quarter century. Live gaming tournaments, trivia and prize giveaways...
Modern Warfare 2's release was the big news everyone could see coming; a bloodbath at Electronic Arts, and GameStop deliberately breaking a major street date, was not. Huge developments marked an unusually newsy week, even for this time of year. K9
In my review of New Super Mario Bros. Wii I talk about how the Super Guide works, and how important it could be to gaming. Now take a look at how the guide works while playing. Be warned, this does show an entire level in the game.
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Friday, Nov 13
Modern Warfare 2 PS3 Controller Faceplate Review: Cheap, But Does The Job Nintendo Explains The Red Box, Dashes Hope For Yellow Ones New Super Mario Bros. Wii Review: Go Buy A Wii Thank You Mario, But Our Princess Is In Another Game, Getting Kidnapped Again
Nintendo and GameStop are co-sponsoring driver Denny Hamlin for this weekend's Able Body Labor 200 at Phoenix International Raceway, forcing him to drive a New Super Mario Bros. Wii car in an oval Saturday, Nov. 14. Hey, that's the day before the game ships!!
Super Mario Bros. Super Mario Bros. 3 Super Mario World Super Mario RPG Mario 64 Paper Mario Super Mario Sunshine Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door New Super Mario Bros. (DS) Super Paper Mario Super Mario Galaxy New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Review: This Means War In which Michael McWhertor spotlights this unheralded little game. Modern Warfare 2 Xbox 360 Combat Controller Review: Plugged In In which Crecente complains about a wire. LocoRoco Midnight Carnival Review: Up All Night
New Super Mario Bros. Wii was developed by Nintendo EAD and published by Nintendo for the Wii on Nov. 15. Retails for $49.99 USD. A copy of the game was given to us by the publisher for reviewing purposes. Played through the entire game, sometimes on my own and sometimes with others. Tested the Super...
Why is the next big Mario game the first Wii title to not come in a white case? Credit Japan, Nintendo told Kotaku today. And don't expect it to happen again. Nintendo HQ had determined that New Super Mario Bros. Wii, which launches Sunday, would be the first Wii game to come in a red case, rather t...
Starting at 12:01am on Wednesday, November 18th, Wii owners in the UK will be able to download the new BBC iPlayer Wii Channel, giving them instant access to recent television and radio programs on demand without having to navigate to the service via the Wii Internet Channel. The upgraded...
Sadly, that art won't be needed for the game's impending re-release, with original developers Zoom Inc handling a port of the original Sharp X68000 - not the later SNES - version of the game for Nintendo's Wii. It'll be made available via WiiWare, not the Virtual Console, and will go for 500...
Thursday, Nov 12
There were two games noticeable by their absence from the October NPD top 10 list: EA's heavy metal adventure Brutal Legend, and Activision's peripheral-shackled DJ Hero. Wonder if it'll do any better in November... Brutal Legend sells 216K, DJ Hero 123K [GameSpot]
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Reflex was developed by Treyarch and published by Activision for the Nintendo Wii on November 10. Retails for $49.99 and is compatible with the Wii Zapper. A copy of the game was given to us by the publisher for reviewing purposes. Completed single-player campaig...
Modern Warfare 2 PS3 Combat Controller Review: DeLIGHTful Care for a Ubisoft fighting game or RPG? They're coming You'd Better Watch This New Super Mario Bros. Wii Strategy Video Wii Price Drop Puts Nintendo Back On Top In U.S. Uncharted 2, Wii Fit Plus & Borderlands Bow Big In October
02. Wii Fit Plus (Wii) - 441,000 03. Borderlands (Xbox 360) - 418,000 04. Wii Sports Resort (Wii) - 314,000 05. NBA 2K10 (Xbox 360) - 311,000 06. Halo 3 ODST (Xbox 360) - 271,000 08. Forza Motorsport 3 (Xbox 360) - 175,000 10. FIFA Soccer 10 (Xbox 360) - 156,000
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The video games industry suffered another decline this month as compared to last October," Frazier points out, adding "This is the third best October on record, behind October 2007 and October 2008." Frazier points to the Wii and Xbox 360 as "decreasing the most compared to October 2008."
