News Tagged: Australia
News: Crystal Mario Surfaces Down Under
Melbournians, show your NSMB Wii chops to win!
The Nintendo Experience, EB Games of Swanston St, Melbourne are hosting the only launch event for New Super Mario Bros. Wii in Australia. From 9pm onwards on November 11th, everyone is invited to join in on the fun and have a chance to play the game with others before taking their own purchased copy home. They'll also be hosting competitions with the..
News: Live Down Under? Try New Nintendo Games!
Be one of the first to try out New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Zelda: Spirit Tracks
Australians! Nintendo of Australia are offering you the chance to give a couple of very anticipated Nintendo games a spin before they are released. It's not often that Aussies get the chance to do stuff like this, so if you live in the Sydney or Melbourne areas, why not make an appearance? Nintendo will have the two..
News: Ashes Developer Loses A Third of its Staff
Australian studio Transmission Games makes unfortunate lay-offs
Despite the sales success of Ashes Cricket 2009 - and the enormous number of emails we receive about it here at Nintendo Life - the game's original developer Transmission Games (the Wii version was ported by UK-based Gusto Games) has just had to let go a third of its staff due to another potential project falling through. It's..
News: Nintendo DSi Hits 100,000 Units in Australia
The Nintendo train just keeps on rollin'!
In only the 14 weeks the DSi has been available in Australia, the total amount sold has already hit 100,000. Now for a population of 21 million, that's already 1 in every 210 people (which for a country like ours is a pretty high impact rate in such a short time!).Here's more from Nintendo of Australia. Independent market research group GfK Retail and..
News: Punch-Out!! Gets Date Down Under
Exclusively available at JB Hi-Fi on August 27.
Hey Australia,Nintendo here. How's it going? We've got some great news for you today!We understand if you feel like you keep getting the shaft on new releases, like with our nostalgia-party Punch-Out!! that people seem so enamored with. Hey, did you see North American Club Nintendo members that reached platinum will have the chance to download a fight..
News: WiiWare Poker Game Too Sexy For Australia
Nudity as an incentive proves to be too much for the land down under
Poor Australian gamers. Not only do you often get neutered versions of M-rated games, but sometimes they don't even get to come out at all. You guys should really do something about that, because the archaic rating system has struck again against a poor WiiWare game.This time, Gameloft's port of cell phone game Sexy Poker has been..
News: Henry Hatsworth Gives Australia a Miss
Our tea-drinking hero won't be making the trip Down Under
Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure is certainly one of the freshest games to emerge from EA in quite some time. Featuring a unique brand of 2D visuals and old-school puzzle/platform gameplay, we awarded it a very respectable 8/10 when we reviewed it not so long ago.Bearing this in mind, it's clearly a game that should be experienced..
