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News Nintendo Patents Inflatable Horseback Riding Peripheral
Yep.
Well, this was unexpected. A European patent held by Nintendo (discovered by Siliconera) shows the company isn't content with just having peripherals like the Balance Board, Vitality Sensor, Zapper, Wheel, MotionPlus and the Nunchuck. No, Nintendo wants to peripheralize your badonkadonk as well. An inflatable horse saddle is the latest...
News Twin Galaxies Crowns First Wii Sports Resort Record Holders
Still a bunch of records left wide open.
Twin Galaxies, the premiere keeper of video game records since anyone bothered to keep track of such things, recently began a record hunt for Nintendo's latest über-hit Wii Sports Resort. A few days later, the hunt has yielded some impressive results, but more are still needed! Most of the records set are...
Ten new minigames set for Spring 2010.
Wii gamers are at least passingly familiar with Hudson Soft's Deca Sports compilation; it's shipped two million copies worldwide already, which ain't too shabby for a third-party title on Nintendo's console. Now DS gamers too will get a crack at the action, as Hudson has announced a portable iteration of its...
News Wii Sports Resort Already Sold Over 500K Units In North America
Not bad for nine days on sale.
I haven't picked up Wii Sports Resort yet, but based on figures released by Nintendo today, certainly a lot of you did. Between the game's release on July 26 and August 3, a whopping nine days, the sequel to the most significant pack-in game this side of Tetris managed to sell more than half a million units. To put it...
News Monster Hunter 3 Formally Announced For US, EU
Slated for early 2010.
Just released in Japan, Capcom's Monster Hunter 3 Tri is set to tear up the homeland in a big, big way. So when do the rest of us get a chance at hacking away at a swarm of giant ants? Looks like North America and Europe will be able to get in on the action sometime in early 2010, Capcom announced today. We all knew it was...
Service allows you to watch Hulu, Netflix and Youtube content on your console.
The Wii has a pretty poor track record when it comes to streaming media outside of Japan. No video rental services for us, no downloads, just the Nintendo Channel and its somewhat hokey delivery of promo videos. That is, unless you're the fiddly type, in which case you...
News Rampant Speculation: What's Up With Guitar Hero 5 Wii?
Official Twitter feed teases rumored "amazing new features."
Acticivision's Guitar Hero franchise has gotten some sweet love on Wii; Legends of Rock took the series online in a surprisingly solid way, and World Tour had it's own Mii-enabled mode and brought downloadable content as well, something still not widely done on the system. Now, with the...
News Scrapped House of the Dead: Overkill Artwork Surfaces
Design studio shows off unused box and promotional art.
SEGA's House of the Dead: Overkill took the franchise in a whole new art direction, pushing a cheesy grindhouse aesthetic to the limit. The box art and in-game posters reeked of 70's exploitation movies, strengthening the game's much-needed personality. Fluidesign, the studio behind all the...
News Capcom Ships 1 Million Copies of Monster Hunter 3
High demand wagered for Saturday's Japan release.
Monster Hunter 3 Tri isn't even out yet, but Capcom is already bracing itself for massive sales figures. So massive, they've already shipped 1 million copies of the game in Japan According to the publisher, that's the highest pre-release shipment for a third-party Wii game in Japan. Considering the...
News Little King's Story Creators Want A Sequel
Funding sought for numero dos.
It's just out of the gate and from a company reeling over low sales, but the creators of the critically acclaimed Little King's Story want more. Do you want more? Speaking to Siliconera, LKS producer Yoshiro Kimura hopes that you do. We are planning to make a sequel to Little King’s Story, like Super Little King’s...
News Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers Of Sky Gets Ready To Launch
Hitting North America on October 12.
Straight from the horse's mouth (with the horse named Nintendo), the newest DS entry in the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon spinoff series, Explorers of Sky, has landed itself a North American release date. For those unfamiliar with the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series, you play as the Pokémon and catch people with...
News Why Capcom Chose To Do Another RE: Chronicles Game
Unfinished business, says chief producer.
Before Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles was announced, rumors and speculation bandied about the Internets about a new, RE4-styled Wii game, possibly a remake of Code Veronica. Then the announcement came, and that game style was obviously not picked, despite being massively popular. Why is that? In a...