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LEGO Rock Band was developed by Harmonix and Traveller's Tales and published by Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Nintendo Wii. Retails for $49.99 USD. A copy of the game was given to us by the publisher for reviewing purposes. Played through complet...
Because from what we've been hearing, New Super Mario Bros. Wii is no cake walk, especially in multiplayer games. Nintendo was nice enough to pass along some pre-release tips in video form, strategies that will definitely come in handy.
Wednesday, Nov 11
On walls around me hung a Wii bowling ball controller attachment, a Wii pool cue, Wii pom poms, and more. And 200,000 units of their Wii bowling ball controller sold worldwide later, they say, they were pleased to be surrounded by the plastic products of that opportunity.
Saturday, Nov 7
The old dog-ate-my-controller excuse got a guy out of a 5,000 Microsoft Point purchase, plus Gamertag immortality for the scape-pooch, in the No. 1 story of a news-packed week delivered by your humble editors. Rumor Xbox 360 with $100 Card for $200 This Weekend?
Friday, Nov 6
The only game this fall that lets you shout the clothes of Santa Claus is a platformer without a jump button, a mix of Katamari Damacy and Mario, and another strong third-party original for the Wii. Confused by our reviews? Read our review FAQ.
Tuesday, Nov 3
The Nintendo Channel is properly calculating and reporting player data again and so I can provide this month's look at Wii gaming usage without last month's asterisks. The stats on the chart are up to date as of the first of November. Tomorrow, as usual, I'll have a closer look at a slice of som...
Wednesday, Oct 28
In December 2007, Spector wrote on his blog about how much he would love to create a game based on Pullman's Golden Compass. At the time he was already in the midst of working on Disney Epic Mickey, he said. The initial concept for the Wii-exclusive game was born at Disney Interactive Studios'...
Sunday, Oct 25
The build I saw was pretty early days, but Ubisoft says the game is on track to come out a couple of weeks before the film's release in December. Note: This image appears to be from either the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 version — but it shows off both the bird you'll be flying and the helicopter at w...
Wednesday, Oct 7
Nintendo has been very careful to call Wii Fit a fitness "tool" not a fitness "solution" for obvious legal reasons. Neither Wii Fit nor its successor, Wii Fit Plus, will magically make you thinner or more easily able to resist tasty food. However, there's a lot to be said for a game that makes t...
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Thursday, Oct 1
Capcom's developers have rendered a lot of detailed visuals with the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, but Tsujimoto declined to question the power of Nintendo's system. "There will always be some limitations no matter which system you are working with," he said. "Oddly, we didn't have anythin...
What they'd tell you in a catalog is that Dead Space Extraction is the Wii prequel to last year's PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 sci-fi horror hit Dead Space. They'd write that it is a shooter that runs on rails and is rendered in the first-person, can be played with a light gun and that looks and sou...
Saturday, Sep 19
Console Price Drops and Bundles Europe Getting Four More Bundles For The 250GB PS3 Microsoft Releasing 250GB Xbox 360 For Modern Warfare 2 [Update] Toys R Us Ad Points To $199 Wii Price Drop This Month Halo 3: ODST Gets A 360 Bundle Announcements Calling All Readers: Kotaku Party In Tokyo
Wednesday, Sep 2
A new month brings a notable re-shuffling of the 10 games most avidly played on the Nintendo Wii. Animal Crossing and Call of Duty climb — and did you notice that only four of these games are made by Nintendo? As always, I'll break out some more Wii numbers in the coming days. Expect the next Top 1...
