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Nintendo And McDonalds Japan Serve Up DS Service
Following on the test program Nintendo launched in Tokyo last spring, the Kyoto-based game company and the fast food giant announce “Mac de DS”. Way back in 2005, Nintendo of America teamed up with McDonalds to offer free WiFi in the United States. This new nationwide service is a first for Japanese McDonalds. Starting June…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 15, 2009 -
Pokemon Heart Gold/Soul Silver Japanese Pre-Orders Include…
Anyone pre-ordering Pokémon: Heart Gold or Soul Silver? Good news — pre-orders start July 4th, and there are pre-order goodies. In Japan, those pre-ordering Heart Gold will get a Ho-Oh figure, and those pre-odering Soul Silver will get a Lugia. Pre-order both, and you’ll get a Arceus figure. Heart Gold and Soul Silver are DS…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 15, 2009 -
Playing Super Mario Bros. On A Theremin
The theremin isn’t only good for playing "Good Vibrations", it’s also good for playing Super Mario Bros. — not just the music, but the game itself. YouTuber conquerearth explains how it works: The sound from the theremin is split into its frequency and amplitude components in real time, which are then mapped to values in…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 15, 2009 -
Japan Gets Blue Wii Remote, Nunchuk (With A Catch)
While the rest of the world suffers under the tyranny of a single Wii colour, Japan has choices! First a black Wii & Wii Remote, and now a blue Wii Remote & Nunchuk. But wait! There’s a catch! The special coloured controllers are being offered as part of a Club Nintendo deal for Wii Sports…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 15, 2009 -
New Zelda Will Require Motionplus?
While details on the next Legend of Zelda game are almost entirely non-existent, courtesy of Nintendo’s non-announcement during E3, that doesn’t mean we know nothing about the direction series creator Shigeru Miyamoto will be taking the series. We know one thing: that you might need to fork out an extra $20 for it. Speaking with…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 12, 2009 -
Analyst Predicts Wii Price Drop
Wedbush-Morgan’s Michael Pachter — the guy that was so harsh on the PSPgo’s price tag — thinks the Wii will drop to $199.99 this holiday season Edge Online reports that Nintendo has already sold 20 million units — 50 million worldwide — and plans to sell another 26 million this fiscal year. Noting that a…
By AJ Glasser Published June 12, 2009 -
Nintendo: Other M Will be A “Metroid Unlike Anything Ever Experienced Before”
Two of the men leading the new Metroid Wii game told Kotaku about their narrative ambitions for the 2010 sequel Metroid Other M and explained why the Metroid Prime team isn’t involved. Yoshio Sakamoto, Nintendo’s long-time developer of 2D Metroids, and Yousuke Hayashi, head of Tecmo’s Team Ninja, wouldn’t tell me and Brian Crecente how…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 12, 2009 -
Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles Preview: A Chilling Shooter
Capcom returns to Raccoon City in Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, dropping gamers back into the zombie-killing action in a game that plays like a on-rails shooting title, but promises to deliver a sense of action and suspense. Can those two even go together? What Is It? Capcom’s on-rails shooter for the Wii boasts two-player…
By Brian Crecente Published June 12, 2009 -
Yup, Looks Like A New Tingle Game
Famitsu were right to sense more Tingle from Nintendo, because a teaser website for what must surely be a new game starring the company’s most…eccentric little man has gone live. There’s a brief cameo from Tingle, there’s a fortune teller surrounded by skulls, and there’s a section where you can write in and say what’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 12, 2009 -
Here Is Your Japanese Pokemon Heart Gold/Soul Silver Packaging
This fall, Nintendo is releasing Pokémon Heart Gold and Pokémon Soul Silver for the Nintendo DS. These are tenth anniversary remakes of Pokémon Gold/Silver. The original Gold and Silver appeared on the Game Boy and sold 23 million copies worldwide. Pokémon Heart Gold and Pokémon Soul Silver will be packaged with pedometers dubbed the Poké…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 11, 2009 -
WireWay Preview: Drawn to Flight
Konami’s WireWay has gamers drawing elastic lines on a DS screen to flick an alien hero through dangerous environments. Can such a simple concept deliver enough fun to warrant a full blown game? What Is It? WireWay is a DS puzzle game that has you flicking a tiny alien around a world using elastic bands…
By Brian Crecente Published June 11, 2009 -
Team Ninja Bringing Special Sauce To Metroid
Nintendo has wrangled in Tecmo’s Team Ninja to develop upcoming Wii title Metroid: Other M. Team Ninja is best known for its work on action title Ninja Gaiden and bouncy fighter Dead or Alive. Company president Reggie Fils-Aime dishes about why the company signed the developers to do Metroid, “We could’ve done a fine job…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 11, 2009 -
Famitsu Senses More Tingle From Nintendo
Nintendo’s upcoming line-up may have more than just new appearances from Link, Mario and Samus, as the venerable fairy Tingle from The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask may be starring in a new game of his own. The newest issue of Famitsu teases Tingle’s return, offering little more than an elfin sprite, the text “Fairy?”…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 10, 2009 -
How The Wii Vitality Sensor Actually Works
When Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata took to the stage last week to unveil the Wii Vitality Sensor, he didn’t really tell us how it all worked. No, that information now comes a week later. Seems that the WVS works by measuring the flow of blood through the user’s body, a small light sensor inside the…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 10, 2009 -
Nintendo Expected Rival Motion Control Last Year
This year, both Microsoft and Sony announced motion technology platforms. This comes years after Nintendo first launched its own motion controlled console, the Wii. So what does Nintendo think? According to Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, “To tell the truth, I expected them to come up with stuff like this last year. So in my mind…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 10, 2009 -
Nintendo DS Software Allows For Classroom Test Taking
The Nintendo DS is used to play games, communicate with friends and, in Japan, take tests. Yay? The Kyoto-based game maker has teamed up with Sharp System Products to produce Nintendo DS Classroom. The game software enables students to use DS consoles in case to do multiple choice exercises and take tests. A room full…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 9, 2009 -
Old Is New: Nintendo Released A Bio Sensor A Decade Ago
The Wii Vitality Sensor tracks a players pulse while playing. A novel Nintendo idea — or is it? Nintendo has never been afraid of mining its own past for new product ideas — take the DS’s dual screen design that echoes Nintendo’s own Donkey Kong multi-screen Game & Watch. The Wii Vitality Sensor appears to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 9, 2009 -
Nintendo Scrapped New Portable Hardware Over “Momentum” Concerns
Nintendo global president Satoru Iwata isn’t afraid to make hard decisions, having recently scuttled a new piece of Nintendo hardware that might never see the light of day, never to put smiles on faces. According to a report from CNBC, Iwata says that Nintendo had another handheld gaming system in the works as recently as…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 8, 2009 -
Mario Vs. Donkey Kong Mini-Marches To DSiWare
What new digital treasure await the Wii Point and DSi Point bearing Nintendo fan this week? Perhaps most noteworthy is arrival of Mario vs Donkey Kong: Minis March Again!, announced last week for the Nintendo DSi and available right now. This week’s new downloadable titles for WiiWare, DSiWare and the Wii Virtual Console has a…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 8, 2009 -
Nintendo Lays Out DS, DSiWare Release Schedule At E3
We’ve already gotten a peek at Nintendo of America’s newly released, but still tentative, Wii release schedule, which shows 2010 will be very good year. But what about all those great Nintendo DS games? When are they coming out? Nintendo has penciled in a few of its releases for this year, but some, like Golden…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 8, 2009