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A Bit More Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Coming In October

Get ready to pay full price for a little more content, as Nintendo confirms an October release date for Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky. You Pokémon fans know the drill. Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky combines the best-selling DS titles Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness, adds an additional five starter Pokémon…

By Mike Fahey Published July 29, 2009

Nintendo Breaks Its Silence About Silence

Nintendo’s lead characters are rare among modern gaming heroes in that they seldom talk out loud. But rarer still is a Nintendo game that does include recorded speech. Punch-Out Wii did, and its creators explained why. “Nintendo’s tradition is that the hero or central character never vocally speaks,” the game’s producer, Nintendo’s Kensuke Tanabe, told…

By Stephen Totilo Published July 28, 2009

Happy 20th Birthday, MOTHER!

The hard-working kids at Starmen got in touch to let us know that today – July 27, 2009 – is the 20th birthday of the MOTHER series, otherwise known in the West as Earthbound. Happy birthday! On this day in 1989, the first MOTHER game was released in Japan, for Nintendo’s Famicom (ie the NES).…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 28, 2009

Reviews

Little King’s Story Review: So Creative, So Hostile

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. Shall we thank the people who make us the most creative games, for which there isn’t yet a mold? But…

By Stephen Totilo Published July 27, 2009

Punch-Out Devs Talk Graphics, Difficulty, Nixed Princess Peach Idea

Few Wii games have been designed to please long-time Nintendo fans as much as the recent Wii Punch-Out!! Developers on the game recently explained to Kotaku just how the game came together, who did what, and what got left out. Punch-Out on the Wii was a collaboration between Nintendo’s Japan home office and Canadian studio…

By Stephen Totilo Published July 27, 2009

Custom Make “Any Game” as an NES Cart Necklace Charm

We do a lot of free ads for Etsy craftspersons, yeah, but this is pretty good: Old school NES carts are available as mini-sized necklace charms, in hypoallergenic silver if you want to upgrade. Artist Laura Swingle makes the charms; her page features Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt, Zelda, Zelda II, Super Mario Bros. 2 and…

By Owen Good Published July 25, 2009

Scribblenauts in Action With Giant Crab, Eyeball

Not a whole lot of new creations seen here, but we do get to see a bit more of the actual game in action. Personally, I don’t care about the game, the mechanic has already sold me. But for you gaming purists out there who want a little substance too, this video is for you.

By Brian Crecente Published July 24, 2009

Wii Bowling Leagues Taking Over Chicago

Wii bowling has been all the rage at retirement homes pretty much since the Wii started selling with Wii Sports packed in, which was day one. But instead of fading away, the Wii Bowling movement seems to keep growing. In a recent piece in the Chicago Tribune, Alicia Fabbre talks about a particularly popular Wii…

By Brian Crecente Published July 24, 2009

Dev: DSi Is “A More Powerful Platform” Than DS Lite

One of the top DS development houses in the industry doesn’t see the DSi as just a DS Lite plus gimmicks. “It’s not just a DS with cameras in it as some might think,” video game producer David Nathanielsz told Kotaku in an interview earlier this week. “It’s a more powerful platform.” Nathanielsz is the…

By Stephen Totilo Published July 24, 2009

Capcom Details Monster Hunter 3 Online

On August 1, Monster Hunter 3 goes on sale in Japan. From 10am on that same day, Monster Hunter 3‘s network service becomes active. There are a couple free deals that let players test out the online feature for either 20 or 90 days, but beyond that, players will need to pony up cash for…

By Brian Ashcraft Published July 24, 2009

How Wii Sports Resort Took Over Times Square

Witness a major marketing spend and a video game taking center stage at the Crossroads of the World. At the center of this stunt? 50 tons of New Jersey sand, part of a promotional island for Wii Sports Resort. (Apologies for the low video quality. Last time I take a video with my Blackberry, folks…)

By Stephen Totilo Published July 23, 2009

A Famicom Controller For Your Business Cards

Hey business people! Do you have business cards? Do you? Priced at ¥2,900 (US$31), there’s this from Japan’s Banpresto. The aluminum card case has two compartments: one is for your business cards, and the other is business cards you receive during your meeting. The case is scheduled to drop this October and comes in two…

By Brian Ashcraft Published July 23, 2009

Getting Barefoot With Nintendo

At a fake beach today, Nintendo’s vp of corporate affairs didn’t want to tell me how many copies Nintendo hopes to sell of Wii Sports Resort. Nor shipped. Give me something for a post, Denise! She suggested this. I had fished for news, but I wasn’t going to get it from Nintendo of America’s Denise…

By Stephen Totilo Published July 23, 2009

Retailer: Profits For PSN Cards Are Zero

That’s according to a Japanese retailer. In an interview with Japanese mag Game Lab, the manager of Tokyo retail shop Games Maya dishes about how downloadable content is faring in brick-and-mortar stores. For pre-paid PlayStation Network Cards, the manager says, “We don’t see a single profit.” The reason? The PSN uses an actual monetary unit,…

By Brian Ashcraft Published July 23, 2009

Epic Games Exec Doesn’t Think Nintendo Owns This Generation

The Wii is hugely popular with lots of people. Some people, though, are more wary of the Wii. One of those is Epic Games boss Mark Rein. “People talk about, ‘The Wii has run away with this generation.’ I don’t think that’s true,” Rein told game site Eurogamer. “Nintendo’s made a lot of money and…

By Brian Ashcraft Published July 23, 2009

Dead Space Extraction Preview: What The Wii Can Do

When he wasn’t expressing excitement that one of the people attending his demo writes for legendary horror magazine Fangoria, the executive producer of Dead Space Extraction was letting us experience EA’s bravest Wii game. These devs like the gore. EA has taken a bold step. The company is bringing a prequel to the graphically and…

By Stephen Totilo Published July 22, 2009

Muramasa: The Demon Blade’s 108 Swords

Video Game – E3 2009 – X-Play Muramasa: The Demon Blade looks amazing, and it sounds like it’s amazing to play. But with titles like No More Heroes and Arc Rise Fantasia under its belt, can Marvelous Entertainment get it to sell? This G4 video gives you a good look at why you should be…

By Brian Crecente Published July 22, 2009

Need For Speed NITRO Hits Nov. 17

The Need For Speed reboot for the Wii and DS will be hitting stores on Nov. 17, Electronic Arts announced this morning. “Need for Speed NITRO offers fun and intense competition for every type of gamer, “said Joe Booth, Senior Producer, EA Montreal. “The varied track designs, deep controls, and intuitive drift and nitro mechanics…

By Brian Crecente Published July 22, 2009

Someone At Fox News Loves Zelda

This may look like a boring, run-of-the-mill current affairs story from Fox’s Detroit outpost. But sit tight and wait it out until you hit the 55-second mark. Zelda fans will hear something that’ll bring a smile to their faces. Click to view Employment Agency Has Job Seekers Sad [Fox, via Go Nintendo]

By Luke Plunkett Published July 22, 2009

The Best-Selling Wii Games Of 2009 Didn’t Come Out In 2009

An analysis by website Gamasutra of first-half sales figures for the three big gaming consoles shows that the Wii’s hits are older hits. Gamasutra has crunched the NPD video game sales numbers and the results show that the top five best-selling games on the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 in the U.S. from January…

By Stephen Totilo Published July 20, 2009