Thursday, Aug 27
Previously, you needed a copy of Twilight Princess to get this working, but with a recent system update, Nintendo closed that loophole. Not to worry. A new one has come along! Hack Your Wii for Homebrew without Twilight Princess [Lifehacker]
Saturday, Aug 15
The week in original reporting on Kotaku: Sega Sega: Impossible To Please All Sonic Fans With One Sonic Game Sega Will Celebrate Dreamcast's 10th Anniversary Quietly Sega: Bayonetta Was Delayed To Avoid November Danger Sega Updates Us On Wii Strategy, Aliens, "Sega-ness"
Thursday, Aug 6
Where's all this from? (AKA an explanation of the above chart for stat junkies only): In a move somewhat surprising for the generally secretive company, Nintendo makes all of this data public. Any Wii owner can download the Nintendo Channel to their Wii and begin browsing for games. Any gam...
Monday, Jul 27
At last, a Japanese role-playing game on Wii that can spark thoughts of Pikmin and Psychonauts. But it's also the first game to make this mild-mannered reviewer angrily throw his controller in about a decade. Confused by our reviews? Read our review FAQ
Sunday, Jul 26
Credit for the inclusion of a certain famous Nintendo character as an opponent, however, came from an executive at Nintendo of America, with support from Next Level. Tanabe revealed to Kotaku that he had a different idea for who to include from Nintendo's library of icons: "Princess Peac...
With a dozen sports and a total of two dozen ways to play them, Wii Sports Resort pack in the play with mostly fun games. You'd think that Wii Sports and Wii Play would have exhausted the minigame catalog for the Wii, but these mostly new games are a worthwhile addition to anyone's Wii. Even with...
Monday, Jun 29
But the Wii-exclusive first-person shooter hopes to win gamers over not with its plot and known voice talent, but its nuanced controls and solid multiplayer gaming. With the ability to tweak every control in the game, from HUD layout to motion controls, High Voltage Software seems to be g...
Saturday, Jun 27
Nintendo How Much Of New Mario Vs. DK Is Actually New The Little Things Noticed At Our Nintendo Demos Why Guys Should Care About Girl-Game Style Savvy Fifty-Seven Flights Up With New Super Mario Bros. Wii Pokemans Pokemon Heart Gold/Soul Silver Dated For Japan
Wednesday, Jun 24
Had Let's Tap been released as a Wii launch title, it may have gotten a little more attention for its abilities to showcase what Nintendo's motion controller is capable of. Don't let Let's Tap get lost in the mini-game crowd if you're looking for something unique, something clearly not pho...
Tuesday, Jun 23
Despite Gaming Success, Apple Not Ready To Call iPhone A Game Platform Fifty-Seven Flights Up With New Super Mario Bros. Wii Wii Sports Resort Preview: Motion Game Of The Year? Feet-On With Wii Fit Plus' Wacky New Balance Games The Little Things Noticed At Our Nintendo Demos
Saturday, Jun 20
Apple/iPhone Apple Says Game Accessories Coming to iPhone, Touch Apple Now Rates iPhone and Touch Games Apple Gaming Console Makes Sense, Says Gameloft CEO Portable PSA: Nintendo DSi Doesn't Rock Portable Game Beats Console Games For... The First Time Ever?
Wednesday, Jun 10
We're not going to Kotaku or Operation Sports on this one, we're going to Amazon," Moore tells Gamasutra. "The thing is with the Wii, it seems to be for the gaming sites, it's the last platform they review." EA Sports' Moore: Metacritic Less Relevant To Wii Game Sales [Gamasutra]
Tuesday, May 19
No Classic Controller Support: The game supports simple Wii Remote controls, but not the option to use the more comfortable Classic Controller, with its larger directional pad and buttons. That's disappointing, as is the reliance on the Wii Remote to point for all menu choices, but that...
Monday, May 18
We've struck a major milestone in this week's Nintendo Download, as The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask becomes the 300th game to grace the Wii Virtual Console. As always, check out the official description of the titles from Nintendo below.
