Review Star Fox Adventures (GameCube)
Play as Fox McCloud as you liberate the inhabitants of Dinosaur Planet and uncover the sinister truth.
Review Animal Crossing (GameCube)
Nintendo's Animal Crossing, is a unique game. An RPG, without much of a story but so much more...
Characters from Japanese manga Jump's franchise's all duke it out in a Smash Brothers style game.
Filled with Nintendo magic, Pikmin will enlighten your life while it lasts.
Review Beyond Good & Evil (GameCube)
Hillys, a world under constant threat from the DomZ, needs help, and this help comes in the form of the tenacious female photojournalist, Jade.
Review Wave Race: Blue Storm (GameCube)
Wave Race 64 was one of the biggest new IPs on the N64; how does this Gamecube sequel fare?
News - January, 2006
Thursday26th Jan 2006
News Redesigned Nintendo DS Gets Official Announcement
Those Nintendo guys have fooled us all yet again, DS Lite on the way very soon.
Nintendo has officially announced the rumoured redesigned version of the Nintendo DS, the new "DS Lite" is more compact and should appear on Japanese shelves on 2nd March 2006. This comes just a few days after Nintendo UK boss David Yarnton dismissed rumours of a new DS...
News Electroplankton To Surface In Europe
The creative Nintendo DS title coming to European shores on April 21st 2006.
Electroplankton has been some what of an anomaly in the gaming industry, ever since its demonstration at E3 last year we've been wondering when we'll be getting our musical hands on it. Toshio Iwai brings us inspired game -- its a creative game where you manipulate the...
Tuesday24th Jan 2006
News Twilight Princess To Surpass Every Expectation
Zelda character designer says Twilight Princess "more than you could possibly ever, ever, ever expect".
Nintendo tease us, yet again, with some little bite-size slices of Twilight Princess information. Nintendo Power recently interviewed the game's character designer, Yoshiyuki Oyama, which has been transcribed by TheHylia.com. "Finally, no...
Monday23rd Jan 2006
News New Sonic Title For Revolution?
Recent reports suggest Sonic Team to work on Exclusive Sonic title for Nintendo Revolution.
It's already reported that Sega are working on a "next gen" edition of Sonic for Xbox 360 and PS3, but new IGN.com suggest they're working on another title exclusive for Nintendo Revolution. This, we expect, would be something to do with the unique controller...
Friday20th Jan 2006
News Classic Nintendo Catalog Uncovered
ProgressiveBoink uncover a trashy Nintendo catalog from 1990 and show us all the goodies.
Several gaming blogs have uncovered a mystery Nintendo catalog from yesteryear. "The World Of Nintendo" shows a huge collection of "Gear + Stuff" that your grubby Nintendo hands might of had way back when. ProgressiveBoink.com have posted a "modified" edition...
Thursday19th Jan 2006
News Reggie's New Year Revolutions
Reggie tells News.com how it is right now and how its gonna be for the rest of the year.
The media giant CNET News.com recently caught up with Reggie Fils-Aime, executive vice president of sales and marketing for Nintendo America, and asked him about the company's plans for 2006. The lengthy interview talked about various aspects of Nintendo's...
Wednesday18th Jan 2006
News Resident Evil To Embrace The Revolution?
Capcom producer Minoru Nakai talks the possibility of a Resident Evil title on Revolution.
Resident Evil has been one of the strongest brands in recent years in the video games industry. First appearing on the original PlayStation, Capcom have announced a 5th outing set to be released on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Currently there is no announcement...
News Revolution Out In The US Before Christmas
Satoru Iwata reveals that the Revolution console will be in US homes for the holiday season.
We've only really been told Nintendo's next console, codenamed Revolution, would be released sometime in 2006. Facts about an actual release date have been very vague and often unreliable. However, Gamespot today reported that in an interview from today's...
Tuesday17th Jan 2006
News ATI Talks Revolution Graphics
Revolution Report sit down with ATI to talk about the upcoming Hollywood graphics card.
