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Posted on November 27, 2009
At a recent BMO Capital Markets event for gaming companies and investors this month, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fil-Aime took the stage to share up some numbers that proved something no one had been doubting -- female consumers...
Posted on November 27, 2008
Nintendo has traditionally topped the sales charts for games on its own systems, so when these numbers got released by the NPD Group, it's not like they came out of left field. What you see above are the all-time...
Posted on October 20, 2008
You know how Rock Band and Guitar Hero go through quite a few licensing hoops to get those tracks onto your home console? It seems that Nintendo is taking a wholly different approach with Wii Music, because I have...
Posted on October 2, 2008
Ever since I picked up the Nintendo Wii almost two years ago -- it's already been that long? -- and started playing Wii Sports: Boxing, I'm been yearning for the day when Nintendo would bring Punch-Out to its motion-sensing...
Posted on August 27, 2008
If you were to take a guess, which console is the most popular for Canadians? If you answered the Wii, you'd be right. In fact, Nintendo's latest just passed the "one million units sold" mark. The Xbox 360 trails second...
Posted on August 13, 2008
Known as Rock Man in other parts of the world, Mega Man has left an indelible mark on my childhood. Although I was never particularly good at Mega Man games, they were a lot of fun. Beating the tar...
Posted on August 11, 2008
Have you ever wondered what Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto does in his spare time, aside from counting all that money that we've given him over the course of the last twenty years or so? It turns out that we may...
Posted on July 31, 2008
The original Nintendo DS Phat was succeeded by the sleeker and smaller Nintendo DS Lite after about 15 months on the shelf. Given that timeline, we should be due for another design refresh by the end of this year....
Posted on July 18, 2008
Shigeru Miyamoto is the king of Nintendo. He was the one that introduced us to a pudgy Italian plumber for the first time. He's quirky, but he's always been family-friendly. A good portion of the concept behind the Wii...
Posted on July 17, 2008
When the Nintendo Wii was offically revealed to the world, it was met with quite the mixed reaction. Some people thought that the motion-sensing control scheme was innovative. Others thought that the Wii Remote and Nunchuk were terribly gimmicky,...
Posted on July 3, 2008
The Nintendo Wii Virtual Console is home to some of the best retro games this planet has ever seen. It is there that you can relive the adventures of the original Super Mario Bros. and do a little classic...
Posted on June 26, 2008
Castlevania titles have been appearing on the DS for quite a while now, so why hasn't it appeared on Nintendo's other console, the Wii? Well, if you've waiting for it, then we've got news for you. Notice that I didn't...
Posted on June 5, 2008
Everyone's favorite Italian plumber got his start in Japan before crossing the pond into the United States and across the continent to Europe. Little did we know that he had been hiding his Hispanic cousin from us this whole...
Posted on May 27, 2008
Sex. It's the thing that seems to infiltrate every aspect of our lives and our entertainment. We see them in movies, on television, in magazines, and yes, even in video games. To give us a full perspective on the...
Posted on May 7, 2008
The Wii Virtual Console is a great thing filled with all sorts of retro goodness, but we were also told that a good variety of WiiWare games would also become available to us at some point. In addition to...
Posted on April 10, 2008
There's something strangely appealing about Mario-themed sports games. On the one hand, they're fun and arcade-y enough for casual gamers to enjoy. On the other hand, they can offer some incredible depth for more serious gamers if they can...
Posted on March 12, 2008
I'm still pretty busy trying to unlock all the characters in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, but it seems like I'm going to get treated to even more Mario-themed goodness next month. Nintendo of America has formally announced that Mario...
Posted on February 26, 2008
More Mario Kart Wii news is coming down the pipeline. As much as I enjoyed playing online in Mario Kart DS, it was unfortunate that Nintendo didn't open up some way for me to trash talk communicate with my...
Posted on February 18, 2008
I've been playing fighting games ever since Street Fighter II came out on the SNES. I've tried my best to play it in its various incarnations: the New Warriors, SF III, SF Alpha and even the SF EX series. A...
Posted on February 15, 2008
I can't get enough of this game. We've already been bombarded with all sorts of screenshots and videos from the Japanese version of Super Smash Bros Brawl for the Nintendo Wii, but the supply of North American material has...
Posted on February 14, 2008
Predictions are always fun, but they tend to garner a little more credence when they come from a respected source. Gamespot UK recently turned to Evan Wilson, an analyst at Pacific Crest Securities, for his feelings on the recent...
Posted on February 7, 2008
We can still dream, right? It turns out that Nintendo currently has no interest in creating a MMO of any kind, so this lays to rest any rumors about the upcoming version of Animal Crossing for the Wii having...