Thursday, May 7
Perfectly Unmessed With: With the exception of a handful of improvements, most notably the vastly improved graphics and a level-mirroring "Reverse Mode," Klonoa for Wii remains extremely faithful to the PlayStation original. The game can be played with a quartet of control schemes—W...
Wednesday, Apr 29
People like us talk a lot about video games. We read the news, scour forums, watch trailers, download screenshots. But a piece on Gamasutra reminds us how small a part of the market "we" are. GamePlan: MadWorld Demonstrates Tenuous Link Between Web Hype And Sales [Gamasutra]
Monday, Apr 27
Excitebots: Trick Racing, Nintendo's sequel to Wii launch racer Excite Truck, makes the tenuous connection to the original Excitebike feel increasingly strained. How we arrived at transforming car-beasts doing mid-air stunts may be beyond explanation.
Monday, Apr 13
The goal, said producer Tom Hulett, is to "destroy the barrier between living room and game" by removing things that would take you out of the experience. To that end, there are no loading screens in the game and both the flashlight and the cell phone are mapped to the Wii Remote in ways that ma...
Tuesday, Apr 7
Let's find out! Just like they did for both Xbox 360 and PS3 games, market research firm EEDAR have rounded out the trilogy by tracking every Wii game's Metacritic score and found how much of the system's catalogue has been a hit with critics, and how much of it hasn't.
Sunday, Mar 22
Deadly Nunchuk: It helps that the use of the Wii remote is mostly so intelligent, not to mention so forgiving. Almost everything you do works without a struggle and the controller is mapped wisely enough to feel almost instinctive. Headbutting, for example, is curiously fun with the Nunch...
Wednesday, Feb 18
Think of the applications that will most benefit from Nintendo's Motion Plus for the Wii. Lightsaber fights, that's one. But golf? You, or at least your dad, will go bananas for it. So get ready for bananas, then, because EA just revealed (courtesy of an invitation email) that next year's ite...
Monday, Jan 19
Welcome to the Family is a series of three letters that will run this week from the heads of Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo. To: New Wii owners From: Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America’s Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing
Wednesday, Jan 14
Anyone who has browsed the Nintendo Wii section of their favorite video game retail outlet lately has to agree with 2K Games global president Christoph Hartmann - the Wii market is flooded with crap. ‘There are too many crappy games on Wii’ [MCV]
Monday, Nov 17
If you bothered to turn your Wii on tonight, you'll have been prompted to perform a system update. It'll take your Wii to version 3.4. Version 3.4 does little new except, and I quote, "automatically remove" any "unauthorized modifications to save files". That's your edited Twilight Princess...
Monday, Sep 8
NHL 2K9 (Wii) Viva Pinata: Pocket Paradise DS (DS) Lock's Quest DS (DS) Tuesday (Sept.9) Yakuza 2 (PS2) Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI (PC) NHL 09 (360) TNA iMPACT! (360) Zoids Assault (360) Active Life: Outdoor Challenge (Wii) Hell's Kitchen (Wii) The Price is Right (Wii)
Tuesday, Aug 19
Madden ‘09, developed by EA Tiburon, published by EA and released Aug. 12. Retails for $59.99. Versions available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Wii, Nintendo DS and PSP. Reviewed on Xbox 360. Played singleplayer franchise mode for a complete season into the playoffs and pla...
Thursday, Jul 3
2K Games has confirmed what games it'll be showing at this year's E3. The tiles include: • BioShock (PS3) • Borderlands (PC, PS3, Xbox 360) • NBA 2K9 (PS2, PS3, Xbox 360) • NHL 2K9 (PS2, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii) • Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization (PC)
Thursday, Jun 26
But did you know that Spore has the raw power to re-create PS3 controllers? It can even do that boomerang-looking proto-type controller. This all comes from searching "PS3" in the Sporepedia, a search that also brings up the MGS4 MkII. I haven't found a 2600 joystick in there yet. (Did find th...
