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Nintendo Announces New Online Service Nintendo Announces New Online Service

Hear ye, hear ye, gentle Nintendo gamers, your days of suffering under the abysmal Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection will soon be at an end. Nintendo during their quarterly report yesterday announced their intention to create the Nintendo Network. IGN reported that …

Gaikai Predicts Death Of Game Consoles Gaikai Predicts Death Of Game Consoles

What would happen if one of the big three console manufacturers dropped out of the console race? That is what was hinted at CES this week when Nanea Reeves, CPO of Gaikai, predicted that one of the current console makers …

NPD: Xbox 360 On Top In December NPD: Xbox 360 On Top In December
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The Xbox 360 did good this year. How good? About $6.7 billion worth of good. NPD data was released today that cemented Microsoft’s position as the leader of 2011 in video game sales. That $6.7 billion worth of sales equated …

SOPA, Video Games And You SOPA, Video Games And You
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The Entertainment Software Association supports SOPA, but do the game developers and publishers they represent support it as well? It’s an interesting question that has raised a lot of eyebrows the past few weeks as more and more publishers and …

CES 2012: Nintendo Shows Off Wii U Console CES 2012: Nintendo Shows Off Wii U Console

Nintendo is showing off their forthcoming Wii U console at CES today, according to various reports. It appears that not much has changed since the console was announced at the 2011 E3 conference, but the hands-on experience is generating a …

New Report Shows Top Holiday Gadget Complaints New Report Shows Top Holiday Gadget Complaints

FixYa, a website specializing in troubleshooting Q&A for electronic devices, has released a report showing the top problems people had with their gadgets over the 2011 holiday season. The data from the FixMas Holiday Report was gathered by examining the …

Nintendo: No Sales Data For You Nintendo: No Sales Data For You

Sales figures are the most important asset for any small company to prove their mettle, but what happens when those sales figures can’t be shown? That’s exactly what happened to Icon Games, a London-based developer, when they published their sales …

Nintendo 3DS Outsells Wii In Its First Nine Months Nintendo 3DS Outsells Wii In Its First Nine Months

Nintendo’s glasses-free-3D entry into the world of handheld gaming is off to a pretty fast start, according to figures just released by the company. According to Nintendo, they have sold more than 4 million 3DS units since its launch in …

Nintendo Developing An App Store For Wii U Console Nintendo Developing An App Store For Wii U Console
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It seems that Nintendo still has a few surprises up its sleeve with the new Wii U console set to launch next year. The Daily is reporting that Nintendo has been developing an app store for the next generation gaming …

Robin Williams, Legend of Zelda Ad Campaign Continues Robin Williams, Legend of Zelda Ad Campaign Continues
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It always seems the truly genius ad campaigns are the simple, less-you-have-to-think-the-better ideas. Sony hit their advertising gold with the Kevin Butler PS3 ads, and Nintendo has Robin Williams. Since this is the 25th anniversary year of the Legend of …

Hulu Plus On Its Way To Wii And Nintendo 3DS Hulu Plus On Its Way To Wii And Nintendo 3DS

Hulu announced that Hulu Plus will soon be coming to the Nintendo Wii and 3DS systems. In a blog post, Hulu writes: We are working hard to make sure you can get Hulu Plus on every internet-connected video screen in …

Watch Netflix on Nintendo 3DS Watch Netflix on Nintendo 3DS
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If there are any Netflix users left following the price hike fallout — which is still going strong, mind you — you can now use the service on your Nintendo 3DS. While hand-held movie streaming is not necessarily a new …

Fan Asks Why Nintendo Won’t Take His Money Fan Asks Why Nintendo Won’t Take His Money

At the end of June, a group born out of the IGN message boards pushed for three particular games to be released in North America by Nintendo. These games included Xenoblade, The Last Story and Pandora’s Tower. Their mission is …

Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time Ad Features Robin Williams Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time Ad Features Robin Williams

I’m not sure if it is possible to love a game more than I loved The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for the Nintendo 64. I can’t even quantify the countless hours I spent riding trusty Epona through the …

Wii U Footage Taken From Other Consoles Wii U Footage Taken From Other Consoles
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What do you do if you are big time video game creator and your company is in a rush to debut their upcoming next generation console, only you don’t have the necessary game footage to give it a proper showing …

Wii U, Lego City Stories Announced at E3 Wii U, Lego City Stories Announced at E3

The speculation surrounding Nintendo’s new console is over as the company unveiled the new device, entitled the Wii U, at their E3 keynote today. It turns out not to be the Wii 2, or “Project Cafe” or even simply “Nintendo” …

E3 Rumor: Nintendo Project Cafe’s Touchscreen Controller E3 Rumor: Nintendo Project Cafe’s Touchscreen Controller
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The Electronic Entertainment Expo is upon us, as the gaming conference will kick off today. As speculation grows about all the new hardware and software that will be revealed in the next few days, one thing is for sure: Nintendo …

Wii Price Falls to $150 Wii Price Falls to $150
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The Nintendo Wii will officially be 25% cheaper, come May 15th. It has been rumored for about a month that this price cut was coming, and today Nintendo has confirmed it.  The current Wii bundle available in stores costs $199.99 …

Wii 2 Confirmed, E3 Debut Announced Wii 2 Confirmed, E3 Debut Announced
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Though it has already been widely speculated, it is now official. Today Nintendo announced that the next generation Wii console will launch sometime in 2012. It will demo this June at the E3 gaming expo in Los Angeles.  From Nintendo: …

Wii 2 Rumor Roundup Wii 2 Rumor Roundup
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Rumors began to circulate yesterday that Nintendo plans to reveal its brand new console this coming June at E3.  With sales of the original Wii console falling, the company is planning to announced a $50 price cut.  It might be …

Nintendo Launches Twitter Trivia Contest
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Nintendo of America said today it is launching a trivia contest on Twitter to promote its February 14 release of “Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation” video game for Nintendo DS.

Participants can visit “@NitendoAmerica” on Twitter to answer a series of trivia questions about the game, each one more difficult than the last, that will be posted throughout the week, for fans and followers to submit the correct answer.