Posted on January 29, 2008
Animal Crossing has proven to be quite the lucrative franchise for Nintendo, so we're naturally expecting some rather huge things from the upcoming version for the Nintendo Wii, especially since we hear that it will have significant "social networking...
Posted on January 2, 2008
And Nintendo has found another way to print money. The Wii Virtual Console is already a huge source of nostalgia for gamers, but it seems that the wireless download of full games could soon be extended to the Nintendo...
Posted on December 17, 2007
GameRankings.com is supposed to be a pretty good source for video game reviews, because they amalgamate the reviews of several online and offline sources. They look at reviews written by everyone from IGN to Eurogamer, translating it all into...
Posted on October 17, 2007
It's time to move on. At least, that's what Nintendo of Japan is saying because they will no longer provide hardware support for the Nintendo Entertainment System (known as the Famicom or "Family Computer" in Japan) as of the...
Posted on September 26, 2007
The Nintendo DS (when you consider the DS Lite as being one and the same) is the fastest selling video game console of all time, but it is not yet the best selling console of all time. That record...
Posted on September 19, 2007
In the eyes of Star Wars fans, the Wii-mote was made for one thing and one thing only: to give players the power to wield a lightsaber. We reported about that possibility a few months ago and now it's...
Posted on August 23, 2007
Looks like Nintendo has finally realized that their dream of bringing the Internet to the tiny touchtastic handheld was full of crap, because the big N has decreed that they are dumping the Nintendo DS browser for good. At...
Posted on August 21, 2007
Over at my girlfriend's place, they have a PlayStation 3, but they only own two games -- Virtua Fighter 5 and Resistance: Fall of Man -- both of which I bought for them. I'm not sure if they're too...
Posted on August 16, 2007
Just like every other popular game show, it seems like producers are working on a Canadian version of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader. Just like what they did with Deal or no Deal and Who Wants to...
Posted on July 19, 2007
Canadians love Nintendo. They're also better at finding Wiis, apparently. NPD has the numbers for June and the Japanese company leads, both in hardware and software sales. For the month, the Wii sold just over 53,000 units, with the DS...
Posted on July 17, 2007
The new Wii Fit peripheral announced at E3 has been met with some rather mixed reactions. Some people say that it's innovative and actually brings something new and fun to an already innovation game machine. Others say that it's just...
Posted on June 27, 2007
I'm having a hard time thinking about what to write today, so I'll tell you what I read and eventually end up writing about (mostly) nothing. It isn't really surprising news, but the movie tie-in Transformers: The Game scored a...
Posted on June 20, 2007
Fans of the adventure game genre, particularly those who love LucasArts titles like the Monkey Island series and Grim Fandango, have something to look forward to. A Vampyre Story is the upcoming point and click adventure game for the...
Posted on April 27, 2007
According to Satoru Iwata, President and CEO of Nintendo, the company is currently working on no fewer than 45 different games for the Wii. This is certainly uplifting news, because it means that there will never be any shortage...
Posted on April 24, 2007
According to an ongoing poll on Time Magazine's website, Shigeru Miyamoto is the second most influential person in the world, sitting behind only Stephen Colbert. This places the Nintendo guru well above Steve Jobs (#8), Nelson Mandela (#21), and...
Posted on April 22, 2007
If you're like me, you probably noticed that the trend these days is to port-and-port and make rehash upon rehash of every conceivable game that made a profit in the past. Every title on each console maker's version of...
Posted on April 10, 2007
I'm a self-proclaimed Nintendo fanboy. Usually, the only video game-related posts I do on my own blog are related to Nintendo and have absolutely nothing to do with the Xbox 360 or any offering from Sony. I've been loyal...
Posted on April 7, 2007
It's hard to believe, but did you know that Nintendo has been around for over 100 years? You might be wondering how that could be possible, considering that even an ancient game like Pong was only launched in arcades...
Posted on March 28, 2007
This could prove to be the grandest event of all-time, not because the world is gathering in Beijing for the 2008 Summer Olympics, but because there is a video game being developed wherein a pudgy Italian plumber will take...
Posted on March 26, 2007
This one is for real Nintendo fanboys only. Like, for people so loyal to Shigeru Miyamoto that they'd be willing to forfeit their first-born. Some lucky buck named Anthony was fortunate enough to get in good with a Toys...
Posted on March 19, 2007
Shigeru Miyamoto has openly said that he's been working on the idea of a Mii Channel for quite some time, although the term "Mii" is relatively new. It's just that the hardware wasn't there, the implementation just wasn't right,...
