After careful consideration from management, Tecmo has decided against the Square Enix takeover and decided instead to group with the more Eastern driven Koei.

Tecmo, in a surprise move, has rejected the friendly takeover bid from Square Enix this morning. As reported earlier, Square Enix extended the offer to Tecmo last week and gave the company until today in order to reach a decision. Tecmo "collected opinions from management and game creators as well as a wide range of employees" to arrive at their decision.

Robocalypse and Tecmo Bowl: Kickoff are Tecmo's DS releases while SPRay and Rygar: The Battle for Argus are their Wii holiday releases.

Tecmo recently announced their Nintendo releases for the rest of 2008. They currently have four games on the horizon for Nintendo platforms this holiday season: Robocalypse; SPRay; Tecmo Bowl: Kickoff; and Rygar: The Battle for Argus.

Robocalypse, a real-time strategy game for the DS, is due out on October 28. Robocalypse is rated "E10+" and features a storyline written by a writer and director on SpongeBob Squarepants.

Ace Attorney withdrawal? Unsolved Crimes offers eight cases, three gaming elements, a rookie detective, a missing model, and a stylized 1970's New York.

Capcom's Ace Attorney series may be the pre-eminent example of the crime genre on the Nintendo DS, but now mystery solvers can work both sides of the law. Empire Interactive is letting players take on the role of a rookie detective in 1970's New York with Unsolved Crimes for the DS, which has wrapped development and will be in stores starting September 23.

Nintendo will be promoting the new color with a print ad featuring Liv Tyler.

It's official: everything old is new again. The original Nintendo DS came in a metallic silver finish when it launched in 2004, and the DS Lite has finally caught up. Next week Nintendo's sleek portable game player will be available at retailers in a metallic silver color similar to that of its big brother.

Nintendo's estimates are usually conservative, but the Japanese company is now a little more optimistic than before thanks to the success of the Wii and the DS.

As if they weren't expecting to sell enough already, Nintendo has now revised their fiscal and shipment estimates for the current fiscal year upwards. By the end of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2009, Nintendo expects to sell more videogame hardware and software, and make even more money doing so.

Square Enix will be acquiring lots of stock if Tecmo's board of directors gives its consent by tomorrow.

Could legendary videogame franchises Final Fantasy and Ninja Gaiden soon be under the same roof? The answer will be clear this Thursday, which is the deadline for a response from Tecmo's board of directors to Square Enix's friendly take over proposal.

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Monolith Soft's long-delayed disaster game is finally has a release date in Europe.

In somewhat of a surprise announcement, Nintendo revealed that Disaster: Day of Crisis is going to be released in Europe on October 24. Along with the basic plot that was unveiled earlier, more information was revealed regarding gameplay and story.

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Super Mario RPG finally sees US release while some underwater business goes on elsewhere.

Nintendo's popular Super Nintendo game, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, sees its long awaited arrival on the Virtual Console while Clu Clu Land, an NES puzzle game, also sees release. Hudson's aquarium simulator, My Aquarium is the WiiWare game of the week.

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If you haven't checked out the Nintendo Channel lately, you might want to see what was added this week.

Nintendo's promotional video channel was launched earlier this year in North America, but the weekly updates since then have mostly consisted of celebrities playing Wii Fit and Mario Kart Wii. The DS demo section, tucked away in a menu, rotates through the same old third-party demos, while Nintendo... Read more...

Natsume's latest Harvest Moon game, subtitled Island of Happiness, marks the ten year anniversary for the farm sim series in North America. The pre-order bonus? A chicken plushie!

Natsume announced earlier this week that Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness is available for DS. Commemorating the tenth anniversary of the series, it comes with a free plush chicken in select stores while supplies last.

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Update to the arcade classic to include extensive online and wireless functionality, full online voice chat.

Eidos has revealed new details of its Nintendo DS reworking of Midway's hack n' slash arcade classic, Gauntlet. This updated version of the original has you once again assuming the role of a Wizard, Warrior, Valkyrie, or Elf (now with their own power moves), battling through forty maps spanning three fantasy worlds full of demons and monsters.

Jaleco combats the Wii's lack of RPG problem.

New information about an RPG by Jaleco has come to light through a recent preview in Famitsu magazine.

Ougon no Kizuna, literally meaning "Golden Bonds," is a highly stylised action RPG with some incredible talent behind it. The scenario writer from Final Fantasy XII and the director of Little King Story and Dragon Quest VIII are teaming up to create what a lot of Wii owners are crying out for: more epic Japanese RPG’s.