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Update on iPlayer and WiiWare Demos
For British Wii fans, BBC iPlayer is now available for download in Channel form. The Internet Channel’s recent update to Flash Player Lite 3.0 meant that, for some bizarre reason, it was rendered unable to view the iPlayer website, as is traditional on computers and other console browsers. While this means that we can’t view [...]
Virtual Mondays- 4/13/09
Today we get four new downloadable games: Mixed Messages and Master of Illusion Express: Shuffle Games on DSiWare, Party Fun Pirate for WiiWare and Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure for the Wii’s Virtual Console.
WiiWare & Virtual Console Monday Releases 03/30/09
Two new games were added to WiiWare and the Virtual Console today, one game for each. For WiiWare, Nintendo delivers what it calls the first “first-person groomer”, Bonsai Barber. The sequel to the classic NES boxing game, Super Punch-Out!!, also hits the Wii Shop Channel today.
Punch-Out!! Press Release Info
Get ready to get back into the ring because after 15 years, Nintendo is finally giving gamers a new Punch-Out!! title for the Wii. The classic game gets a huge visual update (last time we saw a new Punch-Out!! was in 1994, for the SNES) as well as new features, a new opponent, and new controls.
Iwata Announces Final Fantasy Games For WiiWare & VC
Today during Nintendo’s keynote at the Game Developer’s Conference, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata announced that the Wii will be seeing several Final Fantasy games on WiiWare and the Virtual Console.
For WiiWare, Square Enix will release two games: My Life as a Darklord, the sequel to the hit WiiWare game My Life as King, and Final [...]
Wii Update 4.0 Lets You Play From SD Card
Today, a new update for the Wii is available that will allow you to play games directly from an SD card and also download from the Wii Shop Channel to an SD card. With the update, an SD card menu is added to the Wii’s menu and when launched will display the message: “Welcome to [...]
DSi Updates
Sunday, Nintendo hosted an exclusive event for Gold and Platinum members of Club Nintendo where they were given a preview of the DSi, slated to be released in North America on April 5th. At the event the pricing of DSiWare was announced and currently the plan is for all DSiWare to be free or priced [...]
Nintendo Files Edutainment Patent
On Friday, Nintendo filed a patent with US Patent and Trademark Office that details various new educational tools aimed at “toddlers and pre-kindergartners, and/or people with disabilities”. Some games shown include matching animal sounds to pictures of the animal, matching numbers to the correct number of objects, picking the letter that three images have in [...]
WiiWare & Virtual Console Monday Releases 03/23/09
Today we get one new WiiWare game and two Virtual Console games, instead of just one, which has been the norm lately. And all three of this week’s game are from Hudson, who actually hasn’t released a Virtual Console game in over 5 months due to their focus on WiiWare.
New Nintendo System in 2011?
If you follow Nintendo’s pattern of releasing a new system every 5-6 years, Nintendo is due to release their next console in 2011 or 2012. The NES was released in North America in 1985, followed by the SNES in 1991, the Nintendo64 in 1996 and the GameCube in 2001. With the Wii launched in [...]
WiiWare & Virtual Console Monday Releases 03/16/09
Sorry this is so late, but two games were added Monday, one for the Virtual Console and one WiiWare game.
Miyamoto Tells Famitsu Of His Sadness During N64/GCN Eras
Even Shigeru Miyamoto gets sad sometimes. What causes the iconic game developer, who’s created some of Nintendo’s most popular series including Mario and Zelda, to feel a little blue? Loss of self, it seems. In an interview with Famitsu magazine, he told editor-in-chief Katsuaki Kato how game development at the big N was a sad [...]