“I often think about the past when I’m in the bathtub,” Nintendo sound designer, Masami Yone, shares.

New videos of Rhythm Heaven Fever and Mario Party 9, Nintendo’s two first party releases until Xenoblade Chronicles comes out in April.

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 and Queen’s Gate: Spiral Chaos invaded Japan last week.

Rhythm Heaven and No More Heroes: Red Zone Edition represented two very different ends of the games spectrum in Japan last week.

A new Rhythm Heaven trailer shows off more minigames. How many monkey-themed ones can you count?

See-saw, karate and sorting mini-games are present and accounted for in Rhythm Heaven.

HMV in Japan say that Rhythm Heaven has over 50 minigames and a 2-player mode that tests player compatibility.

Nintendo brought a playable build of Rhythm Heaven for Wii to E3.

The Wii version of Rhythm Heaven is almost done and slated for summer in Japan. Afterwards, Nintendo will release a suite of Wii titles including several unannounced gaes.

Nintendo’s president highlights the importance of games with a high “visibility in society,” citing sales performances of Style Savvy and Professor Layton as two examples of failed attempts with future potential.

Nintendo’s official stance for Rhythm Heaven’s release date is the “first half of 2009.” However, three retailers claim Rhythm Heaven is due out the first week of April. That sure beats the “rumored” November release date and fits into neatly into Nintendo’s plan to release Rhythm Heaven in the next fiscal year (read: after March [...]

Rhythm Heaven – the GBA and Nintendo DS games are a blast to play, but even Nintendo’s marketing team in Japan was hesitant about their appeal.   In an investors Q&A Satoru Iwata, President of Nintendo, laments the difficulty of launching new types of software like Brain Training and Nintendogs. “We had similar histories with [...]

I put Steal Princess down to start Rhythm Heaven. The first three stages were shown at E3 fully localized with English instructions. In the fourth stage players control a monkey that claps along to a singing pop idol. Nintendo doesn’t have to worry about a cultural barrier since American Idol is huge. The potential issue [...]

Many readers sent tips that Rhythm Tengoku Gold is getting localized as Rhythm Heaven (thanks!!). Nintendo didn’t mention it at their press conference, but the tentative plan is for Rhythm Heaven to come out sometime this winter. Technically, the release date is "TBD".     The E3 demo had three games, all of them localized [...]