Izuna is back for more dungeon crawling with a new TAG team system

Atlus announced today that Izuna, the Unemployed Ninja would be making a return to the DS for another RPG dungeon crawling experience. Izuna 2: The Unemployed Ninja Returns will offer more depth, options and content than its predecessor while maintaining the same character found in the original title.... Read more...

The popular Super Smash Bros. Brawl blog closes after 11 months of hype and service.

Monday April 14th was a momentous day in the history of Nintendo's Smash Bros. franchise. It was the final day of updates on the popular Smash Bros. Dojo. With posts on every weekday, it offered continuous updates about Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Starting on May 22nd, 2007, the blog ran for about 300 posts and was offered in seven different languages.

The anticipated port of the acclaimed PS2 game is now out for Wii.

Capcom announced that Ōkami has shipped for Wii. The game, a port of the PS2 classic, has a unique cel-shaded graphical style that enhances the Japanese folklore influence. Additionally, the Wii game will support both 480p output and 16:9 widescreen display modes.

In Ōkami, you play as a wolf... Read more...

Mario's latest Wii release becomes Nintendo UK's fastest seller yet as it racks up the eighth biggest first week of all-time on any format.

Mario Kart Wii's uncharacteristically early launch across Europe on Friday of last week has paid huge dividends for Nintendo UK, generating the eighth largest number of sales in a first week of all-time for the British market.

The blistering sales pace of Mario's latest trip to the racetrack... Read more...

The follow up title to Dawn of Sorrow and Portrait of Ruin has been revealed by both the ESRB and the US Patent and Trademark Office.

Just a few weeks ago, Konami registered rights to the title Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia under use for video game software. Along with the filing for the title, was the official logo for the game. At that time, it was uncertain as to what systems the game was planned to be made for. As of today, the ESRB has listed a rating of T (Teen) for the title, and listed it as a DS title.

A free gift will be available for the first 1,000 people who pre-order the game at the Nintendo World store starting on April 18th.

Nintendo announced today that their upcoming fitness game, Wii Fit, will be priced at $89.99 in the United States. The game will come bundled with the Wii Balance Board and will be in stores as early as May 19th.

Also, Nintendo publicized the fact that the first 1,000 people to pre-order the... Read more...

Featuring five game modes and more than seventy levels, players will need to control the flow of flooze in this upcoming puzzle game.

Empire Interactive is bringing the classic PC puzzler, Pipemania, to Wii and DS this summer. Pipemania features a tiled grid which players must populate, with a preselected set of pipes, in order to keep the constantly accelerating Flooze flowing through the pipes without any overspill.

Pipemania... Read more...

Yet another shoot ‘em up and the sister title to Super Turrican.

This week on the Virtual Console we see the release of yet another shoot ‘em up, Fantasy Zone. We also see the release of yet another Turrican, Mega Turrican, the Genesis sister title to the SNES title Super Turrican. Both games are horizontal shooters, one in a spaceship and the other on foot.

The action-adventure title based on the popular Japanese manga will feature an original story line and new characters.

The most recent issue of Famitsu Weekly revealed that the popular Japanese manga, Soul Eater, will be receiving the video game treatment in the form of Soul Eater Monotone Princess for Wii.

For those unfamiliar, the Soul Eater Manga revolves around the story of 6 students at a shinigami school.... Read more...

The makers of Gunstar Heroes and Sin & Punishment are currently creating two 3-D Wii games.

In an interview with CNET Japan, Treasure president Masato Maegawa revealed that since finishing Ikaruga for the Xbox 360 and Bangai-O Spirits for the DS they have set their sights on Wii. Currently two games are in the works, both featuring a three-dimensional presentation as opposed to Treasure's more traditional two-dimensional offerings. Maegawa also noted that both titles would take special use of the Wii remote.

Novel game promotion lets UK sushi diners play DS during their meal.