The other day Revolution Report's Senior Editor, Shawn White, managed to snag an interview with ATI's Public Relations Manager, John Swinimer. ATI are responsible for the graphics card in the upcoming Nintendo Revolution, code-named "Hollywood", they also...
News Nintendo Dismiss DS Redesign
Shhtop. Although there is one in the pipeline, it's not ready yet.
We recently reported the rumour of a redesigned Nintendo DS to emerge this week. The rumour was based on an article over at Lik-Sang.com - It seems the rumour was only that. Nintendo have now commented on the story, via GamesIndustry.biz and the alleged "reveal" date has passed...
News Golden Globes Get Golden Gameboy Goodies
Nintendo give those elite members of Hollywood a free golden Gameboy Micro.
Movie award season is back, the Golden Globes have already come to pass. We've found out via 4colorrebellion that those lucky award presenters managed to snag themselves a free gold edition Gameboy Micro in an excessively expensive swag bag. The press release lists all the...
Friday13th Jan 2006
News Uwe Boll Set To Direct Metal Gear Movie?
He's done it again, that legendary director claims hes all set to flop a Metal Gear movie.
Only a few days after the onslaught of criticism on the BloodRayne movie, it seems Metal Gear fans need to be locked and loaded to shoot down the prospect of Uwe Boll directing a Metal Gear movie. "1UP confirmed with the director today that Boll has been...
Thursday12th Jan 2006
News Revolution's Virtual Console Survey
Nintendo hire a marketing company to issue a survey about the Revolutions "Virtual Console" feature.
Nintendo of America recently got Zanthus, a marketing company, to issue a survey on their behalf about the Revolution's "Virtual Console". This survey featured some mock-up screen shots, I know these are ugly but none of it is official so don’t get...
News Electroplankton Emerges From The Deep
US games can now buy this creative box from the Nintendo online store.
January 9th saw the US release of the first "buy online only" game by Nintendo, Electroplankton. This title is the latest work by world-renowned Japanese media artist Toshio Iwai. Nintendo describe the game as "A new interactive music and media experience awaits – watch it,...
Wednesday11th Jan 2006
Lik-Sang hear from their sources that news on a redesigned DS may be unveiled soon...
We all know Nintendo like to reinvent their handheld's, each time changing to current market trends. This is why it comes as no surprise that rumours are now circulating about a remade DS. What shape is anyone’s guess, Spong have some interesting ideas but we...
Nintendo DS to get updated version of Tetris, touch control and Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection to boot.
Nintendo yesterday announced the forthcoming Tetris title for Nintendo DS. Those funny shaped blocks are back in true DS style boasting lots of new features that are only possible with Nintendo DS hardware. The basis of the block based puzzle game will...
News BloodRayne Movie Gets Slammed
Uwe Bolls latest game adaptation project hits the big screen with a barrage of criticism.
Uwe Boll is some what of a legend when it comes to film making, he's right up there with Paul WS Anderson of Resident Evil fame. For those of you poor souls that are unfamiliar with his work, watch his masterpiece "House Of The Dead" - yes, its based on the...
Tuesday10th Jan 2006
News Metroid Spin-Offs On The Way?
Nintendo look to extend the Metroid franchise with the new "Hunters".
Metroid Prime Hunters, set to finally release on Nintendo DS early this year (March 20th if you have your diary to hand) might spark a few spin-off titles according to various sources. The eagerly awaited DS title will feature 6 new "bounty hunters" - no, not the chocolate bars -...
We take a look at convergence between PCs and Consoles. Will it ever happen?
Reading up about the CES show over the weekend I noticed an article on The Register where Micheal Dell - of Dell Computers - attacked Microsoft's Xbox 360 with a wash of outrageous claims. "Dell dismissed Microsoft as a "so called high-definition gaming"...
