Post 12913

Mii-jong Mahjong next week on WiiWare

By Spencer . May 15, 2008 . 9:43am

Ah! A Nintendo developed WiiWare title that hasn’t been shown yet will appear next Tuesday in Japan. However, Yakuman Wii: Ide Yosuke no Kenjou Mahjong (Yakuman Wii: Yosuke Ide’s Wholesome Mahjong) probably won’t come out anywhere else in the world. Well,…

Post 12909

More Pokemon? Let me show you Pokemon Platinum

By Spencer . May 15, 2008 . 7:44am

Nintendo just released Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness, a Chunsoft created Pokemon roguelike, in North America and another addition to the Pokemon Ranger spin off in Japan. But, the Pokemon series is a cash cow. There are always new…

Post 12798

Different regions, different tastes of WiiWare

By Spencer . May 10, 2008 . 2:58pm

Levi sent over what looks to be an authentic press release detailing the six WiiWare games coming out on Monday. My first reaction is it’s more diverse than Japan’s launch with an emphasis on elementary games. If you were looking…

Post 12791

Unreleased point and Chibi-Robo

By Spencer . May 9, 2008 . 4:05pm

Skip released Chibi-Robo on the Gamecube, but not the Chibi-Robo seen in these videos. This gameplay footage is taken from a Chibi-Robo beta where the tiny hero emerged from an orange Gamecube in an inventor’s lab.     This version…

Post 12730

Student games reappear on Japan’s Nintendo Channel

By Spencer . May 8, 2008 . 12:46pm

Seeing everyone talk about the Everyone’s Nintendo Channel prompted me to check what’s going on with the Japanese equivalent. Starting last month Nintendo steadily released one of their student developed games on a weekly basis. Now, the channel is loaded…

Post 12666

Waking up with the Nintendo channel

By Dan Zuccarelli . May 7, 2008 . 7:51am

So I woke up this morning to find my Wii illuminated by the soft blue glow of the disc slot and had no clue why. So after powering it up I come to find out that Nintendo has a new…

Post 12657

Have a heart? Try Wii Fit at the Central Park launch event

By Spencer . May 6, 2008 . 2:15pm

Nintendo is throwing a launch event for Wii Fit on May 19th at Merchants’ Gate in Central Park. The highlight of the event might be seeing Ashley Borden jump on the balance board, but I think Nintendo’s donation program is…

Post 12635

Retro dungeon exploration sketched into Genmu no Kiri to Ken no Okite

By Spencer . May 6, 2008 . 10:00am

White lines for walls and black backgrounds used for dungeons remind me of Wizardry on the archaic Apple II. In Genmu no Kiri to Ken no Okite, an upcoming Nintendo DS dungeon crawler from Success, you can take a time…

Post 12548

Earthbound coming to the Virtual Console… eventually

By Spencer . May 2, 2008 . 9:48am

Earthbound was axed from the masterpiece section in Super Smash Brothers Brawl, but that doesn’t mean Nintendo won’t release it on the Virtual Console. Perhaps, it’s coming sooner than expected. The ESRB has a rating for Earthbound as a Wii…

Post 12533

Revised Wii to premiere at Westin Hotels

By Spencer . May 1, 2008 . 2:17pm

Nintendo has always had solid hotel distribution from the multi-cart Famiboxes shown occasionally on GameSniped to pay to play Nintendo 64 games brought to you by Lodgenet. Console collectors get your credit cards ready because Nintendo has a specially designed Wii…

Post 12517

Mii license as sacred as Mario license to Nintendo

By Spencer . May 1, 2008 . 11:48am

There are a handful of interesting quotes in the newly released investors Q&A with Satoru Iwata, the President of Nintendo. Most places like Game|Life are honing in on the possibility of a mass storage device for the Wii. I tend to…

Post 12487

Animal Crossing teases the thought of Mario Kombat

By Spencer . April 30, 2008 . 10:17am

We all know there is a fighting game with Mario, Luigi and other characters from the Mushroom Kingdom, but the arcade cabinet in Animal Crossing: Wild World doesn’t show Super Smash Brothers. As seen in the photo above, the faux…

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