Thursday, Jun 19
The intro to Mario Super Sluggers for the Nintendo Wii holds no real surprises to anyone who has played any of the other Mario-themed sports games Nintendo has been cranking forever. Mario and friends take a magical boat to Baseball Island, where they are forced to play baseball until they...
Friday, Jun 13
2K Sports made kind of a big deal about the impending release of NHL 2K9 being "the first and only officially licensed NHL and NHLPA video game for Wii" but we didn't know how serious the Take-Two label was. They got Mario—yes, that Mario—to help drum up enthusiasm for video game hockey, wagg...
Wednesday, Apr 9
Nintendo was light on details during the brief demo of Mario Super Sluggers, but it looks to follow previous Mario-themed sporting events, with guest appearances from a big number of Nintendo mainstays. We saw Mario, Luigi, Peach, Baby Mario, Baby Luigi, Wario, Waluigi, Daisy, Shy Guy,...
Wednesday, Apr 2
John Madden made his first video game football appearance on the PC twenty years ago, with EA shipping on the Apple II, Commodore 64, and DOS platforms. However, Madden won't be making an appearance on the PC this year, as EA has decided to go forward with console and handheld versions only f...
Monday, Mar 17
Big fan of snaking in Mario Kart? Brace for disappointment. Nintendo have finally called an end to the trick, with the upcoming Mario Kart Wii's cornering speed boosts to be determined by how long you can hold a powerslide, not how quickly you can waggle from left to right. From the British Of...
Thursday, Feb 21
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Wednesday, Feb 13
How awful? See above. While every console of the past eight years (sorry Dreamcast) have seen their games average around 69-71%, the average Wii score is only 64%. Which leads to much hypothesizing in the piece about reviewers not "understanding" the Wii, theories on the impact of shovelw...
Friday, Jan 11
When the Wii-mote was first announced, immediately everyone thought of one thing: the lightsaber. Apparently, Nintendo wouldn't even let Lucas Arts release its own "bat like attachments" (think lightsaber add-ons) for its talked about Wii game. The reason? Nintendo is worried about s...
Sunday, Oct 28
In a recent interview with UK's Guardian Unlimited, Will Wright has finally confirmed that a version of Spore is being developed for the Wii. And despite the different controls, Wright seems to like working on the platform. We're doing Spore on the Wii, and we did MySims. It takes signifcant...
Wednesday, Oct 24
Given that the only port we've done to date was RE4, which has a 90+ gamerankings score and provided AMAZING value for the platform, has this really been Capcom's modus operendi such that this allegation should be leveled at us? Zack & Wiki is getting better reviews than just about any...
Wednesday, Aug 22
So what if the show's just opened? Think the awards committee give a shit? They don't. They've already announced the nominees for "Best in Show" across ten categories, with the winners to be announced on Friday morning in the Leipziger Messe Press Conference room. Click through for the nom...
Thursday, Aug 2
Some people call it soccer, others call it football, and most Americans just call it boring. But as the world's national pastime, kicking a ball around into a net is pretty ultimate. Combined with Nintendo's most famous characters in history, you get Mario Strikers Charged.
Thursday, Jul 12
Other accessories are the PlayStation 3 controller Nyko controller [photo], which has 6-directional motion sensing, and even a removable battery pack for external charging. It also charges via miniUSB, like the original SIXAXIS.
Tuesday, Jun 5
So we get to pay twice to play exactly the same game with no discernable improvements except the Wii-mote? Wow, Nintendo really knows how to milk our wallets. dirkxxdiggler
Monday, Jul 31
Achievements. The Xbox 360's scoring systems awards players points for completing various challenges in-game. This points are then tallied on players Gamer Cards. Sony has devised its own point system to encourage players, called not "achievements," but "entitlements." Dan Hsu at Elec...
Monday, Jun 19
Peter Moore chatted up a group of journos in a recent interview at Microsoft Studios. What did he have to say before he crushed them with his 24-inch guns? The Msoft exec got some Wii hands-on at E3, dishing that "Sonic was almost built for the controller because it was so intuitive." Moore wor...
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