Siliconera (Free subscription) | yesterday
Pikmin and Donkey Kong Jungle Beat Wii-makes are slated to come out in Japan this December. In 2009 Nintendo plans to release five more games in the Play On Wii series . Chibi Robo, Pikmin 2, Mario Power Tennis, Metroid Prime,…
Game|Life (Free subscription) | yesterday
TOKYO -- Akihabara seems to be made up of epic fail this week. Jean Snow and I met up today to do some pre-Tokyo Game Show hanging out in Akihabara, and we kept coming across the weirdest things. For example:...
SlashPhone (Free subscription) | yesterday
GameFly, “the NetFlix” of the gaming world, launched a new version of their site specifically optimized for mobile handsets, making its subscribers easy to choose and order a choice of more than 6,000 titles. Through the magic of user agent detection, getting to the mobile site is a one step process: just type the standard GameFly.com [...]
The Age Blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
Last week Nintendo announced it would be re-releasing some classic GameCube titles for the Wii. It's easy to be cynical about this development, as Wii is already backward compatible with its predecessor, so you can pick up great Cube games for mere pennies in bargain bins or online auctions and happily enjoy them on the newer console. But there are games that could benefit from new controls featuring...
DigitalBattle (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Yes, we all know about the camera, the new size, and the built in media player. But, were the rumors floating around that the Nintendo DSi would be region free too good to be true? Apparently so. Our buds over at CVG have gotten word, from Nintendo themselves, that all software released (that means virtual and [...]
Eurogamer (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
The Wii is no longer the cheapest console. It doesn't matter.
The Gamesblog (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
What the big N has in store this Christmas - and beyond...
DigitalBattle (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Nintendo has confirmed that a Pikmin sequel is on the way after the announcement of a Pikmin re-release had some questioning an earlier statement by creator Shigeru Miyamoto. In an interview with IGN, Nintendo of America sales VP Cammie Dunaway referred to the statement by Miyamoto, stating that it wasn’t the same Pikmin that he [...]
Game|Life (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
You could be excused for thinking that the upcoming "Wii de Asobu" collection of re-issued GameCube games with Wiimote-support, starting with Pikmin, would be the Pikmin game Shigeru Miyamoto was referring to at E3. Thankfully, such is not the case....
Nintendo World Report (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Augmenting the already revealed Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat and Pikmin, five other titles have been announced.
GayGamer.net (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Yesterday Nintendo announced that it will be remaking classic Gamecube games for Wii, and I expressed my concern that the Pikmin remake might have been what Shigeru Miyamoto had referred to at E3 when he said a Pikmin game was in development. Well it looks like I wasn't the only one concerned, because in an interview with Nintendo's Cammie Dunaway IGN asked about that very topic. Cammie answered in...
Cinema Blend Games (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
People trash Nintendo for simply recycling their old NES franchises over and over with each new console or handheld they make but this is one update no one should mind: a Wii remake of the arcade-style boxing game Punch-Out!! . Sans Mike Tyson, of course.
Evil Avatar Forums - News Items (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
It seems like Nintendo is really sticking to their guns with this re-release thing. Gamasutra (http://www.gamasutra.com) has the news. ---Quote--- GameCube titles such as Chibi-Robo!, Mario Power Tennis and Metroid Prime are also to be re-released for the Wii, according to new information from...
Destructoid (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
If, like Chad, you have been awaiting news of a new Pikmin game with bated breath, the recent Nintendo announcement in regards to GameCube re-releases on the Wii may have rankled your nerves deep down: could this be the Pikmin talk that's been floating around lately, rather than an actual new game? The horror! Thankfully, that is not the case, and you'll never guess who was responsible for the reassurance:...
Nintendo Wii Fanboy (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Filed under: Video Nintendo has released the first (silent) videos of the Wii de Asobu (Play on Wii) series, and, well, it's a nice feeling to know ahead of time that a Wii game is going to look just like a GameCube game, and for that to be okay. We have video of the first two games in the series: one of which is a shining example of the potential of pointer control to rejuvenate a GameCube game,...
