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Nintendo Bringing Dragon Quest IX Stateside This Summer
Apparently selling four million copies in Japan did something to impress Nintendo, as the company announces it will be publishing Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies in North America. Nintendo and Square-Enix have entered into a “unique partnership,” in which Nintendo will handle publishing duties on the DS title when it hits sometime…
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Wii Forgotten Sands Includes Co-op Play, SNES Prince Of Persia
Revealed during today’s Nintendo Summit in San Francisco, the Wii version of Ubisoft’s Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands comes complete with cooperative multiplayer and a playable version of 1992’s Prince of Persia for the Super Nintendo. We knew the Wii version of Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands would be different, but we didn’t…
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The Nintendo Download: Brought To You By The Letter F
Family Go-Kart Racing, Flipper, Faceez, and Flight Control welcome you to this week’s downloadable celebration of the letter F. We’re not sure how Nintendo’s Aura-Aura Climber for DSiWare, Gevo Entertainmnet’s Wii MotionPlus-enabled GhostSlayer, and Big John Games’ Mouse House made the cut this week. Perhaps the lack of any virtual console titles whatsoever made Nintendo…
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Box of Cereal Old Enough to Drink Legally and Vote Sold for $200
We’ve dealt with factory sealed Nintendo rarities two decades old this past week, but at least their contents wouldn’t throw you into gastric distress. A 22-year-old unopened “Nintendo Cereal System” box just sold for $207.50, or $103.75 per cereal. The Cereal System attracted 22 bids, with the winner going $2.50 over the top in the…
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Patent Filing Hints at DS Vibration Feedback Through Stylus
Rumors of a new DS make this kind of news a little juicier: Nintendo at the end of last month filed an addendum to a 2005 patent that describes a vibration feedback system, this time coming through the stylus. There’s a lot of “vibrating said vibrator in a vibration pattern”-type speak in the filing, spotted…
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Mario & Sonic Winter Games Sells Six Million
If you folks really want Sega to stop making fluffy Sonic games that don’t revolve around simply running fast, it would help if you didn’t buy six million copies of Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games. Just sayin’. We can’t blame this all on the Mario fans, and we can’t blame it all…
By Mike Fahey