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It had been reported that Super Swing Golf: Season Two would arrive in Europe on July 4 this year, but now Rising Star Games has confirmed that the second title in the series will in fact tee off in the continent a little earlier, on June 27. (comment on this article…)

The second and final day of Nintendo’s Media Summit in San Francisco this week is all about the upcoming download service WiiWare. And while Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life As A King and Major League Eating are both at the event, only Telltale Games’ Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People and 2D Boy’s [...]

With Jeep Thrills announced for the Nintendo DS today, in revs Ford Racing Off Road from Empire Interactive to steal some of its thunder. Announced in January this year and available for several other formats since March, its creators have today confirmed that it will arrive on the Nintendo Wii this July. (comment [...]

Earlier on this week a rumour emerged from France that Atlus’ RPG for the Nintendo Wii, Baroque, would be released in Europe on June 05. Today Rising Star Games has announced that it will in fact launch in the continent on June 27. Well, they got the month right, at least. (comment on this [...]

Earlier on this week, the pages of Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu revealed that Capcom is currently working on a brand new spin-off title to the hugely successful Phoenix Wright series on the Nintendo DS. The main details from an interview with the game’s producers (also in the latest issue) has now been translated, allowing all [...]

Following uproar amongst gamers earlier on this week, after Electronic Arts and Harmonix announced that the cost of their upcoming music/rhythm-based title Rock Band will be twice as much in Europe as it is in North America, the head of its creator’s product development team has spoken out to try to explain matters, stating that [...]

Every time a new racing game is announced (especially a ’serious’, licensed one), we find ourselves sulking at how the Nintendo Wii still doesn’t have a definitive, realistic racing title to call its own. Something tells us that Destination Software’s Jeep Thrills isn’t going to fill that gaping hole. (comment on this article…)

After confirming LOL for the Nintendo DS in North America last month, Rising Star Games has confirmed that it will be bringing the strictly-multiplayer, Pictionary-alike title to Europe this July, under a new name - Bakushow. (2 comments…)

One of the Nintendo Wii’s other high profile titles for 2008 so far was discussed at the firm’s Media Summit yesterday - Electronic Arts’ and Steven Speilberg’s Boom Blox. The inventive puzzler is released in less than a month, and looks to be one of the most original third party efforts on the console to [...]

After welcoming the Commodore 64 a few weeks ago, European and Australian gamers get their first taste of SEGA Master System titles to the Virtual Console this week. There are a total of four retrograde games this week, consisting of a platformer, a sports title, a side-scrolling shooter and the chance to become a secret [...]

Sam & Max are probably one of the videogame world’s best known, least well-known stars, having secured cult status during the 1990s, before disappearing without a trace until re-emerging to the delight of so many gamers over a decade later. With Telltale Games officially throwing its weight behind WiiWare today and with Sam & Max [...]

It’s a pair of games we’ve known about since late February this year, but at the opening of its Media Summit in San Francisco today, Nintendo has provided us with a few more snippets of information about the sequel(s) to Pokemon Mystery Dungeon on the Nintendo DS, as well a selection of debut screenshots. [...]

Nintendo’s annual Media Summit began in San Francisco today; an event in which the firm plans to show off some of the gaming delights it has to offer us all for the year ahead. Their first conference has just taken place, with information on their plans for Wii and DS in general and, first of [...]

Despite receiving a very impressive 35 / 40 score from Famitsu magazine and selling nearly 230,000 units in Japan so far, thus beating the total of previous RPG Tales of the Tempest, Bandai Namco has gone on record to confirm that Tales of Innocence on Nintendo DS will not be receiving a release in any [...]

As we confirmed in a news report last week, one of the Game Boy Color’s cutest adventurers is making a welcome comeback on Nintendo’s download service, WiiWare. Today we learn more details about the title, as well as the fact that it will launch sometime close to the arrival of WiiWare in America on May [...]

After revealing earlier on in the week that today would be the day that it unveiled its plans for WiiWare, Telltale Games has announced that, in partnership with Videlectrix, it is bringing episodic gaming to the download service in the form of Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People (SBCG4AP). (comment on this article…)

The Game Factory has confirmed that it will début a new gaming experience targeting the growing number of female casual gamers in the Autumn period of 2008, with the title being developed by veteran German development outfit Shin’en Interactive, well-renowned for its work on the Iridion and Nanostray space shooter franchises. (comment on this [...]

Following speculation of a July North American release date for the fully 3D remake of Final Fantasy IV for the Nintendo DS in this month’s Nintendo Power magazine, Square Enix has gone on record to confirm that the month was indeed correct, and announced that the exact date that we can expect the triumphant game [...]

Last month rumour had it that a sequel to Konami’s Elebits was heading to the Nintendo DS. However, a snippet of information inside the newest issue of Official Nintendo Magazine reveals that, in fact, the series is sticking to its original home, the Nintendo Wii. (comment on this article…)

Remember how Reginald Fils-Aime recently promised that something special would be revealed at the E3 business event in July? Well, perhaps one of the games he was alluding to was F-Zero for Wii, which has apparently been uncovered by German website ‘Planet Nintendo’. Will we soon be zooming through futuristic locations using the [...]