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Watch Nintendo’s E3 Presser Live

This year you can watch Nintendo’s E3 press conference, and all of those glorious charts, live on a special website the company is setting up. The presentation kicks off at 9 a.m. Pacific on June 15 and we’ll be there liveblogging to analyze and comment as well.

By Brian Crecente Published June 2, 2010

Foxconn Employee Dies After 34-Hour Shift

Another Foxconn employee has died. However, it was not by suicide. A 28-year-old man, who married his wife (pictured) three months ago, died from exhaustion in Shenzhen in his rental house after working a 34-hour shift his family claims. No official statement has been issued regarding the man’s death. Yan Li was apparently suffering from…

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 2, 2010

How To Lure 3D TV Customers?

Not with video games. Not with the World Cup. But with that long standing killer app: pornography. This summer Sony is bringing 3D games to the PlayStation 3, and Nintendo is introducing its “glasses-free” portable gaming device. But as the Japanese 3D television market begins to heat up, the country’s porn industry is hoping to…

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 2, 2010

Wii Party Release Date For Japan

Nintendo’s next big game Wii Party will be out on July 8 in Japan, Nintendo has revealed. Ready to party?

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 2, 2010

How Many Of You Have A Nintendo On You At All Times?

Photographer Jason Travis has a neat idea: grab people off the streets of Atlanta and take photos of whatever’s inside their handbags or backpacks. Items found include pens, keys, wallets and…Nintendo handhelds, as evidenced by these two ladies, one rocking the same stylish shade of Pink DS as our own Michael Fahey, the other a…

By Luke Plunkett Published June 2, 2010

Pick A Card, A Mario Card

Nintendo started out as a card maker, making hanafuda playing cards. Nintendo still makes playing cards. Video games, too. This July, the company will be releasing three sets of Mario branded playing cards. These are “premium” cards, and are priced at ¥1,050 (US$11) each set. I like the “dot” cards the most. They’re classy. Mario…

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 2, 2010

Nintendo Portables Getting New Colors, Lower Prices in Japan

Nintendo plans to drop the price of the DSi and DSi XL in Japan the weekend following E3. They will also be releasing three new colors for the DSi XL: Yellow, Blue and Green. That’s it! No fancy names like Wine or Cheese Wine or Puce. Just Yellow, Blue and Green. Reminds me both of…

By Luke Plunkett Published June 2, 2010

The Magic Of Broadway Comes To The Wii

From the company behind Assassin’s Creed and the Tom Clancy series comes Dance On Broadway, a new Wii title that lets you perform 20 classic showtunes in the safety and privacy of your home. Embarrassing costumes are optional. We’ve had singing games, and we’ve had dancing games. We’ve even had singing and dancing games, but…

By Mike Fahey Published June 1, 2010

The Nintendo Download: Who Needs Red Dead Redemption?

Who needs a high-definition cowboy title when you can play SNES classic Wild Guns on the Virtual Console? It joins this week’s Nintendo Download line-up along with Ben 10, Beaver Defense, and the sequel to 18-year-old Game Boy title X. Wild Guns might capture the Red Dead vibe for Nintendo Wii owners this week, but…

By Mike Fahey Published June 1, 2010

Remote Control Mario Kart Has Shells, Bananas

There have been Mario Kart-themed remote control cars before. But without power-ups, they were mere remote control cars. A new Mario Kart range from Takara Tomy does have power-ups, and it looks fantastic How does it work? With sensors. Your controller has a small bar for power-ups; as you run over the relevant spot on…

By Luke Plunkett Published June 1, 2010

Yes, There Are Other Zelda Weddings

A fellow in Sweden recently got married. “Naturally I wanted something special for the wedding march,” he writes, “and to surprise the guests it starts with the classic piece by Wagner but then goes over to Zelda.” His wife got a little nervous, thinking that the The Legend of Zelda music should have faded out…

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 1, 2010

Okay, Now This Wii Peripheral Is Just Silly

This is an inflatable “racing kart” for the Nintendo Wii. The product pitchman says that we have two choices for Wii racing games: Using the standard remote to steer or the inflatable Wii racing kart with built-in steering wheel holder. Bwah? Those are the choices? The pitchman, Doug, also has “no doubt” that we’ll be…

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 1, 2010

Will Top Kill Work On This?

As seen on Super Punch via Tiny Cartridge

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 1, 2010

This Girl, Immortalized In Xenoblade CG

Mayu Watanabe is a member of uber popular Japanese idol troupe AKB48. The sixteen year-old is also in a commercial for upcoming Wii game Xenoblade. But something is different Yeah. And yeah. A double yeah. Another… yeah. Perhaps the actual ad isn’t so Uncanny Valley! Published by Nintendo, Xenoblade is the latest entry in the…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 31, 2010

How Mario Celebrates Memorial Day

As seen on Topatoco

By Brian Crecente Published May 31, 2010

Tron’s NES Certainly Looks The Part

The chop shop team at Thretris have come up with another great way to make an old Nintendo console better: make it look like something out of Tron. The Glowing Tron NES is pretty much what it says it is: it’s a working Nintendo Entertainment System, complete with improved stereo sound, done up to look…

By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2010

Final Fantasy VII Writer Sees End of The Nintendo Era

Since the release of the Game Boy, Nintendo has ruled portable gaming. That era is over, says Masato Kato, the writer of FFVII, Xenogears and Chrono Trigger. But why? “With the iPad going on sale, the epoch of Nintendo is finished,” Kato tweeted. “But with the DS and the Wii, it’s been digging its own…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 31, 2010

Molester “Monk” Lured Boys With His Wii

A 46-year-old Taiwanese man has been arrested for raping four young boys. The perpetrator would invite young boys to his house on the pretext of playing his Nintendo Wii. Apparently, he would then sexually assault the children. One of the boys’ mothers noticed that something was bothering her son, and he told what had happened…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 31, 2010

Dear Apple, Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft

Right now, you all might be digging your own holes. The recent rash of suicides at Foxconn’s Shenzhen factory has shined a light on the fact that large companies like Apple, Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft have contracted out the manufacturing for devices like the iPad, the Wii, the PS3 and the Xbox 360 to Chinese…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 28, 2010

Nintendo Investigating Factory Suicides

Following the deaths of over a dozen of its workers in recent weeks, Nintendo has declared it will be investigating the working conditions at Foxconn, one of the Chinese companies responsible for manufacturing the Wii. Sixteen employees have jumped from the rooftops of Foxconn buildings over the past few months, attempting to commit suicide rather…

By Luke Plunkett Published May 28, 2010