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Nintendo vs. Japanese Newspaper, It Continues!

In early January, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata gave an interview with Japan’s second largest newspaper The Asahi Shimbun. The printed article has been a source of dispute. In the original article, the Asashi Shimbun quoted Satoru Iwata as stating the Nintendo DS successor will have “highly detailed graphics, and it will be necessary to have…

By Brian Ashcraft Published February 2, 2010

The Simpsons Lampoon Nintendo Straightly With The Funtendo Zii

Last night’s episode of Fox’s long-running The Simpsons parodied, I guess, the Nintendo Wii with the introduction of the Funtendo Zii. The Simpsons’ take on Nintendo’s motion controlled hit was far more straightforward than it was skewering. See, the episode “Million Dollar Maybe” pretty much presented the Wii as-is, offering animated versions of the Wii,…

By Michael McWhertor Published February 1, 2010

Woman Loses 112 lbs., Thanks Wii Fit

A 38-year-old British woman, once so large she was afraid to have sex with her husband, now parades about her home in sexy lingerie after losing 112 pounds, a dramatic change in physique she credits to a Wii Fit regimen. Lara Roberts specifically thanked the Wii for allowing her to work out in her home,…

By Owen Good Published January 31, 2010

WarioWare D.I.Y. Has Made Me A User Generated Content Convert

Game programming may come to the masses in the most micro of forms with Nintendo’s upcoming do-it-yourself mini-game collection WarioWare D.I.Y., one of a handful of new titles we got to go hands-on with this week. I’ve been a longtime fan of the WarioWare series of seconds-long games since the original WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!…

By Michael McWhertor Published January 29, 2010

Final Fantasy Creator Working On Wii Game

Mistwalker boss Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of the Final Fantasy series, told us last year that his company was working on two projects: an iPhone game and a proper game. Could that second title be a Wii game? Sure is. Nintendo sent out a press release overnight advertising the launch of a website for “The Last…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 29, 2010

Ready For Some More Nintendo Software Lifetime Sales?

Nintendo games are popular. People buy them up as if they were hotcakes. Nintendo games are not hotcakes. You cannot eat them. You play them. Following hot on the heels of yesterday’s news, the Kyoto-based game company has released global life-to-date numbers for some of its biggest titles. Let’s have a look: Nintendo DS Pokémon…

By Brian Ashcraft Published January 29, 2010

Nintendo President Pooh Poohs Apple iPad, 3D Technology

The unveiling of the new Apple iPad earlier this week has a lot of people excited. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata is not one of them. “It was a bigger iPod Touch”, Iwata told Associated Press, adding that the new device offered “no surprises”. The Nintendo president was equally down on the recent enthusiasm over 3D…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 29, 2010

“Entirely New” Pokemon Series Coming This Year

There hasn’t been an entirely new Pokémon series released since Pokémon Diamond and Pearl. Know what that means? Time for a new Pokémon series. An “entirely new” Pocket Monster series, complete with “new Pokémon” is in development. The new Pocket Monster series will be heading to the Nintendo DS and feature many new features and…

By Brian Ashcraft Published January 29, 2010

Nintendo Adds Xenoblade, The Last Story, Metroid: Other M Date To Release List

Nintendo of Japan updated its 2010 release list today, adding Xenoblade and The Last Story to its upcoming Wii slate and dating Metroid: Other M for “Summer 2010.” The Nintendo and Team Ninja game was previously “TBA” in Japan. So what the hell are Xenoblade and The Last Story? Well, considering that Nintendo also dropped…

By Michael McWhertor Published January 28, 2010

Nintendo Asks You To Get LOST on Wuhu Island

You know, pop-culture referencing television show Lost isn’t the only form of entertainment that includes island fun. With the final season of the show kicking off next week, Nintendo wants to remind you about that OTHER island. With more than 4.2 million copies sold, Nintendo seems to make a lot of references to LOST’s tropical……

By Brian Crecente Published January 28, 2010

Nintendo Game Sales: Mario, Pokemon, Zelda Selling Millions (Millions!)

It wasn’t just hardware and money Nintendo was dealing with today; software sales were also announced as part of the company’s latest financial report. All figures listed are lifetime sales. If you’re wondering why a particular game isn’t listed, it’s because these are the only ones Nintendo disclosed as part of the report. Nintendo DS…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 28, 2010

Nintendo Reveals Lifetime Hardware Shipment Figures

Nintendo today released its financial results for the period between April 1, 2009 and December 31, 2009. And after the money stuff was all done with, the company announced some lifetime hardware shipment numbers. Those numbers are as follows: Wii – 67 million DS (including all variants) – 125 million Nintendo also announced that 510…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 28, 2010

Nintendo Games Dominate Overall Wii, DS Sales

Sure, that headline reads like “sky is blue”, but retail data firm The NPD Group today released figures showing just how reliant Nintendo software sales are on, well, Nintendo games. For the 2009 calendar year, total revenue for games sold on Nintendo platforms was $3.23 billion. Of which Nintendo games constituted $1.53 billion. Or, 47%.…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 27, 2010

Master Mario Mashup

Mario/Master Chief tattoo, now on an unknown fan for life. As seen at Hawty McBloggy.

By Owen Good Published January 27, 2010

Concept Art From The Legend Of Zelda

We often see concept art for games that are coming out, but how about games that are already out? Like, say, The Legend of Zelda, which was released in 1986? The latest in Nintendo’s series of “Iwata Asks” is up on the company’s British portal, and contains four rare, most likely never-before-seen (by you) pieces…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 27, 2010

Glory of Heracles Creators Explain Their New Nintendo DS RPG

One of Nintendo’s more low-key releases of 2010 is Glory of Heracles, released last week in North America for the Nintendo DS. The Greek-themed role-playing game is new user friendlier than most and the first in the series to come stateside. I’ve been playing Glory of Heracles over the course of the past week, a…

By Michael McWhertor Published January 26, 2010

Which Legend of Zelda Game Was Inspired By Twin Peaks?

It may not be obvious, but The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening was influenced by the work of director David Lynch, according to longtime series creators Takashi Tezuka and Eiji Aonuma, citing Twin Peaks as inspiration for the 1993 game. No, it didn’t feature high school murders, treatises on pies, or the bizarre cast of…

By Michael McWhertor Published January 26, 2010

Report: Nintendo Said “No, Thank You” To Project Natal Tech

Nintendo executives were reportedly given the option to snatch up the technology that powers Microsoft’s controller-free Project Natal but passed, worried that the camera tech was too expensive and not responsive enough for the Wii maker. CVG cites an anonymous source at Nintendo—specifically “a top insider (and we mean top insider)”—as saying that Nintendo bossman…

By Michael McWhertor Published January 26, 2010

The Nintendo Download: Uno!

Too late! I shouted it first, so you folks all have to draw two cards while I tell you all about this week’s releases for WiiWare, DSiWare, and the Wii Virtual Console. Can you guess what this week’s biggest WiiWare release is? That’s right! It’s “Aha! I Found It!” Hidden Object Game by Ateam Inc.…

By Mike Fahey Published January 25, 2010

Gaming: The Fifth Network

The very public, very messy late-night fight between Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien and NBC didn’t just offer interesting insight into the inner workings of network television, it reminded everyone that the TV isn’t used only for watching shows anymore. Video games, right behind bad programming and bad decisions, are television networks’ biggest threat these days.…

By Brian Crecente Published January 25, 2010