Popular UK restaurant chain Yo! Sushi will now feature preloaded DS systems on their world famous conveyor belt of sushi. Customers will be able to make virtual sushi and other dishes on Cooking Mama 2 while they wait for their food to arrive or challenge each other to cooking competitions wirelessly on the restaurant floor. Diners also have the chance to win free DS systems and copies of Cooking Mama 2 as part of the campaign.

The Gameboy Color classic from Two Tribes gets a remake for the launch of WiiWare.

Toki Tori was a well received, but fairly unknown, Gameboy Color game from 2001. Developer Two Tribes is taking advantage of Nintendo’s WiiWare service to revive this sleeper hit.

The title will feature new content along with a new look and a brand new control scheme, leveraging the features of the Wii Remote. Players will be able to take use of ten tools and weapons across sixty levels to find lost eggs in this puzzle-platformer.

The Nintendo Spring Media Summit is underway in San Francisco, and we're there. Check out what Nintendo went over this morning and get a glimpse of what to expect from us next week.

Select members of the media were invited to Nintendo's semiannual media summit in San Francisco, and we were there to check out what Nintendo has coming up for the Wii and Nintendo DS in the coming months. Although not much has emerged from the summit in terms of big news thus far, Nintendo let us in on a few details on some of its games.

RPG fans will be rejoicing when Final Fantasy IV DS is released this July.

The DS remake of the seminal Square-Enix game, Final Fantasy IV, is officially coming to America. Already out in Japan, the RPG will hit U.S. shores on July 22nd.

Originally released in the U.S. in 1991 as Final Fantasy II, the game originated the series’ Active Time Battle system that was... Read more...

New Mario baseball game hits Japan in June and everywhere else later this year.

During today’s media summit in San Francisco, Nintendo revealed Mario Super Sluggers, a new Mario sports title. The game will expand on the Wii Remote controls used in Wii Sports version of baseball.

It is scheduled for release in Japan this June and will hit other regions at some point this year. Check back with us later this evening for preview coverage of Sluggers.

Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People to hit WiiWare in June.

A few weeks ago, Telltale Games announced that they were working on a new episodic point-and-click adventure series for WiiWare that wasn’t Sam & Max, for which the developer is best known for. (A Wii version of Sam & Max was recently announced for Wii). Today, that series was officially announced to be Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People, or SBCG4AP.

Controller to release sometime this month.

According to Nintendo’s Japanese website, a White Gamecube Controller is due out this month in Japan. The controller will be released at a 2,000 Yen (approximately $20) price point. The cord will now be three meters long, 50% greater than the length of the original GameCube controllers.

Currently... Read more...

Ignition Entertainment’s Teenage Zombies: Invasion of the Alien Brain Thingys is set to be released next week.

Due for an April 15th release in the U.S., Teenage Zombies: Invasion of the Alien Brain Thingys has gone gold. With gameplay reminiscent of the Lost Vikings, the game features a zany comic-book story starring three zombie protagonists as they do battle against the villainous Big Brain.

The game was already released in Europe on March 28th.

Atlus’ dungeon crawler sees release in the United States for the first time.

Atlus announced that their new Wii game, Baroque, is now in stores. The game, a remake of a Japanese Sega Saturn game, is a dungeon crawling RPG. It touts an innovative feature where the story is actually furthered when your character dies in game. It also features the use of the Wii’s motion controls and promises to offer a grand challenge.

Capcom have confirmed Turnabout Prosecutor, a spin-off from the Phoenix Wright series on Nintendo DS. The lead characters will be Miles Edgeworth and Dick Gumshoe, both from the original series.

A project dubbed “New Turnabout Not Courtroom” was announced by Capcom to be revealed this month. The Ace Attorney series is known as “Turnabout Courtroom” in Japan so for a while, many people expected news of a continuing concert series. Few expected an Ace Attorney game with a viewpoint from the opposite side of the courtroom, as revealed in the most recent edition of the Japanese magazine, Famitsu.