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Global Nuclear War Should Come To The DS

Talented British developers Introversion have announced that, after a previous deal with a publisher fell through, they’re looking for somebody else to publish nuclear war “simulator” Defcon on the Nintendo DS. The grim, bare-bones PC hit is a perfect fit for the handheld, so the team are justifiably confident of finding somebody. But on the…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 20, 2009

Exquisite Mother 3 Statues

Since Americans can’t even get their hands on an official version of Mother 3 the game, there’s no hope of seeing much official Mother 3 merch. But unofficial merch? Knock yourselves out. These Mother 3 clay statues were crafted by Camille Young, the wife of Reid Young, of Starmen fame. They were made for use…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 20, 2009

How Many Copies Does A WiiWare Game Need To Sell?

Last week, Gamasutra heard whispers about Nintendo placing sales criteria on WiiWare games. If developers didn’t reach them, they wouldn’t get paid. Well, we now know just how many they need to sell. Courtesy of a developer “familiar” with the subject, these are the targets a WiiWare game has to meet before the creators start…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 20, 2009

Unused Miyamoto Touch Screen RPG

Back before the DS was released, Mario and Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto was conceptualizing a touch-screen role-playing-game. The game’s patent has recently popped up online, and the RPG is heavy with RPG cliches (monsters, random battles, etc.). Though, the game does offer a fresh take on the genre. During combat, the monsters move in patterns,…

By Brian Ashcraft Published April 20, 2009

GPS For Your DS Lite

If you’re ever packing your DS Lite and end up lost in the jungle/emerging from a crashed plane in the Andes, you’ll be thankful if you bothered to purchase the “Ranger”. This unofficial Chinese…dongle, I guess we’ll call it, brings a full suite of global positioning capabilities to the handheld, featuring Google Maps support in…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 20, 2009

Nintendo Shares: So, So Oversold

According to financial experts Barron’s, shares in Nintendo are now “oversold”. Sounds bad! “Oversold” basically means that shares in a company have fallen too far, too fast. Like a knee-jerk reaction. Or, like what’s happened to Nintendo shares over the past few weeks, as falling sales data (particularly in Japan) has led many bandwagon jumpers…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 20, 2009

Wii Ghostbusters Debut Trailer

The debut trailer for the Wii version of Ghostbusters showcases the more cartoony art direction of the game, which is being handled by a studio different from the one that built the next-gens’ title. You can catch it over at VE3D. [via VE3D]

By Owen Good Published April 18, 2009

Nintendo Stock Takes A Hit

The market didn’t take the news of Nintendo’s year-over-year drop in Wii sales well. Despite having the bestselling hardware in the United States, that 17% drop in sales did some damage to Nintendo’s stock price. While the week was mostly positive for Nintendo—it had announced sales of 435,000 Nintendo DSi handhelds in its first week—it…

By Michael McWhertor Published April 17, 2009

Adult Gaming on the DS: The Chinatown Conundrum

With 100 million DS and DSi in the hands of gamers worldwide, Nintendo’s portable is a mighty tempting platform for developers. So why are only seven of the nearly 1,100 games for the DS rated Mature? A popular argument is that Nintendo’s portable is for kids and soccer moms only, something that the Japanese developer…

By Brian Crecente Published April 17, 2009

G.I. Joe DS Screens From The Top Down

Few publishers are brave enough to send us DS screenshots as large as the ones we received for EA’s G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. As Crecente reported last month, the Nintendo DS version of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra is a top-down action game with role-playing elements in which the player takes one…

By Mike Fahey Published April 17, 2009

MadWorld Sells 66K In The U.S., Sega Seems Pleased

NPD sales numbers procured by Gamasutra reveal that Sega’s M-rated tongue-in-cheek blood bath MadWorld sold 66,000 copies in the U.S. following its March launch, and the publisher feels encouraged. Despite a respectable Metacritic score of 82 percent, the M-rated MadWorld didn’t exactly explode off of the shelves when Sega released it last month. The stylishly…

By Mike Fahey Published April 17, 2009

Nintendo: Not Everyone Has Played Brain Age

With the gajillion titles of Brain Age and its sequel Nintendo has sold, you’d think pretty much everyone has played the game. You’re wrong. “Some people might think that, given the huge sales of the Brain Training series, there can’t possibly be anyone out there who hasn’t played it, but that’s not true at all”,…

By Brian Ashcraft Published April 17, 2009

DSi Sells 435,000 In United States

If any of you were wondering whether the DSi would sell, what with some considering it an over-priced luxury, please, stop wondering. It’s selling just fine. Turns out there are plenty of people who either didn’t yet have a DS, or were swayed by the new handheld’s bigger screens and multimedia capabilities, because Nintendo have…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 17, 2009

Nintendo Responds To March NPD Sales, Seems Pleased

Sales were down for Nintendo over the same time last year, but Iwata & Co. aren’t bothered. And why would they be, when the company accounted for 58% of total hardware sales for the month. Yes, 600,000 Wiis and 563,000 DS handhelds sold would be cause for celebration enough, but add in the fact that…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 16, 2009

Resident Evil, Pokemon, Halo Top March Software Sales

February‘s U.S. software champ, Wii Fit, didn’t have the strength to fight off the combined forces of Resident Evil 5, Pokemon Platinum and Halo Wars, the top three bestselling games in March. The Xbox 360 version of the survival horror adventure walked away with the number one spot, moving 938,000 copies to U.S. consumers. Its…

By Michael McWhertor Published April 16, 2009

Nintendo Continues U.S. Hardware Dominance, Industry Hit Hard In March

Nintendo hardware continued to move in excess of over one million units a month in March, but the video game industry saw a severe drop in spending year-over-year, resulting in a 17% drop in revenue. Nintendo’s Wii and DS platforms held strong as the best and second-best selling hardware in March, moving a combined 1.16…

By Michael McWhertor Published April 16, 2009

Watch A DSi Tear Itself Apart

Courtesy of the wonders of stop-motion, watch in awe as this DSi – fed up with your taunts over its "fat" screens and lack of GBA slot – proceeds to tear itself to pieces. [via Gizmodo]

By Luke Plunkett Published April 16, 2009

EA Founder: The iPhone Is FREAKING OUT Sony, Nintendo

Trip Hawkins founded EA. He also did the 3DO, and is slightly mad, so you have to take everything he says with a grain of salt. Regardless, this is interesting. Speaking with VentureBeat, Hawkins – who now heads a mobile gaming company – says: Between the iPod Touch and the iPhone, I think the platform…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 16, 2009

DSi Includes New Anti-Piracy Protection?

The DSi doesn’t just include some hardware upgrades and the ability to download games directly to the system, it might also include more robust anti-piracy software as well. Reports of some DS games, perhaps bootlegged copies of these games, not working on the DSi have started to show up in our mailbox and on several…

By Brian Crecente Published April 15, 2009

The Conduit Multiplayer In Action

The latest trailer for High Voltage Software’s Wii shooter The Conduit gives a glimpse at the game’s robust online multiplayer gameplay. Of course robust online multiplayer is all relative when we’re talking the Nintendo Wii, but High Voltage is packing as much as they possible can into The Conduit. The originally promised 16-players online had…

By Mike Fahey Published April 15, 2009