Posted on March 18, 2007
February sales figures, courtesy of Gamespot and NPD: DS - 485,000 Wii - 335,000 X360 - 228,000 PS2 - 295,000 PSP - 176,000 PS3 - 127,000 Kiddie games or not, the Wii and the DS are proving to be...
Posted on March 6, 2007
The developers of Auto Assault are working on a new MMOG for Lego. Yes, that Lego, the guys behind the funky building blocks. There are no further details other than that announcement so we'll all have to wait for what...
Posted on March 1, 2007
Talk about one of a kind. We've all seen those television commercials where a couple of Japanese dudes visit that guy that looks like Chuck Norris, a family, and a bunch of other people. They tell these unsuspecting victims...
Posted on February 13, 2007
Capcom's Senior Director of Strategic Planning and Research Christian Svensson recently commented on the Capcom message boards about developing M-rated games for the Wii. A few quotes from the discussion: Regarding developing more adult-themed games for the Wii, he states...
Posted on January 26, 2007
Apparently it's "hardly a secret", but it's news to me. Apparently the video game industry is not immune to the concept of outsourcing. Some of our favourite all-time games were not developed and produced by who we thought. Instead,...
Posted on January 25, 2007
It's one thing to establish a huge video game franchise that has everyone lusting after your sequels well before you even knew you were working on a follow-up. It's another thing altogether to maintain that sort of buzz after...
Posted on January 24, 2007
Awesome! A technology named after this website (or maybe it was the other way around). Let's take a virtual trip back to the 1980s when Nintendo was ho-humming about the creation of a new video game machine. This was...
Posted on December 22, 2006
Nintendo of America president and COO Reggie Fils-Aime promised that the Wii would not have a shortage of games coming out, unlike previous Nintendo consoles, particularly the Nintendo 64 and GameCube. Last October, the Regginator told Newsweek that three...
Posted on November 22, 2006
Looks like everything did not go as smooth as silk for Nintendo as a few consoles need to be replaced thanks to their hardware locking up after updating via the Internet to the latest version. According to the official Wii...
Posted on November 20, 2006
If you live in North America, and you live Nintendo, you are probably enjoying playing your Nintendo Wii by now. At first we thought the name was rediculous, but the console has really grown on many people. The Nintendo Wii...
Posted on August 23, 2006
At the Leipzig Games Convention, Nintendo gave a press conference to talk about their upcoming Wii titles. Not a whole lot of news worthy information came out of it, as we already knew most of what they wanted to say,...
Posted on August 23, 2006
Cheaper than the $199 or $249 price point we have been expecting for the Wii, it might come in at only $170 USD atleast that is the word on the street currently. With the Xbox 360 coming in at $300,...
Posted on July 25, 2006
Nintendo is considered the front runner for the next generation of consoles (at least by me), and their Nintendo DS is no slouch either, as it continues to sell rapidly since the release of the Nintendo DS Lite. Profits for...
Posted on June 27, 2006
How would you feel if someone came to you every day and asked you for a dollar? Well that is how I feel about microtransactions, especially since much of what has been done on the Xbox 360 side is users...
Posted on June 23, 2006
Nintendo Power has confirmed that there will be atleast six Wii titles for this falls launch of the Nintendo Wii. The list includes: The Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess Metroid Prime 3: Corruption Wii Sports Red Steel Rayman Raving...
Posted on June 7, 2006
Everyone knows that getting access to games from previous generations on the Nintendo Wii is going to cost a few dollars but how much is something like Super Mario Bros. 3, or Contra really going to be worth to most...
Posted on June 1, 2006
People just can't get over the Nintendo Wii, and how much it entertains those that try it. Recently it was awarded as the Best of Show at E3 and the Best Hardware by video game critics. Not only that, but...
Posted on May 23, 2006
When the Nintendo DS launches in Europe, it will come in two different shades, white and black. I don't know about anyone else, but as much as white is the "in" thing right now for gadgets, I would really love...
Posted on May 15, 2006
Gizmodo has some rumours on the price tag for the Nintendo Wii. It looks like it might come out as low as $200 (USD) or less. It was originally rumoured that it would launch with a $249 price tag, but...
Posted on May 9, 2006
One of the most interesting things about the Nintendo Wii is its remote, as it allows you to play the game in a very unique way, but at the same time, many people don't like the idea of a remote...
Posted on May 4, 2006
A press release sent out today stated that the Nintendo DS Lite will be coming to North America on June 11th. The handheld that many Nintendo fanboys are salivating over will be priced as low as $129 USD (probably around...
Posted on April 27, 2006
Originally we expected Nintendo to release the marketed name of the codename Revolution product at E3, but I guess they just could not wait, as the new name was announced today, everyone wondered what Nintendo was thinking. From Nintendo's Website:...
