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What Is Nintendo’s Game Plan?

Nintendo offered a look behind the curtain, a peek at how the company operates. In its financial earnings, the Kyoto-based game maker explained is mid-term and long-term strategy. According to the company, Nintendo will continue to go after “Gaming Population Expansion” by “putting smiles on many people’s faces by offering brand new entertainment that anyone…

Zelda: Spirit Tracks Is For A “Wider Age Group Of People”

Buried in the midst of Nintendo’s 2009 fiscal year results is a small note about the upcoming Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks. It’s interesting to see how the game’s described to investors, rather than fans. While the game is mentioned only in passing, the report hints at the game’s direction, saying that “The Legend of…

Nintendo’s 2009 Software Sales: The Breakdown

As you’ve seen, Nintendo’s 2009 fiscal year results are in. Pushing on from the cash money, let’s now take a look at the games: which ones sold, how many they sold, that sort of thing. WARNING: these numbers will make every “1 million sold!” proclamation from other publishers seem tame by comparison. The following sales…

New Global Lifetime Sales For The Nintendo Wii And The Nintendo DS

Like numbers? Nintendo released oodles of numbers today, including lifetime and 2009 financial year Wii and DS hardware sales. Let’s have a look. Worldwide annual sales of the Nintendo Wii hovered close to 26 million units (25.95), and the total lifetime sales for the console have surpassed 50 million (50.39). Global Nintendo DS system sales…

Nintendo Had Yet Another Money Printing Year [Update]

Nintendo has released its 2009 fiscal year end results. For the financial year ending March 31, 2009, the company posted record highs for both sales and operating profit. The Kyoto-based game company reported sales of 1.83 trillion yen, which is up 9 percent from the previous year, and it reported operating profits of over 555…

Did You Know Mars Is Red? What About Lipstick?

Sure you did! And so did reader Chris, who went to Mars to take this photo. Well, maybe not, but still. Chris writes: Here’s a picture of me with the Phoenix Mars Lander on the Red Planet. Don’t forget the red UA Mars logo as well! Oh we won’t Chris, we won’t. We applaud this…

Disney Bringing 3D Games to PS3, Wii, Xbox 360

Guinea Pig sporting action title G-Force and Wii mini-game collection Toy Story Mania will both ship with 3D support, the developers announced tonight. in Toy Story Mania, gamers play a number of mini-games on the Wii using the remote. Among the 40 mini games are ones that have you throwing darts to pop balloons, throwing…

Rolando 2 Trailer Enters The Third Dimension

Despite being a blast, people knocked the first Rolando for looking too much like LocoRoco. Wonder if those same people will knock the sequel for looking too much like LittleBigPlanet?

Love Plus Has Your Virtual Girlfriend Experience Covered

Konami’s upcoming DS dating sim Love Plus is anything but your typical dating sim game. It’s a dating sim plus. The first part of the game is standard fare: Players court three girls, trying to get them to fall in love. That’s where most dating sims end — Love Plus is just getting started. The…

Project Gotham Racing Devs Explain Last Days With “Corporate, Cocky” Microsoft

Bizarre Creations, the development team behind the renowned Project Gotham Racing series, used to make games for Microsoft. Now, they make games for Activision. Why the split? Speaking with Edge, the studio’s creative director Martyn Chudley has told of Bizarre’s final weeks with Microsoft, as development on Project Gotham Racing 4 (which I maintain is…

Can You Guess The Devil Kings Drink?

Action game Devil Kings, aka Sengoku Basara, is so popular in Japan, that the game has its own canned drinks. There are various flavors, but which is which. The flavors include Chinese tea, green tea, pineapple, grape, black currant plus orange and “sports drink”. The answers are below… In Japanese! Sengoku Basara Drinks Reviewed [GIGAZINE…

Street Fighter Blu-Ray Is A Photoshop Disaster

The latest Street Fighter flick was a mess. From the casting to the plot, top to bottom, a mess. And so it is with the movie’s impending Blu-Ray release! Look at that cover! It should come with a disclaimer: contains 5% actual Kristen Kruek. And also a warning: Chris Klein is not actually Nicolas Cage.…

Disney Porting Toy Story Midway Mania! Theme Park Ride To Wii

Disney’s looking to its own theme parks for new video game opportunities, bringing its interactive Toy Story-branded theme park attraction to the Wii. The publisher will be officially announcing Toy Story Midway Mania! later tonight. The attraction, which gives theme park goers wearing 3D glasses a vehicle mounted cannon, has been available at Disney’s Hollywood…

Square Enix Doesn’t Consider Final Fantasy XIII a JRPG

Final Fantasy XIII is a Japanese-made game. It is also a role-playing-game. Yet, don’t tell FFXIII producer Yoshinori Kitase that it’s a JRPG — he’ll set you straight! “There’s a trend these days to strictly categorize games as western RPGs or Japanese RPGs, but Final Fantasy is something that we don’t try to categorize as…

Piston Honda Returns To Punch-Out!!, Mostly Intact

The latest classic boxer to return to the Wii version of Punch-Out!! will be Tokyo, Japan born and bred Piston Honda. Or at least a close approximation of Piston, as Nintendo has changed his name. The return of the Japanese pugilist, who first (and last) appeared in the NES version of Punch-Out!! comes with a…

Capcom Try To Fix Stupid Bionic Commando Demo

Funny thing, that Bionic Commando demo. Here’s a game with quite a complex control mechanism, but instead of using the demo to teach you that, they just drop you into a multiplayer match. Which is leading many to install the demo, fire it up, and hate it. How are they meant to kill people when…

3D Realms “Situation” Won’t Affect Duke Nukem Trilogy, Apogee

Duke Nukem Forever developer 3D Realms is reportedly out of gum, allegedly planned to close its doors this week. But that won’t affect the other Duke Nukem game currently in development or Apogee Software. Following rumored reports that Duke Nukem devs 3D Realms had given up the ghost, reps for publisher Deep Silver issued a…

Somali Showdown Lets *You* Take Down Virtual Pirates

The developers behind the episodic KumaWar series are once again capitalizing on deadly real-world events, putting players in the shoes of the plundered with Somali Showdown: Pirates on the High Seas. Kuma Games has quickly turned the recent spate of Somali cargo hijackings into a free to play video game based on the real world…

College Football Players Joining EA Madden Lawsuit Mob

A class action lawsuit filed against EA Tuesday alleges that National Collegiate Athletic Association allowed the company to use unpaid college athletes likenesses in Madden games unlawfully. A similar lawsuit went down not long ago where retired NFL players had their likenesses unlawfully used in Madden NFL games. The plaintiffs in that case won their…

Is Duke Nukem Developer 3D Realms Gone For Good? [Update]

3D Realms, still plugging away at the slightly delayed Duke Nukem Forever, may have given up the ghost, as the Texas-based developer is rumored to have shut down. We heard from an anonymous tipster earlier today of 3D Realms demise, with Shacknews reporting the very same thing, citing a “very reliable source” close to the…