News Scribblenauts GameStop Preorder Bonus For The Birds
Hint: It's a rooster hat.
If you planned on picking up 5TH Cell's type-em-up DS game Scribblenauts, you might want to consider putting in your preorder now at GameStop. If you want a rooster hat, that is. Between this and the Mario hat available to Platinum-level Club Nintendo members, Nintendo gamers may have the next two Halloweens in the bag. So...
News Nintendo Rep: Virtual Console Being Toned Down
Supposedly steering towards more original games.
Bummed about how crappy Nintendo of America seems to treat Channels and the Virtual Console? Aren't we all. The Gamebag was so bummed they emailed Nintendo. When queried about the slowed VC support, a customer service rep replied with what we've all seen coming but hoped wasn't true. We understand...
News Nnooo Planning New DSiWare Franchise
Coming sometime next year.
Australian devs Nnooo are hard at work on the DSiWare iteration of Pop and a suite of DSiWare productivity apps, with myNotebook looking to be first out of the gate. Anything else? Why, yes, actually. Speaking to Vortex of Tech, Nnooo creative director Nic Watt's let slip that the developer still has a few DSiWare tricks...
News Mirror's Edge Wii Concept Art Surfaces
Shows a cartoony look for scrapped port.
Last fall, DICE's Mirror's Edge turned out to be a fairly divisive title for 360/PS3/PC gamers; some applauded it's new take on first-person gameplay by utilizing parkour elements, others found it to be an exercise in disorienting trial-and-error frustration. You know what else is divisive in gaming? Wii...
News Nintendo Still Dominating NPD Charts
MotionPlus off to a good start.
Another month, another Nintendo sales win for the U.S. Despite declining overall hardware sales by 38 percent year-over-year, Nintendo still managed to carve out over half of console and portable sales for the month of June, with Wii moving around 374,000 units and the DS family raking in a bazonga 766,500 handhelds...
News No US Plans For Black Wii
For the time being, at least.
So that totally cool black Wii that's set to release on August 1 in Japan? You know, the one bundled with Monster Hunter 3 Tri and a Classic Controller Pro? Yeah, it looks like it (officially) won't be coming Stateside any time soon. Speaking to GameDaily, a Nintendo America rep confirmed that they have "no plans...
News Wii System Update 4.1 Available
Fixes some behind-the-scenes stuff
A blue light special has hit North America and Europe, courtesy of our entertainment overlords at Nintendo. No new features have been added to the Wii console repertoire, instead providing "behind-the-scenes fixes" to improve overall system performance. No further details than that have been provided, but...
News Daft Punk Gets 8-Bit Makeover
Chiptunes compilation shows the true meaning of digital love.
Sometimes, music gets covered in a way that just feels right, like Nouvelle Vague's rendition of Billy Idol's Dancing With Myself. French musician Je deviens dj en 3 jours' (or JDDJ3J) project, Da Chip!, fits nicely into this category. With the help of 10 of his cronies, the fusion of...
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...
News No More Heroes 2 Open World Better, Says Suda51
Denser city to mix up the formula a bit.
The open-world aspect of the original No More Heroes received its fair share of slamming from players, as it was a whole lot of show and a whole lot of empty. Suda51, the series' punk-rock luchador mastermind, has heard the cries and stated sequel Desperate Struggle will be better about that stuff. He didn't...
News PopCap Confirms Wii, DSi Support
Casual developer expanding its console line-up.
PopCap Games, best known for their beyond-successful Peggle and Bejeweled series', are one of the biggest names in so-called casual gaming. So far, though, their console support has been limited to only a handful of releases on DS and Xbox Live Arcade (and some iPhone stuff), curiously lacking any...
News Fan-made Mother 3 Handbook Freely Available To Read
It's all online, and it's all free.
Remember that fantastic fan-made Mother 3 guide a while back? Those of you with a marshmallow-soft spot for the series and $20 American to spare probably already have your copy sitting snugly on your shelf. The rest of us? Well, we can now read and download it (legally!) for free. Score one for the cheap-o's! It's...
