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Nintendo Updates Holiday Lineup, Reveals New Games

Nintendo of America has laid out its plans for the upcoming holiday shopping season—and a little bit beyond—dating a ton of Wii, Nintendo DS, WiiWare and DSiWare games, while also subtly announcing a few new ones. The list is long and likely full of third-party goods for both the Wii and DS platforms that won’t…

By Michael McWhertor Published September 15, 2009

Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth Confirmed By Nintendo

Konami’s Wii-imagining of Game Boy Castlevania: The Adventure, as leaked by the ESRB this weekend, has just been confirmed by a newly updated release list from Nintendo. The better news is that it’s coming, like, this month. Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth has a (potentially subject to change) release date of Q3 on WiiWare. And that…

By Michael McWhertor Published September 15, 2009

The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks Arriving In December

Nintendo’s next Legend of Zelda adventure will be making a stop at retail just in time for the Christmas shopping season. The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks has been dated by Nintendo of America for December 7th. Spirit Tracks was officially unveiled at this year’s Game Developers Conference, but it wasn’t until this year’s E3…

By Michael McWhertor Published September 15, 2009

Reviews

Scribblenauts Review: Embrace Your Inner Geek

Riding on the back of a Tyrannosaurus Rex into a crowd of robot zombies: It’s a pretty powerful image, one that taps into the basic instincts of most geeks and screams “Buy this game.” Scribblenauts is out to prove that it’s more than just a clever, a really clever, game mechanic and that the “Write…

By Brian Crecente Published September 15, 2009

Nintendo Updates Own Wii Channel

You may have noticed, you probably hadn’t, but the Nintendo Channel on your Wii has been updated, and it’s for the better. Take a look at that new UI! It’s clean, it’s useful, it’s a sign of what should be going down on all the Wii’s channels. And, behind the scenes, probably is. Updated Nintendo…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 15, 2009

Pokemon Sells Nearly 1.5 Million In Two Days

DS titles Pokémon Soul Silver and Heart Gold went on sale in Japan on September 12. Pokémon DS games? Bet lots of people bought them. In they’re first two days on sale, Soul Silver and Heart Gold sold 1,408,980 copies of the game. The title sold out at locations across Japan, so the demand is…

By Brian Ashcraft Published September 15, 2009

Reviews

Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story Review: A Fawful Good Time

Mario and Luigi’s eternal struggle against the forces that threaten the Mushroom Kingdom—and frequently kidnap Princess Peach—continue in Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story, the latest in the lighthearted, action-oriented role-playing game series. This time, series staple bad guy Fawful has tricked Bowser into eating a particular strain of mushroom that causes him to inhale…

By Michael McWhertor Published September 14, 2009

Nintendo’s Unusual 2009 Wii Strategy: Publishing The Oldies

Major music labels are happy to re-release re-mastered classic albums, year after year. Video game publishers, by contrast, focus on issuing new games. But in 2009, Nintendo hasn’t been doing that, as the full-year release lists now make clear. The impending release of Wii Fit Plus in two weeks is the latest in an atypical…

By Stephen Totilo Published September 14, 2009

Nintendo Weekly Download Update Issues A Street Challenge

Nintendo and its valued third parties are churning out the content this week for WiiWare, Virtual Console and DSiWare. This week, six new downloadable selections await the Nintendo fan with access to the information superhighway. The list of new items? Texas Hold’Em Poker, Spaceball: Revolution, Mart Racer, Crash ‘N The Boys Street Challenge, Art Academy:…

By Michael McWhertor Published September 14, 2009

Rage Of The Gladiator: Naginata

Behold Naginata, the ninja-flavored combatant featured in the upcoming first-person WiiWare gladiatorial combat game Rage of the Gladiator. We’ve not had a chance to mention Ghostfire Games‘ Rage of the Gladiator on Kotaku yet, so what better way than with the debut of the game’s ninja boss, Naginata? He joins the already revealed human, Minotaur,…

By Mike Fahey Published September 14, 2009

Twilight Princess Zant Statue Kicks Off “Master Arts” Line

First 4 Figures, always ready with a high quality Nintendo character in statue form, will be releasing a center piece modeled after Zant from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess early next year. The first in the one-quarter scale “Master Arts” line of licensed Twilight Princess center pieces, Zant will set serious Zelda fans back…

By Michael McWhertor Published September 14, 2009

Toys R Us Ad Points To $199 Wii Price Drop This Month

Last week, we got a peek at an alleged upcoming Walmart ad that indicated an official price drop would be coming to the Wii. Today, it appears that retailer Toys R Us may have heard the same thing. While the Walmart listing we saw didn’t put a price tag on the Wii—currently still at its…

By Michael McWhertor Published September 14, 2009

UK Scribblenauts Has Ice Lollies And Nappies

UK Scribblenauts buyers won’t have to fuss with our quaint colonial terms, with developer 5th Cell going out of their way to make sure that no one confuses football with football. I’ve been wondering how well Scribblenauts would work over in the UK, as over there taking off your pants has far stronger connotations than…

By Mike Fahey Published September 14, 2009

The Crystal Bearers Aims For Your Post-Christmas Gift Certificates

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers might not be under your tree on Christmas morning, but the North American release date for Square Enix‘s Wii action adventure game doesn’t miss the holiday by much. December is generally a bad month for video game releases, and earlier is normally better, but when you are Square…

By Mike Fahey Published September 14, 2009

New Okamiden Screens

Here are some new screens for Capcom’s Okamiden, on the Nintendo DS. They’re looking a little rough, but then, most screens on the DS look a little rough. It looks much better in motion.

By Luke Plunkett Published September 14, 2009

Pokemon Gold/Silver Remakes Are Selling Well, It Seems

Over the weekend, Nintendo released Pokémon Heart Gold/Soul Silver. The games were packaged with pedomters call Poké Walker. Sales were brisk in Tokyo’s Akihabara, and the game sold out at area retailers Yodobashi Camera, Sofmap and Messe Sanoh. This weekend’s release was much akin to the Fire Red and Leaf Green Gameboy Advance remakes of…

By Brian Ashcraft Published September 14, 2009

Why Did the Roosters Wait on the Side of the Road?

As seen at this weekend’s Scribblenauts launch at the Nintendo World Store in New York. (Photo by Diane Bondareff, Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment)

By Owen Good Published September 13, 2009

Rick Astley vs. the Hydra: Let the Scribblenauts Mayhem Begin

“The real reason people will waste their time on this game is too see sharks devour drowning tax collectors,” writes Idoliside at Hellforge. So he set up a number of gratifying encounters to preview who would win. Butcher vs. Pig? Easy, the pig turned into a yummy ham. Satan vs. a Priest in a Tank?…

By Owen Good Published September 13, 2009

Castlevania Rebirth Rated, Coming to WiiWare

Konami has another ReBirth title in the pipeline: Castlevania the Adventure. The title just picked up a Teen rating from the ESRB and should arrive on WiiWare, the same as its Contra and Gradius siblings. Here is the ESRB listing: Castlevania the Adventure ReBirth Platform: Wii Rating: Teen Content descriptors: Animated Blood, Fantasy Violence Rating…

By Owen Good Published September 13, 2009

Nintendo Files the Trademark to End all Trademarks

Well, we can stop watching trademark filings now. Nintendo has officially registered “The Last Story,” so from here on, no more can ever be told, right? Siliconera noticed the filing and has few details other than the words involved. They do, however, note that “The Last Story” is registered in Japan, albeit with English words.…

By Owen Good Published September 12, 2009