RedOctane's official website confirms the game's existence, target platforms, and a release window.

RedOctane, the original publisher of Guitar Hero and Guitar Hero 2 (and now a subsidiary of Activision), has confirmed on its official website that the next game in the series is planned for a wide multiplatform release, including a Wii version. The game is scheduled to ship later this year. Here's the exact quote:

Dust off your Wii -- Super Paper Mario shipped today in North America.

NINTENDO'S FIRST MARIO GAME FOR WII LEAVES A PAPER TRAIL OF EXCITEMENT

Super Paper Mario Flips between 2-D and 3-D Perspectives

REDMOND, Wash., April 9, 2007 - Today's launch of Super Paper Mario™ for Nintendo's red-hot Wii™ system transports players into another dimension. Like a story... Read more...

A retail listing confirms budget pricing, release date, true wide screen support, and more.

A full listing for Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition at the EB Games online store provides quite a bit of information on this newly announced game. Most importantly, the North American release date is June 25, 2007 with a retail price of only $29.95. This pricing marks a significant break from Capcom's previous policy on Resident Evil ports.

Stop me if you've heard this one before.

Thanks (again) to DS hardware and software, Nintendo is expecting to beat its already lofty yearly sales target of 900 billion Yen ($7.58 billion), raising its consolidated net sales estimate for its 2007 fiscal year to 966 billion Yen ($8.14 billion). That's a 7.3% difference. The Wii wasn't mentioned in the note announcing this forecast adjustment, so it seems the DS is kicking ass and taking names all by itself.

World War II action is headed to Nintendo.

Ubisoft And gearbox Software Deploy Brothers in Arms ® For Nintendo DS TM and Wii TM

SAN FRANCISCO – April 4, 2007 – Today Ubisoft, one of the world’s largest video game publishers, and Gearbox Software, one of the world’s leading independent video game developers, announced that the... Read more...

Nintendo is outselling the PlayStation 3 at a ratio of 2-to-1 over there.

The latest sales figures from Japan are showing that Nintendo has sold 1.95 million Wii consoles from its December 2 launch to a period ending on March 25. Assuming Nintendo has been getting decent shipments out to its home country in the week since then, it's not too far-fetched to believe that the Wii has already broken the two million systems sold mark, just four months after it launched in the region.

Famitsu confirms Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition and gives new details about Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles.

The community over at the NeoGAF forums put together an interesting thread about the new gaming news revealed in the latest issue of Famitsu. There was a pretty big spread about the Biohazard (Resident Evil) series that included the first information about a Resident Evil 4 remake for Wii.

The next game from the developers of Guitar Hero may not be snubbing the Wii after all.

When Electronic Arts recently announced the next game released from Harmonix, Rock Band, the Wii was oddly absent from the list of platforms. Luckily, IGN acquired a statement from Harmonix, saying that EA will be publishing the game on "all important platforms" and that, "the Wiimote is something that holds enormous promise."

No, the game isn't coming to America (yet), but you can download the music on the cheap.

Those of you who long to see new Game Boy Advance games will be disappointed to hear that Nintendo still isn't translating Mother 3 into English. Just as we were beginning to forget about the game, someone over at Nintendo Japan and HAL Labratory decided to O.K. the release of the two Mother 3 soundtracks onto Apple's iTunes music service. Nintendo, why must you tease us so?

Nintendo's most famous employee answers all in a new interview.

N'Gai Croal of Level Up recently sat down with Shigeru Miyamoto to discuss his and Nintendo's showing at last month's Game Developers Conference. When asked why he chose to talk about the past instead of revealing his next big game, Miyamoto responded that he wanted to share what he'd learned from the Wii and DS with his fellow designers.

Promising real online modes, Mario Strikers is set to launch on 25th May in Europe.

Get Ready For Kick Off!

Wii shoots and scores with Mario Strikers: Charged Football

3rd April, 2007- Now’s your chance to bend it like Beckham, score like Shevchenko and hit it like Henry or, failing that, floor the opposition with a well aimed Blue Shell! What’s more, with Mario Strikers:... Read more...

A Portuguese magazine confirms the long-standing rumor -- Sega's NiGHTS is back, and it's exclusive to Wii. Updated with the official title and tentative Japanese release date. Updated AGAIN with the offical NA/European press release.

Update (5:06pm, 4/2/2007)

Here is the official press release from Sega of America and Sega Europe. In it a Fall '07 release date is revealed.

SAN FRANCISCO & LONDON (April 2, 2007) – SEGA® of America, Inc. and SEGA® Europe Ltd. today announced NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams™, the long... Read more...

Hudson's Virtual Console site reveals five upcoming games.

VC-PCE.com, Hudson's official Virtual Console website, has listed five upcoming games to be released in April. The first, Dragon's Curse, is a platformer to be released on April 2nd in North and Latin America and should be available today, March 30, in Europe. It will be followed by Bravoman, a quirky action game by Namco.

Nineteen games are slated for release next month.

Nintendo has posted the Virtual Console Japanese release list for April. This month's games are fairly region-specific; for example, none of the Genesis games were ever released outside of Japan, so it is likely that many of these games will not be made available to the rest of the world.

The... Read more...

Watch the official storyline trailer as well as more footage from GDC 2007.

Ratings boards hint at big titles in the pipeline.

The Office of Film and Literature Classification is the Australian version of the ESRB. Like the ESRB, rated games often appear on their site before they are officially announced.

Currently unreleased games already rated on their site include a number of hits. For the NES, Adventures of Lolo,... Read more...

Team Ninja is making a DS game with a clever DS subtitle.

Chris Kohler over at Wired's Game|Life blog recently posted a rough translation of a poor scan from the latest Famitsu magazine. In it, a brand new DS game from Team Ninja called Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword is revealed.

Chris goes on to translate the parts that he could make out. Apparently the... Read more...

The Wii version is ready for consumption on May 11th.

MAMA MIA! CULINARY CUTIE COOKING MAMA RETURNS ON Wii

Milton Keynes, UK – March 29th: Publisher 505 Games is today delighted to announce that the highly-anticipated Wii version of Cooking Mama has risen perfectly in the oven and is cooling on the cake stand ready for its final decoration! Players will be able to take a bite, exclusively on Wii, on May 11th.

Video Games Live isn't the only video game symphony touring the country.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 28, 2007 - Jason Michael Paul Productions, Inc. has announced that the next confirmed stop on the world tour of PLAY! A Video Game Symphony will be presented in association with Fanime at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, May 26, 2007 at 8 pm. PLAY! is a new concert concept that draws its scores from a catalogue of blockbuster video games.

Name the tunes and win a DVD box set of classic Nintendo cartoons courtesy of Shout! Factory.

You could pout about how GeneralTraag has claimed Captain N as his prize, but shouldn't you be polishing up on your trivia skills so you have a chance of winning one of the three remaining box sets next time?

Remember wishing you could actually be in the game like Captain N? And who could... Read more...