Nintendo

Collector’s Item Obliterates Record for Rare Game Sale

There is a new Holy Grail of Rare Video Games, and it is Stadium Events. The auction on a factory-sealed NTSC version closed just minutes ago, and it was sold for $41,300, almost double the old record. Three days into the bidding the high offer had already eclipsed the record price ever paid for a…

By Owen Good Published February 26, 2010

An Unfortunate Pairing of Gestures with Double Entendres

An Australian morning news team catches up with curling, the latest It Sport, via Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games. What’s the joke? Well, here it comes … here it comes! [thanks Ryan H.]

By Owen Good Published February 26, 2010

FlingSmash: It’s All In the Elbow

The Nintendo representative demoing upcoming Wii title FlingSmash, kept describing the game as an “active sidescroller.” While I wasn’t exactly sure what to make of that genre tag, I did find myself recalling Super Breakout and Boom Blox while playing this fun, frenzied, sorta-pinball game. Playing as Zip, a cross between Pac-Man and a fuse-topped…

matt cabral Published February 26, 2010

U R Not “Mr. Gay” In Super Mario Galaxy 2

Remember when someone stared at Super Mario Galaxy’s logo a little too long, deciphering the hidden message “U R MR GAY” cleverly encoded by Nintendo’s cheeky box art designers? Well, Nintendo has nipped that in the bud for the sequel. While the first Super Mario Galaxy logo featured twinkling star placement that some found suspiciously…

By Michael McWhertor Published February 25, 2010

The Wii’s Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands Is Not a Ported Prince

Ubisoft’s made it very clear that Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, being released alongside the Jake Gyllenhaal-starring PoP film, is not another lame movie-to-game adaptation. It’s also not a lame port of a superior 360 or PS3 entry. In fact, aside from sharing the same time line-the seven years between Sands of Time and…

matt cabral Published February 25, 2010

Game & Watch Reborn As Keychain

In the early 1980s, Nintendo began releasing a series of handhelds. They were created by Gunpei Yokoi, who would go on to create the Game Boy. And now they are keychains! Japanese toymaker TakaraTomy is releasing solar powered Game & Watch keychains. Since they are keychains, they are smaller than actual Game & Watch. The…

By Brian Ashcraft Published February 25, 2010

Europe Gets A Bunch of Nintendo Release Dates

First Australia had its Nintendo Summit and then America has its Nintendo Summit. Now Europe is having its…Nintendo Summit. For big titles like Super Mario Galaxy and Metroid Other M, Nintendo of Australia gave release dates like “mid-year”. Super Mario Galaxy 2 will be released in North America on May 23, but won’t be out…

By Brian Ashcraft Published February 25, 2010

Nintendo: No New Hardware “Any Time Soon”

The Wii was released in November 2006. The GameCube was released in 2001. About time for a new home consoles, right? Um, no. “I don’t think it’ll [Wii successor] be any time soon,” Nintendo of America exec Cammie Dunaway told GameSpot at the recent Nintendo Summit. “Even though our installed base it, at this point,…

By Brian Ashcraft Published February 25, 2010

Reviews

Nintendo DSi XL Review: Super Size Me

The Nintendo DSi LL, (DSi XL in the West) is the latest addition to the hugely successful Nintendo platform. “LL” is the Japanese equivalent of “XL”, or “extra large”. But is bigger really better? Released in Japan in late November, the Nintendo DSi XL features 4.2 inch screens that are 93 percent larger than the…

By Brian Ashcraft Published February 25, 2010

Metroid: Other M: A Change of Perspective

Team Ninja’s take on Metroid doesn’t just give the game a new look, it changes Metroid’s entire perspective, literally, and gives voice to a heroine we’ve never really heard speak. Following ten months of near-total silence on Team Ninja’s feverishly anticipated Metroid: Other M, I finally got to strap on Samus Aran’s arm cannon and…

matt cabral Published February 25, 2010

Nintendo Summit News Round-Up

The Nintendo Summit in San Francisco is positively bursting with news, with release dates for the Nintendo DSi XL, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Metroid: Other M, and plenty of information on the games coming in the first half of 2010. Nintendo of America’s Cammie Dunaway kicked off today’s festivities with the long awaited pricing and…