Monday9th Jan 2006
News National Geographic Kids Stir Revolution Rumours
The magazine prints lots of "facts" about the upcoming console, all made up of course.
There was a blogging frenzy after National Geographic Kids magazine prints an article about the ways you can play certain games on the new Revolution controller. "National Geographic Kids Magazine was invited by the Big N to test out the top-secret Revolution...
Friday6th Jan 2006
Review Star Fox Adventures (GameCube)
Play as Fox McCloud as you liberate the inhabitants of Dinosaur Planet and uncover the sinister truth.
Fox McCloud, unrivalled Arwing pilot, takes his first steps on land when he visits Dinosaur Planet. Our hero receives a distress call and — like all good foxes — decides to investigate, discovering the planet's evil ruler, General Scales. The...
Review The Simpsons Road Rage (GCN)
The Simpson’s go Crazy taxi but it is a shameless cash-in or good game?
Most people like the idea of Crazy Taxi, drive around really fast dropping people off at their destination before the timer hits 0. It's simple pure arcade addiction. The question is did Radical Entertainment manage to make the Simpson’s Road Rage a similar success. Take a...
Board one massive mountain with 3 peaks, pull off insane tricks and race your rivals.
SSX3 is the 3rd instalment in EA’s series of break neck snowboard super cross games, it’s the best one to date. This is one of the few snowboarding games that are on GCN. The 2 main events in this game are tricks and races, both are highly addictive. In the...
News Miyamoto Calls New Zelda Game "Hardcore"
Could The Twilight Princess be the most violent and dark Zelda game so far?
Shigeru Miyamoto steps into the spotlight again, this time talking to the UK's Maxim magazine about the egally awaited Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess game due for release later this year. Maxim asked Miyamoto if he was ever "tempted to throw Nintendo's life-long...
News Patented Nintendo Floor Vision
Japanese patent office shows record for Nintendo's "Floor Vision" technology.
The Japanese giants are going full force into the interactive gaming experience, first with the DS, then the Revolution controller, followed by interest in VR headsets and now interactive floor vision! It seems late last year Nintendo secured the "Nintendo Floor Vision"...
News Nintendo Dismisses Zelda & Revolution Controller Rumour
Sad but true, Nintendo deem the previously reported article as "pure speculation".
We've already reported that possibility of playing The Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess on your Revolution console using the freehand controller, this however has today been dismissed by Nintendo as not the case. In a response to EuroGamer.net the big N squashed...
News Nintendo Goes Back To Basics In 2006
Shigeru Miyamoto speaks with Japanese favourite, Famitsu, about Odama and 2006.
The lord that is Miyamoto took time out of his busy schedule to reflect on the coming year with the Japanese magazine. He talked about modern games and how we need to recapture that original feeling we had when playing those NES games. "Nintendo's theme for 2006...
Thursday5th Jan 2006
News The Return Of Virtual Reality?
Is Virtual Reality to return to the center stage? Nintendo express interest at CES 2006.
The bright lights of Las Vegas are currently hosting the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) - a chance for high-tech companies to show off their latest products. Rumours start to circle of Nintendo expressing an interest in a product by american company...
The hour long BBC3 documentary on Nintendo appears on the Google Video service.
Want to learn something new about the Japanese giants Nintendo? Well now you can. The hour long documentary from 2005 has appeared on the Google Video service. The documentary was produced sometime in 2005 by the BBC for its new Digital channel, BBC Three. Thanks to...
News Nintendo DS Sales Soar Over Holiday Period
Significant sales of the portable units raise total sales to over 13 million world wide.
Nintendo issued press release today tells us all about how well the DS is selling, thanks to the holiday period and new Mario Kart bundles. Worldwide sales are now in excess of 13 million. "Worldwide sales have shown a similar pattern with millions turning...
Tuesday3rd Jan 2006
Characters from Japanese manga Jump's franchise's all duke it out in a Smash Brothers style game.
