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Electronic Arts has only just recently admitted that it backed the wrong horse in this current generation and is now throwing its weight behind Nintendo and its Wii console, but perhaps we are already seeing the turning of the tide. According to what can only be classed as a ‘rumour’ for now, the company [...]

Whilst many people were eagerly awaiting the online release of Telltale Game’s new title for the WiiWare download service, Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People, unfortunately it seems that fans will have to be patient for a little while longer. (comment on this article…)

With Sony and Microsoft already well on their way to building the foundations and developing their plans for online business dealings, the obvious question had to be would Nintendo be willing to follow suit. The answer seems to have been given now, though. (comment on this article…)

John Riccitiello took over as the current Chief Executive Officer of Electronic Arts back in 2007 and has managed to life the Third Party giant out of its rut by reorganising the company’s product lines, bringing in fresh management and mixing up its development duties, choosing to focus more on game quality, rather than pure [...]

Conspiracy Entertainment Corporation has revealed its plans to release “Summer Athletics: The Ultimate Challenge” for Nintendo’s world-leading Wii console, with the game set to ’sprint’ into stores in early August 2008 in the North American market. (comment on this article…)

Nintendo’s unusual new Wii project, Captain Rainbow, from the developer behind GiFTPiA and Chibi-robo, Skip Ltd., is set to hit Japan on 28th August and at last some new concrete details have emerged from a Japanese retailer and have now been translated. (2 comments…)

TrackMania may already be a force to be reckoned with on the PC, but it has yet to hit other formats…until now. Scottish developer Firebrand Games, the team behind Codemasters’s two DS Race Driver titles, is busily working away on making the first ever Nintendo DS version as faithful to the PC original as [...]

Karateka is a long lost game that was released way back in 1984 and created by Jordan Mechner just before releasing the much more successful Prince of Persia. Ever since then, Karateka has been left on the side-lines whilst Prince of Persia went from strength-to-strength and after its transition to 3D is now one [...]

This week there is just the one game being unleashed on the North American WiiWare download service and it comes from a small-time developer called JV Games that managed to stir up quite a lot of controversy because of the game’s original title being ‘Beer Pong’. (comment on this article…)

The latest round of Virtual Console updates have now hit the Wii over in the North American market, allowing gamers to get their hands on the new additions to the retro download service. (comment on this article…)

3G Studios, the team behind the forthcoming Nintendo Wii release ‘Jillian Michaels’ Fitness Ultimatum 2009′, which makes full use of the Wii Balance Board peripheral, has now revealed the first screenshots of the game, as well as some more details on the project. (2 comments…)

It has now been revealed that there is some good news for European Wii owners coming later this week as XGen’s Defend Your Castle will finally be hitting the WiiWare download service after being out in North America for many weeks now. In addition to this, the same developer has more plans for WiiWare. [...]

Scholastic Interactive, a division of Scholastic Media, has at long last announced that it will be bringing its Goosebumps series to consoles in the form of Goosebumps HorrorLand for Wii, PlayStation 2 and Nintendo DS. (1 comment…)

Following numerous delays, followed by complete radio silence for far too long, it has now been confirmed by XIDER Games that Ankh: Curse of the Scarab Kind is still on track to hit the Nintendo DS later this year. (comment on this article…)

Hudson Entertainment, the North American publishing arm of Hudson Soft, has announced that it is bringing My Aquarium to the WiiWare download on Nintendo’s immensely Wii console. (comment on this article…)

It has been revealed that over in Japan something interesting for Wii fans is brewing, courtesy of UK hardware and accessory creator Datel, which has decided upon cashing in on the current Wii craze and is making special Classic Controllers for the console. (1 comment…)

Nintendo of Japan may have recently revealed that it would be releasing special coloured Wii Remote straps, but it would seem there are no plans for coloured Wii consoles just yet. (comment on this article…)

In what will come as a very surprising move to many, Ignition Entertainment has revealed that it will be bringing over the mascot of the leading Japanese mobile phone company, NTT DOCOMO, INC., to the Nintendo DS, exclusively in Autumn 2008 under the name Boing! Docomodake DS. (1 comment…)

Whilst Nintendo may well be assuring everyone that the Wii owners that are desperate for their ‘core’ gaming fix, with another Mario and Zelda being promised, it would appear that nothing is really on the near horizon after all, meaning a little more patience is required. (4 comments…)

Following the success of GiFTPiA and Chibi-robo on the GameCube, ex-Squaresoft developer Kenichi Nishi went on to create a special Nintendo DS project called ‘Archime-DS’ that is set to come to Europe at the end of August this year as ‘Bakushow’. Now Nishi-san has something new on the horizon. (comment on this article…)