Jump is a manga company/publisher in Japan who owns a large proportion to the rights of most Japanese cartoons that you have seen. These feature the likes of Dragon Ball, Naruto, One Piece, GTO and Rurouni Kenshin. In America they are under various...
Review Samurai Jack: The Shadow of Aku (GameCube)
Play as Cartoon Network star Samurai Jack as you strive to defeat Aku and restore the world to how it should be.
Samurai Jack started life out on Cartoon Network where the show became highly popular; as a result we now have the game Samurai Jack and the Shadow of Aku to show for its success. Jack lived in a Samurai village long before modern...
Draw Pac-Man, move him and gobble as many ghoulies as possible in this DS adventure.
We all remember Pac-Man as being one of those highly addictive early games that you still play to this day. Recently he has been going through some changes, there are now several 3D adventures and a Mrs Pac-Man ;). Pac-Pix sees Pac-Man back on a 2D plain but this...
News Nintendo Europe's Revolutionary Mini-Site
European home of Nintendo add a new mini-site dedicated to the upcoming Revolution console.
The mini-site seems to have appeared over night, It's a typical promo mini-site that doesn't really offer a great deal of information, it talks about the main aspects of the console, the controller, backwards compatibility, Wi-Fi and its sleek design. On the...
News Nintendo's Market Value Up 15%
New DFC Intelligence reports market growth in general with Nintendo one of the leaders.
The report covered by GamesIndustry.biz shows an overall market growth of 7% during the period Feburary to December 2005. Of the three main players Nintendo came out ontop with a 15% increase in value, Sony followed with a 7% rise and Microsoft muddled along with...
Monday2nd Jan 2006
Review Animal Crossing (GameCube)
Nintendo's Animal Crossing, is a unique game. An RPG, without much of a story but so much more...
Animal Crossing is a unique game with no overall aim or any way to complete it. You start out on a train heading towards a village. You start talking to an animal who eventually puts you in contact with a friendly racoon who can sell you a house in...
Filled with Nintendo magic, Pikmin will enlighten your life while it lasts.
Pikmin is a game like no other we've played before, and we've played a lot. You control Captain Olimar, a space traveller who has crashed on a strange planet. During the crash 30 parts of his ship have been spread across the world. What makes this worse is that your life...
Review Beyond Good & Evil (GameCube)
Hillys, a world under constant threat from the DomZ, needs help, and this help comes in the form of the tenacious female photojournalist, Jade.
Beyond Good and Evil will either be a game you have played (and loved) or never even heard of. Unfortunately, it seems like the latter is the common answer: this classic Ubisoft gem never received sales that...
Review Wave Race: Blue Storm (GameCube)
Wave Race 64 was one of the biggest new IPs on the N64; how does this Gamecube sequel fare?
Starting off in Wave Race: Blue Storm is noticeably more difficult than the N64 original, but with more stunts to learn and the new boost feature it's much more rewarding when you get the hang of it. The majority of the tracks are updated from the original...
Review Super Monkey Ball (GameCube)
Sega's first game on a Nintendo console is a ball!
Super Monkey Ball comprises 6 mini-games on top of the main game with over 90 stages. What more could be packed into Sega's first game on a Nintendo console? It's one of those rare games that keeps you up late into the night so that you can just get past one more tricky level. The graphics are nice...
Sunday1st Jan 2006
News Mario Kart Arcade GP Units Go On Sale
Finished Mario Kart DS already? Why not treat yourself to this beastly Mart Kart Arcade GP machine.
Just as you come down from the high that is Mario Kart DS you get the urge for a new Mario Kart challenge. You've no doubt heard about the Namco developed Mario Kart Arcade GP, however you've probably never played it. With units few and far between,...
News BBC Analyst Predicts Console War
A report outlining the upcoming next-generation consoles has been posted on the BBC News website.
Alfred Hermida, Technology Editor of the BBC News website has today posted a report on his thoughts for the coming year. The article covers the 3 main companies, Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo and they're different approaches into the console market...
